So having sorted out an exercise bike (about 20 years too late)…
Qn…should I use it before I have my evening meal - or after I have my evening meal? (Both would be ideal but unrealistic for now)
Answers on a postcard please…
As I understand it’s better to exercise after you eat, but not too soon or you’ll yach, which is one way to lose weight I suppose.
Offsetting exercise with not drinking 50 pints a week also helps speed up the process.
Am much reformed from my student days.
Nurse: “So Mr Lagos, how many pints do you drink a week”
BL: “About 40 pints”
Nurse sounding very surprised: “40?”
BL: “Ok, 50”
Hadn’t realised her shock was how many rather than how few 
The correct answer is you should use it instead of your evening meal… 
30 mins every morning before brekkie - intervals. Then hit the weights hard 4 times a week … figuratively speaking of course!
The best time is tomorrow…
In the grand scheme of things, it probably doesn’t matter…optimal is probably to exercise before, though.
coincidentally that’s exactly when my diet starts
You’ll feel able to go on for longer if you’ve got some food inside you - I used to find that a bowl of cereal at about 4pm would give me the energy to go to the gym and then I’d just have a light meal afterwards.
I have read in a few places that you burn more fat exercising before breakfast - kind of makes sense logically but I don’t think it’s universally agreed to be true.
I suppose it depends a bit on what you eat.
If you a fair amount of carbohydrates (bread, pasta, potato) you should exercise within about 3 hours as, from what I read ages ago, it takes the body about that long to start turning carbs into fat, if you are eating a lot of fibre as a part of a diet process then it won’t really matter that much.
Also depends on what your goal is, I am assuming that by buying an exercise bike you want to burn some fat. Which means checking out the charts to discover your optimum heart rate for your age and working towards that goal. Mine is about 103-113 beats, at this point my body is actively burning fat.
Unfortunately, much like a lot of biological science, this is open to criticism, contradiction and argument.
So I say this.
This is what I read when I decided to lose some weight. If you disagree, congratulations. I stand by what I read because I went out of my way to find websites of fair repute who based their opinion on scientific data. If you wish to express a different opinion and suggest that this is incorrect, then feel free to post up your sources so I can compare.
get on the bike first, the later you leave it, the more likely the exercise is to stop you sleeping.
if you really want to boost your metabolism get up, have a strong coffee, 20 mins later get on the bike. then have breakfast after.
You know this is an internet forum right?
is this thread some kind of sick joke BL?
:laugh:
Look it doesn’t actually seem to matter. As long as your eating “proper” food and you, on average, day after day have a caloric deficit over time you will lose fat.
Regular exercise helps keep the furnaces burning. Apparently only 3 minutes per day of highly intense is enough to get your engine burning! But the food is the major factor 75/25 or thereabouts.
I just cant stay in the caloric deficit seems to be my problem!
Or you can just try P90X! :beefcake:!
If you want to try to science it you need to understand how your blood sugar responds to your food and consider the Krebs cycle - there’s a decent cheap book out there - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smart-Exercise-Burning-Fat-Getting/dp/0395470439/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1343061704&sr=8-4
BEFORE food, christ, you want it decorated in your regurgitate?
And by the way, bin it and get a real road bike, a biker should be able to handle even London roads, unless you’re a shonky rider…
Cycling MAKES you practise the safest method, cos you don’t even have POWER to evade problems, it forces you to learn safe driving.
Better for you too… .you excercse everything with ups and downs, and direction changes… A bike sat still in a garage only does your thighs… not as much of a work out really and feck dull tooo…
Toby, you’ve never seen the roads in Lagos! I have never seen a cyclist - I mean never - for a reason too…you’d be dead within days :w00t:
Cheers for the responses guys. After 6km this morning am upto 44KM in 3 1/2 days. I reckon that will be around 30 miles by tonight - so not a bad start (for a fat lad)
Nick,
There might be a “best” time I dont know, but any time is better than no time.
I set myself to do mine as soon as I get in from work, then I dont get sidetracked, if your a early riser then do it as soon as you get up.
I stick something funny on the TV and the time goes in a instant! If you feel knackered dont skip it, I do sometimes, get on the bike and when I am finished I feel energised!
30mins a day is what I do, its not a lot of time is it, and you can still watch your TV.
I’m looking forward to seeing him pedal up Stelvio next summer… 
“If I am an early riser”…One of my staff is called Glory and I am always sure to say “Morning Glory” when I see her