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Quote from: Coges on September 08, 2016, 10:05:21 pm

@t0ddday (or anyone else who cares to reply)

with regards to track work and the hamstring issues I'm having. Would it be better to continue with track work and just go at a lower intensity or maybe switch to something like hill sprints for the interim until the issues are resolved?

Hamstring issues:
Left leg. Getting some serious tightness (almost catching) high in the hamstring near glute and also low in the hamstring near back of knee. Also extremely tight at top of calf. Working through with roller and spiky ball yesterday helped a bit. Due for a sports massage next Tuesday. Running is fine. Sprinting once warmed up is fine too. Cautious though about putting too much stress on it.

i've had something similar .. the hamstring tightness + upper calf "thickness". At some point when I injured my calf, it almost seemed like my hamstring stopped working and my calf took on full responsibility for flexing the knee - and pulled it. That's how it felt anyway.. I unwisely pushed through it on some fast sprints/runs when I was feeling some pain.

be careful with it.

hills made that issue much worse for me.. calf turned into a rock.

Quote from: Coges on September 11, 2016, 08:22:20 pm

Lol at the bolded paragraph. Some of your best work there T0ddday.

I sit in pretty much the same situation with bingeing. I also happen to intermittent fast and potentially abuse caffeine. This sounds like such a stupid question and nutrition 101 but how would you advocate someone eats who has these issues and wants to train multiple times per week (mornings and evenings)?

*Edit- Moreso if you've seen what works for pre-workout, post-workout, pre-game, morning training, etc.

Thanks for the compliment - humor makes things more fun for sure.   

As far as your questions, first thing to answer for yourself is whether you want to lose significant body weight...

Second thing is to own your relationship with caffeine.   A few years ago I would have told you to quit/cut back.   However research shows that's not necessarily your only option.  You basically have two choices....

1) Quit it for a while and return to using it only extremely infrequently...

2) Own it.  Jesse williams (high jump world champion is a caffiene lover - he drinks diet red bull, black coffee, caffiene pills, etc.  probably 500-600mg daily).  Dose it out and use it.  Studies don't show long term risks...  Have 100-200mg in morning.  Have another dose before workout.  Slightly smaller dose before evening squat workout, etc.  Will you habituate?  Somewhat.  You won't get crazy amped.  But you will be able to go to sleep.  Your appetite won't be totally suppressed and then rebound the next day when you don't have caffeine...  Force yourself to eat on it.  This will help you stop the binging -

For two a days the diet plan would be basically - wake up, small food, caffiene, morning workout, 1-2 moderate meals, low dose caffeine, evening weight workout - optional post workout meal or snack.

Quote from: LBSS on September 26, 2016, 10:45:45 am

place looks tight, what are you gonna do down there?

i was talking with my work wife last week again about starting our own consulting business. probably 4+ years out from being able to make a run at that (i've got my two years in pakistan coming up and then if the consulting thing is looking appealing i'd want to do a master's first to get some training in stats and econometrics -- probably princeton because it's free). it would open me up so much in terms of where to live. i'm envious of people whose jobs aren't geographically tethered. in my industry you're either in a poor country or you're in one of a few really expensive cities: geneva, london, NYC, DC. there are a few exceptions, but emphasis on "few."

that is, unless you set up shop for yourself. then you just need to be close-ish to an international airport and you can live wherever. it'd be fun to live in santa barbara, or istanbul, or barcelona, or savannah, or minneapolis.

sorry for the tangent, just something that's been on my mind.

I work in a family business (life insurance consulting- very exciting) which I am going to buy from my Dad in the next  18 months to 2 years. This is the catalyst for my move as I cannot move the company prior to taking over.  That’s all agreed and set in stone so it’s just a matter of time. The issue is that, although a lot of my work can be done via electronic means, I still need client facing meetings which would mean at least a couple of days a week of serious driving (2-3 hours each way). It’s something I’m happy to do for the potential lifestyle benefits though.

Your work sounds fascinating though and the ability to live wherever you want would be brilliant. Looks like you’ve got a fair bit of planning ahead of you before you get there but it’s pretty exciting to start thinking about that kind of future. We’re the same now that we’re planning for our future with our kids and looking at the environment we can provide for them to grow up in.  This is where we will be living once we move down there. There’s a few kms of coast line that is lined with surf beaches and has numerous running/hiking tracks along it. It’s only 5k from the town centre too.

Working on two things this week. Sleep and curbing sugar/alcohol. So far so good. Have had at least 5 nights in a row of greater then 7 hours sleep so far. This is the hard one but even last night where I went to bed at 11.15 I was away this morning at 6.30 giving me around that 7 hour mark. Feeling better for it too.

Haven't had any alcohol in 3 days which in itself isn't anything special but I'm planning to only drink 1-2 times per week. When I do drink I usually have a couple of glasses of wine or a couple of beers but the main problem is the knock on effect of what I eat during this time. Obviously multiple benefits here. Reduced cals from no drinks, reduced cals from no additional eating during this time and better sleep from no drinks. So far so good.