I am in my 50s and overweight – plan to do something about it and am going to start an exercise bike training regime for 13 weeks. Join me!
It is a Health Beginner 2 Training plan on the Wattbike app.
You don’t need a wattbike you can come along for a gentle peddle or do the programme with me – it is for beginners so shouldn’t be too exhausting.
See you at 12.30 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Join me on my podcast as well – https://relaxbackuk.podbean.com/
Hi guys, how we doing? Thought I was I think I was a minute late there for uh starting streaming now. Let’s get things sorted. I’m hoping that things are going to connect up okay this time. Famous last words. I don’t know. I think this thing was a little bit loose. So, we got to push that in to make make the connection. Anyway, we we shall see. Going to link up heart rate belt now. Looking good in a minute. There we go. Heart rate 78. [Music] That’s believable, I suppose. Right, let’s go. Oh, looking at the app here. How are you doing anyway? I hope you’re all doing all right. Let’s see if we can get the walk app going here. Day three. So, we’re on day three of the what bike um what’s it called exactly? The the um health beginner 2 training plan. Select this what bike on that. So, let’s get going. Starting right in 3 2 1. Okay, we got a target here. [Music] 79. That’s for power in and the target of 80 for cadence. Bit higher. Got to really concentrate and get the right power here. I can still smile though. It’s jumping around a lot. Have a disconnection a bit more. [Music] I think it’s so interesting. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. that two. What are we going for now? Put now put the 90 W. So, up the power a little bit there. That’s 91. [Music] that three. Target 101 watt. Okay. 102 100 98 96 95 97 jumps around a lot. 101 103 102 [Music] Keep smiling. If you’re joining me, I hope you’re having a pleasant ride. Up to lap four. What we only now? 126 watts of power out. So, let’s go less slowly. 116 119 122 5 to get to the power output. I maybe 126. My cadence is a lot higher. Well, not a lot higher, but it’s a bit higher than the target. I’m going to try and make it a little bit harder to pedal. Okay, it’s a little bit harder to pedal now. So, let’s bring the cables down and power up. Let’s see. Okay, so power off. Jumping around a lot. Still be a fuzzy connection. 127 123 126 1274 1202. Okay, last five. 147 is what we’re aiming for now. Looking good. Do some work. 14748. Faith in the far at six. Going a bit faster now. What we got? What we aiming at? Oh, we’re going down a bit now. 79. 79. There you are. All over the boat. 796 tickets 18 going to give me Except you know still doing all right on the target, but the uh the power that I’m providing on the readout is jumping out, jumping around quite a lot still. I’m really trying to keep it hot at 79. It’s not picking up my heart rate at all. Final connection is still a bit dodgy, but my heart rate feels good. I’m enjoying it. What about this oval shape? which measures the input from each leg kind of more of an oval rather than a figure of eight. Not very easy to do. Actually, my input on each side doesn’t look terribly balanced at the moment. Well, I’m sure we’ll talk more about this in the future. I nearly forgot today. There’s a bit of a rush at the end, which is ironic cuz I was doing an interview with someone about how how to maintain good habits. And I’m hoping that this is going to become a good habit. 12:30 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. At least that’s what we’re going to try at the start. Got this bike in front of my office window so I can see people on the road outside. I’m not sure they can see me. Maybe they can. It’s quite good for someone like me who’s kind of nosy. See what’s going on, who’s walking up and down the road. No gossip yet, mind you. You’ll be personal though, don’t worry. Apparently, it’s done. I keep going a little bit. Let’s see what’s happen. Put the glasses on. I can see my face. Your session has been saved and is available to share once. Okay. Enjoyable workout. Yeah, I’m going to give that a four. Well, thank you very much for coming along for that little ride. I hope you enjoyed it. I did. That was 15 minutes. Average power 90 W. The peak power is 185. Okay. Energy 131.7 kilo calories. That would have. So 132 calories maybe. So we burnt off 132 calories. That’s all right. Mind you, when you convert that into biscuits into digestive biscuits, it’s not that great. How many is that? That’s probably like maybe five, six digestive biscuits. Something like that. I tend to use digestive biscuits as a unit when I’m thinking about these things. So although I had fun doing a bit of exercise, well, not many digestive biscuits burnt off, but that’s not what it’s all about. I’m also trying to eat fewer biscuits and drink less. So I’m only drinking trying to only drink at the weekends. Friday’s a weekend. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are weekends. Uh that’s going quite well. Eating fewer biscuits. That’s going all right as well, actually. So all been well. I’ll see you tomorrow around about 12:30 for another pedal. Thanks for joining. This is Mike on the mic on the bike. Bye.