The point is that Machka is throwing out absolutely ridiculous advice. Like you just need to ride 155 miles, walk 6 miles and do some weight lifting and you can pig out on burritos, ice cream and big Costco muffins because of her personal experience. real responsible. The 7200 calories is a different situation. It is her current personal routine, which is not this 155 miles biking, 4-6 miles walking and weight training, an independent of her statement that this is enough exercise to eat like this.
Do you agree with Machka's advice that 155 miles of cycling, 4-6 miles of walking and some weightlifting is enough to gaurantee weight loss without the least consideration of diet?
Out of curiosity, how many calories did your friend's HRM say he burned on RAAM? Was he solo, or on a team of 2, 4, or 8.
See, I thought Machka's advice was rather good. Works for everyone I know. I think everyone else on this thread understands that the people reading and posting here are trying to lose weight by cycling, and that everyone also understands that you can't eat 1/2 gallon of ice cream a day and lose weight. We see so much advice in our culture that
is ridiculous, like all you need to do is some circuit training 1/2 hour/day, that I thought her experience of the volume required was quite apropos. I hate trying to lose weight by starving myself, and it doesn't even work that well. So to have a metric of a volume to try for seems helpful to me, and definitely not unhelpful, as it has been portrayed. I personally find that this volume makes it easier to eat below caloric use, not harder, and that lower volumes seem to me insufficient without caloric restriction.
My opinion is that suggesting that high volume exercise forces one to eat enough to continue gaining weight would be unhelpful and not good advice, whether or not anyone actually said that.
My friend was on a 4 person team, except that it was really 3 riders and a disabled person. They rode a 1/2 hour rotation.
I never asked about his calories burned. As far as nutrition goes, I do know he barfed his Perpetuem up in the desert and drank Ensure the rest of the way.