Sunday, June 26, 2011

Fitness News #25 - is Television Fattening?

Fitness News

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Where were you guys/gals hiding this week?  Some of you were there and others have succumbed to the winter blues….  

 

Music Requests

 

Scroll to the bottom, I've added a list of music you can request.  Send me a request and the class you want to hear it in.

 

Diabetes worldwide eplosion

 

It is now estimated that 350 million have diabetes worldwide.  This disease has plagued wealthier countries for years and despite good knowledge being available its getting worse.  Now we see it hitting poorer countries, where personal knowledge is considerably less and therefore much more easily impressed by the marketing pushing cheap low quality products as a luxury treat

 

Articles;

Diabetes becoming alarmingly common worldwide, new study finds

Study says nearly 350 million diabetics worldwide

 

Is Television fattening ?

 

You don't need a PHD to gauge the nutritional value of food associated with TV's, it looks like this;

TV Dinner

 

What is a TV

You can't eat TV's, so how can they be fattening?  Well first we need to look at, from a nutritional viewpoint as to what a Television is.  It's a device designed to deliver marketing information to an large eager audience.

 

What marketing is delivered to you

As a rough rule of thumb, the less you need a product, the more it is marketed to you.  Product success depends on generating demand and a large mark up over manufacturing costs and generating demand is where marketing comes in. 

 

How do they reel you in

The marketing boys will associate the product with things we that we often want;

-          Success

-          Humour

-          Peer approval

-          Being a good parent

-          Convenience

-          The list goes on

 

What calories are associated with TV

A typical male will burn 80 calories per hour watching a TV.  In that hour, how many calories where marketed at him.  Well I've had the TV on while I wrote this and had half an eye on it.  Which ones did I notice;

-          McDonalds family dinner, aka the good parents, Dad is really impressed with the content/deal

-          Chocolate, she hides it from her man so she can eat it all herself

-          Yoghurt (thick and creamy), the healthy option?  Though we don't actually know how this altered product compares with the base product (plain yoghurt)

-          Hungry jacks breakie deal

So where were the adverts for fruit, vegetables, nuts

 

And LOL, Australia has got fatter as TV's have got thinner;

-          Good old CRT

-          Current LCD

-          Latest LED

 

Outdoor Cycling

 

Track Racing

Race all Winter (RAW)

With 8 RPM classes and about 180k of bike commuting in my legs (Mon – Fri), what moment of insanity occurred to make the decision to race on a Friday night?  Even transportation was legalistically complicated.  Friday commenced with riding down to Rockdale, for the 6.15am RPM class and riding home afterwards.  Then I took my track bike to work on the train.  After work I was picked up and taken to Dunc Grey velodrome.  The home journey was with someone else.

 

So how did I go?

I signed up for Division 2, in the previous 2 years I'd ridden Division 3 and when I first went to Div 3 I was dropped in the races for a couple of weeks and was expecting the same in Div 2

 

Warm up race

We had 25 riders, one more than the maximum so they split the race into 2, with 12 of us going out.  With 2 ½ laps to go I found myself on the front, accelerated and rolled, but failed to find a good wheel.  4 riders got off the front and I came 5th, best of the rest but not in the hunt.

 

One lap screamer

This is possibly the race that I am worst at for all track racing, to be good at it, you need to be able to get quickly off the line and I don't possess that skill, so I came where I though I would – 4th out of 4 J

 

Snowball

Points are awarded for the winner of each lap and as the race progresses you get more points, ie lap 1 is one point, lap 2 is two points etc.  The entire field goes out (not split like the warm up).  I find myself boxed near the rear and elect to sit in and wait till I'm further near the front before going for points and that happened about ¾ way thru the race, where I tried to roll around 4 other riders contesting the sprint, but I was a little way back and didn't get there.  After that one rider got off the front and took the points.  So end result was zero points, but it gave me an indication that I will be in the hunt for placing's this year.  A fellow club member commented on how high the pace as, but as I'm new to this grade I don't know if its fast or not.

 

Combines

Misunderstood what race I was suppose to be in and missed the race.  Shrugged my shoulders and headed for the canteen where I had a sausage roll on order, hey it even came with onions.

 

Time Blaster

Missing the combines meant that I was eligible to ride the time blaster, pace is something like 51kph, not a lot different to what I did in the NSW team time trial championships, so quite possible for me to do it.  I sat down and waited for the thought to disappear…

 

Race All Winter (RAW) has started.  This is racing on Sydney's indoor velodrome on Friday nights.  I've missed last weeks racing and its about 50/50 for getting there this Friday night.

 

Information about the series is here => http://www.rawtrack.com.au/ and here => http://www.dhbc.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2456

 

Dulwich Hill Omnium

 So what could be more silly?  Lets add Saturday High Performance, taking it to 9 classes and some track racing at Tempe Velodrome on Saturday afternoon.

 

Flying 200

I arrive on time but find I've forgotten my shoes and go home to get them.  I arrive back just in time to do the flying 200mtr and go out with zero warmup, only to find that the northern bend of the track is wet, I do the flying 200 but push a tad softer thru the wet section for a time of 14.1 seconds, 0.9 seconds slower than my PB for Tempe Velodrome, quite slow.

 

We think the reason that corner of the track is wet is due to the sprinklers being on earlier

 

Points Race and Kerin

I decide not to race either of these races.  January 29th 2009 I had a major accident at Tempe Velodrome and have fond memories of how hard the track is

Classes

 

Fitness First

 

Mon 27/06/11 6:00 AM        Walker Mon 6.00am

Mon 27/06/11 5:45 PM        5Dock Mon 5.45pm

Tue 28/06/11 6:45 PM         Rock Tue 6.45pm

Wed 29/06/11 5:45 PM        N Strath Wed 5.45pm

Thu 30/06/11 6:00 AM         Walker Thu 6.00am

Fri 1/07/11 6:15 AM             Rock Fri 6.15am

Sat 2/07/11 8:15 AM            Rock HiPf Sat 8.15am

 

YMCA

 

Mon 27/06/11 7:30 PM        Riverwood Mon 7.30pm

Tue 28/06/11 6:15 AM         Riverwood Tue 6.15am

 

Music Request List

 

This list covers all gyms, all classes;

 

Track Key;

1 – Warmup

2 – Pace

3 – Hills

4 – Mixed Terrain

5 – Intervals

6 – Speed Work

7 – Mountain Climb

8 – Ride Home (Warm down)

9 – Stretch

 

Tracks Available at All Gyms, All Classes

Track

Release

Duration

Song

Artist

1

49-1

03:55

California Girls

Creature Scene

1

50-1

04:57

Club Can't Handle Me

Flo Rida feat. David Guetta

1

45-1, BO-1

04:49

Life Is A Highway 

Milan Roscoe

1

47-1

04:23

Tick Tok

Jomanda Brown

1

51-1

04:42

We R Who We R

Ke$ha

1

48-1

04:12

Your Love is My Drug

Beat Bandits feat Lorraine G

2

51-2

05:14

Halfway Gone

Poptent

2

46-2

05:26

I Gotta Feeling

TransNoise

2

49-2

05:17

If I Had You

Laila Stone

2

48-2

05:13

Lost Highway

Southern Light

2

45-2

05:39

Miles Away

CJ Murray

2

50-2

06:11

Teenage Dreams

Stardancer II

2

47-2

05:24

Waking Up In Vegas

Martina Lorene

2

BO-2

06:06

Who Knew

Masia

3

48-3

06:23

Celebration

Steady Rush

3

47-3

06:42

Ecuador (Bad Behaviour Remix)

Latin Freestyle

3

50-3

06:52

Raindrops

Hypasonic Remix – Sash! feat. Stunt

3

51-3

06:28

Raise YOur Glass (Klub Smasherz Remix)

Venus Jones

3

50-B3

06:00

Ravers In the UK

Jorg Schmidt Remix – Manian

3

49-3

06:02

Russian Roulette (75RPM)

Dancefloor Generals

3

44-3, BO-3

06:11

Show Me Heaven

Arms of Dub

4

50-4

04:55

Beautiful Day

Global Nation

4

47-4

05:38

Meet Me Halfway

TransNoise

4

48-4

05:14

One Love

Pure Essence

4

44-4, BO-4

04:21

Real 

The Cranials

4

49-4

05:01

Spin

Azuri Blue

4

51-4

05:06

Turn Around (5,4,3,2,1)

Flo Rida

5

51-5

05:40

Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Airplay

5

48-5

05:45

Brick By Boring Brick

Spacegliderz

5

47-5

05:44

Ignorance

ToneTonic

5

34-5

05:26

Pretty Vegas

OneZeroOne

5

49-5

06:13

Propane Nightmares

Southern Light

5

50-B5

05:32

Rebel Yell

Scooter

5

31-5

06:00

Round And Round

Rhythm Twins

5

46-5

05:57

The Pretender

InTheWind

5

BO-5

06:06

Voodoo People

Young Drake

5

50-5

06:25

Watercolour

Blau

6

51-6

06:41

Break My Fall (Original Mix)

Tiesto feat BT

6

47-6

06:07

Long Way To Go

Tyree Grey

6

BO-6

06:33

MorningStar

Adelante

6

49-6

06:43

Never Cry Again

Studio88

6

50-6

07:11

Poppiholla

Chicane

6

50-6B

06:53

Secret Love

Jordan & Baker Remix – Ian Van Dahl

6

48-6

06:48

Waiting

Swade

7

BO-7

07:09

Because The Night

Voodo Beats

7

49-7

06:53

Blade

DJ Paradise

7

45-7

06:18

Burn It To The Ground

Swade

7

46-7

06:18

Evacuate The Dancefloor

Studio88 (DJ KTW Remix)

7

48-7

07:02

It's Not Over

OneZeroOne

7

51-7

07:01

Numb (Hands Up Club Mix)

Jan Wayne Vs. Raindropz!

7

50-7

07:05

Sweet Dreams

Cansis Remix – Rec. Pro

7

47-7

06:36

What Is Love 2H9 (Cansis Remix)

Cutting

8

47-8

03:24

Before The Worst

Nitro500

8

BO-8

04:15

Broken Strings

Cherry Stone

8

48-8

03:35

Hey, Soul Sister

Global Nation

8

49-8

03:24

Never Hold You Down

Scarlett Jones

8

51-8

03:17

Please Don't Let Me Go

Olly Murs

8

50-8

04:16

Shattered

Turn The Car Around – O.A.R

9

BO-9

03:46

I'll Stand By You

Royal Trail

9

50-9

04:10

Letting Go

Dutty Love – Sean Kingston feat. Nicki Minaj

9

48-9

03:01

Replay

Silence

9

49-9

03:14

Solo

Swade

9

51-9

03:22

What If

Jason Derulo

9

47-9

03:42

Whatcha Say

Big Shot

 

Tracks Available Only at Riverwood

Track

Release

Duration

Song

Artist

 

 

 

Track list coming soon

 

 

 

 

 

Sleep Ride Eat Repeat – see ya Mike