My Fruitive Challenge: Day 94 — ICG Bike Day

-

 I went to the YMCA today to bike ride for 20 to 25 minutes. I looked over the screen settings a bit and discovered that there is something called an FTP in my personal preferences. Turns out that there is a fitness test that I can take to determine what my level is, I figure out how to connect my phone to the bike screen using Bluetooth and then setting up my FTP test for 20 minutes. I got up to The six level with the score of 148. It did take me a minute to figure out how to work the manual pedal speed settings during the first minute of the test as a result at the end of the test a window came up, advising me to redo the test because I spent too much time out of the zone. No problem. I’ll plan to do a retest in six weeks. 

I plugged my FTP Number into a Chat GPT formula to figure out my classification: 

I’m a novice bike rider at 2.2


Men:

• Untrained: < 1.5 W/kg

• Novice: 1.5 - 2.4 W/kg

• Intermediate: 2.4 - 3.6 W/kg

• Advanced: 3.6 - 4.9 W/kg

• Elite: 4.9 - 5.9+ W/kg

Popular posts from this blog

My Fruitive Challenge Diet: Day One!

-
Image
I’m excited to begin my Fruitive Challenge today! It’s a big leap of faith because I had never imagined myself committing to a 100% Whole Foods Plant Based diet! But here I am doing it. I thank my brother Gregg for recruiting and motivating me to give it a try. He’s been eating this way for several years now and he looks much healthier than I do. Here he is advertising his restaurant, Fruitive , on Instagram. Here’s the catch though, for the first two months of the diet, I’m also committed to eating SOS free diet, which means no added salt, oils, or sugar in the food I consume. I have been pretty worried about that part of the plan because I love my salt, oil, and sugar, but I have to say that I had a really good first day of it. I ate fresh fruit for breakfast, rice and salad for lunch, and a rice and beans bowl for dinner. The trick for me is to add a variety of no salt seasonings to taste and to toss in a mix of vegetables including avocado. I had one mishap worth mentioning though
Read more

Shipt!

-
We signed up with Shipt for grocery-getting. It's our first time and it feels luxurious! I could get used to this! Like the first time I felt When Grubhub delivered me a hamburger, But better. Hey, the Shipt employee just texted me. She's on her way. Wait. A breaking update from News 8: "Shipt: Meijer team members at 3 stores test positive for COVID-19" Me: Uhh. Laura: She's here! Stand back. Don't touch. Smile. Say thank you. Wave goodbye. Spray the bags. Wipe the groceries clean. Did you get the receipt? Maybe we can return the COVID-19 For some in-store credit? For now, let's get dinner ready And eat nutritiously! A crown of luxury indeed Fit for a king and queen! I can't get used to this.
Read more