08-13-2012, 12:34 AM | #61 |
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Not gonna go into my specs, but i'm fit. But I've been busy, and demotivated. I need to start doing a daily routine again. I'll probably start that really soon, now that I'm disease/kidney stone free and can move without much intense internal pain 8]
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08-13-2012, 06:26 AM | #62 |
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I am 5 11 and weigh between 180-185. Right now I am training in MMA and am very driven to get better right now. Going all out now to build strength/explosiveness/skill. Anybody else like to train for MMA?
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08-13-2012, 06:33 AM | #63 |
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well im 6'2 and i weigh in about 290 lbs.
thats alot. my waist is a size 42 and i currently lift weights. i think i need to hit the cardio a little more so that i can be more fit and try not to get my fat turn into muscle it looks nasty lol @ Jerry DB i had barely 1 week in the MMA training. But the damn trainer said i was too aggresive and i got kicked out for starting too many fights lol thats why i quit and sticked to body building |
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In order to get there you would already need to be around 4% and then stop eating for a few days, other than maybe some carbs prior to this picture for the glycogen. Extensive diuretic usage allows you to dehydrate completely. Normally your body would burn only muscle in this state, but the right combination of anabolic steroids will prevent this from happening, so the only thing left to take away is fat, but much of that fat is essential fat which is why this is so risky. End result is...basically looking like an anatomy model, since there's no fat covering anything, only really skin. I guess some people don't really care about the danger. To be fair, they're already risking their body with high levels of steroid usage. Not that steroids are as bad as most people think they are, but they're not exactly healthy. Seconds after this photo was taken though, chances are this guy was downing several XL pizzas and litres of water.
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So I've been at 236 for like 2 weeks now, and all of a sudden I was 231 this morning. WTeverlovingF. Probably water weight or something. Hopefully with enough data points I can start to separate the noise from the trend. Eventual long-term goal is to hit single digit body fat.
One thing I might do is start taking pictures of myself every day and do one of those lame YT videos (cutting phase + bulking phase) where all the photos get put together into a fast-frame slideshow. I'm probably way too lazy to actually follow through with something like this, however. Another idea I had (that I think would make for a really cool video) is have my present flabby self having a conversation with my future (hopefully ripped) self with some lame greenscreen magic. I think that'd be pretty wicked. :P Of course, still probably too lazy. Last edited by Reincarnate; 08-13-2012 at 08:14 AM.. |
08-13-2012, 08:49 AM | #66 |
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i hope you can achieve everything you want to. i feel the same way as you considering how close we are in size and weight. as you already know. and some day i will get to motivation, and income, to start getting in shape. hard to make money when you only work 2 days a week. =/
but yea. seeing you get in shape would definitely star to push me in the right direction. seeing the shape you can build and how it would look. would most likely make me want to look the same way for when you attend another meet-up 6'2 228lbs was an avid volleyball player until i tore my meniscus. i really want to start playing again but the scar tissue around the tear honestly is enough to cripple me some days. where even walking hurts, and other days i can go to the arcade and play ITG. so its weird. advice. DO NOT TEAR THE MENISCUS. and for those of you that don't know. the meniscus is the cartilage in your knee.
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5'10, 167 lbs.
It sounds ideal for the most part, then I realise that I don't really have that much muscle mass to begin with, and most of my fat comes from my belly or thigh (Common places for the most part) Been drinking water more often compared to other sweetened drinks lately, and I'd say that I'm getting used to it pretty fast. I walk for around 30 minutes daily, sometimes I go for more. My diet's pretty okay too, around 2,300-2,500 calories per day, occasionally a bit more though. I've lost around 11 lbs in 5 weeks (176 -> 167) but I don't really see much of a difference, maybe except for muscles being more obvious and thighs being a little smaller, but it isn't much of a significant difference. Goal would be more muscle mass and less body fat to say the least haha. I just want a moderately muscled body for my size I guess. |
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My bf went gluten free and dairy free with me and he lost 20-25 lbs and is still losing daily, although at a much steadier pace now. We're still eating plenty of carbs and lots of fat and sugar. I lost 5 lbs so far, lol. I'm hoping it is helping out his thyroid though, he's got hypothyroidism but isn't on medication for it yet. He's got blood tests coming up, so we can see if his TSH has changed at all. |
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"Eat less, move more" is probably good enough for most people: However, I think it's important to work out smarter, not harder. IMO it's good practice to understand the calorie-counting math/underlying physics of how the body processes things like fats, carbs, proteins, and nutrients, because then you have a better idea what to adjust/tweak if something isn't going the way you want it to. Of course, I'm still in the process of learning a lot of this stuff, so ehh. Quote:
However, I do want to point out that it's actually been cheaper for me to eat healthy. What I did (as much as I didn't want to) was go back over the past couple of months on my debit card statements and add up how much money I was spending on food. It was atrocious. Now I am spending a very small fraction of that. Last edited by Reincarnate; 08-13-2012 at 10:16 AM.. |
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But seriously the best way to just get in shape without being a girl and just dieting is just freaking work out. Go start running two miles every day. Do small weights at first and ALOT OF CORES EXERCISES!! Core is so very important trust me. Only do what you can handle at first then build on that. If you can run two miles at first start out at one mile or 1/2 a mile. Dieting and eating right is essential but you wont get anywhere without real physical activity.
Edit: im 5'8 150 pounds and workout daily. I should check my % body fat but its really good. Im in shape.
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hmm thats a good idea, but i dont buy my own food for the most part. maybe at school ill start getting salads or something, but thats about it. i eat pretty healthy when i go out to eat... and i could definitely cut out the soda, i do it for like a week, then it gets too hard cuz the water at work tastes so bad lol
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It's fairly well established among obesity researchers that exercise alone will never fix the problem. It is impossible to compensate for a bad diet with exercise. In most individuals, exercise increases hunger. The majority of people that claim this problem can be solved with exercise alone use anecdotes from people that never ate that much to begin with. And uh, core exercises aren't that important. You can't ever build a six pack by doing situps. In fact, I stopped doing ab work weeks ago and my abs look better than they ever have. Restriction of body fat will give you abs. Your core can be worked in a number of other more important ways, specifically compound movements like squats and deadlifts.
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Insanity is intense cardio, as well as a great way to build Type-1 muscle fibre. Type-1 muscle fibre is that muscle that's not so big, yet incredibly strong. Olympic athletes are overflowing with Type-1 muscle fibre. The reason all this is good is because once you're done, lost some weight and you're ready to hit the gym, your body will already be well conditioned and stronger than if you were to just walk into the gym. You will also have more of a general knowledge of your body, exercises, and what you can and can't do. This is good because when you lift, you're able to focus more on your movement rather than struggling through it (not that everyone struggles, I'm just saying). Quote:
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While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I personally think eating gluten free isn't necessary to lose weight. It isn't necessarily detrimental to your body and/or building muscle, it's just more hassle than anything else. Gluten is the main ingredient in a lot of foods we eat, and gluten free foods were made for people who have celiac disease, not for people who think it will help them lose weight. Losing/gaining weight is simple mathematics, people tend to blow it way out of proportion. Quote:
Seriously, just find your daily energy expenditure and work with that. It's not that complicated. There are tons of ways for you to count calories, and the easiest way is by looking at the nutrition facts on the back of what you're eating/drinking. Take things steady, that's really all there is to it. Once you gain more knowledge about what you're doing, then you can advance into deeper workout routines and diets. Everyone has to start somewhere. Always get multiple opinions on things, and never assume.
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A few people IRL know I am going on a diet and think I am overthinking the whole thing by focusing so much on the math. I just fail to see how it's considered overkill when it seems so crucial to understanding what's going on. Otherwise you run into the kind of scenario you brought up before -- people signing up for gym memberships, working out for 2-3 weeks, and seeing no progress/giving up because they didn't have a diet plan. Without understanding the math, it's too easy to work out, get hungry, and eat way more than you actually worked off, thus resulting in a net gain instead. |
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Lost 60 pounds on pure cardio myself, eating copious amounts of junk food along the way
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Math is important but doesn't replace plain gusto. At some point theory needs to turn into action. What Reach was saying about exercise being less important than diet may be true, but if you're not doing both, you're not optimizing your results.
Exercise isn't just about burning off that peanut. The way you act tells your body how it needs to compose itself, and affects how the deficit created by diet is put into action in terms of burning. Eating at -1000 and not working out would create a wasting away effect that leaves you weaker, more lethargic and less healthy than when you started. Workouts also give better results the longer and harder you do them. 20 minutes of light jogging might burn off a single peanut, but doing twice that in HIIT might burn off a whole pack, and the metabolic effect stays with you longer. 20 minutes is nothing unless you're REALLY going at it. Most people block their activity in terms of hours. An hour of hockey here, an hour of running there, an hour of lifting 3 times a week, and so on. A list of workouts ordered by effectiveness would be based on calories burned per hour. I would even say math could be ignored completely without becoming much of a problem. Fitness is only really governed by two general rules: 1. Your body adapts to what you put it through. 2. It knows what you need to eat to fuel it, and it will tell you. The mathiness of fitness is mostly caused by lazy people who feel like getting fit is about spiting your instincts, and is used more to RATIONALIZE fitness than actually improve it.
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I call the lax attitude '****arounditis'. Many people suffer from this. I used to. They go to the gym and work hard but don't get serious about the things that actually matter and never get results. Of course, combining exercise with diet is the way to go, because it will improve overall health. Being at caloric deficit though is ultimately what determines how much you will lose.
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im fat and need to lose 50 pounds help
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