Old 12-12-2012, 10:35 PM   #1201
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Dropped back down to 225, apparently was retaining a shit ton of water. Started taking a few more extra supps to help with that, and whoosh.
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Old 12-12-2012, 10:45 PM   #1202
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I would really like to get back in the gym but I'm stuck recovering from foot surgery for another two weeks. I suppose I could waltz in there on my crutches and work upper body but that would be really awkward.

My diets been absolute shit too. Pretty sure I've gained at least 10 pounds or so in the last month and a half. So easy to be unhealthy...
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Old 12-15-2012, 01:17 PM   #1203
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177 lb...neck is disappearing. No more shrugs. I'm not touching my traps for the rest of this bulk lmao (going to keep bulking until the end of april)

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Old 12-15-2012, 02:56 PM   #1204
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177 lb...neck is disappearing. No more shrugs. I'm not touching my traps for the rest of this bulk lmao (going to keep bulking until the end of april)

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Old 12-15-2012, 04:56 PM   #1205
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Yeah, I do shrugs maybe once in a blue moon, and my traps are still growing like whoa.
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Old 12-15-2012, 08:05 PM   #1206
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ran 40 miles in the last 72 hours

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Old 12-17-2012, 06:39 PM   #1207
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Think this would really help a lot of people in this thread.

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Old 12-17-2012, 07:56 PM   #1208
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just got back from pumpin hella ironz SwoLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Old 01-1-2013, 07:14 PM   #1209
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So swollen right now. I love it. Back on track with my workouts.
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Old 01-1-2013, 09:09 PM   #1210
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I recommend gearing workouts toward being a better athlete and not for aesthetic gains. It gives your workouts more purpose and it is likely a healthier way to live.
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I dunno, most athletes that lift look like kegs, barring the sprinters and a few others like cross fit people.
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Old 01-2-2013, 10:57 AM   #1214
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That being said, I think a lot of the crossfit stuff is horrendously dangerous. So, I think I'll stick with heaving lifting.

Hit a couple of PRs, got 500 twice on squats and 410 on bench. Deads just aren't budging, going to have to get one of the lifting coaches to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
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Old 01-7-2013, 12:58 AM   #1215
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I recalled an argument between tgies and Hayden a while back about a study measuring the calories burned while playing DDR when I came across this link:

http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/arti...ncing-Burn/c8/

Not sure where these numbers come from, but they list "tap" at 200 to 700 calories per hour and "moshing" at 400 to 700.

My experience with tap is pretty limited, but my experience with moshing is not.

I think you can use these figures to get a realistic idea of how many calories a game like DDR burns.

Assume: no bar, and you're not bracketing or in any way limiting your movement to get away with hitting extra arrows. That reduces the energy expenditure, obviously.

I think something like 7 footers would come in at around 400 calories per hour, if you did them constantly without breaks. 8 footers would probably bump it up to 500 per hour. 9 footers without stopping for an hour is really rough, so I think that's somewhere between 600-700 per hour.

If you're doing something like Paranoia Survivor Max for an hour straight, that's probably in the range of 700-900 calories per hour. And comparatively, the energy expended from doing 12 or 13-footers is way, way more than the energy expended from almost all forms of running, except for running as fast as I possibly can. So I'd put that at somewhere like 1000+ calories per hour.

These are all estimates, but I get way more winded from DDR than I do a lot of other activities which supposedly burn large amounts of hourly calories, so I don't think I can conclude that it burns something pathetic like 200-300.

Although, I don't like the effect DDR has on posture. Way too many DDR players I've known walk with a hunch so I don't think I'd make it my standard exercise routine. Still, it's definitely a legitimate way to burn calories, all things considered.

This raises the question: why do so many DDR players have terrible physiques?

Diet, probably. I have known very few DDR players with low-calorie, high-protein diets. If you had a personal trainer have total control over the diet of all the major DDR/ITG players, you could probably cut them down to 10% or lower, but that's never gonna happen.

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A few reasons.

Exercise in and of itself tends to increase appetite. Assuming that there are no intervening factors, casual players are unlikely to lose weight playing DDR alone.

Assuming you actually play a ton of DDR, to the point that it becomes difficult to eat back those calories, you lose weight. However...

You'll also lose muscle. Even with a high protein diet. High level DDR is obviously an endurance activity having little to do with strength. As such, adaptation to high volume DDR is largely catabolic (it will cause muscular atrophy as well as fat loss as you drop weight).

When that happens, you just end up looking skinny. Like Justin Beiber (if you're lucky).
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Wheres that comparative picture of a sprinter and a long distance runner. I'm too lazy to look for it in this thread but I'm pretty sure senior posted it.
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Old 01-7-2013, 03:38 PM   #1218
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Old 01-7-2013, 03:46 PM   #1219
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Tore my tricep a little bit repping out 315 for close grip. Haven't really done anything, still around 230.

My fitness levels are shrinking.
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Old 01-7-2013, 03:49 PM   #1220
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Wheres that comparative picture of a sprinter and a long distance runner. I'm too lazy to look for it in this thread but I'm pretty sure senior posted it.
http://crossfitoneworld.typepad.com/...49e7970b-800wi
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