Starting a brutal diet + exercise

[kommisar]

Re: Starting a brutal diet + exercise

so I'm at 175lbs

it's pretty much where I want to be.

difficult to figure out where to go from here

[leonid]

Re: Starting a brutal diet + exercise

You want to maintain that, by keeping at your diet. (without caloric deficit this time)

[Reach]

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Are you happy with the way you look?

With the way you feel?

With your physical performance?

If the answer to all of those things is yes, then as Leonid said, make a plan to maintain your current condition.

If your answer to one or all of those questions is no, then make a plan to work towards those goals.

[kommisar]

Re: Starting a brutal diet + exercise

i'm not 100% with the way I look, not for any reasons aside from aesthetics

I feel it's easier to work for longer amounts of times but physically I'm not very capable.

is it as simple as just switching from cardio to more weights proportionately? I could probably lose some more body fat as well, but the girlfriend is starting to say I'm too obsessed with this whole thing (it's at 23%ish). like if I were to go down to 170 or 165 would it be unhealthy? I'm not super worried about the weight itself but if I want to be more lean or have more muscle in general I don't know much haha

I'm definitely not starving myself, doing myself any harm physically or affecting my day to day life so I don't really -think- taking this kind of endeavor seriously is a detriment. I come home from work tired from being on my feet 10 hours a day and I'd like to be able to be more productive.

[Blue June]

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This whole post was so informative. I'm happy with the way I look, but not at all pleased with physical performance. So those three questions were probing!

[Reach]

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i'm not 100% with the way I look, not for any reasons aside from aesthetics

I feel it's easier to work for longer amounts of times but physically I'm not very capable.

is it as simple as just switching from cardio to more weights proportionately? I could probably lose some more body fat as well, but the girlfriend is starting to say I'm too obsessed with this whole thing (it's at 23%ish). like if I were to go down to 170 or 165 would it be unhealthy? I'm not super worried about the weight itself but if I want to be more lean or have more muscle in general I don't know much haha

I'm definitely not starving myself, doing myself any harm physically or affecting my day to day life so I don't really -think- taking this kind of endeavor seriously is a detriment. I come home from work tired from being on my feet 10 hours a day and I'd like to be able to be more productive.

If you goal is to become more aesthetic, than you would need to assess what about your physique you don't really like so you know what you have to do to make it better.

For most people, yes that involves doing more resistance training to put on muscle.

It's one thing to know your stats but it could be much easier to tell you what you should be doing if you posted pictures of your physique and said what you don't like about it. You could PM them if you don't want them public.

Though if you have a very generic body type without much muscle or definition, and you want to just generally improve all of it, most beginner lifting programs will probably benefit you.

So yeah, you probably need to lift more and change your diet. Losing weight and changing your physique are really two different processes and involve a different approach.


It hardly sounds like you're 'too obsessed' with the whole thing though. I obviously don't know your girlfriend but this sounds an awful lot like someone that might be trying to sabotage your progress. Not intentionally; this is just something that a lot of people will subconsciously start doing especially if she is not also getting involved in self improvement. She should be supportive of your goals. Working towards improving your fitness and becoming happier with yourself is something everyone should be doing, honestly. If she isn't already, I would get her involved in what you're doing. My fiancee jumped on the fitness bandwagon with me and now we just workout together and have been doing so for at least 3 years now. It makes it a lot easier that way.

[kommisar]

Re: Starting a brutal diet + exercise

that helps a lot actually thanks~


I'm literally starting from scratch at this point so I think i'll just start with basic resistance training until I figure out where I want to go. (arch gave me a good starting point too)

girlfriend wants to go to the gym as well, maybe if it's a consistent habit she won't see it as obsessive and more of a lifestyle.

[Reach]

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Sounds like a plan.

My only tip would be to make sure you keep a log of some sort to continue to track your progress. It helps, a lot.

Also, take some pictures, if anything just so you can look back on them in a year and you'll be really surprised by how much progress you made.

[DJAirWave]

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I find this thread.... Totally inspiring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <33333

[SCWolf]

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Chris if you're moving to the same area as Reach, maybe try to work the gym into your schedules once or twice so he can at least show you a thing or two