The Fitness Thread

[SCWolf]

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dumb? what do you mean? they look huge

That's exactly what I mean.

if you dont have beans youre gonna have a bad time.

Pretty much.

[kmay]

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huge muscles. oh nooooooo. -________-

[Syhto]

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well kmay would you like to have huge biceps that are disproportionate to the rest of your teensy body i don't think so

it makes it harder to get the build you want if some muscles are huge then other muscles may under-compensate etc

[Cavernio]

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Eat nuts, take some b12, eat nutritional yeast, and undercooked beans are basically poisonous.

[Cavernio]

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Avocado for fat. And I can't believe you're eating raw eggplant.

[SCWolf]

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Today went well. Lats and arms are swole as ****. Tomorrow is the real test though. Chest day. We'll see how my wrists take it.

[Senip]

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Brutal back day, I feel like I have horns growing out of my shoulder blades. Finding a trainer who knows what hes doing has been the best thing for me, in terms of growth.

[kmay]

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volleyball starts tomorrow. gonna see how this knee holds up

[Reincarnate]

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#teamgetswole

[ssbmchamp]

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Today went well. Lats and arms are swole as ****. Tomorrow is the real test though. Chest day. We'll see how my wrists take it.

Just a suggestion: Always workout larger muscle groups before smaller ones to maximize performance of each (Chest before arms). Again just a suggestion.

[SCWolf]

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Just a suggestion: Always workout larger muscle groups before smaller ones to maximize performance of each (Chest before arms). Again just a suggestion.

Is this serious? Did you even read my post?

Brutal back day, I feel like I have horns growing out of my shoulder blades. Finding a trainer who knows what hes doing has been the best thing for me, in terms of growth.

That feel. Yesterday was pretty brutal for me too. I always get nauseas after the bent over rows. Shit's brutal.

volleyball starts tomorrow. gonna see how this knee holds up

Good luck dude, take it easy.

#teamgetswole

Kmay, Rubix, Reach, Senip, Poison and Scwolf making all kinds of gains. All kinds.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj-tE-D1jTEpdHc0d2dpRDAzX3pEdU50S1dndXdSMFE

My routine for anyone who's curious ^ Also I drop set the bicep curls.

[Reach]

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My body is ridiculous. It took a few weeks for it to stop being a greedy asshole and give up the 10 pounds of water weight, all in the span of a couple days.

Then I remained at that weight (plus/minus some variance) for a while and then suddenly it just drops like 3 pounds in a day or two. What the eff mang. It's like a very discrete stepfunction or something.

Either way, down 12.5 since starting this thread. Still look the same, though, as expected. Most of that is water, so I haven't lost THAT much fat yet, but it's a start. The next few weeks will be good feedback. This is a lifestyle change, after all.

Battling willpower has been an interesting journey. In the past, I could go through an entire 1600+ calorie bag of sour cream and onion Lays in a day -- as a snack. What I do now, sometimes, is just walk into a store, stare at something unhealthy-but-tasty for a few seconds, contemplate it, and walk back out. Takes all of 20 seconds and it helps me get used to turning things down, now that I have a much better idea how many calories I'm putting into my body and how much time it takes to work that stuff off.

Really though, it helps me to "face my temptations" and turn them down instead of just trying to avoid them altogether and keep them out-of-mind. Sweets and unhealthy junk start to legitimately look less appealing, while the opposite trend holds for healthier foods. For instance, right now I am actually *craving* a salad, which is awesome.

Does anyone else have a similar experience?

Hey man, progress is progress and right now your progress looks pretty normal. Keep your #s realistic; 12.5 lbs is great progress and you know you're on the right track.

Also yeah, you won't see a ton of changes unless you take pictures and measurements of your body, because at this point, weight loss just comes in the form of bodily shrinkage. You lose fat from various areas, so as a whole you get smaller and smaller, but you won't look much different until your body fat % drops a LOT more.

I have experienced similar jumps in weight. Even at a much smaller caloric deficit, during my cut, many weeks I would not lose weight, and then the next week I'd lose enough weight for 2 weeks. The body doesn't adjust itself in a linear fashion; it's very much step wise and it's hard to predict when those changes are going to happen.

For me personally, battling cravings simply came down to being able to learn to treat food as energy and not as something that tastes good. Knowing that I would spoil my progress by cheating and eating bad foods outside of my daily allowance pretty much turned me off, and now it's pretty easy to eat clean. I'd say it took a few months though to completely adjust to the change.

[SCWolf]

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My buddy is modifying my routine right now. I'll share when it's finished.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj-tE-D1jTEpdHc0d2dpRDAzX3pEdU50S1dndXdSMFE#gid=0

There it is. Chest and back inbound.

[ssbmchamp]

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Is this serious? Did you even read my post?

Please inform me as to what I missed. You said your lats and arms were sore which lead me to believe you worked them out, and the following day would be a chest day? Where/how did I interpret that wrong?

[SCWolf]

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Please inform me as to what I missed. You said your lats and arms were sore which lead me to believe you worked them out, and the following day would be a chest day? Where/how did I interpret that wrong?

I'm not sure how to interpret what you're suggesting? Cause you're literally making no sense to me. As far as I know, the back is a pretty large group of muscles.