The Fitness Thread

[A80Girl]

Anyone into nutrition and training? Post your goals, comments, suggestions, tips, questions, routines, diets, resources etc in here!

My training and diet is pretty basic but I'm constantly tweaking it to find the proper ratio of carbs/protein/fats for me along with proper supplementation in terms of vitamins, amino acids, and thermogenic.

My routine is constantly changing although I am a creature of habit. I go in with my routines, but I always change them up and add new little goals each time. I find that helps keep away the boredom.

I frequent bodybuilding.com which has a plethora of articles and some great reads on their forum.
Here is a great thread on pre and post workout nutrition: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=272067

[memole]

well to be honest... and as you know.. sophie works out now everyday but thrusday and saturdays my idea of working out is just walking up the stairs to go to bed..LOL... but it looks like she wants me around a little whle longer so starting next month im going to be walking up those stairs a couple times..LOL...
just another middle aged fat guy....
Chris

[airpowr]

I've been in the gym for a while now, I tell people that it's easy to set workout goals but the hardest part is getting out of bed and showing up to the gym, get past that and you're fine. BTW, walking up stairs is good cardio.

[1jzz30]

I lost 10 lbs in 6 weeks eating lean meat and water 5 times a day for 7 days. And 10lbs more the next 5 weeks with the intro of some carbs. I'm down to a lean 160, only 5 over my highschool weight in 1994.

I don't go to the gym, as cheesy as it sounds I use the Iron Gym and a set of 50lb dumb bells. 3 times a week for 45 mins or so.

[JTS2005]

i need to get back into it as work has been overwhelming!!

[A80Girl]

Chris, making the effort is the first hurdle, from then it's cake. You just have to keep yourself motivated and keep reminding yourself that you're going to benefit so much from this in so many different ways. I applaud you for taking that first step. Sophie has come a long way and I'm SO proud of her. Her hard work has definitely payed off.


Ralph, carb depleting can get you great results very fast, but from experience, I have found cycling carb-depletion for max 3-4 days at a time and then slowly re-introducing carbs, then doing it again (about a week apart) gets the best results with minimal depletion of energy and brain function. This way, your body doesn't fully go into Ketosis. Some people react differently to Ketosis, but it has been scientifically proven that brain function in people with low-carb and ketogenic diets was significantly lower than in those who had a balanced carbs/protein/fats diet. This is due to the fact that your body and brain use glucose for fuel.


Jaysen, get your butt in the gym!

[1jzz30]

everyone is different and some may take longer than others to reach that point and is why you should by the test strips at the drug store to test your urine.

[A80Girl]

Originally Posted by 1jzz30

everyone is different and some may take longer than others to reach that point and is why you should by the test strips at the drug store to test your urine.

Yup. I definitely can't function in a ketogenic state, but I've seen quite a few people react the total opposite. My body can't function for that long without all that beans and rice .

[DR TORQUENSTEIN]

Typically a days nutrition intake for me would be:

Breakfast: 8 eggs, 8 whites, two yellows and 100g of oatmeal with applesauce or raisins.

Midmorning snack: protein bar

Lunch: 2 x Chicken Breasts, 100g Brown Rice and veggies

Mid-afternoon snack: Tuna in Wholewheat Pitta Breads

Pre-Post Workout: Whey Protein Shake and a Banana

Dinner: Grilled fish or chicken, brown rice or pasta, vegetables, and salad.

Evening Snack: Casein Protein Shake Protein shake or Low Fat Cottage Cheese Slow Release Proteins)

My split is as follows:

Monday: Shoulders/Abs
Tuesday: Back
Wednesday: Legs/Abs
Thursday: Biceps, Triceps and Forearms
Friday: Chest/Abs

For cardio, I try to hit up the elliptical because I have bad ankles, but I have a really intense workout that lasts about 30-45 minutes of non-stop lifting, so my heart rate stays up as high as me running fast.

I weighed 245 a couple of months ago, now I'm down to 228-230.

If i quit lifting and just did cardio and lost all my muscle, I'd probably be around 190 or so.

I'm 5'10 and my body fat percentage is 14.7

I'd like to get down to 10 percent by summer so I can hit up the beach without being embarassed, but formerly being a fat-ass, I have stretch marks.

My shoulders have stretch marks from my shoulders doubling in size, and it sucks.


Lebbet, it's Allen btw.

[a10secstreetcar]

Well,

I got out of Hitting the weights for awhile as work got busy.

But im back to my routine.

Workout:

Mon: Chest and Tri 30-45min cardio
Tue: Back and bi 30-45min cardio
Wed: Shoulders and arms 30-45min cardio
Thur: Legs and abs 30-45min cardio

Fri: Cardio HIT
Sat: Cardio HIT
Sun: OFF


Meals:

7am Breakfest: oatmeal

10am snack: Protein Shake

12pm lunch: Tuna on wheat bread, one slice. fruit

2pm snack: Protein shake

8pm dinner: salad and Protein shake

And of course the meals change. I dont eat TUNA everyday.


Goal:

Right now getting lean to 190lbs, Then Bulking up back up to 220lbs.



Im sure I forgot something.

-Kyle