Well then you are wasting a ton of money on the supps. Don't mean to come off as a dick but if you spend that much money taking the supplements and then eat garbage the rest of the time what's the point? Also, if you buy whey and glutamine at GNC you are wasting money. If you go online you can find that stuff much much cheaper. Here is just one of many: http://www.dpsnutrition.net/?fromdotcom=1&rc=dotcom
i used to be a workout freak back in H.S. i was a scrawny 10th grader before i took my 1st weightlifting class. I remember i couldn't bench 90 lbs but by the end of the semester I was at 225lbs. now it's hard to get motivated. Whats sad is there's a fitness center in the apartment complex i'm staying in and i havent used it once. See then in the lifting class there were football/basketball players taking the class too. They were already lifting 250+ with ease. That kinda motivated me to try to catch up to those guys. That's it. I need that support system in order to try this again. But i need u guys to be my support system. But im talking about that competitive type of support. See when one of u guys can fit into one of your old jeans or increase your max or the amt. of reps you can do, that motivates me to do the same or do better. I'll be starting Alio's plan tomorrow morning. Hopefully i can stick with it this time.
Because I'm broke and can't afford always to buy spinach and free range chicken breast at Wholefoods. And if a ton of money is 60 bucks a month, then yeah I'm hemorrhaging cash.
Don't buy at Wholefoods. Total ripoff. I think the whole organic craze is overrated actually. Just buy healthy food at an ordinary grocery store. May not be organic but I'm sure it beats whatever your diet is now.
The Cage Free ones are a rip-off. The whole point of raising your chickens cage free is so that they can eat insects and weeds so that the eggs are more nutritious. Letting them walk around while still giving them feed of corn and assorted chicken parts defeats the purpose of raising them cage free.
I'm sure it has been mentioned somewhere throughout these 18 pages but not sure I have the time to go through all of it. Can someone recommend a good beginner workout routine with the goal being to get in shape or recommend a good website for this information. I have begin to workout but it is more random workouts then any set routine, I'd like to get on some kind of schedule.
If you can go a solid month of exercising and eating really well, you'll drop it. I was in awesome shape and somehow have now put a gut back on....it's a friggin pain in the ass trying to stay in shape.
255 in May, 214 on Thanksgiving, when i gave up for a while. 220 New Years when i re-upped, 212 this morning. I am at the wall pretty hard. Days when i take in about 1200 calories and run off at least half that at the gym, and don't wake up any lighter... are a bummer.
22, 212, 6', I've only started regukar gym stuff in the last two, other than casual appearances. I run, usually elliptical, sometimes treadmill, as long as 5 miles takes me, and try to hit each muscle group every 3 days, but nothing too dedicated or hardcore in that department yet. I'm open to tips, tricks, and routines.
Ahh ok we are the same age. I don't mean to de-rail your efforts but here are a couple of observations: 1200 calories is way too little to be taking in each day. Is your line of reasoning that by starving yourself that the weight will drop faster? Despite what Mens Health will tell you, the safest way to lose fat is 1-2lbs a week. Just think about the weight you carry now.. it didn't happen overnight right? Unfortunately the same can be said for losing it. It's tough to comment on your workouts without seeing exercise selections, weights, sets, reps etc. If you'd like we can take it to PM and I could elaborate further. Listed below are some numbers I crunched that would be much safer to use from a dietary standpoint given the information you've listed: Daily Calories: 1922 ideally split into 40% protein, 30% carbs, 30% fat. This would come out to about 192g protein, 144g carbs, 64g fat. For a number of reasons that I won't get into (mainly because they are already sitting in this thread), most people would benefit from a daily diet broken into 4, 5, or 6 meals. This means you could take the numbers above and split them up for each meal. If you could stay the course for about two weeks with diet and exercise, I'd be willing to bet that you would see a noticeable difference provided it's clean food.
I don't make a habit of consuming 1200/day. It's probably more like 1800. My balance though is much more protein/fat heavy, with a concerted effort to avoid sugar and any processed grains - probably the reason I was able to lose the 40-45 pounds I have. Today, for example, I've eaten as follows: 9AM - Red Bull (sugar free, skip the criticism on this one, I just don't like coffee), with about 3oz cheese. Noonish - (I work in a mall) Sbarro buffet: maybe 4-5oz of sausage and peppers, with sides of broccoli and caesar salad 4PM - Rainbow sushi roll. At about 8-9PM tonight, before playing racquetball, my cardio of the night, I'll probably have a muscle milk, and perhaps a nibble of cheese or glop of peanut butter before bed. When I'm on my game, thats about an average diet, the rice in the sushi is actually a carbohydrate splurge for me.
The only thing I would say is skip the muscle milk... That stuff has a lot of sugar and carbs for a protein shake. If you want to replace a meal with a shake of some sort (for weight loss) go with like a slim fast. Also maybe a heartier breakfast? A yogurt with granola, some fruit or instant outmeal are good breakfasts and also good energy foods. And I crush at least one sugar free red bull a day as well. It takes me out of my post lunch food coma.
Oh yeh, and whose got a new bicep workout for me? I haven't seen any strength gains in my iso-curls, preacher curls, or hammer curls in a year. My friend suggested negatives...
Maybe try some Incline dumbbell curls and also some barbell curls. Those always seem to work well for me. If that doesnt seem to work maybe try supersetting while stripping off weight and working down the rack. Go to failure on each set as you strip weight off. You could also try some pyramid sets where you keep increasing the weight but lowering the reps.
