Nutritionist is unreal so far. I showed him photos of what I'm aiming for and he said 'oh right okay well you need to do this and this and this and this.' He's going to speak to my trainer, too. Unbelievably excited.
― Donate your display name to Farfisa, I mean Moog (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 February 2009 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Fourth day of the new diet and I'm about to pass out. Prrrrrobably needs fine-tuning.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 07:57 (fifteen years ago) link
the gym at my work is about to start a 'biggest loser' boot camp styles thing. I don't really need to lose weight (although maybe 1 or 2 kg would be nice) but i would love to ramp up my fitness. I'm vacillating between yay or nay. I don't want some hyped up trainer screaming at me and humiliating me in a group environment, i think that's my biggest fear.
― behind the times (gem), Thursday, 12 February 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
just got this in the mail
http://www.velogear.com/images/vp_tri3.jpg
now we'll see about actually using it :-/
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
tbh dunno if you can you fit a triathalon in with all the farting and being crazy
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
respect tho: that dude looks pretty crazy, and i am having mad lolz imagining him farting in that getup
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"I don't want some hyped up trainer screaming at me and humiliating me in a group environment, i think that's my biggest fear."
I doubt there'll be much screaming and humiliating. They don't want to stop you from coming after all.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
muscleman dude at work gave me his program:
(3 sets of 10 reps for everything, much weight as i can lift)
day one:
bench pressincline pressdecline pressflyscable pulldownsitting rowbench rowdead liftsreverse flys
day 2:
preacher curlincline curlshammer curls"21s" (basically a bar, doing 7 full curls, 7 from the bottom to halfway, and 7 from halfway to the top)
cable pushdown"skullcrushers" (lol name, but laying on the bench with a bar held above your head and lower it to your forhead by bending elbows)dips on bench (can't do full dips yet)underhand pulldown (one arm)overhand pull down (one arm)
day three:
lungessquat machineleg curlscalf raises
sitting shoulder pressfront raisesside raisesshrugs with dumbells
in between days:fast walking/alternating running on treadmill
rest days:
qui gong
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
there's also these guys: crossfit.com
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 February 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I read about them in Men's Fitness. Crazy ass stuff.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 12 February 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ow btw
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 February 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
gem: I've never had a trainer yell at me, ever. If you're unsure, ask the trainer beforehand to not yell at you.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
They are working for you after all so
Okay, so it turns out that training so hard that I lose my eyesight makes me faint the next day. I have to mitigate this by adding glucose to my special training formula.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
my new vanity program!
Day 1:Cross-trainer to warm up90' leg pressBarbell squatProne leg curlPin calf raiseDumbbell overhead presDumbbell lateral raiseBosu ball curl
Day 2:Rowing machine to warm upSmith benchPec deckAssisted chinsSupported rowAssisted dipDumbbell biceps curlBosu Push up
The names are kinda hard to follow.
Anyway, I've done both days and I LOVE IT.
― what you know about hat? I know all about hat. (edwardo), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice mix there.
My new one comes tonight! Sooo excited.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
question about cardio. after doing weights i do 50 mins of cross trainer 3x a week. the machine says it burns off about 700 cals but after a cpl of months of this i noticed that after 30-40 mins im not really sweating all that much. so taking into account what AA said about switching up routines every this week i switched to do my 50 mins on the exercise bikes and im drenched in sweat after like 10 minutes, but after the full 50 mins the counter says ive only burnt off around 400 calories.
what is more accurate here? is the machine right and ive not burnt off many calories and the sweat thing is irrelevant? or is sweating a surefire sign that calories are being burnt off?
― s.rose, Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Machines are a dodgy guide to calories burned. 80% of fat loss is down to food anyway.
How are you going btw? Where are you now in terms of your goals?
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
autumn - does that routine i'm doing sound good to you? you seem like yr all pumped up and stuff so any advice would be welcome.
― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ 'pumped up', if only you could see me now ;_;
Looks like a magic routine to me. Just be sure to get a new one after 4-5 weeks.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 19 February 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Just be sure to get a new one after 4-5 weeks.
?? why?
also how would you recommending changing it up?
really a newbie to working out seriously.
― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Our bodies acclimatise really really quickly, so we need to change food, exercise, etc. every few weeks.
Does your gym offer personalised programmes? Get a new one every month. Be clear on what you're aiming for, too: only this month I realised there are specific ways to train in order to get specific results (I don't know any more about this yet, though).
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 February 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 20 February 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
My plan is summat like this:
1. lose all this bloody fat2. bulk like fuck
My current trainer is torturing me and I'm getting in with this nutritionist bloke soon, so it all should happen this year. Too late for summer though obv.
― torn between two borads, feelin' like a stan (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:46 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Hoooooly fuck, the body fat is FALLING off me atm. I've not been on the new eating programme two weeks yet,
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 21 February 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
As in, I'm noticing a significant difference EVERY DAY. Today I found my ribs.
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 21 February 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
what r u eatin
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Saturday, 21 February 2009 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Ribs!
― what you know about hat? I know all about hat. (edwardo), Saturday, 21 February 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Breakfast: alternating between omelette (four egg whites + one yolk, red + green capsicum, zucchini, mushroom, tomato) and smoothie (yoghurt + protein powder + frozen berries)Morning snack: 30g nuts (almonds + cashews + walnuts) + low GI fruitLunch: sour dough sandwich (150g chicken/tuna/salmon/steak + avocado spread + cucumber + tomato + carrot + etc etc)Afternoon snack: Norganic Crunchola bar + low GI fruitDinner: Low-carb selections (150-200g chicken/steak/etc/etc) + dish of veg-rich salad/vegetables (around 7-8 varieties of veg in total)Supper: Yoghurt + protein powder + lol flaxseed oil
Supps:Nature's Own multivit - 1 x dayChromium picolinate - 3 x day
This lasts for three weeks and is designed to (a) reset my metabolism and (b) iron out my blood/sugar levels. Will change significantly in a few days.
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 February 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Tipped the scales at 75.2kg today!
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link
That's... good?
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:16 (fifteen years ago) link
also
Nature's Own multivit - 1 x day
Keep reading this as "Nature's Own multivomit"
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:16 (fifteen years ago) link
it is good! I felt stuck between 71-73 for about 5 months.
Oh, so it's muscle increase! Eeeeexcellent.
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm working on that assumption! Unless I'm getting fat.
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
This week's routine:
M-yoga W-pilatesSa-elliptical + weightsSu-yoga
I'm so proud of myself that I actually go to this gym.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 22 February 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
In six weeks I have lost 7 cm off my waist and 8 cm off my hips. That is some fucking ridiculous speed of fat loss for a skinny bloke like me.
Next week we kick into the new BUILDING programme. No more fat loss focus in my weights training, thank christ.
If we get a fitness borad and you people care enough I might post my goal pics for reference and for ethan et al to o_O over.
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 08:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I was gonna post some before and after pics but I felt that I would probably get butt-hurt at having my torso animated and whiteness laughed at.
I care enough anyway! Skipping gym tonight as feel a bit fluey.
Adam, say I get up to my new goal weight (80kg - was 75 but now I've reached it I"m gonna continue) should I then do cardio and fat loss to try to get really lean-looking?
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd go with a diet change at that point, seriously. This nutritionist is telling me 80 % of fat loss is diet and 20 % is exercise.
btw my goal pics are of other people, not me obv
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw my goal body in the gym the other day, and quite apart from not being able to stop drooling, I thought it looked quite achievable.
Not that I'm really very fatty (13.5%) in the grand scheme of things but I don't _look_ toned at all even though I've gained 12kg in the last 12 months, most of it presumably muscle.
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 08:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw my goal body in the gym the other day, and quite apart from not being able to stop drooling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ x 329847429387429834720938472098740239845239847
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 08:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Today I confirmed with my trainer that definitions increases rapidly when yr body fat drops to around 10-11 %. I am so hanging out for that moment btw.
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 08:54 (fifteen years ago) link
definitions definition
When I started my body fat was 10.5%! (6.5kg) Now it's 13.5% (10kg), so I guess I've gained 9.5kg of muscle and 3.5kg of fat.
So when I get to 82 I'm probably gonna hit the cardio and all that like CRAZY, try to lose maybe 2kg and hopefully look amazingly lean and buff at 80kg/10.5%BF.
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 09:04 (fifteen years ago) link
and then we can have sex
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
btw get help with that cardio and eating so you don't burn away all your muscle with the fat.
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh and my body fat was 14.3 % six weeks ago. I don't know what it is now because they left the scales in the wrong studio ffs but I reckon about 13.5 % like you ^_^
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I propose we DO have a b oard for this and it be called I Love Fitness And Lezzing Up.
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 09:59 (fifteen years ago) link
or at the very least the description text should be "and also lezzing up".
― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah where is this fitness board, what am i paying my money for
― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac),
thank you for asking! it was all going quite well, 6 weeks after being strict on 3x week gym sessions and 1500 cal days i'd dropped about 5 pounds (reaching 10st 7) but the day after i posted above i checked my weight and i was back up to 10st 11 which was a big shock. maybe it was muscle and the time of day i weighed myself but hey. just gonna plod on with it, stick to a restricted diet and much cardio and inc weights and hope by summer i'll have reached my target of 10st.
just to clear up what you said above, if im sweating heavily by the end of a cardio session on the bikes then is it right to say that i'll have burned off many more cals than if i'd done the same time on the cross trainer and not ending up sweating?
― s.rose, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link