your routine at the gym

btw get help with that cardio and eating so you don't burn away all your muscle with the fat.

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 ^_^

I propose we DO have a b oard for this and it be called I Love Fitness And Lezzing Up.

or at the very least the description text should be "and also lezzing up".

yeah where is this fitness board, what am i paying my money for

How are you going btw? Where are you now in terms of your goals?

― "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?

]btw get help with that cardio and eating so you don't burn away all your muscle with the fat.

I fear I might be doing this to some extent. I have the littlest bit of pudge over my abs that I'm trying to get rid of--it's nothing really, but it's just enough to get in the way. So I do some intense cardio 2-3 times a week (20-30 minutes on the treadmill, sprinting every other minute). Meanwhile I'm doing lots of weight training. I do wonder sometimes if the cardio is canceling out some of my progress building muscle. Seems like maybe I should focus on one or the other, but I like to run on my days off from lifting.

I usually do cardio before i lift weights

and then i do cardio (longer) on off days

am i killing my muscles???? i didn't know that? shit i might be doing this all wrong.

we have to change diet every month to fool our metabolism? bye bye ever gettin in shape...

my routine is often dictated by the time availbale on my lunch hour (gym is a block away) and I try to do the push/pull thing, often on the same day.

2-3 days/week:
either swim laps 10-12 min. or stationary bike 7-10 min.

leg presses or squats (sometimes on balance trainer)
toe raises w/ resistance
leg extensions// leg curls

crunches// back extensions
hanging leg lifts

pushups or chest press machine// row machine or lat pulldown
preacher bar curls// triceps (cable pulldown or overhead extension)
chest dips// underhand grip pullups
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other 2-3 days/ week:
swim laps for about 30 minutes

I usually do cardio before i lift weights
and then i do cardio (longer) on off days
am i killing my muscles???? i didn't know that? shit i might be doing this all wrong.

It think you're supposed to do weights first if you are going to do both on the same day, but this is a good question re: over training. I've never really gotten a straight answer.

I haven't gone to the gym in 1.5 weeks.

I need to remedy that shit tonight.

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, Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:08 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Probably, but losing carbs is not a logical process, in that 30 mins of cardio != xx number of carbs.

I do wonder sometimes if the cardio is canceling out some of my progress building muscle.

Nah. I used to think that too, but my current nutritionist is telling me to do 40 mins of weights then 20 mins of cardio, and he knows what he's talking about.

I usually do cardio before i lift weights

and then i do cardio (longer) on off days

am i killing my muscles???? i didn't know that? shit i might be doing this all wrong.

― The Notorious B.Y.O.B. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:50 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

As will said, yeah, do weights first. If you start with cardio your energy for weights is reduced.

I have been doing this:

http://www.simplefit.org

Lost 4 kg in three weeks! 81.2 to 77.0. That is just insane.

In 3 weeks, I'm gonna weigh more than you, Adam!

GAME ON MOLE

PECTORALS AT DAWN

Five weeks ago body fat was 14.7 %. Today: 11.4 %.

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK.

how is that measured? do you have to pinch yourself all over with some sort of caliper device??

http://www.gadgets-weblog.com/imgname--tanita_bc558_an_advanced_scale---50226711--images--184549503_l.png.jpg

Apparently those things aren't perfectly accurate so maybe your earlier reading was a little high and the new one is a little low. But you definitely have lost some fat, so.. yay. How tall are you, btw?

Yeah, they're not accurate at all, but a 4 % relative drop is still significant. I'm about 178 cm.

Oh sorry, thought you wanted my cock size. I am 5'11" in height.

Okay, so you're a smidge shorter than me. Looked at some "before" photos of myself from Feb last year. Truly shocking! I look so rub.

PICS NOW

Only if they are drunkenly animated in about 15 minutes.

ILX POSEDOWN

SHIT I CANT USE HYDROXYCUT ANYMORE?

• play bball

new bedroom has mad space for stretchin and shit so

s.rose, how is it going? I just read this entire thread and I want to know how the story ends!

updates

I HAVE A BIG POT BELLY AND CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE GYM LOOK LIKE

i have been doing cardio cardio cardio, because I can just hop on a machine and just go. have trouble motivating myself through multiple-exercise routines because the end of every set feels like an opportunity to quit. ugh.

basically using the pullup bar for everything now. throw a towel over it and its like i've got one of them $200 resistance training navy SEAL dealies.

i am live bloggin from the gym('s lobby area)!

gonna go swimming

it's summer so i'm pretty much done with the gym until fall, i'm just running and biking. i feel like i've lost all my arm muscle but who cares, it's nice out. too nice to go to the gym.

Joined a gym last week plus signed up for four trainer sessions/month - if I get down to 180 (from ~230 @ 6') or 10-12% BF (whichever comes first) I'm buying a motorcycle.

Heading up now for rowing/elliptical/swim/sauna. Meet with trainer for the first time tomorrow to figure out a weight plan, as I haven't worked with actual weights since I quit football.

After doing much research (and getting sidetracked by the joy of reading about supplements - some people are funny. My 85-year old grandpa doesn't take as many pills in a month as some Internet strongmen do in a day), I ordered Starting Strength - technique and workouts based around simple barbell lifts (deadlift, squats, etc.).

Until I get that and finish reading it, I've decided to focus on assisted dips and pullups (can't do one on my own :( ), bodyweight exercises and interval cardio.

1st hour - read
2nd hour - talk on the phone and read internet
3rd hour - do stuff for my other job

Prisoner Squats 30
Pushups 30
Hanging Leg Lifts 30
Hanging Trunk Twist 10 each side
Pullups to Failure (this week its 12)
Jumps 10
Close Grip Pushups 20

Repeat.

Lots of milk and egg and a daily dose of protein powder and frozen raspberries & blueberries & chicken & the occassional fish etc

hoos u crossfittin'?

Looks like it? I'm getting on the crossfit train officially starting this week. Finals were not good for my fitness.

Not on purpose? idk I just read a bunch of Men's Health articles and cobbled that together.

i. get swole
ii. repeat