I stopped snacking so much and started eating very slightly healthier and that's all it took. Losing weight wasn't difficult at all, you don't have to miss out on your favorite foods, just eat a bit less of them (not less often just smaller portions). As soon as you stop putting off losing weight and start to do something about it its really no big deal, its easy anyone can do it.
Do You Guys Stay in Shape? If So, How So?
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Sorry mate, not so. If you lift every day not only will you make no gains you will hurt yourself within weeks. You don't get bigger and stronger by working out, you get bigger and stringer from recovering from working out.Nouw said:
OP, some of this thread is A grade broscience. This link will serve you well
http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Read it, all of it is worthwhile.
Lifting weights doesn't make you bigger, eating does. If you eat in surplus and you don't train properly or at all you will get fat. If you eat in deficit you will lose weight. The type of weight you lose will be determined by your nutrient ratios and the type of exercise you do.
Just because the person on the ad is in good shape doesn't mean that the product they are endorsing is what they use, the only thing they use or what got them their physique.
Just because the exercise is hard work doesn't mean that will help you.
Read the link. The 15 minutes it will take you will save you heaps of time in the long run.
If there's anything more you'd like to know PM me.
Your eating crisps? Stop that for a start, didn't you ever do that "experiment" in school were you burn a crisp and watch the fat drip off it? Plus there awful for your teeth, worse than a glass of coke.Griffolion said:
Look in Argos for a steamer, the one I bought was £19.99, then go to Tesco and buy frozen veg (the stuff I get is £1 and it's not Tesco's own) and a 4 pack of chicken fillets. Put one fillet in the bottom of the steamer, half a bag of veg in the middle and put it on for about 15-20 minutes. Tea is that easy to do, no washing the food or anything. I have a Muller light yoghurt for something after as well.
Drink fruit juice, like Innocent and Tropicana it is better for you than water. Drinking loads of water has been proven to have no positive effect on your health but fruit juices can contain one or more of your 5 a day.
Basically, just avoid stuff with sugar in and obvious crap like bacon and sausages.
Let's see here,
Push ups
Squats
Lunges
crunches
I do what's called a tricep dip, where I put my hands on the edges of a chair with my legs out as far as I can(eventually I'll be able to have them lifted up) and bend my elbows to slightly drop my body, then push back up.
The more you do them, the more muscle mass you build. Muscle takes more energy to maintain than fat, so it will slowly help you lose some weight, provided you eat a little bit less food.
Push ups
Squats
Lunges
crunches
I do what's called a tricep dip, where I put my hands on the edges of a chair with my legs out as far as I can(eventually I'll be able to have them lifted up) and bend my elbows to slightly drop my body, then push back up.
The more you do them, the more muscle mass you build. Muscle takes more energy to maintain than fat, so it will slowly help you lose some weight, provided you eat a little bit less food.
I think he's trying to drop weight, not bulk up.
Also:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/
Ask those guys, they know just about everything.
Also:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/
Ask those guys, they know just about everything.
Running is the best thing you can do and anything upwards of 20 mins each day will tear the fat right off. Try it a few times a week, just a gentle jog but try to keep going as long as possible.
Also, re: work, stairs are your friend.
Also, re: work, stairs are your friend.
If you train with weights, you'll gain more muscle and that will in turn burn more calories. Maybe not a lot, but still it's something.
Eat proteins and fat, and less carbs. Find out your BMR and calculate how much you need to eat to lose weight. Don't set yourself too low, if you find it hard to keep to your diet it will be eaiser for you to crack. Find foods you enjoy to eat. Use common sense
Don't punish yourself if you have a setback or two, making life-style changes takes time and effort.
Eat proteins and fat, and less carbs. Find out your BMR and calculate how much you need to eat to lose weight. Don't set yourself too low, if you find it hard to keep to your diet it will be eaiser for you to crack. Find foods you enjoy to eat. Use common sense
Don't punish yourself if you have a setback or two, making life-style changes takes time and effort.
Lift and eat well. In the long run it will make you gain a lot more than Parkour. Unless you are doing Parkour because you want to do Parkour. In that case, carry on.Rhymenoceros said:
best be trollingDavid Bray said:
Diet has more of an effect on your physique than your exercise. If he lift and eats in deficit he'll do well. OP has said he is sedentary so he may even gain some muscle in the first few weeks like I did when I started lifting.Samurai Silhouette said:
And I can vouch for the quality of Samurai's link.
Just a couple of suggestions. You should try and switch triceps with biceps, usually it's better to do chest+biceps and back+triceps, or a separate day of biceps+triceps is even better if you have the time.Kaim89 said:
Also, you should do cardio after you workout, even if you will feel more tired.
It's just some advice, it depends on how you feel it works best.
I'm very conscious of what I eat and mostly eat healthy stuff, plus now I walk a litte over 1h per day, about 6Km.
I love the title "if so, how so"
Well, I don't eat a lot, mostly because I just forget to.
I guess it just balances out.
I also hike, and camp, and white water raft, and all that other kind of out doorsy kind of stuff
Well, I don't eat a lot, mostly because I just forget to.
I guess it just balances out.
I also hike, and camp, and white water raft, and all that other kind of out doorsy kind of stuff
Chest excercises like the benchpress are putting alot of effort on the triceps. This way, you might find yourself not being able to do many triceps excercises after chest, due to exhaustion.Keepitclean said:
The only way you can do an EFFECTIVE chest + triceps workout is if you are an advanced bodybuilder and/or you use some "potions" on the side.
As I stated at the end of my post, though, it all depends on the person as well. For me, biceps + triceps in the same day works best, because my chest routine is very intense and exhausting.
I didn't want to mislead the person I initially quoted, although I see now that I have said "usually it's BETTER to do chest+biceps and back+triceps" , so I used the word "better" in a subjective way. The secret here is to try everything. You'll be surprised how much you own body can be different from others.
I fight Amateur and Semi-pro MMA.
Muay Thai is great for losing weight with tons of cardio, BJJ is great for flexibility and general health. Wrestling is good for strength and is a very athletic movement pattern.
All of this combined with a crossfit-inspired strength and conditioning program and eating decently and you have yourself a pretty healthy life-style.
EDIT: Well being punched in the brain every day is not healthy - but something about eggs and omelets..
Muay Thai is great for losing weight with tons of cardio, BJJ is great for flexibility and general health. Wrestling is good for strength and is a very athletic movement pattern.
All of this combined with a crossfit-inspired strength and conditioning program and eating decently and you have yourself a pretty healthy life-style.
EDIT: Well being punched in the brain every day is not healthy - but something about eggs and omelets..