The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

change up your diet, NOT like Mr. Shemicals said, lol but just slowly reduce on a weekly or bi-weekly basis your breads and pastas, try to get 5-6 small meals a day and try to get in more complex carbs like brown rice, sweet potatoes, oats, etc instead of breads and pastas so slowly start to head in that direction, and slowly increase your cardio every week or two as well & you should see some results from that, anything you do will work to a certain point so when you plateau, it's time to change things up to continue seeing results

lol NO carbs is a bad idea

 

My workout is pretty general I just do a variety of upper body workouts mainly centered around chest and then the next day a variety of lower body workouts centered around quads. I just repeat this pattern during the week (Monday upper, Tuesday lower, Wednesday upper, ect, ect) and then I do cardio on the weekends. I take 50g of wal-mart protein after a workout and cycle creatine throughout the year. I started this workout plan about a year and a half ago at 150lbs and now I'm approaching 215lbs while actually losing a bit of body fat.

GET SOME.

 

I just cut from 207 to 191 lean in the am... 194-196 on a full stomach at night

 

okay rephrasing the no carbs thing lol when i cut i remove bread from my diet yet i still eat pastas however i never eat anything "wet"....

i never use mustard,mayo,olive oil, dressing... period at any point in my life and you know sire.... i really like my mr finger diet plan hahahaha

 

that's great bro good results, but you would REALLY see a lot more gains if you made your workouts a little more specific than upper one day lower the next, which is really a beginner's workout and if you've been working out for a year and a half then it's def time to switch it up and start putting on some real size, give my routine a shot and see what you think, I've outlined it in my Q&A thread in the health forum

looking good bro nice progress, keep eating clean, eating often & training hard

mr. finger diet plan? lol

 

touch your finger to the back of your throat

 

So you're one of those types huh Matteh..LOL!

 

no haha i was simply giving tips.

i love my food too much :_)

 

i used to make myself vomit in high school for wrestling to lose weight. not a very healthy choice at all, so i hope you're kidding. great self control staying away from "bad" foods, wish i could do that, i just love junk food too much!

*never mind saw you were kidding

 

Putting this on watch- did a 5k this morning and the hills kicked my ass. Big wakeup call on how NOT in shape I am right now. I did this same 5k last year and was still raring to go after. Not this time. Time to re-focus and get back to the gym and the trails, especially since I have a 10k in about two weeks. Gotta focus on some strength too though, especially core since I hate doing it so much.

Think I'm gonna go with the following, with a 10-15min warm-up run (+/- sprints) beforehand
Mon: Uppers + core
Tues: Lower + core
Wed: Long run day
Thur: Upper + core
Fri: Lower + core
Sat or Sun: Long run day

I might have to toss one more long run in there somewhere for the next couple weeks, but that shouldn't be too bad.

 

that sounds good bro, keep the reps high 15+ for muscular endurance that you'll need in that 10k!

 

good to see that everyone is still doing well and motivating everyone and kick their own butts in the gym! Keep up th egood work yall!

I might be starting p90x soon so ill let yall know and keep updates!

BTW DOES ANYONE BUT ME THINK THIS SHOULD BE MADE A STICKY?

I come to this and read almost everyday! just a thought!

Ty

 

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sticky would be good. PM a mod, maybe they can get er done.

 

NOFORDS
what is the 300 workout!
I assume you are referring to the movie...

shed light please.

 

only the mightiest of spartans can endure the physical agony that is the 300 workout!

 

for real. that is some messed up stuff. same with NO2, i think it is, kills your lungs eventually believe it or not.