The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Haha thats why you need bar tenders for friends . Or carry a flask in. I think I spend at most $20 a night now. Sometimes I go all out but I quit buying for people and have some generous friends.

 

yeah i much rather spend a weekend camping and wheeling with friends, drinking good beer over camp fire than a club now.

BCAA is a must on a cut, esp intro workout while fasted. you won't gas as much and it definitely helps recovery.

 

So i started working out with a partner again, and im experimenting with some new training methods, mostly drop sets, this works especially well on back days when im doing cables accessories. pretty much everyset is to failure then you have your lifting buddy drop 5-10 lbs and you just keep going untill you are literally doing 5lbs on the machine or bar. Crazy pump and hypertrophy.

 

I usually eat every 2 hours, starting at 8 am. I usually workout at 1, so I have a meal at 8, 10, and 12. At around 2, I have my post workout shake. I am eating below maintenance right now and haven't found much info on whether it's necessary to take BCAA's if you're getting a good pre-workout meal, as well as good pre pre-workout meals lol. Also, my workouts only being 45 mins long, I'm figuring that my body won't have enough time to run out of food fuel and have time to attack my precious muscle. Is this correct?

 

The old guy in me kicked in. Went inside to get ready and now I am enjoying some soup, bread and a book.

Gym related though, my workouts have become extremely simple lately. I pretty much just do one or two exercises over the period of 40-45 minutes. Today I did incline bench and then decline. Some days I will just hit a few snatches or just chill out and squat. Others I will just go outside for a walk to the park and just chill out and do sets of 5-10 pull ups.

 

honestly 50% of the time i drink BCAA is cuz they taste so damn good haha, im sure it helps, but after calculating, it would cost me more to drink Gatorade, so why not BCAA, at least its doing something instead of just simple carbs.

 

idk what your goal is but if you just wanna get the blood moving and persevere muscle there's nothing wrong with what you are doing.

 

Because I hate taking something unless I know 100% it's actually doing something. When I first started out, I was taking a bunch of bullshit that the websites told me was necessary. Years later, I'm on the basics: protein & creatine. I'm not gonna spend money on BCAA's unless I know definitively that they're actually worth it. I think my diet is good enough to not need them, but I don't know as much as folks like you and Sean about them, so I'm trying to make sure before I go wasting my money lol

 

I don't really have any goals fitness wise anymore . It's just nice to chill out to some music and move some weight. I quit caring about the aesthetics a long time ago and recently have quit caring about numbers. I don't even count reps unless I am working towards a 3rm. Long as I don't have a gut and I can eat my food without losing my breath I am a happy camper.

 

This coming Sunday will be the beginning of week 3 on what I'm hoping is a 12 week cut. I've cut before with success (~9-10%), but that was 2 years ago and I've put on a lot more mass since then, which I love and am not willing to get rid of much lol.

Anyway, I started at 200 lbs. 3 weeks ago and ~14% bf and am at 196 right now and I'm sure body fat percentage hasn't changed much yet...I'm losing a pound a week at 2460 cals/196g protein/266g carbs/68g fat. I am religious when it comes to counting calories and have fine-tuned it to know exactly how many calories I need to gain, maintain, and lose weight...a process that took about a full year of counting calories...PITA. So, is it your professional opinion that I should start supplementing BCAA's or am I good without? BTW, thanks for all the help.

I only do 5g a day, but am currently off-cycle. I read something somewhere about being able to take it on a cut, as long as you drink a shit-ton of water everyday...like, more than the recommended gallon. Something about the body being okay about not storing water for "backup" situations (like it does with fat) because you're consuming so much that it eventually lets all the stored water weight go. Dunno if this is true or complete broscience though

 

Morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2F5PNsE_J8

Arms, abs, and ran this morning. I feel like I get a better workout first thing in the morning. Wake up, preworkout, gym. I train fasted in the AM (other than whatever magical ground up unicorn bone dust they put in the preworkout)

 

A refeed as in a carb refeed? I've only ever done those on keto and don't know much about them outside of that, so no. Care to elaborate? My starting calories were around 2700 cals and my macros were slightly higher than they are now. I usually drop 50-100 calories a week, depending on weight-loss. Usually it's around 50-75.

I'm slowly learning to substitute things so I can have a social life on a cut. I calculate my macros to always be about 80-100 lower than what they need to be, so if I go to lunch or feel the need to cheat a little, I can do so without exceeding my caloric limit. 9 times out of 10, I don't use those 100 calories, so I just eat a cheese stick at night to make up for it. It's nice to have a buffer zone. Also, Saturday's are my cheat days, but I usually spend them partying, rather than eating bad. If I know I'm gonna drink, I consume next to no fat, very little carbs, and 250-400g protein. I figure I'll just let my body be fueled by protein on party days, rather than putting excess carbs/fat to be stored. There's a good article about that on Leangains.com (http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html) Although on a cut, my alcohol consumption is probably 300 calories on a Saturday, whereas on a bulk, it's like 3000 lol

So, it should be okay to take creatine while cutting, provided I drink water like crazy? I usually drink over a gallon a day anyway. We've got some sea salt, so I'll start throwing that on my chicken and pasta.

Last question, I swear lol: I found 60 servings of ON BCAA's for $30, which isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. Should I take the plunge and get them or is my diet in check enough to not need them?

 

hahaha oh my god that's the greatest thing I've ever seen! Douchebag Ford drivers...

I'm off today, but I think I might sneak up there for a leg day

 

Ok, looking forward to the refeed info.

Alright, I'm about to order some from bb. 60 servings of unflavored bcaa powder for $26...not too bad. So, should I just do 10g intra-workout and 10g before bed?