The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Debating sig quoting this lol

 

Do it, I DARE YA

 

also, thought you'd enjoy this:

 

Backyard engineering at it's finest.

 

damnit bro!!!! well shit... I wont be in PHX.. ANY time soon... heading to new jersey instead...

It wasnt the easiest bro... but it was cool as shit to be on stage

 

I did sips on saturday... tbh I just followed what my trainer said on that... Prior to stepping on stage the first time I had a shot of wine and the second time I had a small piece of cheese cake

before stage on saturday was sweet potato then cheese cake and a rice cake

and yeah pro and carbs m-f

 

yeah i really wanna do it again

atm Im not too sure on diet.. we'll see what my trainer says and then go off of that... I really wanna try the IIFYM.. I see a lot of people watching macros more than anything and getting great results

I wanna gain a lot of size and strength... I competed at around 146 lbs and 5% BF... I wanna be the same BF but compete around 160 lbs

 

You have let me down Ky Ky, it is not the first, nor do I suspect it will be the last.

 

I keep you wanting more

 

Always

 

lol tell her to vote too!

thats the way to go man. this way you can still eat good tasting foodz. pancakes, bacon...

 

my biggest thing.. it may sound dumb... but how do you calculate everything? like say if I make spaghetti.. how the fuck do I break that down?

 

yeah I use them a lot... makes sense

 

x2.

Its a pain in the ass at first. You have to weigh everything out and measure portions and shit but once you do it for a couple weeks you should get the hang of it. Most people usually eat the same stuff so once you track your normal meals it will get easier.

 

oh trust me i know the measuring thing.. I just like that you can adjust your macros to add in the "bad" stuff... for flexible dieting haha

 

I love IIFYM!

When I get home, I'll get her to

And your IIFYM plan sounds a lot like mine. I usually throw 1-2 foods in a day that keep me sane. Baked Lays, the occasional coke, etc.

A lot of folks use myfitnesspal, but I'd rather do it myself b/c all the food you buy tells you exactly how much of what is in it. It took my like 2-3 hours to make my IIFYM cutting plan, but I follow it religiously Sun-Fri. For foods that have multiple ingredients (for me, it's just pasta), I just take the calories, protein, carbs, and fat from each one and add them all up. For my pasta, I only use 1 jar of meat sauce (giggidy), 1 box of whole wheat pasta, and 2 lbs of 97/3 ground turkey. You've just got to make sure you've got enough of each for all the servings to be equal. For my pasta, it comes out at 430 cals/31g pro/51g carbs/12.5g fat. Everything else is simple: tuna sandwich with mayo: 320 cals/28g pro/22 carbs/12 fat, etc.

The hardest part for me was trying to get everything to add up to my macros within 5-10g. After much trial and error and adding and deleting different foods, I've got it to where I hit all my macros within 5-10g every day.

You CAN eat whatever you want to hit your macros, but some people take it too far. If you go eat a Whopper meal, you'll probably hit all your carbs and fat right there, so the only thing you'd be able to eat for the rest of the day would be pure protein lol. To combat this, I limit my junk food to a couple things a day: Baked lays and 1 coke per day.

 

Yep. I had to swap some stuff out b/c I just got run down eating the same nasty crap everyday (for me, it was black and kidney beans). Now, everything in my diet is stuff I love, so I don't feel compelled to cheat or skip anything.