Haha i use to want the brad pitt/fight club body, but i think it’s a little too skinny. I was watching punisher yesterday, and i think i want something like thomas jane in that movie., maybe a little bigger
Anyone know any researched benefits of a steamroom at a gym? Something more than some generic ‘removes toxins’ bullcrap…
It would probably be perfect for me. As I don’t want to be too bulky.
I liked Ryan Reynolds in Blade Trinity. I may attempt that.
I’m signing up to a gym beginning of next week, I’m am going to try, and work really hard.
Ok here’s the deal. I’m going to cancun on dec 8th and i want to tone up before then. What should i do??
Right now my routine is, i go to the gym on mondays and wednsdays for 2 hours. It’s a thai gym so the first hour is all conditioning. Situps, pushups, squats, skipping etc. 2nd hour would mostly be considered cardio i guess. Pad work or bag work.
I play hockey tuesdays, thursdays and sundays. Sundays and tuesdays is a hard skate…thursdays is basically just gliding around.
I’m thinking of adding some kind of wieght routine on tuesday and thursday. I don’t know what to do though, i’ve never lifted weights before. I think i just want to do like a medium kind of weight and a full body routine.
Then on fridays i think i’m going to add a run or a bike ride in.
So anyway…i need some ideas cause i have no idea what i’m doing.
Been a while since I posted in here, so I started dieting/exercising Dec 1 of last year. I started weighing 330 lbs. and now almost a year later I weigh 257. I’ve lost 73 lbs. Although I didn’t hit my goal of losing about 8 lbs/month(96 lbs in a year) I am very happy with what I’ve done, but I am no where near where I ultimately want to be(165-175ish).
So the reason I am here is because I moved out 4 months ago and living on my own has made eating healthy a whole lot harder. It’s much more convenient, and cheap, to eat garbage than it is to eat healthy, especially when I don’t have my own kitchen. I have to lug all my stuff up 2 floors and use the shared kitchen if I want to cook, so this and the fact that my school schedule is fucked has made me slack a bit in going to the gym. I finally got myself back into the gym a few weeks ago(really fuckin early in the morning) but I was wondering if some of you guys could help me out with the food part. What I really want is some cheap and healthy things you all like to eat. So far I just make turkey sandwiches on whole wheat bread and I started using my foreman grill a month ago to cook Salmon which I eat with white rice. Is there anything out there thats cheap and simple to make? I supposed if I have to I’ll just start cooking upstairs but it is a hassle. Also, my place came with a mini fridge without a freezer so storage is also an issue. because I wanted to buy bulk chicken breasts but it would all go to waste too fast
Oh and if it helps I do not like eating any type of nut, so no peanut butter or anything like that. Also, how bad is white rice anyway? I tried brown rice and I didn’t like the texture, I guess it is something I could get used to. But my parents bought me a 5 lb bag of white rice when I moved here so I have to finish it before I could even think about switching.
Anyone taking ZMA?
Anyone know much about it?
Pros and Cons?
if you wanna start lifting weights i would suggest doing compound exercises that are simple. like bench presses, military presses, squats, deadlifts and barbell rows. if you are doing all that cardio often and playing hockey you should have a decently low body fat so it probably wont take long before you see results from weight lifting.
Yeah I just recently finished a bottle of it. I thought it was good, I definitely felt a little bit stronger with it. I always have trouble sleeping and it helped in the first couple weeks but after that I had trouble sleeping again. It also gave me just a touch more acne than usual. I’d say it works but it doesn’t do miracles.
If I could afford it I’d probly be on it now.
Props on your progress. What was your regular routine and what type of food have you been eating in order to obtain such results?
Anyways, from what I know although brown and white rice is similar when it comes to carbohydrates, protein, fat, and calories, brown rice has more fiber. Brown rice also slows down the consumption of carbohydrates due to more fiber.
At first you may not like brown rice because all your life you have been eating white rice, your taste buds will eventually get used to it.
Thanks man, my regular routine and diet has varied. When I first started I actually was doing Atkins because a friends suggested it. I kind of used it to get the ball rolling but knew it wasn’t something I could do for too long. I did that for about 2 months and I was going to the gym MWF doing a couple exercises per muscle and 30 minutes of cardio.
After that I was still watching what I ate but I started to include carbs. For breakfast I would eat eggbeaters and a couple pieces of lowfat sausage or I would have a bowl of oatmeal. Not the instant kind with lots of sugar the kind you have to boil for a bit, I only added a tablespoon of honey to give it some flavor. For the most part I was eating chicken breast, fish, sandwiches and salads. I avoided sweets as much as I can, in fact I didn’t eat any kind of dessert until I got here and that was some bday cake because I didn’t want to be rude. Also, I started going to the gym 4 times a week doing upper body then lower and a day rest, etc… and was still doing 30 minutes of cardio.
Now that school has started I have only found time to go 3 times a week, and I am really getting bored with my sandwiches all the time. lol
shit man, I only took 2 last night and I felt pretty sedated.
Yeah, I heard about the acne thing… hmm…
Ill stay on it, and if it doesnt have too much of an adverse affect, I’ll keep on it…
Thing is I also take Casein protein shake before bed too…
So I heard I need to take ZMA maybe an hour before bed, and the casein right before I hit the sack… that means one hour of just drowsiness…
Drink water, 64-80 oz. at least each day if possible. Deadlifts, squats, rows, bench press, pull ups, and such. Go for compoud lifts as recommended earlier.
Apparently “abs” is too short for the search function. Need names of effective exercises that will target the abs, lower abs, and sides without using weights–there’s so many variations to these.
You don’t want to use weights, or you don’t have any?
Crunches, pushups, side bends are all good for abs.
This thread is huge so… i cant really go through every page…
I have a few questions that you guys might be able to help me with.
I’m around 5’5, and only weigh prob 115-120lb at most, i’m clearly underweight and im trying to get bigger. What do you guys think i should do? Does those protein drinks work, the ones you buy from GNC? Also, im not exactly in the best health, all i do is wake up, go to work in an office, come home, chill with friends on weekends, hardly exercise (mostly too tired from work). And i tried one of those Mega Men Multivitamin from GNC before, and it turned my urine green, what does this mean? This isnt common right?
I’m 24 if that matters.
LOL it means you’re becoming the HULK.
You should join a Gym.
That is a simple answer but the one you need.
Gaining weight eat more, again simple answer.
Whats that? what do you eat? well meat Fish,Chicken,Red Meat dunno what you like, you will need to eat about 6 times a day.
Protien drinks help, they are not the answer though, do take them but dont rely on just that.
Could go into more detail but honestly you should go through the thread, theirs info on workout routines and diets etc, or maybe somebody will come along at help you later.
I eat basically everything; beef, chicken, fish, as well as all the unhealthy stuff like fast food. I dont eat alot though, i get full really fast.
Hmm so eating 6 times a day… that seems to be alot. Is that 6 full meals or just like… snacks and stuff… like an apple or something counting as eating once?
lol @ hulk
No I mean actual meals not snacks.
6 sounds like alot at first but once you get into it you will find it’s not so bad, dont rush into it, build up over time say every week you start eating one more meal than last week so 4,5, then 6.
You’re stomach will expand the more you eat so you wont get full so quick after time.
Hmm you need to drop the fast food too that dont count.
You can buy MRP theirs different ones search and find, they count as a meal so if you have two in a day you only have to have 4 cooked meals, which is good if you dont have time.
steel cut oats or regular oats not that one minute instant oat crap, add them to your whey protein, banana and some peanut butter and you SHOULD have a good three to four hundred good calories.
what do I mean by good calories? well you’ll have over fourty grams of protein and complex carbs.
want a good protein source?
try optimum nutrition, been using it for two years now. someone above mentioned casein (slow digesting) protein that’s good before bed or for when you know you won’t be around food, or forget to eat.
you could go for a creatine, if that’s the case go for bulk creatine monohydrate, aminos are also good.
anyhow theirs a lot more depth to bulking, keep asking qs.
Anyone can recommend a good multivitamin supplement? I was considering buying the one for men at GNC, it’s a black box with some gold and red on it. Also, the guy there was telling me it was gender-specific, does it make that big of a difference?