Isopure.
5mg of cholesterol.
210 calories.
50 grams of protein.
Get French Vanilla - avoid Cookies & Cream.
It is the shit.
You’ll see/feel results fast.
Aren’t egg whites low cholesterol?
I thought it was the yolk that was really bad for you - nearly all the “bad” cholesterol and fat.
tech master has it right.
Pump up your cardio.
I find outdoor biking to be the best way to push myself - it feels like your actually going somewhere. In fact, if you set up a destination, it helps tremendously. Biking 8 miles both ways 5 times a week trimmed me up, but kicking it into overdrive and going 16 both ways is what got me into 32s.
This will kill any goals of increasing [weight lifting] strength, but you ought to be able to maintain your present lift strength. Chances are, your calisthenic strength will go up.
If it’s too cold to go outside for cardio, mix it up on the gliders and what not using different settings.
And do the torture he avoids, if you can, lol.
But don’t sweat it if you can’t (because it does, in fact, suck - toothily), just make sure the foods you take in are healthy.
It’s a real bitch, but once you’ve upped you metabolism enough, you can go back to eating normally - just maintain.
…then get yourself a fine lady, and stop tripping over it, lol.
Well, it’s kind of hard to, but I’ll see what I can do.
Weightlifting, and fitness in general, is all about what you want to accomplish. If you wish to become a bodybuilder, and do it like many pros do, then what you would be getting is functional, but for you. Would you be as strong as a powerlifter in the same amount of time? No, you wouldn’t, but that’s not the point. Those lifts would be functional for the bodybuilder.
As an athlete, will training as a bodybuilder be the best way to go about it? Probably not. You would get stronger, but not as fast as powerlifting, and you would mostly be training slow twitch instead of fast twitch. Would training as an olympic lifter be the best for you? Maybe, but in the time it takes to properly learn how to do the specific lifts, you could have gotten more benefits out of learning how to squat, bench, and dead.
Ok, last thing, will squatting and benching and deadlifting make you better at whatever you want to do? Maybe, but maybe not. What it will do however, will give you a much higher potential, because of having more muscle. What makes you better at your sport is practicing your sport.
tl;dr: If a bodybuilder, a powerlifter, and an olympic lifter can all squat 500 pounds, they are just as strong as each other. They aren’t any less strong because one might lift more “functionally” than the other one.
Eh, there must be some type of set-up to how you eat day-in and day-out. Doesn’t have to be anything planned, just gotta know what your current regimen is like.
Egg whites are all protein, they’re called albumen. The yolk isn’t all that bad since it contains vitamins. I usually do 1 whole egg for every 2-3 egg whites.
Kinda iffy description, but I think I understand what you’re trying to say.
Most people think of functional strength of becoming better at movements/exercises to best translate into everyday life. Another way to say it is making your muscular system as efficient as possible in your environment at any given moment.
I would say the term “functional” isn’t useful on a case-by-case scenario, but in general that aforementioned description works.
yeah we do.
breakfast i stuff myself, w/e they got that day dunno what the specifics would be like today i had 3 mini pancakes,3 sausuges and an omelet with 2 cups of juice.
lunch i had 2 frozen dinners and 2 cookies and juice
dinner i had chicken and rice mix.
ive always had a fast metabolism so i have never cared about what i eat. im always constantly hungry anyways and i burn it off pretty fast. i rarely ever go above 147 and if i do its not for long.
That really sucks. If you didn;t, I woudl have suggested pulling a matt kroc (A poerlifter who lifts at the 220 weight class, but is 240. He loses 20 pounds of basically water before the weight in, and the gains it all back before he has to lift the next day.)
My advice would be to try and cut carbs out of your diet, and focus more on protein, so you can maintain muscle mass while losing weight as carbs are the main source of energy for your diet.
Wait, are you trying to drop the 12 lbs. progessively up to the tournament date? or all in the last week?
If it’s the former, you’ve got roughly 1 1/2 months at least to drop weight so changes are gonna be important. I’d ditch all beverages besides water and tea. For breakfast, replace the pancakes with vegetables (toss some chopped in your omelet if you want or on the side) and lose the juice. Lunch doesn’t sound great since frozen dinners could be anything. Cookies and juice aren’t helping too much either. Dinner seems ok, just make sure to have vegetables as well.
My suggestion for lunch is (if you can) have any lean source of protein, veggies, & an average-to-small amount of carbs. I take advantage of my university’s dining hall and grab grilled chicken breasts, 2 bowls mixed veggies, & brown rice.
You should get most of your carbs from beans, veggies, and fruits (2-3 servings of fruit daily should be good) especially since your body-type sounds like an ectomorph. If you weight train, try to consume all starchy carbs (like fruits & grains) post-workout.
Also, having 5-8 meals a day would really rev up your metabolism. Add 1 or 2 snacks between meals. 1 between each major meal would work well. A few snack examples are mixed nuts, cottage cheese w/ apple slices, tuna, yogurt (choose low sugar ones), & peanut butter on a slice of whole wheat bread.
Monday & Tuesday are hard for me to go to the gym…Can some of you guys recommend some home exercise i can do?
cant eat nuts. but everything else should be easy enough to manage.
Nothing wrong with egg yolks. Your body doesn’t actually absorb the cholesterol in egg yolks, and even if it did, dietary cholesterol doesn’t need to be controlled unless you’re previously genetically at risk of high cholesterol issues. I can dig up medical journal proof if you want.
The fat, vitamins and other nutrients in eggs are very, very good for you.
Lot’s of options here to go with.
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Thanks for the help in here much appreciated:china:
Although I am sitting on the fence on this one, I would appreciate it if you posted those studies.
I usually go 3 egg yolks 4 egg whites, cuz I dunno what to make of this debate… but I though either way 3 egg yolks are safe according to both camps, and I get some of its benefits…
Also, do you know anything about how they should be cooked to get the most benefit? I remember reading something about not overcooking the egg (it leads to the denaturation of the egg protein, rendering it unusable by the human body) and but making sure you cook it enough to kill bacteria… or something like that, I forgot. Care to enlighten us? Using scientific journals of course…
Regarding eggs and cholesterol:
Jist is that there’s a chemical in eggs that binds to cholesterol that makes your body not absorb it.
Also, what you’re doing with egg whites are fine. I’m not saying you should eat whole eggs exclusively, since adding egg whites helps with protein:fat ratios. What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t be afraid of egg yolks because of cholesterol.
Lastly, regarding protein in eggs, your body denatures proteins because it can’t absorb whole proteins. Your body wants Amino Acids, not fully formed tertiary-protein structures. Heating up eggs to break down their protein structures actually encourages digestibility, and makes more Aminos available for absorption.
Hey, doesn’t pepsin aid in protein digestion? or is it not all that powerful?
Thanks. The first article certainly adds weight to your side of the argument (I wouldn’t call any paper proof though). Second article was great. I actually read this one around 2 years ago. Completely forgot about it.
After looking around for a bit I found out what I was initially and incorrectly referring to but couldn’t manage to pinpoint. Many sources (none of them medical journals, unfortunately) mentioned something about overcooking egg yolk leads to the destruction of Lecithin. Know anything about that? For a while, I was cooking my eggs in a way where I cooked the egg whites and cooked the egg yolk to a certain point where its half solid and half liquid. 
My guess is there is something in egg white that binds to the protein preventing the proteolytic enzymes from getting to it and breaking it down. Heating inactivates that inhibitory substance. Just a guess.
So, gentlemen, best exercises for building forearm strength?
Get a weight (or an iron mallet-style hammer head), and run a thin rope through its center. Attach the other side of said rope to the center of a foot and half of broomstick or the like.
Then roll that sucker up slowly - with your wrists, your arms locked out straight in front.
Unroll it the same way.
Weep like a girl.
Repeat.