On September 23 2011 01:39 Sneakyz wrote: Man, new gear is so fucking expensive. Just ordered my first barbell, been using some gear my brother borrowed from a friend's mom, who owns a gym. Bought a somewhat expensive one hoping it will last me a while. Barbell+140kg weights cost me 5000SEK, which is about 725$, so not really cheap I guess rofl. I would need more weights but I hope I'll be able to keep the 130kg I borrowed a bit longer . Probably easier to find a used bench/rack, atleast I hope so, else it'll be another 725$ or so. ^_^
I'm fine with that though, I much prefer working out at home with my brother so I don't have to deal with gymidiots, queues to equipment and can scream how much I want.
On September 23 2011 00:02 Cambium wrote: ah fuck, i miss massive amounts of meat already
I just came back from shopping, might as well share my loot:
boneless chicken breast - 1 kg wagyu (Japanese beef, lots of fat) - 400 g pack of eggs (10 lol) apples x 7 tangerines x 7 grapefruits x 2 bananas x 5 hokkaido 1L whole milk x 2 <--- this milk is fucking amazing Japanese sweet potatoes - 2 kg pack of Camembert cheese green peppers and mushrooms
fucking $60 =.=
That's about 25 euro's where I live, maybe thirty. Still a lot though :D
I love the 'guidelines'; says serves 6 when it only serves me for dinnah Tomorrow another gymsession, gonna be gooood.
On September 23 2011 00:02 Cambium wrote: ah fuck, i miss massive amounts of meat already
I just came back from shopping, might as well share my loot:
boneless chicken breast - 1 kg wagyu (Japanese beef, lots of fat) - 400 g pack of eggs (10 lol) apples x 7 tangerines x 7 grapefruits x 2 bananas x 5 hokkaido 1L whole milk x 2 <--- this milk is fucking amazing Japanese sweet potatoes - 2 kg pack of Camembert cheese green peppers and mushrooms
fucking $60 =.=
That's about 25 euro's where I live, maybe thirty. Still a lot though :D
I love the 'guidelines'; says serves 6 when it only serves me for dinnah Tomorrow another gymsession, gonna be gooood.
Hahaha I know, I love eating 6-8 portions worth of food in one sitting :p
I figured I would post an update here. It's been about 4 months now since I started living/eating more healthily. I've lost 34 lbs, and it's really great eating healthy food. In conjunction with eating healthier, I've learned to cook many of the meals I eat, so that's a plus too, as I think it's a pretty important skill to have. I started teaching full time this semester, so I was thrown off for a bit because certain days of mine are really busy now, so what I started doing is cooking a large meal the night before, eating half for dinner, and taking the other half to work, so as to avoid eating less healthy and more expensive alternatives.
My current weight is 211lb, my goal is 140? I guess, just chosen because according to the internet, that's the upper bound for healthy weight of someone of my height (5'4"), though mentally I'm taking it in small steps, each 5 lb increment is my goal, and once I reach it, I go for the next 5 lbs.
Interesting story: A couple months ago, I might be walking by a mirror and look at myself and I'd say "Well, you've got a long way to go, but you're getting better every day!" But a couple weeks ago, I noticed myself in the mirror, and thought "DAMN, you look like shit!" It's funny because in that I noticed a psychological change; before I thought of myself as an unhealthy person trying to be more healthy, whereas now I think of myself as a healthy person whose body hasn't caught up yet. I'd definitely say the proper education about nutrition and health makes a huge impact. Simply because I know how little nutritional value there is in many less healthy foods, they're less attractive to me. It's actually really easy!
Currently I'm eating almost exclusively fruits and vegetables. I've been tracking my nutrition on fitday, and that has been really helpful too. I'm focusing on eating 1800 calories on days when I lift weights, and a bit less on days when I don't. From a recent motivational update (I think Snapplecakes'?) I figured 1400 was a good number to shoot for on off days, but I'm a bit more lenient on that.
As I mentioned, I'm lifting weights, though I don't have a gym membership, I'm just doing what I can at home. I bought a barbell and some weights and am doing squats/DL/overhead press/ bent-over row, etc. I plan on getting more proper equipment after I move into a new place in a month or so, and let some paychecks come in from teaching.
Anyway, thanks for the help guys. The resources here were invaluable. A couple quick questions:
1. Where are you guys getting your calories? As I've been paying more attention to the stuff on fitday, and removing breads/pasta (especially) and other less healthy foods, I've found it actually difficult to consume 1800 or whatever calories. So I did some math on my weekly consumption. Each week I consume approx.:
7 lbs of meat (chicken, beef, maybe some pork) ~ 3500 calories various veggies with the meat ~ 1500 calories fruit (nectarine or bananas are my favorite, 1/day) ~ 500 calories a dozen O-3 eggs ~ 1200 calories the occasional less healthy food/alcohol ~ 1500 calories
This comes out to only 8200 calories. On an 1800/1400 plan weightlifting 4 days/week, I should be consuming 11400 calories. So I recently wondered, "where are those other calories coming from?" I'm still trying to figure this out, so I'm going to pay more attention to what I eat for the next few weeks. But I feel like this must be something you guys have dealt with. All of the above leaves me wondering where you guys get that last 3200 calories each week. Should I be eating more meat? More fruit? Vegetables? I mean, vegetables don't really have many calories in them. I thought I was supposed keep the fruit in moderation. So I guess I'm not sure here.
2. I really don't like the taste or smell of fish, and it seems expensive. What's so great about fish, and is there an alternative to getting that nutrition besides buying something expensive and I don't even like the taste of?
140lbs seems really light (even at 5'4), especially if you are lifting weights. I think as long as you continue doing as you're doing you'll figure that out though.
As for extra calories, nuts contain a lot of calories from fats. Also, keeping fruits in moderation is only if you want to cut down on carbs. I assume you are trying to eat paleo, and therefore adding/subtracting high calorie fruit is a main method of controlling carb consumption. As stated in the OP of the paleo thread, it is neither high or low carb, it just depends on how much fruit you have.
I tend to subscribe to theory that the body will tell you if it's hungry if you are eating the right foods. If you are eating well (e.g. Paleo) then your body will tell you if it wants food at a good rate.
Add more meat, fruits/vege/nuts/coconut/avocadoes/etc. if you need more calories. Otherwise, it shouldn't matter that much
Awesome progress so far, Dromar. About your interesting story, try not to get too caught up in what your body looks like currently. I know I found my weight loss process to be quite depressing because I hated what my body looked like and I couldn't wait for it to get better. I don't know how you feel but try not to let it get to you too much, like I said.
Keep up the good work. You and I both know you can do it. Just like you said, it's pretty easy once you know what you're doing.
180lb squat 5-4-3. Rather disappointing. After 10 workouts of 5-5-5s. Bench 135lbs 5-5-4 , 125lb 5-3. Gym doesn't carry 2.5lb plates near bench press, and couldn't be bothered to take it from the squat rack.
On September 23 2011 03:25 emperorchampion wrote: @Dromar
140lbs seems really light (even at 5'4), especially if you are lifting weights. I think as long as you continue doing as you're doing you'll figure that out though.
As for extra calories, nuts contain a lot of calories from fats. Also, keeping fruits in moderation is only if you want to cut down on carbs. I assume you are trying to eat paleo, and therefore adding/subtracting high calorie fruit is a main method of controlling carb consumption. As stated in the OP of the paleo thread, it is neither high or low carb, it just depends on how much fruit you have.
Great job on the progress, keep it up! :D
140 is light for 5'4"? i am 150 at 5'7" and i'm plenty fat.
On September 23 2011 08:54 Release wrote: 180lb squat 5-4-3. Rather disappointing. After 10 workouts of 5-5-5s. Bench 135lbs 5-5-4 , 125lb 5-3. Gym doesn't carry 2.5lb plates near bench press, and couldn't be bothered to take it from the squat rack.
On September 23 2011 03:25 emperorchampion wrote: @Dromar
140lbs seems really light (even at 5'4), especially if you are lifting weights. I think as long as you continue doing as you're doing you'll figure that out though.
As for extra calories, nuts contain a lot of calories from fats. Also, keeping fruits in moderation is only if you want to cut down on carbs. I assume you are trying to eat paleo, and therefore adding/subtracting high calorie fruit is a main method of controlling carb consumption. As stated in the OP of the paleo thread, it is neither high or low carb, it just depends on how much fruit you have.
Great job on the progress, keep it up! :D
140 is light for 5'4"? i am 150 at 5'7" and i'm plenty fat.
I'm close to 215 at 6'0". It's all about body composition and that will improve over time.
Don't worry overmuch at only getting 5-4-3, just smash it next time
On September 23 2011 08:54 Release wrote: 180lb squat 5-4-3. Rather disappointing. After 10 workouts of 5-5-5s. Bench 135lbs 5-5-4 , 125lb 5-3. Gym doesn't carry 2.5lb plates near bench press, and couldn't be bothered to take it from the squat rack.
On September 23 2011 03:25 emperorchampion wrote: @Dromar
140lbs seems really light (even at 5'4), especially if you are lifting weights. I think as long as you continue doing as you're doing you'll figure that out though.
As for extra calories, nuts contain a lot of calories from fats. Also, keeping fruits in moderation is only if you want to cut down on carbs. I assume you are trying to eat paleo, and therefore adding/subtracting high calorie fruit is a main method of controlling carb consumption. As stated in the OP of the paleo thread, it is neither high or low carb, it just depends on how much fruit you have.
Great job on the progress, keep it up! :D
140 is light for 5'4"? i am 150 at 5'7" and i'm plenty fat.
I'm close to 215 at 6'0". It's all about body composition and that will improve over time.
Don't worry overmuch at only getting 5-4-3, just smash it next time
Sjarl getting so much bigger than me
On September 23 2011 10:03 Hurricane wrote: I Tried squatting barefoot on monday. I'm not wearing shoes in the gym again if I'm on my feet until I get lifting shoes. My squat felt amazing.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is to convince people of this T_T
Would it be risky of me to try that with my injury? I wear a brace whenever I lift anyways but I think the brace is designed to be worn with a shoe as well.
I watched this earlier today. During my workout, I proceeded to destroy my previous 1rm of 80kg by doing a triple of it. Then did singles at 85 and smoked 90. ty klokov
i had to watch this twice to comprehend wtf just happened
i was thinking, oh he's going to squat it, nbd; then i was thinking, okay, front squat, still nbd
and then... O_O
I just went through the same thought process (while being mildly confused by Dimsum's numbers)
On September 23 2011 10:03 Hurricane wrote: I Tried squatting barefoot on monday. I'm not wearing shoes in the gym again if I'm on my feet until I get lifting shoes. My squat felt amazing.
Today's workout was pretty disappointing. I was supposed to max out on snatch, but I only went up to 55kg (feel like I can do at least 70-80kg if I can learn to pull myself under the bar).
It didn't exactly help that this middle aged man who is AWKWARD AS FUCK kept walking up and asking me questions. Yes, I know you want to learn something about America. Yes, I know you want to work out in a positive environment. But when I'm just about to pull, don't fucking talk to me -_-. "All Americans do drugs, right?" "All Americans have tattoos, right?" "All Americans own a gun, right?"
Ugh. Go away.
After that I was bored so I went over to the leg extension machine just to see how much I could do. I'm working on it and the awkward guy comes over and starts telling me to count 1, 2, 3 on the eccentric phase, so I finally tell him that if I want advice, I'll ask for it.
On September 23 2011 16:08 decafchicken wrote: Decaf not invincible. Decaf have first important game of the season on saturday. Decaf can't wait that long. Decaf going to cj 150kg tomorrow. Decaf upset over (gasp) a female. Fuck. God i wish i had something to lift/break/hit right now.
What happened with the girl man? Must have been something to get you upset.
On September 23 2011 16:08 decafchicken wrote: Decaf not invincible. Decaf have first important game of the season on saturday. Decaf can't wait that long. Decaf going to cj 150kg tomorrow. Decaf upset over (gasp) a female. Fuck. God i wish i had something to lift/break/hit right now.
What happened with the girl man? Must have been something to get you upset.
See blog if you give a shit. I dont know. I didn't think i'd ever end up like this the rest of my college career.
EPT
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Tomorrow another gymsession, gonna be gooood.
