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Orpheos
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1663 Posts
December 24 2011 04:19 GMT
#21
On December 24 2011 10:30 decafchicken wrote:
6'8 180!? You must be all sorts of skinny

i can totally believe that from a swimmer.
PolskaGora
Profile Joined May 2011
United States547 Posts
December 24 2011 23:55 GMT
#22
On December 24 2011 10:30 decafchicken wrote:
6'8 180!? You must be all sorts of skinny

Yeah I look pretty skinny, but I'm a lot stronger than I look.
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PUPATREE
Profile Joined August 2009
340 Posts
January 08 2012 09:52 GMT
#23
Just wanted to give thanks for all the resources. Finally sucked it up and started lifting 2 weeks ago. Fuck yahhh
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Dbars
Profile Joined July 2011
United States273 Posts
January 16 2012 13:16 GMT
#24
5 months with out a workout related injury!! like a boss
Pulimuli
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Sweden2766 Posts
January 17 2012 22:43 GMT
#25
On December 25 2011 08:55 PolskaGora wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 24 2011 10:30 decafchicken wrote:
6'8 180!? You must be all sorts of skinny

Yeah I look pretty skinny, but I'm a lot stronger than I look.


i read that as "but im a lot longer than i look" and i was like.. how's that even possible XD
NeedsmoreCELLTECH
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Netherlands1242 Posts
January 18 2012 13:46 GMT
#26
On January 18 2012 07:43 Pulimuli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 25 2011 08:55 PolskaGora wrote:
On December 24 2011 10:30 decafchicken wrote:
6'8 180!? You must be all sorts of skinny

Yeah I look pretty skinny, but I'm a lot stronger than I look.


i read that as "but im a lot longer than i look" and i was like.. how's that even possible XD

Some people have awful posture. Also fat people appear less tall than they are.
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Pulimuli
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Sweden2766 Posts
January 18 2012 21:31 GMT
#27
On January 18 2012 22:46 NeedsmoreCELLTECH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2012 07:43 Pulimuli wrote:
On December 25 2011 08:55 PolskaGora wrote:
On December 24 2011 10:30 decafchicken wrote:
6'8 180!? You must be all sorts of skinny

Yeah I look pretty skinny, but I'm a lot stronger than I look.


i read that as "but im a lot longer than i look" and i was like.. how's that even possible XD

Some people have awful posture. Also fat people appear less tall than they are.


yeah but he's 6'8, he's a fkn giant.

Also really buff people look shorter then they are
Malinor
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany4728 Posts
February 24 2012 07:18 GMT
#28
At approxiamately 124kg bodyweight, I just did the first chin-up of my life (and the 2nd and 3rd for that matter)! I have fucking worked for that since eight months, dropping ~40kg bodyweight and spending endless amounts of time with machine assisted chins, band assisted chins, negatives, jumping chins and lat pulldowns...
And of course I did not expect it to happen today and did not have my camera with me. I was really confused when all of a sudden I could see atop the bar.
I will take my camera with me next time and then post a video. I know for nearly all of you a chin-up is the most normal thing in the world, but for me it is the essential feeling to have control over my body, which I have basically never had in my live.

Video in spoilers, (chin-ups on the next day) the result of 8 months of consistent work every week
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Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Sweden1159 Posts
March 17 2012 01:42 GMT
#29
On February 24 2012 16:18 Malinor wrote:
At approxiamately 124kg bodyweight, I just did the first chin-up of my life (and the 2nd and 3rd for that matter)! I have fucking worked for that since eight months, dropping ~40kg bodyweight and spending endless amounts of time with machine assisted chins, band assisted chins, negatives, jumping chins and lat pulldowns...
And of course I did not expect it to happen today and did not have my camera with me. I was really confused when all of a sudden I could see atop the bar.
I will take my camera with me next time and then post a video. I know for nearly all of you a chin-up is the most normal thing in the world, but for me it is the essential feeling to have control over my body, which I have basically never had in my live.

Video in spoilers, (chin-ups on the next day) the result of 8 months of consistent work every week
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGlM9y8IUY&feature=youtu.be


Good work mate! I hope you can keep yourself motivated and continue working towards your goals !
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Gulf
Profile Joined May 2010
Scotland213 Posts
April 20 2012 00:41 GMT
#30
These posts are pretty inspiring, I went from 100kg to about 75kg where i stay for about a year, then i stopped smoking (7 months cigarette free) and i've hit back up to 105kg which is the heaviest i've ever been. I'm getting a bike next week and gonna pretty much stop using my car, my goal is to try and shed 10-15kg by the middle of summer and hopefully be in pretty decent shape going back to university in september. Its been really weird being this big as when i was at 75kg i was much more confident in every aspect of my life, and i have been quite depressed recently partlt due to my weight and the stress its causing me in other aspects of life. So i just wanna say great job to all of you guys, and maybe i'll be posting up here in a while
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
April 21 2012 09:59 GMT
#31
how did you quit smoking ? and stay quit?
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Gulf
Profile Joined May 2010
Scotland213 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-22 16:34:56
April 22 2012 15:06 GMT
#32
Well i had tried in the past using patches, but i had quit due to pressure from other people, and so i was unsuccessful. this time i had been wanting to quit for a while, and eventually just made sure i had no cigarettes left one night, and in the morning it meant i had to decide, buy cigarettes or quit. In Scotland we can get help from the NHS so you can get free nicotine patches, I did this and never felt any difficulty the whole time.

Edit: I think the key was purely mindset. I didn't view it as a challenge, or something that would be difficult to do. I viewed it as a choice, and made a decision.
NeedsmoreCELLTECH
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Netherlands1242 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-06 05:46:50
June 09 2012 16:10 GMT
#33
I failed a 35kg deadlift when I started; today i carried a 21kg oven box for several kilometers.throughout the city for my girlfriend. WIN.
And deadlift 190kg yesterday. What the fuck is up.
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SometimesIworkout
Profile Joined June 2012
Cambodia75 Posts
June 21 2012 06:45 GMT
#34
my body now officially compensates for my face
"my upper chest is weak" "you have no upper chest"
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
June 26 2012 13:26 GMT
#35
On June 21 2012 15:45 SometimesIworkout wrote:
my body now officially compensates for my face


hah! i know what you mean!
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Heafmo
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United Kingdom70 Posts
September 19 2012 22:34 GMT
#36
Well done Maliner! Never met you but really proud of you, I'm in a position where I can't do a single chin-up (can squeeze like 1 push-up out) and it's something I'd like to be able to do.

I've only been watching my weight the past months with these ideas in mind.

Am I exercising regularly? (15+minutes every 3 days)
Eating 6 small portions instead of 3 large ones whilst watching the qualities of food (choosing nuts and grains over sugary cerals)

I was 6"3 at 16st and I'm now at 15st 5lb in 1 month of living by using above principles. So many compliments about how I look. Just gotta try and not slack and maybe hit the gym instead of burning so much bud.
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ndru
Profile Joined September 2012
United States10 Posts
September 21 2012 06:04 GMT
#37
On September 20 2012 07:34 Heafmo wrote:
Well done Maliner! Never met you but really proud of you, I'm in a position where I can't do a single chin-up (can squeeze like 1 push-up out) and it's something I'd like to be able to do.

I've only been watching my weight the past months with these ideas in mind.

Am I exercising regularly? (15+minutes every 3 days)
Eating 6 small portions instead of 3 large ones whilst watching the qualities of food (choosing nuts and grains over sugary cerals)

I was 6"3 at 16st and I'm now at 15st 5lb in 1 month of living by using above principles. So many compliments about how I look. Just gotta try and not slack and maybe hit the gym instead of burning so much bud.


Meals don't matter as long as you eat "less".You should count your calories to be sure (something like myfitnesspal). I was the opposite, skinny as fuawrk and felt like "I was eating everything but my metabolism is so fast I can't gain weight" until I counted my calories and realized I was eating very little in comparison.

Also consistency, keep it up bro!
haters gonna hate
eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-21 11:35:31
September 21 2012 11:34 GMT
#38
On September 20 2012 07:34 Heafmo wrote:
Well done Maliner! Never met you but really proud of you, I'm in a position where I can't do a single chin-up (can squeeze like 1 push-up out) and it's something I'd like to be able to do.

I've only been watching my weight the past months with these ideas in mind.

Am I exercising regularly? (15+minutes every 3 days)
Eating 6 small portions instead of 3 large ones whilst watching the qualities of food (choosing nuts and grains over sugary cerals)

I was 6"3 at 16st and I'm now at 15st 5lb in 1 month of living by using above principles. So many compliments about how I look. Just gotta try and not slack and maybe hit the gym instead of burning so much bud.


lol, you do know cereals are made out of grains....? Hence, the term cereal grains. That is why they are all sugar because they are processed grain carbohydrates.

Avoid grains completely, IMO.

ANd yes, meal frequency does not matter. 6 meals, 3 meals... whatever. It's all the same. Actually, it's not the same,... if you eat a crap diet then more meals are better... but if you're not intaking a lot of carbohydrates as sugar then it doesn't matter.
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Hanakurena
Profile Joined August 2012
105 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-21 13:33:30
September 21 2012 13:24 GMT
#39
Carbs make you lean, protein and fat make you fat.

Foods high in carbs have low to medium calorie density.
Say pineapple, banana, water melon, whole grain bread, potato. Almost al carbs but if you eat them you will get lean because you need to eat so much of them to get many calories. And when you do you get tons of water and fiber which make you stop eating.
Foods low in carbs are always both high in protein and fat unless it is processed. And they are often also low or lower in water and fiber.


Almost all cereals are coated with sugar even where I live. This is bad because if affects the normal calorie density of the food for th worse. I can't imagine what they are like in the US.
And if you eat them with milk that's even worse. You suddenly got a high calorie density food that isn't even low fat.
So cereals and grains are fine. Just don't sugar coat them, eat them with tons of chocolate, cheese or butter or put them in milk.

15 minutes three times a day is not a lot. People that are really fit and fast runners with your height can burn 1200 kcal 5 times a week no problem. At that point burning calories though exercize becomes really meaningful.
Increasing your fitness through exercize is very important, but at your level it probably won't do much for losing weight.

Nuts are high to very high in calorie density and are mostly fat. Cheat-eating a few nuts can instantly ruin a whole diet plan because they just have so many calories at 600 kcal for 100g. Now if you have room in your diet plan for 50g worth of nuts at 300 kcal, you can eat them and you are ok. But if you are at your calorie count for the day and you are eating some nuts, you are quickly way over your amount of calories for the day.

Calorie counting isn't a good way to go anyway. It is better to restrict yourself to foods that are so low in calorie density that you don't have to have any portion control or calorie limitation.
KOVU
Profile Joined September 2010
Denmark708 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-21 13:45:31
September 21 2012 13:36 GMT
#40
On September 21 2012 22:24 Hanakurena wrote:
Carbs make you lean, protein and fat make you fat.

Foods high in carbs have low calorie density.
Almost all cereals are coated with sugar even where I live. I can't imagine what they are like in the US.
And if you eat them with milk that's even worse. You suddenly got a high calorie density food that isn't even low fat.

15 minutes three times a day is not a lot. People that are really fit and fast runners with your height can burn 1200 kcal 5 times a week no problem. At that point burning calories though exercize becomes really meaningful.
Increasing your fitness through exercize is very important, but at your level it probably won't do much for losing weight.

Nuts are high to very high in calorie density and are mostly fat. Cheat-eating a few nuts can instantly ruin a whole diet plan because they just have so many calories at 600 kcal for 100g. Now if you have room in your diet plan for 50g worth of nuts at 300 kcal, you can eat them and you are ok. But if you are at your calorie count for the day and you are eating some nuts, you are quickly way over your amount of calories for the day.

Calorie counting isn't a good way to go anyway. It is better to restrict yourself to foods that are so low in calorie density that you don't have to have any portion control or calorie limitation.

Wait.. What?

1g carb is 4 kcal
1g protein is 4 kcal
1g fat is 9 kcal.

Saying that foods high in carbs have a low calorie density is just plain wrong. Foods high in carbs, protein or fat have a high calorie density.

And saying protein will make you fat is wrong. I am no scientist and have no credibility whatsoever, but I have a bunch of studies showing protein is good for your minimizing CVC, helping fatloss 1 2 and builds muscle 3. Protein also fills you up more than pretty much anything else you could eat 4 5 6. Along with many other positive effects for your body like increasing speed of recovery and reducing muscle soreness, I can find links for this too..

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