TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2012 - Page 163

Think about pushing the ground down with your legs instead of trying to "lift" the bar off the ground. Best advice ever!

On April 09 2012 21:02 extr3me wrote:

Thats true I've been using that a few times, helps alot indeed.

On April 09 2012 12:49 GuiltyJerk wrote:


On Friday head to reddit.com/r/fitness and they have a thingy called "Body Fat Friday" where you can post those and get peoples' estimates, I don't think people on TL that kinda thing very often.

ive been at the gym since last August. Where in those..8 months ish I've mainly focused on putting on muscle. Consistent protein shakes, eating quite a handful of carbs and protein/fats. And I have gained about 10 pounds. I lost some fast in process and gained quite some muscle.

I never used a BMI to find out body percentage that was fat but I may have been hovering around 12%? Where I am about 5'9 and now 150ibs.

But here comes the problem

I want to start cutting up a bit. I started a week ago and am going to try to continue with the schedule. I will do massive amounts of reps with less weight and cardio more, like bike to and from the gym and work and run and such.
so a typical day will look like this
-bike 5 miles, lift 3/4 sets of 20 run a mile, bike home/to work/bike home. its about 10 miles of biking. Thats workout. Then meal is where im not completly sure of.

I was thinking of donig an extreme lack of eating for like a week perhaps. Eat 2 meals breakfast/lunch. And then drink a protein shake + 3 meal replacements. Nothing else. Then after that week or so. eat 4 smaller meals and drink about 2 shakes.

Im still not sure about the dieting part since Im slowly getting cut but i still have work to do.

My goal is to be decently cut by June at the latest. Any tips?

On April 10 2012 02:06 NeedsmoreCELLTECH wrote:
Gonna do a light workout tomorrow It might be the meds, but I notice I get out of breathe pretty quickly. As in, if I run up 4-5 flights of stairs I have to start breathing deeply, this didn't use to be the case when I played field hockey so much. Could I do some cardio (running/cycling) on my off days? Just talking 10-15 mins a day to wake me up.

On April 10 2012 02:38 phyre112 wrote:


I play rugby 5 days a week, lift 4 days a week, and swim twice a week. Your body is good at adapting to whatever demands you put on it - so try some cardio, give it a few weeks, and then reevaluate.

On April 09 2012 23:08 Mementoss wrote:
I have a question for you guys about shoes. I got a pair of shoes for lifting for easter I has asked for some converse, cause I know they're good for squat and deadlift cause there so flat, and there a cheap alternative to other lifting shoes. (Plus one of my powerlifting buddies that squats/deadlifts over 500 uses them so they must be OK)

Instead they went to sportchek and asked the guy for help and he said these shoes were bad for lifting and pulled out a pair of nike livestrong and said that converse was terrible for lifting.

I think they are something like this, don't know exact model.



I don't have a focus on the olympic lifts. Right now I do stronglifts, so my focus is on squat (low bar) deadlift bench ohp row. My gym doesn't have room/proper equipment for them.

I have reciept with me incase I wanted to change them not sure what to do.

EDIT* Used to do lifts without shoes, gym people started saying no. So I was pissed and now need a decent shoe.

On April 10 2012 11:26 infinity21 wrote:

Use your height to your advantage! If you have the speed to go with your height and work on your hand speed, you'll be unstoppable