TL Fitness Initiative (Weight Loss/Gain) - Page 24

On February 08 2009 15:14 artofmagic wrote:

are you sure ur 14!?!
omg and i'm jealous of your height

On February 08 2009 11:55 SteelString wrote:
Hellyeah - Hellyeah
:D
and i'll leave this here: me throughout last year

On February 09 2009 07:21 Falcynn wrote:
I think there's either something wrong with me or my scale.

Three days ago I weighed myself and noticed that I had gained 5 lbs within a day. Next day I noticed I had lost 6 lbs. Yesterday I gained the 6 lbs. back, and now I lost that plus another pound.

I always make sure to weigh myself without any clothes and always make sure that I'm not doing anything that would cause my weight to be lower...so am I just gaining and losing weight at a really odd rate...or is there something wrong with my scale?

On February 09 2009 07:26 Kerensky wrote:
Age: 24
Height: 6'2''
Current Weight: 67kg / 148lbs
Goal Weight: [significant appearance alteration]
Starting Date: 8/2/9
Goal Date: [unknown]

Details: I was around 75kg a few months ago and decided to diet in preparation for a work-out turn-around (get rid of the beer-belly by way of fasting). Now I'm ~67kg and have already started, with:

Dumbell: lifts ~100-300 reps whilst lying on bed in sets of 50-100. Already "moved up" from the 0.5kg to 1kg weights.

Situps: ~200 in sets of 50-100.

Exercise bike: Go for about 8 minutes, at which point I start to breath heavily. Have it on lowest setting possible, because my legs ache too much within 5 minutes that I'm barely able to go any longer.

Drinking and smoking: Quit them both as much as I've been able to thus far, drinking once every 3 weeks (and smoking only during this evening) for several months. Can get through a day on 5x pieces of 2mg nicotine gum.

Food: I have no money. Trying to eat as much as possible whilst avoiding sugar foods. Not very organised person at all though. Got 500g protein milkshake which I enjoy.


My questions and your comments!!!

1. Battered sausage and chips is fine for me ya?

2. I don't appear to be "aching" very much "the following day", even though I'm doing these various exercises to the point of ache/absolute endurance each set or session - although I do seem to "recover" quickly after a set and then go on to do more. Note that I'm doing many reps because I want bulk/muscular bulk.

3. I want to basically achieve what SteelString done, except imagine a skinner and bonier and slightly deformed starting photo.

4. Sometimes I feel like I'm eating TOO much compared to the amount of effective exercise I'm doing - and I probably am. I slacked off the last few days, hence I'm motivated to actually write this here. At first my stomach felt quite tight, but now it just feels inflated and I don't feel like I'm "channelling" the food input correctly - it is making my stomach fat and nothing else.

5. I do not do press-ups (or any other exercise except long pure-walking days at work). Instead of pressups I just do dumbell lifts lying on bed.


Thanks a lot

On February 09 2009 07:21 Falcynn wrote:
I think there's either something wrong with me or my scale.

Three days ago I weighed myself and noticed that I had gained 5 lbs within a day. Next day I noticed I had lost 6 lbs. Yesterday I gained the 6 lbs. back, and now I lost that plus another pound.

I always make sure to weigh myself without any clothes and always make sure that I'm not doing anything that would cause my weight to be lower...so am I just gaining and losing weight at a really odd rate...or is there something wrong with my scale?

On February 09 2009 08:21 Kerensky wrote:
lol, it's sad that i would "like" to do cardio for 50 minutes but can barely reach 10 before almost passing out

thanks for your reply eshlow

On February 06 2009 09:29 Bockit wrote:
So I'm actually leaving a day earlier than planned for my holiday, I guess today has become the deadline for my goal.

I weighed in today at 88.5kg giving me a 7.5kg loss since december 16th. I didn't make my goal of 85, which is a bit disappointing, though due to its arbitrariness I'm not so fussed. I and many of my friends have noticed a difference in how I look and I need to buy a lot of new clothes, especially pants (Belt needs a new notch too).

Running wise, I can almost run the entire track (I do about 4.6km out of 5.1km now) the only bit I don't run is a 50m~ break where I have to cross a creek and go down some steep stairs, so it's not particularly safe to run that, and then a massive, massive hill/stair section which takes up the other 450-500m. I'm also consistently achieving 33:00-33:40 run times so that's coming along nicely too.

I turned my ankle twice last night playing squash, means I'll probably have to stick to swimming while on holiday (Oh noes ), when I get back I guess it's time to set the next goal.

So in the end, I didn't reach my goal but I'm still really happy with how it has turned out.


EDIT: I'm organising some before/after shots

On February 09 2009 08:31 travis wrote:


when it comes to running im similar. i really don't know what the problem is, I just can't run for very long. my side starts to kill me quickly and i feel like im dying.

whereas i can ride a bike uphill for an hour



i know i know i could probably get better running if i just did it more, which im trying to... but the gains seem to be very slow and very unfun lol

On February 09 2009 08:55 PaeZ wrote:



That pain you describe is caused by wrong breathing technique, that used to happen a lot to me but after my mom whom is an excellent runner (she ran Marathons) taught me how to breath that pain dissapeared :D