TL Fitness Initiative (Weight Loss/Gain) - Page 5

On January 03 2009 20:07 KurtistheTurtle wrote:
Among other sports I wrestled for four years and have gone through countless fitness and diet regimes. If you wanna get skinny or stay skinny:

-50 push-ups, 60 sit-ups EVERY day. Proper form, not fropper porn. Even if you can only hit 10 and 10, do it.
-Eat at least 3 meals a day, especially breakfast. Even if you don't feel like eating anything force down some eggs and drink that OJ. Your metabolism won't increase if you don't break your fast
-Don't inhibit all your cravings unless you can replace them with more than ample amounts of food. Granted, if you've measured out and calculated a perfect diet, stick to that. But for those of us who don't know how and don't wanna go through the trouble--eat that chocolate bar 1 time out of 3. Then eat some fruit.
-Midnight cravings are horrible for you if you indulge, the food just goes straight to fat. My friend and I eat ungodly things at ungodly hours, but with the 60/50 and our adhd movement all the time we manage to stay good-looking. If you do indulge, do it with a turkey sandwich. Pizza rolls are bad for you.
-This is probably the biggest thing I've learned and it kind of goes to that candy one I said earlier, IF YOU'RE HUNGRY DON'T NOT EAT. I hope you had to read that twice. When you stop eating your metabolism slows down. Not eating will take away energy and other goodies your brain needs to play sc properly. If you're thinking that that gnawing feeling in your stomach is making you more attractive/helping you lose weight, trust me--it's not. I did this crap my first two years of wrestling and it doesn't work. I actually started gaining fat when I ate less
-When you eat a meal, eat until you're 80% full and stop. Throw in tons of snacks in between (buy a hella big bag of pretzels or get started on those big christmas popcorn tins.)
-Eat random fruit. I recommend cuties (little oranges), but that's because I'm a sucker for them. easy to peel, easy to eat, easy to...the last step in the equation. They make you talk better (well they make your throat better at least) and prevent colds too
-Get in the habit of drinking water. Just have random water bottles all over your house, especially by your computer. Or keep them in the fridge, if you like cold water. also you'll be ok if those aliens from signs attack (what a dumbass ending)
-Eat carrots. They're really frickin' good for you.
-Eat peanuts, too. Peanut m&m's at the very least.
-Eat with in at least an hour (or 30 mins, something like that) after you work out. Eat fast-digesting proteins and carbs.
-Drink water while working out.
-Stretch after working out--your muscles build 15% faster or some crap. My friend told me this and I don't do it, but he's kind of a beast and a really honest guy so I'll take his word for it. I made up the 15% part.
-Learn how to sautee onions, then you'll like onions. Then eat onions in stuff.
-If you're not doing it with a professional, don't count calories. That's bullcrap. Avoid foods with high concentrations of unnatural fat. free-range animal fat is actually good for you.
-if you've got weak bones eat celery
-if you've got a bad memory eat blueberries
-If you see "partially hydrogenated" in any part of an ingredients list, that food is hella bad for you (cosmic brownies T.T)
-if you don't laugh very much find something funny to watch or read, like firebathero's celebration (LMAO)
-consistency is basically how you lose weight. do something small, but do it consistently (remember--its x365) Running 7 minutes a day will make you pretty skinny.
-Don't eat mcdonalds every day. I never spend money on fast food, but pretty much all my friends do all the time. what works with them is that if they go without it for two days, they get to eat it a third.
-before you go to bed, eat a peice of fruit or some yogurt. it actually boosts your metabolism while you sleep.

This is just me. When you lose a game of starcraft, do 5 push-ups. Or 5 pull-ups if a pull-up bar is close. Hopefully in that time you can calm down enough to realize what you did wrong and what to do better next game.

On January 03 2009 23:10 Energies wrote:



I don't know what the hell this post was, but there were quite a few gems in it.

On January 03 2009 16:33 Demoninja wrote:
Just curious, does anyone have a reason other than "I weigh too much/I weigh too little?" I want to get up to 147 lbs so I can fight as a welterweight in Muay Thai.

On January 04 2009 06:35 antiq wrote:
ondik, pengu1n, DrainX, skinny-ppl-trying-to-get-buff powa! =)

What do you guys think about sleeping less?
I've got this problem of sleeping too much - having too much free time in the morning, getting up regularly at 11AM feeling not hungry.
(I go to sleep at around 1AM, last meal usually around 22-23PM).
I think it would definitely help to set some goals in the morning, get up earlier, eat a breakfast as soon as I'm able to and then eat regularly the whole day.

Thoughts?