Fitness & weight loss

[Sang]

I work out for about an hour 3 days a week.

An hour? Guess I must be doing the wrong thing, my idea of working is doing one exercice for about 10 minutes :p So what stuff do you do during those hours? Or do you go to a gym or something?

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

Well I work out at my school gym, but you would be surprised the shape you can be in by doing the right kind of pushups and pullups.

[Sang]

But still, aren't you supposed to train like only one muscle group per day and if so how can you possibly stress the same muscle for an hour?

[Nessus]

You would be surprised the shape you can be in by doing the right kind of pushups and pullups.

Not me, you can look like this just by using your body weight. http://danielmountain.com/liveleak/death/helvenston-scott_files/S.Helvenston.1992.SEALs.Calendar.jpg

Like LiquidD was saying pushups and situps are key. Vary the pushups with putting your arms out wide to widen your chest and putting them close under your shoulders to pop out the muscles. I used to do 5 different kinds like diamond and such. Check out this guys Burnout PT challenge http://www.navysealteams.com/caracci.htm That DVD changed my life I've been a stronger person for the last ten years because of it. It teaches you to do stretches after each strength exercise.

And if I want some bulk i do like you do ICR and do some pullups and chinups. People forget how hard they are, you can really build muscle with exercises like that.


Mr. Bear best of luck to you and getting things straightened out, that's an amazing story.

[Ramen4ever]

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Absolutely right. I've stopped using my bench press for well over a year now and I just do a variety of mixed crunches, push ups and just creative body weight exercises. I wish I had a pull up bar though. I got nothing even remotely sturdy enough to hold my weight for a pull up in my house. >_<
Anyway I'm still holding my 160 pounds and I suspect that once I start jogging again it will go down to 154-ish. I'm probably gonna have to add some more shoulder, back and chest exercises to get back up to 160 after that.

[Scotty]

(from November) I've finally resorted to counting calories. So far my weight has stayed reasonably level. Usually my weight goes through the roof at the end of cycling season. I've been off the bike for 23 days straight, and only put in 197.6 miles for the month of October.

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I'll be glad when it's warm again so that I can get back on the bike, but that won't be until late March at the soonest, which is 4 months away... :(

I'm still holding the line at 205 lbs for the most part, so the calorie counting is helping.

Now that I'm past the holidays, hopefully I can get some weight to come off.

As we just had a rare almost-60° day yesterday, I took out the bike for the first time since mid-October, but only managed to ride about 9 miles. Within the first 1/3 mile I knew there was no way I could complete the 22 mile ride I'd hoped to do. I felt pretty good after about 5 miles, but started running out of energy (and daylight) around 8 miles, so I ended up calling it a day.

I'm going to have my work cut out for me this spring, but hopefully it won't be too hard to bounce back. I just have to get through January and February without getting too fat, and hopefully we'll get an early spring so that I can get back on the road in March.

[Ramen4ever]

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If you like to bike a lot. May I suggest that for when the weather is unaccommodating or your running out of sunlight, you can take your bike and buy one of those home bike lift thingy's. I wish I knew the name but I don't so I'll just describe it. It's like a small lift for both the front and back wheel of your bike. Well actually you take off the front wheel and put it on a stand. The back wheel gets placed into a kind of clamp basically turning your bike into a gym style bike. The stand at the back wheel usually has a kind of brake you can loosen or tighten. It's cheaper than a gym bike and it's more comfortable since your riding a bike your used to. ^_^
Unfortunately you miss out on the fresh air and scenery. Though you can always put the bike in front of an open window. :p

[Scotty]

There are two options for that:

Putting the front wheel on a stand = "Trainer"

Putting the whole bike on a set of rollers (requires steering, balance, and a helmet) = "Roller"

Unfortunately, I don't have room to do that right now.

If I could get more motivated, my local bike shop does a spinning class twice a week: They supply the trainers, and riders bring their own bikes. As the weather sucks, a lot of riders leave their bikes there all week.

[Ramen4ever]

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Go on youtube and watch Rocky training montages to get pumped up.
It works.. most of the time.

[0marTheZealot]

The best workout program I've ever been on is Bill Starr's 5x5 program combined with some decent cardio.

http://www.geocities.com/elitemadcow1/5x5_Program/Linear_5x5.htm