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  • Jonesy
    All Star
    • Feb 2003
    • 5382

    #1591
    Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

    Lol if a man can't lose weight for sex benefit's then what hope is there.

    I agree that WW is a solid system, my wife and I used it a few years ago and it worked pretty well. Just a good way of making yourself accountable for your food choices without really banning anything which is a much better long term solution imo.

    Like i said in that other post Roadman's strategy seems more like carb cycling rather than total carb restriction which works wonders for body builders etc and should be more sustainable than an "ALL CARBS ARE THE DEVIL!!!1!!" type diet like Atkins.

    I've been going great with my workouts. Actually worked out for 11 days straight because i had missed 3 days being away with work. My wife actually grabbed my arms yesterday and said "wow everything is tightening up" so that was nice that she noticed because sometimes when you see someone every day you don't notice the subtle day to day changes.

    I was listening to a men's health podcast from this guy who invented turbulence training and he is very knowledable and he was saying he finds all situps and crunches virtually a waste of time. He said in this study that he saw an excellent barometer of core strangth which leads to less back problems and better abs is a test you can do where you do 'the plank' position and hold it for as long as possible. He was saying that in the this study he saw if you could hold it for 2mins or longer there was a massively lower chance that you would have back problems due to you having excellent core strength. So now for abs i am trying to build up to 2mins. Currently i do 4 "sets". 2 x 1 min, 2 x 45sec holds and i'm slowly building up the time. It's not as easy as it sounds and by the end of a minute my whole core / lower back is on fire and i can really feel it in the abs the next day. Give it a try guys and see how you go.

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    • Jonesy
      All Star
      • Feb 2003
      • 5382

      #1592
      Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

      Great post Jdurg, really makes me see how i take being able to workout etc for granted. I guess you just have to keep doing what you are doing and try to make slow incremental improvements. That cast makes it difficult because it also rules out swimming as well which is great low impact exercise. Maybe once the cast is off you can swim laps or something until the other injuries are a bit better. GL with it buddy.

      Man nba 2k11 has been reeking havoc with my workout schedule. I've been staying up to all hours of the night playing and haven't gotten up for my morning workouts at 5am for the last 3 days. My diet has still been good and I've dropped another kg (2.2lbs) this week but i need to get my lazy *** back in the gym!!!

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      • UNC_Pete
        MVP
        • Jun 2005
        • 2487

        #1593
        Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

        After being back on the diet wagon for a week and a half I'm back down to 317.5 which I was before I got off for about a month. That fell off pretty quick. I hope to be around 305 by Christmas time.

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        • Jonesy
          All Star
          • Feb 2003
          • 5382

          #1594
          Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

          I've been going pretty well in the weight loss contest I am in:

          WL challenge starting 9/01/2010 (that's 01/09/2010 for us Aussies)

          Start weight: 96.7kg or 213lbs
          Week 1: 96.1kg or 211lbs
          Week 2: 95.4kg or 210lbs
          Week 3: 94.5kg or 208lbs
          Week 4: 94.5kg or 208lbs
          Week 5: 93.5kg or 206lbs

          Slow and steady which i'm fine with. Hoping to build some muscle as well so the number isn't really that important but it is nice to see it going down.

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          • duffman
            Rookie
            • Jul 2004
            • 309

            #1595
            Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

            Made it through my first week of trying to get through p90 again. So far so good, getting up early enough to do the full workouts before work is still kinda rough, but i'm managing to this point. Had to go buy clothes today for the first time since i initially lost the weight over the last few months and comfortably fit into a pair of 34" waist pants after being at 36" for the last few years, so that was a good confidence booster. Still got a ways to go but it took years of laziness to get to be this out of shape, cant expect to fix it all in a couple weeks.

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            • USF11
              C*rr*ntly *n L*f* T*lt
              • Jun 2003
              • 4245

              #1596
              Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

              Originally posted by Jonesy
              Lol if a man can't lose weight for sex benefit's then what hope is there.

              I agree that WW is a solid system, my wife and I used it a few years ago and it worked pretty well. Just a good way of making yourself accountable for your food choices without really banning anything which is a much better long term solution imo.

              Like i said in that other post Roadman's strategy seems more like carb cycling rather than total carb restriction which works wonders for body builders etc and should be more sustainable than an "ALL CARBS ARE THE DEVIL!!!1!!" type diet like Atkins.

              I've been going great with my workouts. Actually worked out for 11 days straight because i had missed 3 days being away with work. My wife actually grabbed my arms yesterday and said "wow everything is tightening up" so that was nice that she noticed because sometimes when you see someone every day you don't notice the subtle day to day changes.

              I was listening to a men's health podcast from this guy who invented turbulence training and he is very knowledable and he was saying he finds all situps and crunches virtually a waste of time. He said in this study that he saw an excellent barometer of core strangth which leads to less back problems and better abs is a test you can do where you do 'the plank' position and hold it for as long as possible. He was saying that in the this study he saw if you could hold it for 2mins or longer there was a massively lower chance that you would have back problems due to you having excellent core strength. So now for abs i am trying to build up to 2mins. Currently i do 4 "sets". 2 x 1 min, 2 x 45sec holds and i'm slowly building up the time. It's not as easy as it sounds and by the end of a minute my whole core / lower back is on fire and i can really feel it in the abs the next day. Give it a try guys and see how you go.

              I did 2x 1 min at the end of my workout yesterday. No situp ups or nothin and today my abs are sore as hell.

              I hope this isnt one of those things that only works for the first week and your body adjusts.
              "Good music transcends all physical limits, it's more then something you hear, it's something that you feel, when the author, experience, and passion is real" - Murs (And this is for)

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              • Jonesy
                All Star
                • Feb 2003
                • 5382

                #1597
                Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                Originally posted by USF11
                I did 2x 1 min at the end of my workout yesterday. No situp ups or nothin and today my abs are sore as hell.

                I hope this isnt one of those things that only works for the first week and your body adjusts.
                Not sure mate. I guess if you keep upping the length of time you do it should keep providing positive effects. You could also add weight (ie a 10-20lb weight plate on your back or something) if you really get hardcore at it.

                I currently do 2 x 1 min then 2 x 45 secs and i am literally falling down by the end of it. A good burn....

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                • RR_Superstar
                  Banned
                  • Oct 2010
                  • 54

                  #1598
                  Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                  For you guys doing P90X....can overweight guys start on it...or will it just demotivate you to not work out at all?

                  I am curious....I'm 6ft 280 and not pround of it, I was done to about 220 about a year ago....got a new job, major stress, laziness and found out I have sleep apnea.....got a CPAP for that now so my energy is back up....I joined a gym but was always curious about P90X.

                  Also I'd love to know about the diet for it.....I am very tempted to go on a high protein caveman diet i went on to build muscle when i got down to 220...i was getting some decent pipes but just quit working out with a trainer at the place I had joined. SST Canada...should have never stopped...im really embarassed how big ive gotten and as we all know it just leads to more staying in, not working out, eating etc. ;-).

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                  • Jonesy
                    All Star
                    • Feb 2003
                    • 5382

                    #1599
                    Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                    Yeah big dudes can and have done p90x. You just have to pace yourself when you start out as you don't wanna overdo it and hurt yourself, just gotta ease into it. Even if you can't keep up with the dudes on the dvd (and lets face it these guys are beasts) anything you do that elevates your heart rate and gets some sweat happening will be beneficial.

                    You could try P90 first (it came out before P90X - the X stands for the extreme version of P90) as it's not a hardcore to start off with. At the end of the day you have to look at it like anything regardless of how small is better than nothing. My ultimate goal is to be better than I was yesterday. As the saying goes "Nothing left to it but to do it".

                    Might start posting my workout's again, I help it keeps me on task.

                    Up at 5am today and did chest and cardio. Instead of the sugar free V I now just have a cup of coffee with a small amount of skim milk and some artificial sweetener. I actually have the coffee, milk and sweetener made up in a cup in the fridge the night before. When it hits 5 am and i get up i pour some water in it, microwave for 30 seconds then gulp it down in 4 big gulps. I find it works better than the V drink and costs a hell of a lot less.

                    Workout today was

                    Incline DB press x 4 sets
                    Incline DB fly's x 4 sets
                    Flat DB press x 4 sets

                    I basically structure my workouts really simply because I workout at home so i don't have any machines etc or the options you have at a gym. I just use a weight I can handle for 8-12 reps and try for 4 sets of it. Once I get to where I can do 4 sets of the same weight for 12 reps I up the weight. It's a fairly simple way of continually providing added stimulus to the muscles which hopefully means I keep getting stronger /bigger.

                    After the workout I did 40 mins of cardio (walking the dog at a decent pace).

                    Gotta be up at 4am tomorrow to get my workout in because I have to leave for work really early as I'm working and hour and a half away from my head office tomorrow. Not looking forward to getting up that early but it won't stop me.

                    My workout consistency and results have inspired my wife to start getting up at 5am with me and working out. She isn't doing weights etc with me though she is doing Insanity. Those workouts are crazy and she nearly died of exhaustion this morning and could only do the first 30 mins of the workout but it's a start and she'll only get better. My daughter usually wakes up at 6 so my wife does insanity as it only goes for 40 mins so she can be ready once bub is up where as my workout takes roughly 1-1.5 hours so i'm usually not finished the cardio by the time my daughter is up. Damn sorry for the long *** post!

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                    • duffman
                      Rookie
                      • Jul 2004
                      • 309

                      #1600
                      Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                      P90X is hard, no doubt, but you can modify it pretty easily. For example, on chest/back they have you do standard pushups for a minute, then pullups for another minute. I've been just taking breaks during the minute since i cant do pushups straight through for a full minute and just trying to do as many as i can. Then i write it down (there's some good spreadsheets out there that are already drawn up to track your progress) and try to do more on the next week. Also, you can pretty easily cut the workouts in half to start out, since alot of the workouts they end up repeating everything twice. So you could just do the first half of each workout, thats what i had been doing until recently. You can even just not follow the DVD and instead try to just do the exercises at your own pace in the beginning, then once you start getting more comfortable with them try to follow the pace of the DVDs.

                      I can't really speak to the meals in the diet but if you stick to the general ideas of it you should see some real good results. I haven't been tracking my ratios of proteins -> carbs -> fats on a daily basis like they suggest, but instead i've been sticking with the main ideas. I credit most of my weight loss (close to 30 lbs in 5 months) to it. Basically drink only water, eat lean protein (turkey/fish/chicken), avoid processed foods, reduce the amount of carbs (you don't have to eliminate them altogether though) and try to avoid foods that have a crazy amount of ingredients that are hard to pronounce. A good tip i read from someone was that if you wouldn't be able to recognize what you are eating in its natural form then its probably not good for you. Obviously there are exceptions for it but it helps to remember that when deciding on what to eat.

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                      • Jonesy
                        All Star
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 5382

                        #1601
                        Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                        Great post Duffman and nice progress!

                        Up at 4am today. Kinda strange being up this early doing weights but it is what it is, no excuses. Downed my coffee and into the gym.

                        Today was Bi's / Core

                        Alternating DB curls x 4 sets
                        EZ bar curl's x 4 sets
                        Seated hammer curls x 4 sets

                        plank x 1min x 4 (the last minute nearly killed me i swear!) Good workout, a few PR's and a nice sweat. Out the door following the weights, ran 5k with the dog in about 30 mins. Not too fast but still decent enough for me.

                        My dog Jackie is hilarious. When we leave home she is all excited and jumping all over the place and basically pulls me along by her chain for the first kilometer or so. By the time we are nearly home she is hanging way back as far as the chair will allow her and has her tough hanging right out of her mouth and i basically drag her over the finish line. Need to get my dog's fitness up!!!

                        Out the door by 6.45am to go to work, great start to the day!

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                        • duffman
                          Rookie
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 309

                          #1602
                          Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                          Thanks Jonesy, yeah this whole commitment to exercising has really highlighted my need for a dog haha. I couldn't take my dog away from my mom once i moved out of her house and into my own, so now i'm stuck with my girlfriends two cats instead. They're cool and all, but i don't think either of them would appreciate a 2 mile run all that much.

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                          • Jonesy
                            All Star
                            • Feb 2003
                            • 5382

                            #1603
                            Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                            Lol give em a chance, just drag one out with you one day and see how it goes. I gotta admit the mental picture of someone out running with a cat on a leash has me giggling like a little girl right now.

                            Back to business:

                            Up at 5am this morning, staying with my in laws because of work commitments. At this visiting site for my business I work out of a physio center and they have a very basic little gym in one of the back rooms for rehab (basically just various dumbbells and some balance balls etc). I have a key so i snuck in there this morning to get a workout in. I hope the manager of the clinic doesn't mind, i never actually asked him but he's never there and I figured i'm not hurting anyone. It would kind of suck getting charged for breaking and entering just to do a workout.

                            Today i did shoulders:

                            Overhead DB press x 4 sets
                            front lateral raise x 4 sets
                            side lateral raise x 4

                            Then I went for a 40 min jog / walk. Good way to start the day.

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                            • Buckeye
                              MVP
                              • Dec 2009
                              • 2939

                              #1604
                              Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                              I really need a diet plan any suggestions? Rather not have to pay for one. What are you guys using?
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                              • 12
                                Banned
                                • Feb 2010
                                • 4458

                                #1605
                                Re: Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

                                Here's where I'm at.

                                I weighed in at 255 about a month ago (maybe a little longer). I'm 6'6" and am now weighing in at 245. It's a good weight for me but I want to get down to about 230 and then start a weight training program. For me, I lose weight easily by just watching my diet. No more late night dinners for me, which is hard because I don't get home from work until about 10:30 PM.

                                I'm excited to add some mass once I hit my goal weight.

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