Life The Getting in Shape Thread

[Adorien]

Thanks, Blai. I'll consider it, but I was thinking of running or swimming, what do you guys think of those?

 

[DLord.Van.Buuren]

swimming/ running is a type of cardiovascular exercises. They simply burn calories and nothing else (aside from regulating blood sugar and adjusting your heart rates). In your case I wouldn't go for these types of exercises alone . The logical solution for gaining weight is increasing your calorie intake while burning less.

 

[baboysai]

But if you like, wanna gain weight but not look flabby= you better do some protein shakes or something. I wouldn't really know, because I never, in my entire life, wished to gain weight. >.>

Since losing my job and therefore staying home and playing couch potato, I had gained weight again and so I am back to the road of dieting. gah.

 

[Adorien]

swimming/ running is a type of cardiovascular exercises. They simply burn calories and nothing else (aside from regulating blood sugar and adjusting your heart rates). In your case I wouldn't go for these types of exercises alone . The logical solution for gaining weight is increasing your calorie intake while burning less.

But if you like, wanna gain weight but not look flabby= you better do some protein shakes or something. I wouldn't really know, because I never, in my entire life, wished to gain weight. >.>

Since losing my job and therefore staying home and playing couch potato, I had gained weight again and so I am back to the road of dieting. gah.

I see. Thanks for the advices! I'll see what I can do.

Baboysai, good luck with dieting!

 

[BakaHaze]

One of the easier places to control weight is diet. So normal excercise is fine, just eat a little more meat and a little less carbs. And then the weight will probably pile on pretty quickly.

But I guess the other way is to build muscle, which is probably a better idea. Hit the gyms, maybe?

(Just realised Blai already said this. I had no idea tennis made you stronger.)

 

[Adorien]

I just wanna get the normal amount of exercise and strengthen up a bit and also stop being so skinny. I wanna be healthy. It's just that I don't know what "normal exercise" is. xD

 

[baboysai]

eat a lot of dairy products, cakes, ice creams, and fruits with high calories like mangoes, bananas, coconut milks, fatty fish like tuna, salmon, some shrimps, etc. You have the same problem as my friend and she consulted a nutritionist. She's still a bit skinny now but she looks a lot better now that she's gained a bit of weight and looked a bit more er... meatier. hehe.

The problem with being too skinny is just that you're eating way less calories than what your body is burning. You just need to load up, is all.

 

[Adorien]

Thanks, baboysai, that helps a lot (physically and mentally).

I was thinking of consulting with a nutritionist. I'm trying to eat some more and different food these days and I'll see how it goes.

And I'll be happy happy!

 

[blai]

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Just thought I'd share my current re-made work-out schedule, hoping I could get some tips or advices regarding exercises or the schedule itself.


Mon: Biceps, Abd
Tue: Pecs (Chest), Triceps
Wed: Bike 45mins (usually around 25km or so)
Thu: Back, Shoulders
Fri: Legs, Free (choose whatever muscle-group I feel like)
Sat: Bike 45mins (or a workout similar to -this-
Sun: Rest

I do five exercises on Abd, Pecs, Back & Legs and I do four exercises on Biceps, Triceps & Shoulders (as the former four are the larger groups and latter three the smaller). I do four sets of ten, giving me forty repetitions per exercise. I normally use one or two machine-exercises and two to four that requires nothing but dumbbells. Reason why I have two days of lifting in a row is because I activate different body-parts (muscle-groups) as my main groups to give them rest between. Even though I'm well aware that I stress my pecs when I use tight-grip machine bench press and that I stress my biceps when I do a wide grip bench press the day after.


As an example of a muscle-group work-out, Chest:
Flat (wide grip) bench press 55kg x10/4
Straight arm dumbbell pullovers 16kg x10/4
Dumbbell flyes 8kg x10/4
Cable Crossovers 10kg x10/4
Butterfly 45kg x10/4

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Anyway, anyone got some tips or advices for exercises I should try or comments on the current "schedule"?

 

[baboysai]

>.> Being in the cold for two months has caused me to gain 4 kilos! That's about 10 friggin' pounds!

That's why I'm out to diet and workout again. >.< You know also when you have a physical job and you suddenly quit it and become a couch potato? That gets you really fat in three days.

 

[BakaHaze]

A little update, milestone?

7months ago I posted here saying ill be 80kg in 6 months but that didn't happen.
Instead, I am now 95kg and halfway there, my original weight was 110
I'm going to keep walking for one hour every weekday and stop when my holidays over here starts.
During the holidays, I will go running on every odd day.
Of course, with good meal planning too.



Oh and I stopped eating McDonalds for 6months.
Unbelievable.

.

No, seriously. I only realise now what an achievement that is; cause after all those months of exams I just found out that I hit friggin 80 kg >_____>

Keep up the hard work. I'm forcing myself to work out as well now

Page two? BLASPHEMY! REVIVAL INC.


Just thought I'd share my current re-made work-out schedule, hoping I could get some tips or advices regarding exercises or the schedule itself.


Mon: Biceps, Abd
Tue: Pecs (Chest), Triceps
Wed: Bike 45mins (usually around 25km or so)
Thu: Back, Shoulders
Fri: Legs, Free (choose whatever muscle-group I feel like)
Sat: Bike 45mins (or a workout similar to -this-
Sun: Rest

I do five exercises on Abd, Pecs, Back & Legs and I do four exercises on Biceps, Triceps & Shoulders (as the former four are the larger groups and latter three the smaller). I do four sets of ten, giving me forty repetitions per exercise. I normally use one or two machine-exercises and two to four that requires nothing but dumbbells. Reason why I have two days of lifting in a row is because I activate different body-parts (muscle-groups) as my main groups to give them rest between. Even though I'm well aware that I stress my pecs when I use tight-grip machine bench press and that I stress my biceps when I do a wide grip bench press the day after.


As an example of a muscle-group work-out, Chest:
Flat (wide grip) bench press 55kg x10/4
Straight arm dumbbell pullovers 16kg x10/4
Dumbbell flyes 8kg x10/4
Cable Crossovers 10kg x10/4
Butterfly 45kg x10/4

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Anyway, anyone got some tips or advices for exercises I should try or comments on the current "schedule"?

Blai you're doing this just for fitness and not to get buff, yeah? Anything over 5 reps is building endurance. But I should have known that, you run 8kms like it's normal

I don't do any gym work myself, it's purely bodyweight excercises so I wouldn't know what's good.

But I do reckon you should do some swimming in place of one of the cycling sessions you have because you have so much gym work in there that I think your joints might take a lot of stress. It's a good recovery session and doesn't take that long to wear your whole body out if you go for reps of 100m sprints.

>.> Being in the cold for two months has caused me to gain 4 kilos! That's about 10 friggin' pounds!

That's why I'm out to diet and workout again. >.< You know also when you have a physical job and you suddenly quit it and become a couch potato? That gets you really fat in three days.

I got a job. Hopefully that's gonna get rid of some pounds, but it's not really enough. I think excercise is the only way to cut it lol.

Also 4 kilos is pretty easy to gain for me. I always overeat till I feel bloated every mean at home. Damn you, mum, you make food that's irressistable

 

[baboysai]

I know. 4 kilos is such an easy gain.

And I never realized it until I was back home and tried on my old clothes that hardly fit now!

I am that type of person, where only a little bit of indulgence translates too easily to my appearance. But since I'm traveling a lot for this month I doubt I can get down to working out. :/

 

[blai]

Here' an excellent workout you can do when you're travelling a lot and staying at hotels etc. (or just in a shortage of time)

 

[baboysai]

>.> thanks, I'll stick to burpees. I'm not staying in any hotels, I just crash into places.

 

[Zeltrax]

I think I'm 85 now and I think I'm stuck at this weight..for around 2 weeks, it hasn't been moving much or at all <_<
Besides walking for a hour and running three times a week, is there some kind of way to get slimmer faster?
Before I build uh, muscles, I want to go for 75kg.

 

[baboysai]

If you're already stuck at a certain weight and you still want to lose some, then IT'S TIME TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH. This means, increase your training and push yourself harder. Walk faster to gain more distance within the hour. Run faster. Start some pushups or something. Also, it's time to reassess your diet.

The less you weigh, the harder it is to lose more. Because there is less and less fat to shed. It's easy to knock off the pounds when you've got a lot of them. But as you get slimmer, the harder it is to melt them.

 

[blai]

The exercise I linked above is a great way for your body when you're in the transition face (cardio -> lifting) as well as for burning fat. I'd say do that one every day as well as cardio instead of walk as walking will barely help you at all atm. Great job though

 

[baboysai]

yeah when you reach a standstill, walking doesn't cut it anymore. You need to do more with your body at this point. Or maybe a new exercise like swimming, cycling, etc.

walking is only like to start when you've never had any endurance or stamina.

 

[Jorge D. Dragon]

Yes, I think at this point you just need to run more to loose more weight. Like if before you ran 1 kilometer, than now you have to run 1?5 kilometer.
Of course swimming is even a better way if it's posible, because you use more muscles, when you swim and they have bigger presure on them.

 

[rudorofu]

I've been through my ups and downs with my weight, even going as far as anorexia which freaked the heck out of my parents TxT It was during high school when a transition between grade 10 and 11 was pretty bad causing my grades to drop :\ Back to normal now though (: I try to stay as healthy as possible by exercising for a bit, doing badminton here and there and walking to campus whenever it's not too cold.