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Agree with the Protein Works shout. Great products, great prices
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I've recently quit my gym membership as I do all my workouts at home and get more done. i have built a pretty substantial set of weights, 2 pullup bars, medicine balls and so on. I do miss the social aspect a little of the gym - not socializing per se but seeing the same faces, having a nod here and there and seeing how…
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Like the other poster said, don't deprive yourself of anything - the sense of deprivation works against you in the long run. Personally after three years of training hard all week and having a few beers at the weekend, i quit the booze. I was fed up with 5 steps forward and 2 back. Just a personal thing but when I was…
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Daily moderate exercise is totally fine and it's totally fine to take a day off. I'm not quite sure if I got the sense that you were scared to take a day off or whether exercise is almost a compulsion. Sounds like you do plenty so enjoy a day off if it suits. If you do exercise that shocks the body, HIIT or weightlifting…
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Better slightly over on protein and fats than under (esp if the latter is coming from good sources of fat- nuts, oily fish, avacodos, flax seed oil etc)
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You can do a ton at home. As one of the other posters said, you can build up gear slowly. You can pick up cheap dumbbells/plates from ads, gumtree (if you have it), yard sales. Even without any equipment you can still do chairdips, pushups and other bodyweight exercises. Where there's a will.. I actually quit my gym…
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Hey, I'm 5'8 also. I think 2000 is pretty sensible. Lower and you will lose more lean muscle mass. I'd try and build in some strength training as well as the walking if it's not already part of your routine. I also wouldnt sweat the scale too much, a 1/2 or 1lb loss is probably better than 2lbs anyway in the long run. Good…
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Great post. Thats why I eat McDonalds - at least I know whats inside my food :)
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There are 3 rules I follow for keeping the weight off in an office, once they become habits things get easier 1 - If there are stairs, take them every time 2 - Dont ever eat at your desk and never ever eat anything anyone brings in. I sit beside the 'Tasty Treats' table at work and once you are in the habit of ignoring it,…
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Great job and excellent improvements in the numbers and no doubt also with improved form!!
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Sure you can. It's 80% food choices and 20% exercise in my opinion. Far better to exercise if you can for the health and feel good benefits. In the past, when I was carrying an injury, I have really dialled in on my diet and lost weight at the same rate.
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Hey I'm the same. I found it interfered with my training and my diet. I was trying to cut down, from once a week, to once a fortnight to once a month but I'd still have about 3 crappy days afterwards with food choices - min - and it is hard to get back on track once your discipline has slipped and mentally too. A lot of…
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The Beachbody programs do what they say on the tin. Insanity will get your cardio up to amazing levels and you will definitely be in better condition - losing inches as well as pounds. P90X is a good all round balance of weights and will get strength and fitness up. No idea about Tapout. Doing Body Beast and getting…
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Yeah, a 5lb muscle gain would be a very respectable number over 2-3 months never mind 2 weeks. Also your calories are far to low for that kind of gain. My thinking is the following: 1/ The harder you work muscles, the more they break down. They absorb water as they are repairing. This can account for fluctuations. 2/…
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Agree with JJordan. Forget the scale, Insanity will get you a far tighter, toned and athletic body no matter how good a shape you are in. Just make sure you eat well and enough if you dont wanna lose any more weight..
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Vanilla chai.. Awesome on many levels
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I think i would rather focus on the here and now and get going with matters at hand than look back through the lens of regret. Can't change the past but we can build the future..
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Totally worth it. 1000%. Will get your cardio and endurance up to crazy levels
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Sugar free jelly (jello in the States?)
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It can be hard to get it spot on. I'm a desk jockey myself but put in 60-90 minutes hard exercise before work every day and take the stairs at work anytime I pop out the office (10 flights). I reckon that if people work out in the morning their metabolism is elevated for most of the day so sedentary might not be the…
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Brilliant! Very well done!
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Sunny(?) Scotland here...
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Same as above, water weight, sodium, even muscle holding more water after hard exercise. I found that there were stagnation periods, once you break through 2-3lbs disappears very quickly. Just hang in there, dont do anything drastic or get discouraged. If your exercises have plateaud, switch them up - you get more…
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SCI MX Ultragen. Strawberry tastes like a proper milkshake, choc and banana taste amazing in protein pancakes. Very low carbs and sugar (<2g and 0.5g) per 2 scoops. You can get it online from amazon or in the big Tescos.
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Hey, well done! Agree with above, maybe you should switch it up so exercise becomes fun again and not routine? Weights / Insanity / circuit class / P90X or train for a goal - 5k/10k/half, swim a mile or whatever. A goal always focuses the mind and it sounds like weight loss is not your primary focus any more...
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Yep, i've done it with weighted gloves, made a big difference. When I used to do martial arts, I'd do all my kicks with ankle weights on, amazing how light and fast your hands/legs feel when you take the weights off. No idea about extra calorie burn but I imagine so as you are pushing harder
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Hey, I've done them both. The cardio on P90X is not as intense as Insanity. I found that pushups aside, Insanity does very little for upper body strength compared to P90X. I still shudder at the thought of weighted circles, corn cob pullups and strip set curls. You should try the program for a couple of weeks and go hybrid…
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It's all about how efficient you are with the workout and basically as you mentioned levels of fitness. If you did the same workout for a year and lost 30lbs doing it, your burn could half the cals per exercise in month 12
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I lost about 35 in 3 months 4 years ago, went from 180 to 145 (am 5'8). Trained my *kitten* off, an hours cardio every morning, restricted diet, resistance work evenings. In retrospect, I would say it was way too fast, - the journey wasnt enjoyable and it took over my life totally. I'd say stick to 1 - 1.5lbs a week, enjoy…
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Hi Dont know anything about 30 day shred, but Insanity will do the job for sure! More than weight loss, it will improve your fitness a lot and it's a ton of fun even when it gets hard. You would probably need to eat a fair bit more calories though to fuel your body day after day Good luck either way!
