david1956 Member

My son, now 18, still runs the way young children do in the playground, on the balls of his feet with his heels never touching the ground and can run effortlessly for ages that way. A guy I train with taught himself to run that way (he runs everywhere barefeet). From what I can see on the web, there is a lot of heel…

There is a technique that I haven't tried yet, but have heard some people swear by as a means of reaching some target number of chin-ups and pressups. Say someone had a goal to do 3 sets of 10 chin-ups. You do as many regular as possible and then make up the rest with negatives. So say you intially can only make 5, you…

Walking is a great start, and you shouldn't feel intimidated by other people's mtoivation.. we all start somewhere and are a work in progress. Regarding.. "The most excercise I get is walking around in heels. I sit at a desk for work. I like to read, so spend my off time sitting." If you decide to get into more serious…

If a woman was attractive to me, whether they had defined abs would really not be a factor in it. Like, "Wow she is hot... ummm, hang on a minute... eeeekkkkkkk, oh God no.. she has abs!!!!" just wouldn't happen. Not sure how other guys feel, but I'm pretty sure that the more I've got into working out, the more I am…

I have a bad image of all you voyeurs all sneakily checking out everyone's diaries for juicy details of last night's calories burned. Truth be known, and googling did yield results which proves I am not the only nut-case in the world, the sperm calories thing kinda got me curious about, ummm, arrghhh... female ummm,…

5K and got no results!!!??? That is crazy, simply unbelievable. I think there is something that masquerades as "Personal Training" that any clown could do. Stitching together a few exercises, showing you how to do them, and changing them every few weeks is NOT, in my opinion, something worth paying for. My PT can tell me…

Ditto to last poster... I subscribe to the "within 30 mins" idea. Especially if you are doing weights, you need protein into your system soon after a workout, and many serious weight-trainers make that meal their biggest of the day. I'm kinda lucky in that I work at home and have a bit of flexibility with my hours, so I…

I don't know anything about Max-OT, but there is one standout feature of your split that I'd personally change. I'd never do small body parts early in the week. Like my current split is Legs - Chest - Back - Shoulders/Arms and I always do the Shoulder/Arms day later in week, same way I'd exercise small muscle groups last…

I doubt if some tuna and a little peanut butter is too much protein. For pushing weights at gym I'm deliberately after a fair bit of protein, and have found that even with proetein shakes, meat or fish, and tuna in a day my diet is still only just what I'm after. Just saying, and my trainer agrees, most diets are almost…

Not sure how relevant to you, but I found at a given point I did two things (like you I was plateaued and have lost almost 5kg in 9 weeks, 2" off both waist and chest, since then)... - A personal trainer. I'd had bursts at the gym a few times in my life and had a reasonable knowledge of what I was doing. Nothing could have…

Sometimes there are changes on here that are kind of mindboggling, like a different person. Really amazing, you look so good! PS - Curious about the "rugby" part of your name. Do you play it, or your hubby, or just follow it? If any of those, you simply must watch Sat. night's NZ v SA game. ** cough cough, god this feels…

I can be really honest, I am almost always psyching up and looking forward to the gym every day. Everyone's motivators are different - for me although I've always quite liked pushing weights, my real motivation began with a personal trainer. I love the fitness aspect of say boxing, but I think my real personal vision is a…

Lots of women here such as imagymrat could give you best advice, but I immediately thought weight training (and of course other cardio type stuff). You look as though you have the underlying basis for really getting good results from pushing some steel.

You look great. Not sure what your exercise is, but you look to me to have the body type that could get seriously ripped at a gym, and possibly pretty quickly.

I have determined that those fat% measuring gizmos (the "scales" you stand on and handles you hold that measure current through your body) are equally useless for many people. I compared two measurements 9 weeks apart... I had dropped 2" on both my chest and stomach (the two areas I carry some fat) and my weight had…

BMIs are complete and utter nonsense. Recently it was determined that this guy and three of his team-mates are obese, and the whole rest of the team are overweight. Some of the most conditioned athletes on earth. Obese? Overweight?

Funny I was discussing this at the gym today, relating to liver as a food. Years ago, before supplements, every body builder knew.. eat liver! It is a fantastic source of protein but has high Vitamin A. Apparently no one should eat it too often, and definitely not pregnant women. Doesn't answer your question "how much",…

You look great. I'd have actually thought it is more than 20lb judging by the differnce in your face.

LOL, actually happened to me a week ago... You discover that the guy who innocuously asks if you want to do a bit of kick-boxing training once a week is over twenty years younger, a martial arts blackbelt who started when he was 8, is 30 kg heavier... and that his kicks render the entire length of one's forearms a deep…

Hmm, my contribution to a theme. Well Led Zep's actually... Thank YouIf the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you When mountains crumble to the sea there will still be you and me Kind a-woman, I give you my all, kind a-woman, nothing more Little drops of rain whisper of the pain Tears of loves lost in the days…

You look awesome! Amazing how people's whole facial countenance changes. You look lively, alert... ummm, healthy!

I think the fear of bulking up is perpetuated by myths and lack of understanding of what constitutes true dry lean muscle mass. Knowledgeable body-building experts will tell you.. if a male doing everything absolutely correctly, perfect diet and exercise with that precise goal of gaining muscle mass, could gain 0.5-1 pound…

I ocassionally get good old Kiwi fish n chips, but without chips. Just a couple of fillets of fish and maybe a few scallops or oysters, and although it's deep fried etc. I feel great after it and have never seen any evidence whatsoever that it affects my health or weight. To me it's not an emotional thing, just a decision…

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YOUR chest fat is probably amazing but for us guys it just doesn't work. :-)

Most guys carry their fat on their chest (and stomach) and a lot of people I know cite it as the most difficult part of their body to build. Lately my muscle growth there is definitely accelerating, but that's in the context of a workout provided by my trainer which is kind of part II or II of a progression so I won't get…

Pity they aren't videos. They kinda look like they'd be pulsating, some mutant species. Did anyone ever see Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"? Mr Creasote, who finally explodes in the restaurant? Hadn't thought about it for years until now.

So many theories, but the one that makes most sense to me is 5-6 small ones, and the protein/carb balance reasonably consistent over all of them. Some people also believe the post-workout one is the meal that can be say twice the size of the others. On the other hand very lean and fit trainers I know subscribe to the "big…

I'm definitely moving more and more to getting processed food out of my diet. It began when I moved from white rice to brown, and the more I thought about processes that strip food of what naturally ocurs in it and adds back in sythetic stuff the more I questioned whether I needed processed food in general. They usually…