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For me nothing beats pulling off a big deadlift. The emotional rollercoaster I jump on every time is kinda fun too, in a weird way. (Yeah I'm gonna do this > grr lets go > oh *kitten* this is heavy > maybe I can > almost there > I did it! > ...oh wait, gotta lower it > hell yeah.) :lol:
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Whey+Maltodextrin after my workouts is my go-to shake. I've found that carbs (malto) during and after my workout stop me from crashing later on - I can really feel the effect if I haven't had it. It's a lot cheaper than pre-mixed recovery shakes, too.
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I'll do shrugs in the squat rack, but only if it's quiet, and I know I'm not preventing people from using it by doing so. :) Same goes for OHP, if it's busy, I'll move over to the freeweights area, if it's quiet, I'll do them after squats or deads. If you're not preventing someone who NEEDS the squat rack from using it, do…
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lol, not sure what happened there, disregard this post. :)
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You're not growing on 1,000 cals a day. [/quote] If you could grow muscle on 1k/day with cardio as well, I'd be too big to fit in my flat by now with my 3-4k/day.
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I work in retail, luckily there are no food options on the retail park other than McDonalds or Kebabs, so I have to take my own lunch, which I make (and log) the night before. I don't find it too hard, although of course there's the occasional slip up if I've forgotten lunch or something.
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Sometimes I'll listen to the Count of Tuscany or simply put the entire 12 steps suite on if I'm really looking to get lost in the workout. :)
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You'll still have days where you feel fat, despite what the scales/everyone else tells you. :(
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I didn't track as religiously as I should, but looking back on my (private) journal from when I started, I lost 6kg in about 30 days. :) To be honest though, I kinda jumped in at the deep end, completely overhauling my diet/daily routine overnight, and, let's be honest here, starving myself. :(
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£17.99 a month. Used to pay £15.99 at my old gym (with 24 hour access) but I never used it, it was dirty, and rammed with creepy people. for £17.99 I get a gym with decent opening hours, proactive cleaners, and friendly/helpful staff. Edit: oh right, they do classes if you want them, too.
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It depends on what you want to achieve. When I was losing weight, it wasn't really an issue, calories in v. out was king - and it worked. However, when you want to do something more specific, macros can play a big role. Despite loads of weight training, I simply could not put on weight while my protein was so high and…
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10lbs, no. 2-3? Yes. I lost ~70lbs before I started lifting, and was still in a deficit when I did. As I said, I gained roughly 2.2-2.5lbs muscle, while losing 2.2lbs fat in the first month or so.
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My current favourite is wholegrain porridge oats cooked with semi-skimmed milk, and a scoop of strawberry whey mixed in afterwards. It's delicious, and fills me up for a few hours :) Sometimes I replace the whey with peanut or almond butter if I want the fats.
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It's been a while, so I can't really remember, but I think maybe 40/30/30 or 50/30/20. All I know is that I was getting around 3-400g of protein a day somehow. Did a ton of resistance training, got reasonably defined, but just wouldn't gain weight (in fact, I lost it a few times). Then I had a long chat with a guy I know…
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Out...side?
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Planks, Deadlifts, hanging leg raises, any weight movement while standing, side leans, woodchops. The latter three (in my experience) work the obliques more than the abs, but still help. One thing I'll say is that I don't like crunches, yet love cable crunches. They're a lot easier on my back, and really burn after a…
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Lower protein, raise carbs + fats. I was stuck continually losing weight for ages until I did that.
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Carbs - 400g/48% Protein - 173g/21% Fat - 115g/31%. The moment I realised overdoing it on protein and skipping carbs was what was causing me to continually lose weight was a bloody revelation, I tell you.
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Currently rotating The Prodigy's 'The Day Is My Enemy' and Children Of Bodom's 'Holiday at Lake Bodom' (compilation/best of). The former is good because it's not too cerebral, the latter because if you time a deadlift to the line 'I don't give a *kitten* if you hate me' you feel awesome. Aside from that, I like to listen…
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Gaining muscle in the first few weeks/months after starting is incredibly easy if you're doing the right things. Not a lot, but you will do it. EDIT: Although if you're starving your body on a drastic deficit, then yes, it will be hard.
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*wave* Birmingham.
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#3, but #2 is an awesome pic.
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Post-gym lie down time :)
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If you're working your muscles properly for the first time, they're going to react very quickly. When I first started lifting, I actually gained just over a kg of muscle while simultaneously losing a kg of fat in the first month or so, meaning my actual scale weight didn't change, but I looked better. As your muscle mass…
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lol oops. genuinely didn't realise my settings were that way. :(
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The way I see it is if you have the time to have real food, do it - it generally tastes better, smells better, feels better etc. However that's not always possible (there's no way I'm getting proper meals in on 9 hour shifts with 2 hours of commuting, for example), so on those days I'll have a mixture of both.
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#7.
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Not yet, but only just getting back into the forums (again).
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Once ate a whole goat to hide the evidence after accidentally running it over.
