Psychotext
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You could put that in front of me right now and I'd be like... meh.
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Fitness |OT9|...You looked better before
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You could put that in front of me right now and I'd be like... meh.
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Deleted member 17706
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That feel when almost every day lunches at work are catered because you in a 4 hour meeting and you sitting over on the side eating grilled chicken breast, broccoli, and brown rice
Today was pizza.
It's a damn good feeling if you ask me.
In my situation at least, the majority of the people eating their catered sandwiches and pizzas, etc. during lunch meetings are typically overweight and sickly, and I know that what they're eating is directly contributing to that.
mdsfx
Member
U G H. i've eaten only 950 calories today and that's on top of working off at least 500 in the gym. I just ate my mouse...
Psychotext
Member
That feel when you see brolic's new farmers walk gear on facebook and realise that you'd struggle to lift it without any weights on it. lol
GHG
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Psychotext
Member
Yup, staying out of that thread.
Psychotext
Member
I hate lifting, always have. I do it because it's good for me (well, arguably). I've never really understood how people can associate that "I can barely fucking lift this, this is agony" feeling with enjoyment.
It's odd though, I don't get an endorphin release from cycling either... I've never got that "high" from exercise.
Nice man!
I'm so glad you're back posting epic meals
That feel when almost every day lunches at work are catered because you in a 4 hour meeting and you sitting over on the side eating grilled chicken breast, broccoli, and brown rice
Today was pizza.
That's like me, except my co workers are mostly overweight and pretend they barely eat so meetings turn into me with a giant lunch of rice and fish and them eating scraps.
I've been going in. I can't avoid an OT fitness thread.
Psychotext
Member
He's full of shit anyway. I don't think I've ever had anyone saying that what I do with my endurance shit is pointless and that I should spend my time lifting (I've had people say it's detrimental to gains, but then in reality it can be).
I think almost everyone in here is supportive of anyone getting activity, no matter what it is. Sure, lifting is advised, but there definitely isn't a mentality of GET BIG OR GTFO.
Jacksinthe
Banned
IT'S A GOLDMINE!
I spotted a "don't eat after 7pm" in there! Holy shit!
I spotted a "don't eat after 7pm" in there! Holy shit!
Psychotext
Member
AWWWWWWWW YISSSS
Yeah, just saw that. I can't even.
Well now I feel bad. Lifting and running both make me feel great. I can't go more than a day without doing one of them.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
Ditched whey and just use PB in my shakes now since it's dirt cheap, so calorie dense..
720c+/24p+ -8+ tbsp PB
390c -3 tbsp coconut oil
720c/24p -2cups oats
100c -Large Banana
10g creatine
750ml-1L water
720c+/24p+ -8+ tbsp PB
390c -3 tbsp coconut oil
720c/24p -2cups oats
100c -Large Banana
10g creatine
750ml-1L water
Maybe? A lot of you guys have big arms haha it's hard to tell.
digita1alchemy
Member
What kind of a deal did you get on these? I've been looking for microplates, but they all seem absurdly priced for what they are. I'm thinking of just getting some of these instead: http://www.mcmaster.com/#91081a046
It was about $40. Shipping was free iirc
digita1alchemy
Member
Cool, thanks. Still a bit too much for me but they look nice.
Psychotext
Member
Compared to what people like Rogue charge, that's an amazing deal.
I really didn't want to have to buy them, but my ohp and bench stall too often trying to move up in 5lb increments and I know I will get the use out of them.
Rogue in general seems overpriced.
Psychotext
Member
Can be, yeah. Depends what you're buying from them though. Some stuff is fine, other stuff... not so much.
Trying to get to 155 from 172 doing basic isolated lifts with dumbbells and 1-2 days good cardio. I'm down to 167 and have no idea if I'm losing fat or muscle but I'm really trying not to lose muscle. So far no more definition than before. Eating 1800 calories with a 45/35/25 macro split.
Blah...
Blah...
It can be surprising how much weight needs to be lost to see definition. Obviously, it depends what your composition is like at the beginning, but 5 lbs for most people is going to be basically unnoticeable. Hell, a lot of what is lost in the beginning isn't fat OR muscle, it's reduced bowel/stomach contents.
Main thing is to not let the slow progress of the mirror be discouraging.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Szu is like the Simpson's
He has a pic/gif for everything :O
He has a pic/gif for everything :O
shadowsdarknes
Member
335 bench last week to 350 this week.
If I ever make gym friends maybe I'll ask someone to film me.
If I ever make gym friends maybe I'll ask someone to film me.
I NEED ABOUT TREE FIDDY!!!!
Gym friends. Just do what I do.
1. Place phone on a level elevated surface.
2. Place support to keep phone upright.
3. Get properly set up.
4. Breathe in and lower the weight.
5. Exhale as you press the weight up.
6. Get your phone.
7. Realize that you forgot to press Record.
8. Assume fetal position.
NegroNinja
Member
Quoting for new page.
Psychotext
Member
It's a bit of a how long is a piece of string sort of thing to answer... but as a general rule I'd say your starting point needs to be to record what you eat for a week or two (don't change anything, just record it) in something like MyFitnessPal. You can then use that as a baseline and work out what's best to cut out of your diet (there will be plenty you can live without, without feeling like you're starving yourself) and what habits to change.
As for working out, either Starting Strength or Stronglifts 5x5 are good places to begin. Details (and a shitload of other useful info) in the OP.
Unrelated... this was fairly amusing. 22 ridiculous exercise trends
hendersonhank
Member
Aren't there studies supporting that?
Psychotext
Member
There are studies supporting everything, and there are studies disproving those studies. It all comes down to how well the studies were performed, and the difference between good and bad studies can be HUGE.
The "don't eat after Xpm" thing is generally based on the fact that you tend to make stupid food decisions late at night, not on any meaningful biological difference in how we digest food late at night / when we're sleeping. On an isocalorific basis, there's no significant difference.
(See also the old broscience of 6 meals a day vs 1 or 3 or whatever. Also, breakfast vs not.)
hendersonhank
Member
Not all of the, though:
It doesn't sound like there have been a lot of studies about this particular topic, at least none definitive, so I'm not sure why "lol @ no eating after 7pm".
Jacksinthe
Banned
Becausw your body is not a combustion engine using the fuel as it whips by the fuel rails into the combustion chamber.
The nutrients you consume are processed and absorbed first.
Your metabolic rate, when you exercise and how long you keep the fires burning makes a difference.
If any of this were true - those doing IF would be losing countless slabs of muscle not feeding their bodies throughout the day and often only eating after they lift - breaking down muscle tissue to use for energy working out on a fast.
That doesn't happen like you think it would.
Here's the trick with "studies" - if you are looking for a specific reaction, you will setup the study to get that reaction.
An MIT professor (correct me on that) did a study showing you can lose weight eating nothing but Twinkies.
Should we all now go on a Twinkie eating diet?
Psychotext
Member
Again, see breakfast vs no breakfast.
Two things that have definitively been proven are...
1: If you tell someone they're in a study about food, they automatically start to watch what they eat.
2: If you change someone's eating routine, their metabolism changes and they lose weight in the short term.
I can't be arsed finding them at the moment, but I know of three peer reviewed studies on isocalorific nutrient timing that show no effect in the long term.
Edit - ...and I've just noticed that both of those studies above are free living studies with very limited monitoring. No way to know if people actually stuck to their diets or not (now this could mean that they continued to make bad food choices late in the day, but that wasn't my original argument). Plus the first of the two wasn't even measuring weight loss.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
The findings and conclusions are ridiculous.
There is no reason to expect any kind of physiological mechanism merely from these findings. And yet:
The quote right there uses "makes," implying some kind of causation. It's nonsense, and there's too much of it in nutritional studies. That's totally besides the fact that the physiological makeup of obese people and non-obese people are quite different, so applying findings in either group to the other is, again, nonsense.
Psychotext
Member
I have an admission to make fitness GAF...
...I've eaten peanut butter and raspberry jam every single day this week. I still don't like it on its own, but I may very well be converted to it with jam. It's even the good stuff without any additions!
...I've eaten peanut butter and raspberry jam every single day this week. I still don't like it on its own, but I may very well be converted to it with jam. It's even the good stuff without any additions!
mdsfx
Member
Now THIS is worth of the 50-post, top-of-page curse! Yasssss