Getting into shape

[Grav]

Summers coming, and I want to start getting into shape.

Any tips on what to eat, any outdoor activities that are recommended (for solo play only, I don't have multiplayer capabilities here) or just tips in general?

I've been losing weight pretty rapidly, and I want to continue doing so and get some more muscle.

[Demosthenes]

Summers coming, and I want to start getting into shape.

Any tips on what to eat, any outdoor activities that are recommended (for solo play only, I don't have multiplayer capabilities here) or just tips in general?

I've been losing weight pretty rapidly, and I want to continue doing so and get some more muscle.

So, basically, this is going to be you?

http://www.plu.edu/~munsonpn/images/cartmanslimbig.gif

Don't worry, you'll be back to normal soon enough.

Just lift a lot of weights and run/ride bike. Or you could start playing basketball.

[undeadzombieguy]

Workout:
Lifting weights if you want buff up, this varies for everyone, I'm sure that if you go to a gym they can advise you on what to do and how to do it.
If you strictly want to go outdoors and dont really care for being buff, like MJ said, run/ride bike and maybe tennis.

Food:
Lots of protein, for example: chicken, eggs, fish, milk and protein shakes/bars.
Generally you need about 2 gramms of protein for every kilo you weigh to grow. I weigh 71 kilo's so I usually eat/drink around 140-150 gramms of protein a day.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

Summers coming, and I want to start getting into shape.

Any tips on what to eat, any outdoor activities that are recommended (for solo play only, I don't have multiplayer capabilities here) or just tips in general?

I've been losing weight pretty rapidly, and I want to continue doing so and get some more muscle.
Well I used to weigh about 290 and dropped down to 170, recently I have put on about 30 pounds or more of muscle.
I reccomend getting yourself nonfat / lowfat snacks, such as yogurt and lowfat chips for after-dinner snacks. When you eat in a certain time period before going to bed or just sitting down at home waiting to go to bed, watching tv, it all just turns to fat. Cut fast food out of your diet if you haven't already.
Start eating salads, they can be really good. Most people think "Eww salad!", try a Chicken Ceasar salad or something. Fruit is always a good idea as well.

How much do you weigh now?
Lifting your own body weight helps a lot too, free weights can be good as well. Stay away from machine weights whenever possible. Try doing crunches, keep your head pointing up when doing so, when you go up squeeze your stomach muscles together really hard to maximize the effect, you'll lose the gut in no time. Pushups can help with the upper body strength, for the past few months at work I have been doing 250 - 300 pushups every night at work, in reps of 25-50, all the way down and all the way up.

Just do what you can, and try increasing that after a week or week and a half after you start. Keep pushing yourself to make new limits.

This entry may sound a little scattered ... I just woke up. If you need clarification / more tips, you have my AIM.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

Remember that protein will be evil if you are not active enough.

[JRwakebord]

Running, and lots of it. It's the single best way to lose weight. I typically run 8-10 miles a day, 5 days a week. Although my eating habits aren't the healthiest, I make up for it with insane workouts. Situps and pushups when you wake up and before you go to bed will help with definition, too.

[Grav]

I'm going to start doing crunches when I get up and before I go to sleep as part of a routine, and do them during the day as well. I like going for long walks, but don't have much opportunity to do so here, I live on a busy 55 MPH road.

[Xenn]

Run run run. It's hard at first but then it gets easy.

Just ran a 5:44 mile today... yay

[Grav]

I wish I had somewhere to actually run.. what about walking, though?

[JRwakebord]

Walking is a good start. Move up to jogging after a week or two, then to running. If you go slow it will be less painful

[Hades-Knight]

Remember that protein will be evil if you are not active enough.


WHERE TEH FUCK R U GETTING THIS FROM?????? protein is the best macronutrient you can have retard, even if you ate protein alone you would burn more fat because it takes more calories to digets protein than it does for other things. Kthxbye


grav, just eat 6 small meals a day (around 30g protein each) , do soem exercise and you'll be in your way.


If you wanna get technical about it, multiply ur weight times 15 , the number u get is the amount of calories u should consume in a day, for best fat burning and muscle building results , 40% of your calories should come from protein, 40% from carbs and 20% from fats. thats 40/40/20 , Each gram of carbohydrates contains 3.75 calories. Each gram of fat contains 9 calories,Each gram of protein contains 4 calories,Each gram of alcohol contains 7 calories.

Do the math

[slaynish]

I have recently been excited about playing Rugby the past month and a half, so I have been going to my local gym and lifting w/ my brother. Im not really worried about weight, because my brother weighed a good 240 at the beginning of the summer 2-3 years ago, and at the end weighed 160, and all he did was focus on protein and eating right. The thing is, if you have high protein, your muscles will last longer. You will find it SO easy to go longer and the longer you go running or lifting, the more fat you burn. That is basically the rule I have been following although i have been slipping a bit I do see a little muscle formation in my left arm and a little more in my right mainly due to jerking off.

What I can give though:

Buy some creatine, buy a gym-pass. Lift weights as much as possible, before doing so have a water of Creatine mixed with the correct grams. Focus HARD on what you eat, and most of all, excersize. Even if you barely focus on what you eat, but focus TONS on excersizing and lifting weights, you can still do well, if not, then you can do excellent.

My plan:

Lose 40-80 lbs this summer. I weigh 215. I have been lifting since 2nd grade with my brother(who was my age when I was in 2nd grade), and I have always been the 'top of the line lifter' in my school. I do NOT plan to lose that title.

My influences:

My brother, he has done it, I KNOW i can succede with tons of hard work.
My father, He would be so happy if I come out to CA july 7th and he sees me weighing even 20 lbs lighter.
My social life, I will have more respect.

Think of the things you care about most, and we can both succede.

[Adrenachrome]

Eat whatever you want Grav, just dont eat late at night, or within a few hours before you sleep.

You shouldn't have to be all hardcore like IRON DFD over there.. just do a few crunches and pushups every other night or so untill you get strong enough to do more without hurting yourself.

Getting a job in the construction industry is a good way to keep active... lol

I'm a roofer...
Ever carried one hundred and fifty or so 80 pound bundles of shingles up a 40 foot ladder? I have .. lol every carried a forty foot ladder?... I do very little excersize at home cause I work so hard...

[slaynish]

Yeah fuck all that.

My friend Ben (18 yo) is being an Iron Worker.

He fucking is insane hes been getting so much stronger-.-

[JRwakebord]

A job loading 18 wheelers at UPS will bulk you up. It's working for me.

[Adrenachrome]

I have known cats that BANK working for UPS and Fed Ex... good choice JR

[JRwakebord]

I've been there less than a month and they already want me to start working as a supervisor. May take them up on it too, seeing as how it would triple my paycheck and get me out of the union...

[undeadzombieguy]

You cant just lift as much as you can every day and think it's going to work... Rest is about as important as the workout itself.

I agree with DFD, machine weights arent good. What you may want to try when doing situps is take some weight, put that in your hands behind your head, and start doing situps, you will definitly feel the burn alot quicker.

Buy some protein powder to make shakes, preferably of Whey protein.

Just one more thing, Eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper.
Meaning that it's better to take the larger meals early during the day. Diner should be your smallest meal of the day. Besides diner dont eat anything in the evening.

[Mantralord]

I lost about 35 lbs. around 5 months ago...then I realized it made absolutely no difference in my appearance because I'm so short, so I gained it back.

[WetWired]

I've found that if you cut starches out of your diet that you will lose both weight and appetite. In the beginning you're always really hungry, so plan on eating lots of steaks and huge salads, but after your body gets used to not being amped on sugar, you quickly become used to as little as a cup of juice for breakfast, a diet frozen dinner (I eat life choice ones because they're all just meat and veggies) for lunch, and a salad with meat in it for dinner. Coupled with a good amount of physical activity (I play Para Para Paradise 3 times a week for about 2 hours), you lose a good amount of weight. Speaking of all this, I really need to get back to it; I started letting starches back into my diet in January, and I have no energy now unless I've just consumed sugar--it sucks.

[Kaneda]

Dont do anything h_k said. Its all wrong. You need to eat 3 filling meals a day. Not small meals alot. Protien and Carbs both will make you gain considerable weight, unless your really active. In crosscountry we would eat huge spagehti meals the night before our meet to give us lots of energy. Multiply your wieght times 15? Thats the stupiest thing I've ever heard, so the bigger and fatter you are, the more calories you need to consume? Cmon...
Grav, just eat salads. Lots and lots of salads. And run, most likely being a bigger guy(I've never seen you though)you have muscle to support your wieght and whatnot, so the more wieght you lose the more defined you look. Or you could just try and convert the fat directly to muscle...
I need to start working out too, but I'm waay to skinny. 6'2'' 150-160? So I drink protien shakes and and lift wieghts, I run too cause I like it. Damn not 8-10 miles though, how could you have enough time to do that...I see some people on my way to work running at 5:30 am. If I didnt have to go to work I would definatly be sleeping.

[Hades-Knight]

Dont do anything h_k said. Its all wrong. You need to eat 3 filling meals a day. Not small meals alot. Protien and Carbs both will make you gain considerable weight, unless your really active. In crosscountry we would eat huge spagehti meals the night before our meet to give us lots of energy. Multiply your wieght times 15? Thats the stupiest thing I've ever heard, so the bigger and fatter you are, the more calories you need to consume? Cmon...
Grav, just eat salads. Lots and lots of salads. And run, most likely being a bigger guy(I've never seen you though)you have muscle to support your wieght and whatnot, so the more wieght you lose the more defined you look. Or you could just try and convert the fat directly to muscle...
I need to start working out too, but I'm waay to skinny. 6'2'' 150-160? So I drink protien shakes and and lift wieghts, I run too cause I like it. Damn not 8-10 miles though, how could you have enough time to do that...I see some people on my way to work running at 5:30 am. If I didnt have to go to work I would definatly be sleeping.


Ok follow his out of my ass advice and ignore my research backed advise.

[undeadzombieguy]

It is better to eat in small portions. Your talking about running in competition, not just getting in shape. Eating spaggethi before sleeping does give you energy, but it's totally unnecessary and might even be bad if your just running to get in shape. Just eating salads isnt good either. You need variety in your food.

[JRwakebord]

Damn not 8-10 miles though, how could you have enough time to do that...I see some people on my way to work running at 5:30 am. If I didnt have to go to work I would definatly be sleeping.


Captained both cross country and track. And if you do it fast enough, it only takes an hour or two to do that kind of workout.

[Kaneda]

I wasn't telling him to eat spagehti I was just giving an example. He said he wanted to lose weight so I told him and its not all unhealthy.
Actually Grav I find that the bolemia/steroids route works pretty well too. Look into that.

[Grav]

Bulemia/steroids? Are you just mocking me now?

I wanted to lose some weight, not burn my esophagus and shrink my balls.

[undeadzombieguy]

Yeah and try some genedoping while your at, it it's the newest thing on the market. ;)

[Penny_Bags]

OMG THIS A VITEO GAIM FOOREM?

Yeah... I don't work out. I have a job in contstruction, and I am active with things like playing football/baseball/basketball for funxor and the once or twice a week concert is the best workout ever. If you go to concerts the right way.

I am in good shape. I pwn noobs.

[badboy]

Well, I've had no problem with weight, I weigh about 170lbs, and I use machine weights all the time, I bench at least double my body weight and last time I did leg squat I did 500lbs. I am very cut in the abs and arms and I just do sit-ups and push-ups every other day, if that. I am not consumed with this like some of you guys are, I eat whatever I want and don't worry about anything. Don't let a diet change your life. Let your life be your life.

[Penny_Bags]

So you bench 340?.... That's nuts.

[Adrenachrome]

Oh yea dude, haven't you noticed all the badasses on zelaron?

[pr0xy]

Oh yea dude, haven't you noticed all the badasses on zelaron?

I'm the biggest badass here. 6'2 240. I bench schoolbusses.

[Thanatos]

So you bench 340?.... That's nuts.

Haha, yeah right. That's complete bullshit on badboy's part. It's damn near impossible to weigh 170 and bench 340.

[Penny_Bags]

Oh yeah man... there are so many... like Ganga...

[Hades-Knight]

obviously u guys havent seen my pic..........




(no mantra i wont send nekkid pic)

[badboy]

Haha, yeah right. That's complete bullshit on badboy's part. It's damn near impossible to weigh 170 and bench 340.

If smoke crap all the time it is. Try working out and it won't.

[Penny_Bags]

I think the key to getting in shape is making every day tasks more difficult.

Like when you are beating off................................. get really into it.

[JRwakebord]

But then I start to chafe and bleed and things get really messy.

[slaynish]

Yeah.

Sometimes I dont cut my fingernails and I slice my penis. THen I get to take it out of the skin, play with my balls OUTSIDE THE SACK, and have lots of other fun!.

I ran an 800 today for junior-track. It sucked. I burned out after the first lap becuase I was running too hard, im overweight considering im in 7th grade but for the first lap I was keeping up with all the soccer players and 80 lb kids atleast. I think I ran it in like 4 mins which isnt that bad for me.

[JRwakebord]

Not too shabby. What were your splits?

[Penny_Bags]

Haha... Slaynish just say fat... overweight makes it sound like you'll cry if someone calls you fat.

[slaynish]

k im a fatty :)

and i dont know what splits are we did it in gym we were just supposed to see if we liked/are good at them.

I hate them :)

[JRwakebord]

lol I mean what was your first lap time, and your second lap time? I was curious 'cause you said you died the 2nd time around.

[slaynish]

Meh.

He didnt time it lolers, but i know it wasnt too long because he thought I was going to do a lot worse.

[Grav]

You mean lo9lers.

[slaynish]

Yes.

lo9lers..

[JRwakebord]

I've never actually run the 800. I've done the 400 and the 1500, but no 800. I'm guessing I would get between 2:00 and 2:05.

[slaynish]

Yeah, probabaly you would.

How fast do you run a mile?

[JRwakebord]

I've done a 1500 (about 12 seconds short of a mile) at 4:31, and I can do the 400 (1/4 mile) in 52 seconds.

[slaynish]

daaaaaaang lolz i bet u run liek 13.921114 mph!!!

[JRwakebord]

I captained both Track and Cross Country, so I ran year-round. Winter I captained Skiing (Race Team).

[Penny_Bags]

Did you also captain men's anuses? Becaue that'd be hot.

[Thanatos]

You would say that...

[JRwakebord]

No, though for skiing I did wear a GS-suit, which I bet you would have enjoyed.

[platnum]

Heyyy, I ski race too!

[slaynish]

Ski racing sounds fun.

Asshole dwelling does not.

[JRwakebord]

Ski racing is the shit. Wicked adrenaline rushes when you hit gates, and from flying across the finish line. The only part that gets to some people is wearing a GS-suit, but I have no shame and I'm fit, so I didn't mind.

[Thanatos]

Have you seen the episode of The Simpsons where they all go skiing and Flanders is there wearing a very revealing suit. He says, "It feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!" and Homer has scary nightmares over it.

That kind of suit?