I hate dieting!

I went with the Mazda3 4-door, iSport trim, manual transmission, silver body. Drive it off the lot Monday or Tuesday.

 

Isn't that Diet Fuel some sort of training booster? Probably a thermogenic supplement that can help burn some calories, but those aren't anything magical. As for protein powders, they are good for taking after training or supplement the protein from one or so meal a day. Not much difference with brands imo, other than taste and price somewhat.

I would suggest staying with products that contain "only" protein instead of some mass gainers or post workout powders, that are a bit cheaper, but contain like 50/50 protein/carbs. Those are expensive sugars.
I purchase my protein and fish oil capsules from UK and with large size order I'll get 1kg for little over 10e and it's almost 90 % protein, instead of 80%, which is quite typical for many powders.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_fiber

Good rundown on the differences between the two fibers. Basically you should be eating both types.

Most people way over-do protein supplements. You shouldn't really go above a couple grams per kg that you weigh.

 

Sweet! Though a bit more pedestrian in looks than the hatchback. Should seem a tiny bit more exciting than that '82 Dodge Colt (Honda, whatever) you've been driving. Congrats.

 

Good to hear Grall. You could also boost results with supplements. I got very good results beyond normal with the following supplements and ofcourse not all are required or at all for normal development but this is my current stack..

EAA, + Leucine aminos in powder format (tastes absolutely horrible but gains are to good to skip). Gives me nice boost and less muscle fatigue aswell as improved muscle development.

Creatine Monohydrate (powder). Additional small boost.

Animal Pump PWO (9 huge pills for each dose, ). Amazing PWO which gives me great focus and pump at gym. Stim pill though makes me wanna climb walls with my finger nails after a 2 hour weight training session .

ALA, find this good to balance my mood, energy and allows me to have better fat burning capabilities when deffing after bulking.

ZMA, zink and magnesium "overload", makes me sleep really deep though it provokes some really strange dreams when I remember them.

Previously I took Novedex XT which really upped my testo but made my libido crash after about 10 days use with moderate dose. It's an AI/"PCT" (legal). Good product but side effects are nasty (increased testo side effects and temporarly crashed libido).

Whey powder of decent quality and maltodextrine powder which is a bit more effective and better than dextrose.

I train quite hard and frequent and might put in some quality Tribulus with high levels of active component to restore my libido (feel a bit "smoked" right now).

Anwyay that is my "small" stack!

 

I started doing the sports nutrition thing recently as well for the hell of it. Its pretty addicting, and now I find myself going to the gym 4 times a week and eating healthy.

I don't really have any goals, I am not doing this to lose or gain weight or to look pretty, or anything like that. However the bottomline is that you end up with a ton of energy, it improves my job performance and I sleep better.

After spending a few hours reading up on the science of nutrition, I can't help but feel like those guys have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Being a scientist, I can spot bs from a mile away, and its amusing reading twenty papers from acredited universities all giving completely contradictory statements.
The amount of conjecture is high, the use of statistics mangled, and the amount of experiments limited and not faithful.

Anyway, for lack of knowing what else to do, i'll just stick with the balanced micronutrient approach spread out over six meals.

 

If you experience shoulder pain with dumbell curl, the weight is too heavy and your form suffered. But a little shoulder pain isn't so bad, as long as it's not deep inside your shoulder. That happened to me when I curled 60kg dumbells for several reps, it's quite troublesome pain, but it dissapeared after one week of rest. I couldn't train during that time. And never did the stupid thing anymore.

I still think if you do something like chin up or row you don't need to do dumbell curls.

 

Forget all those supplements unless you seriously want to become ripped and what not. And even then the supplements you should be taking are mainly protein.

If you feel your muscles are really sore the next day after a workout may I suggest eating a banana. I don't know the science behind it, or if it actually helps but I heard a while back that the potassium in bananas help absorb or minimize the lactic acid buildup in muscles. I've never bothered to research it, and it if is entirely psycho-samatic (spelling?) then it works for me. I ride bike 6 out of 7 days in the summer and do weight training 3 - 4 times a week, and eating a banana after the workout helps me a lot.

Exercise without nutrition is really not effective after noob gains and really important. I consume roughly 4,000 calories a day just to maintain my weight of 165 and I'm only 5' 8". I'm currently at 7% body fat and feel that I'm in the peak physical shape for the last few years. The reason my calorie intake is so high is because the amount of cardio I do and the amount of walking that gets done. My calves are freaking huge.

 

well said, eat what you need, from real food. including the needed calories.

yes, banana is the miracle food for that shortage moment where you need a quick fix. consider the alternative, such as chocolate bar or donut or.. yuck!
an orange is awesome as well.

even peanuts or potato chips when I need it, despite the loads of fat and salt (when cash strapped and not at home). because better to eat than not in that situation, and better to find the needed calories here than in processed food stuffed with sugars. plus you share it with buddies. I believe it's great in the right context. (funnily the cheapest stuff is void of nasty additives)

I'm not writing anything particularly original for sure

my advice to anyone having troubles would be :

if it's pleasant and fills a real body need go for it!
if it isn't both, then try something else.

so he should have eaten rice , it's ultra healthy and he could have been satisfied with a smallish portion. it looks like it's all about the way of eating it.
sure, I remember pellets of rice surrounded by thin salmon or algae and the like. you eat half a dozen, then half a dozen more, then two dozens, then a while later you come back and finish what little is left
and that was the first and only time I faced simple homemade sushis.

 

Lol no-one curls 60kg dumbels, atleast I can't imagine how retarded it would look. Well Ok maybe there are a handful of people in the world who could pull that of.

My weight is now 100kg down from 125kg during this year. I was 120kg at the end of april. I've been mostly maintaining my weight for the last month, while trying to get more motivation to push under 90kg.

 

I'm struggling with my training a bit at the moment. I also had a flu and some work related stress= not enough sleep... and all sort of BS I should drag my ass back to the gym. Well atleast I quit smoking cold turkey style on May 31st and haven't smoked a single cigarette after that. I need to watch my diet pretty carefully these days since I was diagnosed with that friggin gout. It's not just meat that you have to eat very carefully, but lot's of other stuff too. It's not a huge issue with 2000-2500 calorie diet, but if I go up to 4000 like Sonic is eating, then it's starting to be hard to keep the purine levels low. What a lame ass disease that is. I must have done some bad things in my previous lives for karma having the nerve of being that insulent on me

 

No not really once it was diagnosed, I changed my diet and haven't really fooled around with food after that. I had some quite severe pain in my right angle and left wrist, before I knew what was going on. Now if I eat a bit too much meat or some other high purine food my toes start to tingle weirdly, but it doesn't really hurt. I know that it can get pretty bad. I'll have think whether I wan't some meds for it, because my current diet is at times somewhat annoying.

 

Yeah, build slowly. I just don't like using dumbbells. I think dumbbell curls are just a waste of time. It's so easy to get bad form with it. It's very easy to overstretch by using dumbbells. Too make progress you actually need to increase your workload. The easiest way to calculate it is total reps x weight / time taken to complete in minutes. This number has to increase slowly, this is your progress. If this doesn't increase you're either over training or lack of motivation.

Well I don't used dumbbells because I just don't get the result with them. After trying various routines, at the end, my exercises were typically consist of bench press, dead lifts, squats, rows, chin-ups and standing shoulder press, and I did typical abs and calves workout daily. I don't do them all exercises together. Bench press and rows one day, and just standing shoulder press another, squats and chin-ups on another day.

I was doing 150 kg standing shoulder press, which I typically picked up and curled off the floor into the ready shoulder press position. A friend put $20 on the table for me to curl several reps with the 'new' 60 kg dumbbells. Well easy money I thought, but man the deep pain in my shoulder afterward wasn't worth the 20 bucks. Those 60 kg dumbbells were requested for one arm rows and dumbbells presses, excercises that I don't like, anyway. They are freaking massive and cumbersome to handle.

Ohh another tip for sore muscle, is to take cold showers straight after workout, you don't have to go cold straight away, just go colder as the showers goes. Sore muscle actually swells so the cold will help the swelling goes down so you're less sore.

A couple is not pointless. Aimed for 10. Heck do a couple at a time. A couple chin ups will give your arms more workout then 12 kg dumbbells curls.

 

Heh I quess I better shut up now. 150kg shoulder press is a pretty massive display of strenght. I'm still sure that those curls with 60kg weren't pretty