Weekly Workout Progress

huh? The enemy of the plateau??

 

lol u jackass

seriously tho..i don't really eat a lot due to work and everything else, so my weight flew like hell. I was like 'oh shit, i actually need to eat real meals now'

 

haha, I AM a jackass. LOL. Rel meals IS the thing though and you know it. LOL. I really have to keep at that. HARD! Its hard to eat that much.

 

Damn both of you :smt110

 

seriously i kept losing weight because i simply don't eat like that

 

I've been keeping it real simple these days.

Pull-Ups to fail.
Dips
Dumbbell Presses
Dumbbell Flyes
Dumbbell Lat Raises

For Core:
100 crunches
50 bicycle crunch
50 mason twists
1min plank
100 crunches
50 bicycle crunch
50 mason twists
1min plank

Mondays and Wednesdays, I alternate sprint w/ jog for about 2 miles. Fridays, I do an endurance jog.

 

Off for a 2 mile barefoot run on the beach....sand is great for toning

 

Wet or dry sand...??? Lol. Dry sand is so unforgiving.

 

It was wet sand...and great...then hit the gym and worked on the abs and upper body. May hit the gm again tonight with my girls....trying to stay outta trouble

 

I know what you mean, I have to eat constantly to maintain my weight. I think it's mainly genetics. Of course how you train and eat is important too. Weight control is never a problem for me. If I want to gain weight, I increase my calories to 5000. If I want to lose weight, I just reduce the calories a bit, and increase my cardio, but never more than 15 minutes a day. I warm up using a recumbent bike and I can burn more than 300 calories in 15 minutes.

I believe in volume training and do more sets than most people. On leg days I will do 36 sets for legs, heavy sets with little rest in between sets. My other days include lots of sets as well. I'm fairly strong so everything I do is weight assisted or it's just too easy, that includes dips, chin ups, sit ups and push ups.

 

I have been lifting since february and lost 1 pound. is it common to lose weight while lifting

 

Running about 30 miles a week on average.

Hitting the gym at least 3 times a week. Iso workouts on those days and doing low reps, more weight.

The typical for now, but will switch up when I start taking a weight gainer in the next month or two.

 

45 minutes on the treadmill for today. Aiming for 200 pushups and crunches later

 

depends on how you lift

need more info

 

dont do much due to schedule. I lift 2 to 3 times a week.
1) bench press
2) arm curl with ez bar
3) cable rows
4) lat pull down
5) super squats (just started that. in the beginning was leg curls and extensions to regular squats)
6) military press (before that side and front dumbell lifts for shoulders)
7) shoulder shrugs
8) cable push downs

about 45 minutes to an hour of a work out. depends on the crowd
about every 2 months I change the exercises and I increase the amount of weights every 3 weeks or when it gets too easy.

 

It's normal to lose weight working out like that, of course. If you don't replace what you lose, that's what happens. If you're super or tri-setting exercises, you'll probably end up losing even more weight, since you're making your body work harder before taking breaks. Bottom line is as long as your body is torching ATP when lifting, you're going to run into weight issues.

 

I see. I need to add more to my diet.

 

when i was weighing 225+, i was lifting aggressively, but I was also drinking more protein shakes and eating. I also did not do cardio. I was getting big tho..I definitely noticed more pumps coming out of my shirt, with guys asking me how much iron I was slinging and looking for workout tips.

Since then, I got down to 209 or whatever, but that's because of the cardio, mat time + weight lifting, and not really eating more. That was good for me tho, because I definitely would prefer rolling around and doing mma at light heavyweight (205), than heavyweight, where there is a huge margin between qualifying weight. Rolling around at 220 with a guy over 300 highlighted that lol.

 

How hard you're working is more important than how long you're working. Your cardio work should be all about intensity. You often see people in the gym chatting and talking on mobile phones while on cardio equipment and you know that they aren't burning many calories.

It's better to do 30 minutes at a higher intensity than walk slowly for 45 minutes, you'll burn more calories too, and continue to burn them even after your workout. I'm not saying that you have to run for the entire time either. You can use a combination of fast walking and incline to achieve more intensity. I'd say that if you aren't burning at a minimum, 500-600 calories in those 45 minutes, you need to review the intensity of your routine.

 

that seems to be the consensus. i know i burned more during 9 or 12 minutes of rolling with guys my size, than many people would do with a 45 min walk lol.