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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
What type of diet are you on? I would say continue doing the cardio, but mix it up. Run 3 days a week, for the other 3 days do the stair master (trust me it will kick your ass), bike, swim...and, if you feel compelled to, on the 7th day either rest or do a light jog/power walk.
Finally, high protein diets build mass.
Oh...and if you have a belly, don't waste your time doing sit-ups/crunches. Everyone has a six pack. If you have fat over it, you can do a billion sit-ups and it won't do anything. You need to get rid of the fat first.
Diet + Cardio + mild weight lifting = win?
Even if you don't see massive drops in weight, you should become healthier, you should look more tone, and you should feel better.
Oh, and drink lots and lots of water...and no beer or soda.
Edit: I don't think I ever went for 100 straight push-ups, but at one point I think I could do 50. I used to do 5 sets of 20 every night after I ran. Push ups are a great compliment to bench, you will tone your chest nicely.
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Thanks for the advice, my diet's basically the same - I'm a pretty good eater, but I do love me some bread sometimes. I've avoided red meat successfully for a while. I also take alaska fish oil supplements and now I'm on to flax seed, soy protein powder, and hemp seed nut. It's hard to do a complete change of diet when you're still at home.
I do drink lots of water, I drink at least 3.5 liters a day. I have an excellent 1.5L bottle I fill with water twice a day.
I didn't mention this in the first post, but I did do a lot of weight training last year during july/august, because I discovered Propaganda's building had a gym downstairs. A month wasn't that long, but I did gain a lot of mass. I think my mistake was not picking it up again after I went back to school. I hate school - so inconvenient.
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Originally Posted by Vampyr
Do High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT).
Run/Bike/(use a cardio machine) for a minute, as hard as you can, then either go slowly or rest for 30 seconds. Repeat over and over for as long as you can. It will kick your butt, but it's extremely effective. Much more so than just jogging or running for an hour.
Not eating late is sort of a myth. The reason that works so well is because you're eating less overall. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just saying that the time of day doesn't have as much to do with it as people think.
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Hmm, I can only really do this for running, and it would kick the hell out of me. I usually do one hard run for the final stretch for 30 seconds and it kicks my ass completely. My MMA workout is 2 minute rounds and one minute rest, I guess that's the same idea too.
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Originally Posted by Seth
I guess I'm in a different boat. I'm always trying to gain weight. I do pullups, pushups, situps....and play bball. I throw in slight variations to all my exercises though. Right now I'm more about conditioning my core strength. I'm 6'4 and 170 lbs so basically no fat on me. I have a bit of a goal, by the end of the summer I want to be doing around 60 slow move pushups and get my legs in shape. I was running for a while earlier this season but have got lazy as of late. And yes, biking is amazing cuz it's soooo much nicer on the knees. Dyne, if you want God's diet then go 90% raw vegan. You'll bulk like mad if you're eating right but you'll also lose extra shite.
some tips:
Don't eat 4-6 hours before you sleep. So if you're going to bed at 10 then 6 would be the absolute latest for a meal. The last meal of the day should be your smallest. Ideally I try to have only vegetables or fruit for my evening meal. If I'm ever wanting to throw on some quick fat then I just eat later but it really is hard on the body. Eating late ages you.
swimming!
http://www.thegardendiet.com/shannon.html
Read that guy's testimonial if you've got the time. After a couple months of not really sticking hard to raw food I started seeing results like he was saying. I'm not quite as bulked as he is but I'm also way lazy but i figure by the end of the summer I can bulk on another 10 lbs of muscle. |
Yeah, I don't like eating late anyways.
And yeah, I would definitely do a change of diet, even just to vegetarian, if I didn't still have my mom cooking for me all the time. My girlfriend is house-sitting this summer and she's gone vegetarian.
Also, for gaining weight, you can work out really hard, but if you don't dial up your intake of proteins and fats dramatically from what you're used to, you will never gain mass. The measurement I've heard is 3500 - it takes 3500 calories of energy to burn off a pound, and likewise, takes 3500 extra calories to gain one pound.