The Official Let's Get In Shape Thread!

[S O F I]

My friend hooked me up with a free 24-day pass at 24hr fitness so I'm bout to hit that up. I'm hoping I'll get back in the rhythm of working out and being motivated so that I can get a gym membership. It's much easier to work out in the fall/winter cause the weather is so shitty.

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^true and its easier to bulk up over the winter too.

 

[Pittsey]

I haven't kept to my promise. I have taken on no extra protein or weight gainer.

Yesterday I completed my first bit of exercise. 200 sit-ups on an incline bench. I also worked my back and chest. But very lightly.

So far... I have been a let down.

Aiming to keep to some weights and sit-ups every 3 times a week to start with. And a 2 mile run to start with, every Monday.

 

[S O F I]

^Surely you mean decline.

 

[dilla]

Guess I'll try to keep this thread active. I did yoga Monday and my obliques are sore. I did half ass lower body yesterday. I usually drink protein smoothies but I put kale in one yesterday and immediately got a headache...I dk wtf that was about. I couldn't finish it.

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Little Skittle]

That's too many sit-ups. If you want to get ab muscles, you have to do different workouts and aim for 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps. If you want VISIBLE ab muscles, it's all about fat loss. 200 sit-ups will build muscle, but it will be slower and more difficult process, and your abs will end up looking uneven once they are visible.

 

[ARon]

If anyone is trying to get started try hundredpushups.com

It'll get you to do 100 hundred pushups straight, no joke. Pushups are easy and this is a way easy schedule to follow, and pushups are basically a full body workout. If anything throw this in with other exercising, it's just something easy and an idea for some of you





For the hell of it...today I ran 3 miles in 20:36. played some basketball for about 2 hours then i did some upperbody and core lifting. Did some half ass 30 minute yoga class at the gym this teacher lady lets me walk-in on whenever, then went and sat in the hot tub, good day of working out. Tomorrow I have to work and go to school so it'll be an off day

 

[SiGh]

^ The hundredpushup dot com thing, I'm doing it.

 

[ARon]

Nice. I just went to the site and found out they have a similar thing for sit ups, squats, and pull ups. Im not so sure about the sit ups one but yeah

 

[Stred]

If anyone is trying to get started try hundredpushups.com

It'll get you to do 100 hundred pushups straight, no joke. Pushups are easy and this is a way easy schedule to follow, and pushups are basically a full body workout. If anything throw this in with other exercising, it's just something easy and an idea for some of you





For the hell of it...today I ran 3 miles in 20:36. played some basketball for about 2 hours then i did some upperbody and core lifting. Did some half ass 30 minute yoga class at the gym this teacher lady lets me walk-in on whenever, then went and sat in the hot tub, good day of working out. Tomorrow I have to work and go to school so it'll be an off day

:thumb:

 

[dilla]

I walked a half-mile round-trip to the Taco Bell from campus. Instead of getting my buddy to drive us both there. He biked, I walked.

Hooray for me!! I should lose weight walking, but also by shitting whatever is inside of me that the Taco Bell scrapes out.

 

[Preach]

I started walking to and from work.

I polished my gym membership card that I have.

I've started eating more vegetables with my food.

I am now at about 91 kilos, down from 125-ish a couple of years ago..

Aiming for 83-85, then I want to become the elastic man.

Some days I eat 2 meals. 1 in the morning, 1 in the early evening (1-2 hours before sleep), starving throughout the day. It's just for losing weight. I know when I am more in activity I tend to get hungrier more often without being able to starve myself

My weight swings back and forth within 2> kilos, meaning that must be how much crap I carry around at any given moment. 2 kilos.

 

[Duke]

I walked a half-mile round-trip to the Taco Bell from campus. Instead of getting my buddy to drive us both there. He biked, I walked.

Hooray for me!! I should lose weight walking, but also by shitting whatever is inside of me that the Taco Bell scrapes out.

I thought you didn't care.

 

[Duke]

I started walking to and from work.

I polished my gym membership card that I have.

I've started eating more vegetables with my food.

I am now at about 91 kilos, down from 125-ish a couple of years ago..

Aiming for 83-85, then I want to become the elastic man.

Some days I eat 2 meals. 1 in the morning, 1 in the early evening (1-2 hours before sleep), starving throughout the day. It's just for losing weight. I know when I am more in activity I tend to get hungrier more often without being able to starve myself

My weight swings back and forth within 2> kilos, meaning that must be how much crap I carry around at any given moment. 2 kilos.

Good man. Walking is one of the more efficient ways of simple fat-burning. If you up the ante your body will start to take different sources of energy instead of just the excess fat.

 

[Bobby Sands]

well done Preach.

 

[Pittsey]

^Surely you mean decline.

It's an incline bench.... That happens to be on a decline.

That's too many sit-ups. If you want to get ab muscles, you have to do different workouts and aim for 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps. If you want VISIBLE ab muscles, it's all about fat loss. 200 sit-ups will build muscle, but it will be slower and more difficult process, and your abs will end up looking uneven once they are visible.

I know what you mean. I was simply trying to get myself started into the whole keep fit thingy. I have a very small amount of fat... And my abs are already showing. I basically just need fitness. I just wanted to get the muscles haven't been worked for a while pain, out of the way. Next week I aim to do the ab exercises correctly. And mess about a bit with the back muscles. Then the week after that, start a proper programme.

The main problem I am having is getting fruit into my diet again. I also need nesquick for the shakes....

 

[Little Skittle]

The main problem I am having is getting fruit into my diet again. I also need nesquick for the shakes....

I'm not sure what kind of shakes your drinking, but if you get Amplified Mass from GNC, you won't need nesquick. From my experience, Amplified Mass is the best tasting AND most effective protein supplement. Also, if you want advice for an ab routine, let me know...I do about a 10 minute ab routine twice a week and about a 10 minute oblique twice a week. I've been doing close to the same routine (with minor variations, and of course, some cardio) and I went from a little flabby around my stomach, to visible abs (sometimes through a shirt) in about 6 months. Not bad considering I haven't altered my diet too heavily (with the exception that I no longer eat fast food), still binge drink 1-2 times a week, and the cardio I do is not extremely strenuous.

On a side note, I'm starting to feel my Super Pump high, so I'm headed to the gym.

 

[Chronic]

I started walking to and from work.

I polished my gym membership card that I have.

I've started eating more vegetables with my food.

I am now at about 91 kilos, down from 125-ish a couple of years ago..

Aiming for 83-85, then I want to become the elastic man.

Some days I eat 2 meals. 1 in the morning, 1 in the early evening (1-2 hours before sleep), starving throughout the day. It's just for losing weight. I know when I am more in activity I tend to get hungrier more often without being able to starve myself

My weight swings back and forth within 2> kilos, meaning that must be how much crap I carry around at any given moment. 2 kilos.

Congrats on the weight loss, that's a lot weight gone.
Some advice... I think it's better to eat 6 meals a day. 3 proper meals and 3 snacks but always small portions. Maybe someone on the board can confirm.

 

[dilla]

I thought you didn't care.

I don't. Not when you I have you there to do it for me.

 

[keco52]

Congrats on the weight loss, that's a lot weight gone.
Some advice... I think it's better to eat 6 meals a day. 3 proper meals and 3 snacks but always small portions. Maybe someone on the board can confirm.

It is better to "graze" or eat smaller more frequent meals to keep your metabolism up/keep blood sugar stable. I'm sure someone will come in and explain it better than I can. You're teaching your body to use the food as fuel NOW instead of storing it for later.