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| New Members | **New Member forum Meet N Greet** | Feb 14 2008 14:41 (UTC) |
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| 1. Calorie Count Name (user id):Bando_Shaun 2. Name you prefer to be called in discussions:Doesn't matter 3. Age & Sex: 25 & Male 4. General Location:West Virginia - Charleston Area 5. Married? Single? Single 6. Kids? Furbabies? Notta 7. Favorite color? Doesn't matter 8. Favorite movie? Man on Fire - Fight Club 9. Hobbies? Kickboxing, swimming, shooting pool, fishing... the list goes on... 10. Favorite Snack? Oranges 11. Favorite Beverage? Green Tea 12. Biggest Obstacle to Getting Healthy? I am healthy 13. Weight/Fitness Goal? 185LBS 14. Least Favorite Household Chore? Dishes 15. How did you find Calorie Count? By accident 16. Anything Else You'd Like To Share? I think that covers it |
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| Fitness | Punching Bag.... | Feb 13 2008 21:27 (UTC) |
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As fun as punching bags are you want to make sure and focus on form. It's a good way to get hurt also. (i.e. wrist collapsing, twisting your foot, so on...) I use a 100# heavy bag for my exercises and honestly, it helps me drop the pounds faster than anything else I have done. However, I now also have a wrist injury that'll act up occasionally due to me hitting the bag without much knowledge on it. Break your routines up almost like you would sprints. I usually focus 3 minute rounds with 45 seconds rest between. You might want to start slightly slower than that though and at least opt for 6 rds/3 days a week. Progression will probably happen pretty rapidly since it's such an effecient workout. Start with simple exercises (Jab with the hand that isn't dominant for a full round, rest, then jab with your dominant hand for a full round... FOCUS ON FORM!) I'd do this with Jabs, crosses, backhands, and hooks. Ease up on the uppercuts until your sure about how to do them on a heavy bag because if you do it wrong, you'll be in some pain the next day. After your comfortable with the stance and technique of your punches then you can start building combonations. Don't forget to wrap your hands either so you don't scar your knuckles too bad. Check out youtube.com for some online training. Try jes' typing in some boxing tags that might bring up videos to help you consider the essentials to your form. If you need anymore help or have anymore questions, jes' let me know and I'll either answer or turn you toward some good resources. |
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| Fitness | Seriously, how do I flatten my stomach? | Feb 13 2008 20:35 (UTC) |
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From what I understand, weight training followed by a session of cardio is best at melting away fat. I usually notice really good results when I either do my midsection workouts and follow it with sprints or jump rope between exercises. As for the carb/protein debate... remember... carbs will increase the amount of glucose in your blood... if this increases too rapidly then your body releases insulin which prompts you to store fat. The best way I've found to avoid this is simply ignore the more refined carbs (snack cakes, cookies, honey buns... you know the stuff) and opt for WHOLE wheat/grain products, fresh fruits/veggies. Start eating these for snacks and you'll be cutting your calorie and carb intake without even noticing it. Also, as long as you don't over do it, any increase in protein in your diet should keep you from eating some of those carbs jes' by keeping you fuller longer. Another note... cardio is great at burning calories at the time of (esspecially if you follow the "Fat Burn Zone"), but doesn't have much of a lasting effect. Weight training on the other hand is starting to show an increase in the actual calories expended while your doing it and has a much larger "afterburn" during the following 48 hours. Emerging research seems to back weight training over your moderate paced cardio... however, if you do explosive cardio training (i.e. heavy bag, sprints, jump rope, squat jumps, so on...) it has a good after effect, still not as good as weight training though, but a very high calorie burn at the time of. Bottom line... work hard, but do what you know you'll stick to. |
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| Fitness | My shins are on FIRE!! | Feb 13 2008 20:02 (UTC) |
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| May want to look into doing calf raises. Not weighted calf raises, simply calesthenics. A lot of times those will help to strengthen the muscles to be able to withstand the impact and better safeguard your shins. Your calves will hurt and you may have slight pain in the arch of your foot (yes, you have muscles there also). You should be able to tell the difference of pain from working out and pain from doing something thats damaging you, so use your best knowledge. Try 50 with feet at shoulder width, 50 with toes touching and 50 with heels touching. I'll have to back up the shoe recommendation as well... can make all the difference in the world. | |||
| Fitness | Squatting with dumbells? | Feb 13 2008 19:42 (UTC) |
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Also as a variation you may want to look into "Goblet Squats" as mentioned here. http://davedraper.com/blog/2006/11/04/what-ar e-goblet-squats-goblet-squat-instruction/ As you can tell these squats have you hold the weight in front and are to the least a good way to be sure your squatting in proper form. I'll use them often, as mentioned here, as a warm up before moving on into something heavier. Medicine balls can be held as a sub for dumbells or if you work out at home such as myself (which you mentioned the gym so this is probably not useful), sandbags work well. Cheap, easy and can help activate more core muscles than a regular barbell or dumbells. Kettlebells can be used also. If your not familiar on how to use kettlebells or determine the weight you need to use for a workout I'll help where I can. Kettlebells are amazing at not only working the legs, but the entire body. |
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| Weight Loss | Anyone in their 20's?? | Feb 06 2008 17:25 (UTC) |
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Hey everyone. I jes' joined today and ran across this group by chance. I'm 25 years old and have been pretty up on educating myself with nutrition, weight loss, fitness, etc. Right now i'm at 200lbs but even though this thing wants me at 170 (no way), I'm shooting for 180 because I'm pretty sure thats better for me. I've dabbled with a few techniques, diets and so forth so I've got a pretty good base for this stuff and from my experience, 6 meals a day, higher on the protein and mainly watch your saturated fats pretty much does the trick. Drink lots of water and eat whole grain/wheat foods and most everything else will fall into place. I really don't know how all this forums stuff works so if anyone has anything to add/ask, whatever, holler.
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