Posts by xeonicus

mayo and olives.... blech...

Fine with me though, I don't need the fat or the salt.

Other than getting enough sleep, eating right, and staying hydrated, I find that I work best with a set routine.  It's not enough for me to plan on going to the gym on a specific schedule, I like to have a specific training program I am working on.  I don't "wing it" at the gym.  Basically, if I skip out on a day, I screw up my training schedule for the entire week.  That's usually enough motivation to avoid skipping.  However, if I'm having a really bad day, I just shift my mon-wed-fri routine to tue-thur-sat.

So, I usually get home from the office around 5:30pm, relax and munch on some fruit and a sandwich for a bit, and head to the gym around 7 for an hour.  I try to get to bed around 10:30pm during the week because I'm usually up around 6:30am to make breakfast before work.

By the way, for people who have kids, many gyms have day care facilities; atleast, the one I go to does.  I imagine it's pretty common.

carbs aren't bad... you need carbs in your diet, especially for your body to recover after working out

Fwiw, and I don't know if it's right, but the nutrition label on my whey protein container says you should get about 300g of carbs with a 2000 calorie diet.  Probably something worth researching if you're that interested.

I would have to say, that a woman with a six-pack is hot.  I've seen ONE woman at my gym with a six-pack and she is a knock-out and a half, and it's because her body is reminiscent of a greek goddess.

Now, to be fair I don't like the look some female figure atheletes go for with rippling muscles.  It turns me off if they look like body builders; I prefer a slim and lean figure.  Six-pack however?  Go for it, that's hot.

aeetheri,

How often did you decide to do this workout?  The program doesn't seem to recommend a specific weekly schedule, although it does mention you should take one day off per week to rest.  I always considered mon, wed, and fri (3 days a week) to be a good fit for me with my schedule, but I imagine you could potentially do this routine 6 days a week.

Considering that this is the first intense weight training regimen I've tried in a couple years, my muscles were pretty sore the following evening.  I figured I'd take one day off and go back the next day (tonight).  I'm not sure if I could have handled it last night.  I could potentially do this 5 days a week (mon-fri) once I'm in the swing of things though.

While I've never been obese, I use to have a habit of eating when I was bored or depressed (I imagine that's not too uncommon for many people).  Nowadays I've learned to identify these urges and I catch myself.  Hunger doesn't have anything to do with that either, although I suppose if I were bored and very hungry, the two would have a lot of synergy.  My main strategy with healthy eating these days is to space out my eating throughout the day to keep my hunger at bay.  When I'm starving, it takes more willpower to avoid fast food.  If that happens these days, I snag a PB&J sandwich and an apple which is extremely fast and fills me up.

Breakfast: Cheerios w/ skim milk, egg white omlette, whole wheat toast w/ sugar free jam, coffee-black

Snack: orange

Lunch: chili and a broccoli & cheese potato

...Plan for the rest of the day....

Snack: Pecans

Dinner: catfish sauteed in olive oil and cajun seasoning, broccoli, and brown rice

Might have a banana somewhere in all that if I'm hungry.

Hehe... I've always drank skim milk and I'm use to it.  To me, 2% feels like I'm eating the milk instead of drinking it.

Well, I had a similar sounding problem to yours, and my doctor told me it was an inflammed tendon caused by over use.  Not to say that's necessarily what's wrong with your knee, but it could be.  I haven't been running for 10 days and I can still feel a very slight tightness (i was limping up until a few days ago).  My doc told me to stay off it and not to even mess with the elliptical or biking (though walking was ok).  I've also been taking anti-inflammatory meds and stretching every single day.

I never had this problem when I ran years ago, so I chalk it up to the fact that my body isn't well conditioned for the abuse like it use to be.  I'm actually going to give that "No Business Running" program (that Melkor linked) a try starting next week.  Until then I'm just walking and swimming.

Whenever I have a BBQ, my roommate and I always buy the lean 94/6 hamburger (94% beef, 6% fat).  That or similarly lean steak.

This is all very confusing to me because.... a couple years ago when I had a fitness evaluation by the personal trainer at my gym, I had a body fat % of 18 and it was suggested that it was a bit high and I had room for improvement.  My cousin was exceptionally healthy and fit and his body fat % was 12%.  I've heard it's common for hardcore athletes to be in the single digits for body fat %.

Knowing that, I find it hard to believe 22-32% to be a healthy range and below 20% to be "underfat".  Then again, you're speaking in the context of women.  I wonder if the "healthy body fat % range" is different for men than it is for women.  Personally I'd like to get down around 12% myself.

Hmm, nevermind... after reading the wikipedia link white_rabbit posted I guess my view of body fat% ranges was correct.  I looks like women really do tend to need more body fat.

Well, I go jogging in a relatively low-key area in the suburbs, but I know what you're saying.  For the last interval of my jog I pick up the pace to a dead sprint until my end destination, literally as fast as I can go.  I feel like the flash, lol.

Original Post by lessthan100:

thanks for the advice! i didn't want to feel like a sexual predator going after him but i think i will attempt conversation if i ever work up the nerve!

Somehow, I don't think you have to worry about that.  Guys are like dogs, they love the attention.  For a guy, it's an ego boost.

I use them sometimes to mix things up.  I don't like doing the same thing every time.  Think the stair master is my favorite though, that'll work you out hardcore.  I never noticed a gender disparity on the low-impact cardio machines at my gym.

Get a dog and take him with you maybe.... or get a gym membership... or learn kung fu....  that'd be the coolest of the 3 options.