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| Foods | Single Girls (and Guys) - How much do you spend on groceries?? | Nov 09 2008 10:16 (UTC) |
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I spend around 7 euros a day so it's about 210 euros per month, give or take. I live in Finland and food has definitely gotten more expensive lately. I'd have no problem whatsoever blowing 10 e on food daily, but a student budget sets certain limitations. |
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| The Lounge | how many ex boyfriends do you have? | Sep 10 2008 05:06 (UTC) |
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21 years, lost 2 guys. I don't get out much.. |
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| Fitness | Body Pump Online. | Sep 09 2008 17:52 (UTC) |
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Haha, well at least acting out bodypump moves added to your daily caloric burn.. :D. There really is something about the certainty having a set program to follow gives you, as opposed to trying to improvise a circuit training session on the go (I've been there). Have you tried the exercise section of CalorieCount, they have some programs I think? You'll also find a list in the Fitness FAQ, I hope the link works this time :).
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| Fitness | eating before and after running/exercise | Sep 09 2008 17:01 (UTC) |
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The eating routine is explained in the Fitness FAQ, you'll find it posted on the fitness forum :). |
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| Fitness | Body Pump Online. | Sep 09 2008 16:59 (UTC) |
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Bodypump DVD's aren't sold commercially for private people, you have to be a certified LesMills-instructor for that, I'm sorry to say :(. There are some illegal torrents online, although they get deleted very effectively and some people have seen Bodypump releases on sale on eBay (for shame!) but basically, it's just not a do-it-yourself concept.
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| Fitness | Arm toning | Sep 07 2008 16:32 (UTC) |
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2 kg is not a lot, but if it's all you got it beats having nothing at all. If you can fit them in your hand safely, you could hold both of them in one hand and work your arms one by one? I'm assuming you have dumbbells which will allow you to do light versions of all the basic exercises, you'll find a comprehensive list over at exrx.net
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| The Lounge | Google Chrome | Sep 07 2008 12:48 (UTC) |
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Having read the end-user license agreement it turns out it may have been premature of me to herald Chrome as my new browser: |
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| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | Sep 07 2008 07:29 (UTC) |
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yesterday's total: 3 eggs, 1 kg of natural yogurt, 5 carrots, 3 cucumbers and an apple. The veggies weren't as nutritious as I usually opt for and I overdid it with the animal products, but all in all a pretty decent day. |
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| Fitness | Food before training? | Sep 06 2008 10:44 (UTC) |
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This is from the Fitness forum FAQ, What (and when) to eat before/after cardio? I think you'll find Melkor's post (#3 in the thread) helpful, as one could imagine the same outlines apply to your sport as well. I try to get my pre-workout meal eaten at least 90 minutes before I start training so as to avoid feeling full; also your capacity to work might be diminished if your stomach is busy digesting and your body has to direct lots of blood into it. How about eating higher calorie foods lwith slow-releasing energy ike nuts or maybe an omelette before your workout so that while your stomach will no longer be full, your overall energy level will still be elevated? Nuts worked for me back when I trained with a gigantic physioball, doing crunches and working my back lying flat on the ball would have been impossible with a full stomach but I only needed a half of a handful of nuts to give me a boost big enough to get through the entire set. Good luck! |
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| Motivation | Motivation quotes for fitness | Sep 05 2008 19:35 (UTC) |
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Gets me through workouts: Pain is weakness exiting the body. |
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| Foods | counting condiments | Sep 04 2008 06:48 (UTC) |
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I log mustard because of the copious amounts I use. The dijon-kind is extremely salty (6,5% salt in some cases) and some commercial prepared mustards out there have sugar/glucose-fructose suryp listed in the ingredients before mustard, so it's more like sugar with some mustard powder spinkled on top for color. The nutritional information on one mustard tube was similar to that of strawberry jam or something, 250 calories for 100g. Granted, no one eats 100 grams of the stuff but it can add up. |
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| Foods | CC accurate for vegetables? | Sep 04 2008 05:32 (UTC) |
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Actually I've found CalorieCount tends to overestimate the calories in most vegetables. Most other sources list carrots as 25 cals/100g, here it's a whopping 42 calories! If I get a second opinion on my caloric intake (about 80% of which is from vegetables) from another calorie counter, it's on average 200 calories less. So when using CC and logging veggies I'd say there's a generous buffer between the number CC gives you and how much energy you actually consumed. If you're concerned about excess calories from that yummy, healthy-sounding dinner, I bet you're gonna also burn a lot of calories just digesting all that. None of the ingredients are calorically dense so you're probably only stuffed from the volume of food, not the energy content. |
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| Foods | Protein Powder | Sep 04 2008 05:25 (UTC) |
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Original Post by littlemalynda: Actually it's the same amount of which you speak; 400 cals for a 100 g, roughly 25 g per serving gives ~100 cals per scoop. |
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| The Lounge | Google Chrome | Sep 03 2008 06:40 (UTC) |
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I used Windows to boot today and I'm typing from Chrome as well currently. I think I'll still be using Firefox at least until Chrome gets some add-ons such as Adblock and maybe a CalorieCount toolbar ;). |
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| Foods | are you/sweet/salty/bitter or spicy? | Sep 02 2008 16:27 (UTC) |
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I gotta say sour even though it's not listed as an option. |
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| Foods | Protein Powder | Sep 02 2008 16:24 (UTC) |
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There's a whole world of protein powders out there, you can find a bunch just by searching the CC food database for "protein powder". Some bodybuilders use protein mixes that can substitute flour in baking recipes, you can make protein shakes, add the powder to yoghurt.. They come in different flavours from basic vanilla, strawberry and chocolate to mint chocolate, lemon, rasberry, etc. You can find egg or whey protein or for a vegan option soy protein. On average the generic protein powder will have around 400 calories for 100 g (a serving is 25 to 30 grams) and maybe 80 g of protein. |
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| Fitness | What can I substitute Dips for? | Sep 02 2008 13:30 (UTC) |
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We're talking about tricep dips here I take it? What technique have you been using, hands on a step board or a bar, using your entire body weight or keeping your feet on the ground? I have arthritic wrists and triceps aren't exactly my strongest part, but my motto is "work on your weaknesses" and with hard work dips have actually become one of my all-time favourite tricep exercises. I do them using two step boards with my feet up and weights on my lap. The trick is that they get easier with time, it just takes practice and believe me, no matter how hard eeking out even that one dip may feel right now, you're bound to see improvements if you stick with it. You could try using the one hundred push-ups challenge program or something similar. If they for whatever reason still feel impossible after you've tried a few different styles, is there a reason you must include dips? There are plenty of tricep workouts out there from pull-overs to skull chrushers that will work the same mucles and once you've gotten stronger, you may find you're able to include dips in your program as well. |
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| Foods | Food Tastes Survey! | Sep 02 2008 11:58 (UTC) |
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Favorite breakfast: dark roast Fair Trade coffee, a pound of fresh vegetables |
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| Weight Loss | how long do you wait in between meals? | Aug 31 2008 16:27 (UTC) |
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I hear eating light meals every two to three hours is ideal to keep hunger pangs away and to keep your body metabolizing, but some people may find their lifestyle and body adapts better to eating every three to four hours. Living mostly on plants I find keeping 2,5-3 hours between meals works best for me, with most of my calories being consumed before noon (breakfast is huge and the size of the meals dwindles on from there until dinner is just a light 100 salad and some protein). You can try eating five to six meals a day a few hours apart and just experiment to find what sits well with your rhythm and digestion. |
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| Weight Loss | Current Workout...Thoughts? | Aug 29 2008 18:16 (UTC) |
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I think the consensus here is that the optimal combination for losing fat would be a balance of both cardio and strength training. While on a caloric deficit you're unlikely to build large amounts of muscle, but with the right training program you'll encourage your body to preserve your existing muscle while you're catabolic and burning fat. I myself have a deficit of around a 1000 on most days and it's been working great for me, but long-term some people find it's too excessive as they get hungry and may end up binging or generally feeling deprived. The idea behind having a so-called cheat day of 2500 calories is to avoid slowing down your metabolism, calorie cycling I take it is based on similar grounds? I doubt there's an actual need for this and in some cases it might just be counterproductive (you can undo all your hard work with one weekend of mindless eating), but if your weight loss grinds to a halt and you need something to kick-start your metabolism or just need to indulge in non-diet foods, upping your calories every once in a while might be a good idea. |
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| Foods | What was the last thing YOU baked? | Aug 29 2008 11:01 (UTC) |
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Autumn has got to be my favourite season, harvest its best part and fresh apples the best bit about harvesting, so you can guess I've been baking apple pie, apple and cinnamon swirls and apple buns a lot lately :). I've been giving them away to family members and friends because I can't allot for them in my daily calories, but for me the joy is in the baking itself and not so much in consuming the end product. |
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| Fitness | Bodypump | Aug 29 2008 09:19 (UTC) |
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Original Post by spirochete: Talking about endurance exercise I know I'm going to hear a bunch of weight lifting meltdowns.. Your time could be so much better used sharing your weight lifting expertise with people whose goals it caters to. I'm well aware that you can't improve in both fields simultaneously, but for me BodyPump and endurance training in general is something I do in addition to, not instead of serious weight lifting (what I lift at the gym makes the 22 kg I use in BodyPump look only marginally heavier than a loaf of bread) and apart from having to prioritize, I don't see how the two types of exercise are in any way mutually exclusive. I doubt you'll find anyone at a BP class or on this thread labouring under the assumption that the class is worthwhile if you're aiming for muscle hypertrophy and if you do, I bet your advice would be better received sans the slightly condescending tone.
spirochete: What's hyperbolic about that statement? I'll be the first to admit that back when I started going to BodyPump I hadn't a clue even as to what a deadlift was and now I'm amused when I recall being really impressed with my 15 kilo weights, but I had to start somewhere and BP was great for learning the right techniques under an expert's instruction and offered a great stepping stone to upgrading to the free weight area (seeing as I was interested in traditional lifting as well). For some people the feeling of being completely exhausted from 50 minutes of pushing yourself to your personal limits and then managing to eek out 8 military presses on top of that counts as feeling strong regardless of their choice of weights, even if that doesn't correlate with your eperiences.
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| Fitness | Bodypump | Aug 28 2008 09:19 (UTC) |
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Has anyone else had the chance to try release 67 yet? My senior instructor has special permission to train with 67 and I got my first taste of it this morning at 8 am (let me tell you, when the alarm goes off at 6:50 and you know you have to walk through the rain to the gym, that calls for some serious motivation :)). The warm-up was typical save for the slowest lunges in 6 years and a wide grip row. Squats were run-of-the-mill, no surprises there. The chest track had a catchy beat, no push-ups whatsoever and three pretty tight rounds of honest bench-pressing. The only change I noticed in the back track was the music, apart from that it was your usual 16 clean&presses, deadlifts and deadrows. No more dips in the tricep track, lots of pullovers and as a new addition kick-backs. Biceps went through a make-over with bicep rows (you heard me) and some new tricks, lunges were done on the board and they started off with weights and ended with hyperfast dynamic lunges, watch out for those! Shoulders had some push-ups with a different tempo, military presses etc. No static planks in the abs.
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| Fitness | get better at SITUPS | Aug 28 2008 09:09 (UTC) |
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A similar test is used in the military, you're graded based on how many sit-ups you can perform consecutively within one minute *rolls eyes*. Sit-ups are archaic at best and I think people end up working more with momentum than with their abs. |
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| Fitness | fitness guru help!!! weaker left arm! | Aug 26 2008 19:12 (UTC) |
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Original Post by misspriss316: Too bad I can't really offer any insights regarding your weaker arm, I suffer from the same problem too. But as far as lunges and squats go, I assume you're using dumbbells or plates as your weights? If you have access to a barbell, placing the weights on your shoulders allows you to focus on your lower body because your arms aren't working to carry the weight. That's how I've always done my squats and lunges, save for the times I only use one plate on one side to challenge my core. |
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| Weight Loss | Sugar intake - I GIVE UP! | Aug 26 2008 14:13 (UTC) |
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I second what the other smart CC-people have said, they're spot-on. I was worried about my sugar intake before too, it all came from vegetables and the occasional piece of fruit with breakfast and while I was doing some research, mainly getting a second opinion from a few other nutritional databases I found that the caloric information on Calorie Count tends to be unusually high. On many other websites the exact same amount of, say, cabbage, will have up to 20 or 30 calories and several grams of carbs less. So even if you were worried about sugar, which you needn't be considering the sources, CC might be overestimating your actual intake. |
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| Weight Loss | How long between eating? | Aug 26 2008 09:11 (UTC) |
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I eat five or six times a day and usually wait 3 hours between meals (allegedly eating more frequently than that can cause the undigested foods from your previous meal to be dumped into your intestines earlier, thus limiting how much of the nutrients your body is able to absorb due to indigestion). This is what my plan looks like: Breakfast 7-8 am, 400-600 calories Lunch 10-11 am, 300-400 cals Snack 13-14 pm, 200-300 cals Post-workout meal 16-17 pm, 100-200 cals If I'm still under 1300 and have calories left, I'll eat a light 100 calorie "dinner" around 19-20 pm. |
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| Fitness | Cooper test | Aug 26 2008 09:02 (UTC) |
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The Cooper is just a sixth of the whole assessment and the rest of it isn't exactly child's play either (sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, the works) so I have to figure out how much time I can afford to allot for just running. Right now I can easily just jog a mile in 10 minutes and that's something I consider "light active recovery" after my hour of freeweights, so I'm confident I can do 3000 m in 12 minutes. Your suggestion of starting with distance sounds good, I think I'll go with that! I'd like to hear what kind of results others have gotten on the test, how you prepared for it and how it went, in general. |
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| Fitness | Heavy gym hitters club? | Aug 25 2008 16:21 (UTC) |
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I'd join and as much fun as I can imagine chatting with all you guys would be, I'd honestly rather spend that time hitting the gym instead of talking about it.. ;).
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| Fitness | Protein powders -- a "jock's" perspective | Aug 25 2008 16:12 (UTC) |
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I'm no expert and I'm sure there's more info floating around online, but here's what I (think I) know: Whey protein: you can find this as whey concentrate or whey isolate, I've been told the latter is superior. It's the fastest-absorbing protein (?) and therefore ideal for a post-workout shake, you might want to watch your whey intake immediately before bed as the body can store the energy as fat.
Egg protein/protein mixes: my understanding is some bodybuilders have a shake with mixed proteins before bed because of how slowly they are absorbed and they help keep the body anabolic through the night. |
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