Posts by doliver442

Sounds like another teenager having fun with y'all. Either that or a monumentally ignorant person. The only advice I'll give you is to please spell the word "lose" correctly. It's not "loose".

35 grams Uncle Sam Cereal

1/2 cup bluberries

1/2 cup non fat plain yogurt

1/2 cup skim milk

15 grams mixed nuts

60/20/20 almost to a tee.

Hey guys, timeout.

I believe there is a group of kids out there with nothing better to do this summer than play with you guys by posting bs stuff and watching you take 30 minutes to respond to it. Please, don't play their game.

Hi Elizabeth,

I've got good news and bad news. Good news, forget the treadmill, it's a drag and won't help you replace fat with muscle. Bad news, you need more than 5lb dumbells.

Your best bet, really, is to eat as healthy a diet as you can, trying to stick to the 60/20/20 rule, 60 percent (good) carbs, 20 percent protein and 20 percent (good) fat. Combine that with resistance (weight) training 3 days a week, making sure to rest a day before the next session.

If you can get access to a gym with circuit training machines, that's your best bet. Your goal is to get through your workout in 45 minutes or less and work all the major muscle groups in your body. You want to start out slow, focusing on good form and breathing...and when you're ready, ramp up the intensity so you're only doing a warmup set, and then 6-8 reps on each exercise to muscular failure. The more intensity you bring to your lifting, the muscle you'll grow. But remember, rest is a key, and as you work up to heavier weights, you'll need more rest, so after a couple months, you'll want to rest 2 to 3 days between workouts.

As for cardio, do something you enjoy outside like biking or walking on the beach, but you shouldn't overdo it there, because if you're keeping your calories low say 1200-1500 per day, your body won't be able to handle the extra stress put on by the lifting and cardio combined.

My two cents, hope that helps.

Dan

Sounds to me like you need to make sure you have a shake or sports drink 1/2 hour before you hit the gym...the tank may be going empty on you.

Hi cjkl,

What you're doing, basically, is turning your free weight excercises into aerobic exercise. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but don't expect to get stronger or build muscle in the process.

To get the full benefit from weights, you need to be lifting enough so that you can do only 6-8 reps before failure (after a warm-up set), and then rest for at least two days before lifting again. (I'm assuming you do a full body workout)

By sleep patterns, Flogginsully means the amount and quality of sleep you get. Our bodies need sleep to recover from the stress of workouts. If you don't get enough sleep, you'll need longer to recover.  

Can I just add my 1.5 cents? Don't know what your ultimate goal is, but if it's weight loss, the two best things you can do (according to lots of research) is limiting calories and weight training. Adding cardio to the mix may actually slow down your progress, because as you stress your body more it reacts by going into a protective mode.

Running long distances or doing the treadmill and such are very inefficient ways of losing fat.

Frankly, I wouldn't work with weights four days a week either. Too much constant stress on the body.. limit your lifting to 2-3 days, and always go to failure on your excercises... one warmup and one all out effort is all you need.

Your body needs time to recover, so take Fido for a relaxing walk and drink lots of ice water.

Ok, maybe that was 3 cents.

Have none of you ever heard of the BEST CEREAL IN THE WOOOOORRRLLLD???

UNCLE SAM! 10 grams of screaming fiber in every bowl, flaxseeds too.

Do your patriotic duty and try some tomorrow morning!

Another thought.. with all the excercising you're doing, and it seems to me to be a lot.. perhaps you're not eating enough calories, and your body is entering the starvation mode.. ?

You've had some good advice from folks here, but beware. Bodybuilding.com is full of good info, but also full +*&%$ at other times. Depends on who you're listening to or reading, especially in the Forum.

I recently read (the late) Mike Mentzer's book "High Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way", and after reading tons of material and trying lots of different workouts in the past, I'm absolutely certain his philosophy is the best and most based on true science.

To make any muscle grow, you have to expose it to stress it hasn't handled before, i.e. taking your set to muscular failure. This initiates the General Adaptation Syndrome in your body, which will grow new muscle to be able to handle that amount of stress the next time it comes up.

Where most people go wrong is assuming more is better, that lifting all the time will make you stronger and stronger.. so they work out 4 to 5 days a week doing set after exhausting set.  This is both wrong and counterproductive. The body needs rest to recover its energy stores and grow new muscle. If you don't allow it to do that, you short-circuit the process.

Mike's program is simple to follow, NOT EASY, but short and intense and you will be working out only once every 4 to 7 days, and you will make huge gains in strength and muscle size. You will have to start out slowly, of course, and build up to the intensity that is necessary to make continued progress.

Buy the book, read it and you'll see what I mean. Good luck.

Thanks again to all for the tips, advice and encouragement. By the way, the pic I have posted is of my two nutty twin uncles, not me. 

By the way, the wife gets away with eating just about anything she wants. Her family is thin, and they stay that way. I'll never forget the first time she made me strawberry shortcake...for DINNER!

My family, totally opposite. We look at cake and turn into blowfish.

She is actually trying to eat more fruits and veggies, so we are making some progress.  

No veggies, correct. But what you didn't see was that her caloric intake, minus the rum drink and chocolate was about 800 calories. I'm trying to convince her she needs to eat more, including more healthy foods. I thought by plugging this in I'd have some backup ammunition.

All I got was blanks.