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| Fitness | Workouts Online for Elliptical Trainer | Apr 30 2012 00:46 (UTC) |
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Why don't you create a 20 minute playlist of upbeat songs that get you motivated and that you like listening to. Another idea is to find short episodes of tv shows that you enjoy - watching that while working out will make the time fly quicker. Something slightly better would be to incorporate interval style periods into your workout - for example I like increasing the resistance to max or almost max and doing that at normal pace for one minute or as fast as possible for 30 seconds, with a minute or two minutes at an easier resistance, and then repeat. It keeps the workout interesting and makes it far less monotonous than steady state for 20 minutes. You could create your own kind of interval workout and make it slightly different or slightly harder each time. Or aim to travel a farther distance or get a higher average speed throughout your workout each time. Things like that which will keep you occupied and motivated are good things to think about. |
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| Fitness | Quick questions about NROLFW | Apr 30 2012 00:39 (UTC) |
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Yes the workouts would be extremely long if you added cardio at the end ;) it might be a better idea to do cardio on the off days or something. Well.. it depends what you were doing in your old routine, can you elaborate? You wouldn't regress as long as you were still challenging yourself. The NROLFW routine is pretty solid in terms of the full body, compound movement routine so in that sense you will be improving (depending on your previous routine). However you should still work to find a weight that is heavy enough to ensure you are gaining strength - but obviously not so heavy that it is going to hinder your recovery or training for track. |
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| Fitness | Quick questions about NROLFW | Apr 29 2012 23:50 (UTC) |
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Yes all the workouts should be full body. I think the only reason it says to start with 2 is that it assumes you will be a complete beginner, so if you're already doing 3 sets then keep doing that. For me the first stage took a long time, about an hour at least. Maybe that was because I was just getting into it though and I needed longer rest periods. However long you need to rest between sets will dictate how long the workouts will be, but there are quite a few exercises in stage 1 if I remember correctly so prepare for a long-ish gym session. :) |
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| Weight Loss | Exercising on an empty stomach? | Oct 17 2011 08:44 (UTC) |
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This is probably not the best article one could find on the topic but I was just reading this about 10 minutes ago so thought I'd post it. Summary:
Article: http://leanmassgains.com/warning-fasted-cardi o-will-cannibalize-your-gains-but-won%E2%80%9 9t-make-you-thin |
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| Fitness | strength discrepancy | Oct 13 2011 05:10 (UTC) |
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Dumbbell compound exercises - rows, overhead press, bench press, etc. Pick a heavy weight that you can lift no more than 6-12 times. Start with your weaker arm, do as many reps with that weight as you can, say if you get to 8, do the same with the other arm and then stop. About 3 sets of that, increasing the weight as it gets easier. Over time it should balance out. |
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| Weight Loss | Does anyone else gain/lose weight extremely fast? | Oct 13 2011 04:38 (UTC) |
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It's not fat - it's just water weight. Water can be gained or lost incredibly easy and will fluctuate wildly every day based on a number of things. Unless you are eating wild amounts you are not gaining a pound of fat - nowhere near that. Don't worry about what the scale says so much. |
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| Foods | 6 full eggs every day too many? | Oct 12 2011 12:05 (UTC) |
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Nope not at all. I ate 6 eggs today. I also think it's a waste to throw out the yolk - that's where all the nutrients are. Eggs are great sources of protein, fat and micronutrients. Cholesterol from food doesn't actually raise your blood cholesterol so don't worry about it. |
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| Foods | w | Sep 26 2011 10:22 (UTC) |
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You wouldn't. |
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| Foods | If you don't enjoy random food surveys...AVOID AT ALL COSTS! | Sep 26 2011 06:03 (UTC) |
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1. How long does dinner (on a normal weekday night) take you to... prepare? when I cook for my flatmates it takes between 30 and 60 minutes, when I cook for myself, about 10-30 max. eat? like 10 minutes. haha clean up? we share dishes (5 people) so dishes take about 20 minutes. 2. when you are baking cookies, do you like to eat... raw cookie dough? YES burn-your-tonge hot cookies straight out the oven? yes, even though it's too hot to taste the icing or add-ins? yeah. I try it all 3. You are throwing a halloween party what kind of food is served... just candy? naah caramel apples? probably not four course dinner? no, probably just some nibbles and some lollies. and novelty drinks. 4. Pretend you are a freshman in college with exactly 4 bucks for food and it's 3 AM, what do you do? I'd just have something to eat at home! 5. have you ever eaten while in a... a bathtub? no a hospital? probably a train? possibly 6. Best place to enjoy a cup of coffee whilst people watching.... whilst people watching!? in a coffee shop, then! 7. Favorite candy bar to eat on Halloween? anything that's free, haha 8. Ever won a cooking competition? no, too terrible to even enter 9. What's worst.... Burnt toast or Burnt tortilla? burnt toast undercooked meat or overcooked? depends what meat - chicken: undercooked. anything else is better to not be overcooked. drink spraying in your face or spaghetti in your lap? drink in your face bad service in a resturant or on a plane? plane - because you can't leave loud chewing or talking while you chew? loud chewing gum popping or drooling? drooling or spitting. 10. best cereal cartoon? why? I don't pay attention to those.. 11. eating by candel light or outdoor picnic? outdoor picnic 12. What do you leave for santa? Have you ever left anything for the reindeer? used to leave cookies for santa and carrots for the reindeer. 14. have you ever double-fisted any food ( the act of holding two different or the same food item in each hand and alternating back and forth to eat them) ? hahaha. nothing springs to mind, but that's what I do with most of the food on my plate, just in a more polite way than that. 15. ever choked? not seriously 16. ever saved anyone from choking? no 17. Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker....what's your poison? vodka 18. You need breakfast literally on the run...what shall it be? no breakfast, or a coffee 19. what is a great topic for dinner table disscussion? something funny 20. do you hold your glass with pinky extended or on the glass? extended
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| Fitness | Popping and Grinding | Sep 22 2011 07:33 (UTC) |
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From anecdotal evidence I've read, popping joints aren't a problem if they don't hurt. No scientific evidence though if anyone wants to come and correct me. Mine click and pop all the time and it's not a problem apart from just being slightly annoying. I've heard fish oil can help with clicking joints if you wanted to try that out :) |
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| Fitness | Free weights exercises? | Sep 22 2011 07:29 (UTC) |
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Yeah, as a beginner you really don't need to do a split, you'll get much better results from full body, 3x a week. Alternate pushing and pulling movements each workout: AG posted very good suggestions. Don't worry about adding endless ab exercises either - most compound movements will utilize your abs as well, and visibility will depend much more on your diet anyway. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | My body is getting bigger but the scale is showing smaller numbers | Sep 22 2011 07:22 (UTC) |
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It might come down to what you're eating, if you don't eat enough protein, your body will start basically eating the protein from its muscles to provide protein for the rest of your body to use. If you don't regularly use your muscles, then your body won't need to build new tissue so will be fine with breaking your muscles down. If you've been eating a lot, that would explain the fat gain too. Eat less sugar, eat more protein. |
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| Weight Loss | The breakfast all-day hunger dilemma | Sep 22 2011 07:17 (UTC) |
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Because it doesn't. You don't need to eat regularly throughout the day to keep your metabolism going, eating more often will just make you more hungry due to fluctuating hormone levels and rising and falling blood sugar. If eating protein for breakfast works better for you, though, then do that. In the end it should come down to what makes you feel best, what is most convenient, and what is the most sustainable. |
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| Weight Loss | fat burning mode | Sep 22 2011 07:14 (UTC) |
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Well if working out at 4.30am is what you want to do, then great. Breaking a sweat is not a good a measure for a good workout, however. There's no reason why working out later in the day would make it harder to get your heart rate up. Why do you care about losing pounds, if you're losing inches? Scale will fluctuate wildly according to a number of different factors and is not a good measure of weight loss at all. I don't like the sound of that 1000 calorie deficit. Eat a bit more to increase your metabolism, cut down on sugar, exercise whenever. |
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| Weight Loss | fat burning mode | Sep 21 2011 14:44 (UTC) |
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Where did you read this? "Fat burning mode" sounds like a bit of bologna to me. It might be referring to the fasted state that you're in when you wake up - where you will be burning more fat for fuel as opposed to carbs, as you will have less stored muscle energy in your system to burn. The "taking up to 30 mins at other times in the day" could refer to burning through your glycogen stores during heavy activity, I guess, after which you would burn more fat. Just trying to make sense of where that silly idea would have originated. Anyway, forget that whole idea. There is no 'mode' that you have to 'catch' by waking up at a certain time of the day. If you work out in the morning before eating, you'll burn more calories from fat, but at the end of the day it's going to come down to how much you eat vs. how much energy you expend - if you eat more than you burn, you're going to end up storing the excess as fat anyway. Don't overthink it - just exercise if you want to, whenever is convenient and whenever will guarantee you'll do it, and eat healthy and less than you burn. That's it. |
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| Weight Loss | The breakfast all-day hunger dilemma | Sep 21 2011 13:30 (UTC) |
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What you were doing is called Intermittent Fasting and there's nothing wrong with it. The reason you weren't hungry was because fasting has a hunger blunting effect, partially due to the fact that your body adapts to when it's used to eating - don't eat in the morning, and you won't get hungry in the mornings. A lot of people basically go between 10 and 20 hours a day without eating as a lifestyle choice, while of course making sure they get all the necessary and appropriate calories, macro and micronutrients in during their eating window. In regards to "screwing up your system" - short term fasting has been shown to increase the metabolism (For some concrete numbers, studies have shown an increase of 3.6% - 10% after 36-48 hours - source in link). Eating at consistent times every day is going to be much better for you than eating throughout the day at random. Basically, your metabolism is directly regulated by the amount of calories you eat per day, not at what time or how often. This is good reading: http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fast ing-myths-debunked.html or google it for yourself :) |
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| Fitness | Lower body exercises that don't work quadriceps? | Sep 11 2011 04:43 (UTC) |
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Google glute ham raises for hamstrings, and bulgarian split squats for glutes - go as deep as you can with the last one. Neither require weights or anything. If you work on sitting back more and getting deeper in your squats, then you'll target your glutes and hams more. |
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| Weight Loss | Fasting and weight loss? | Aug 09 2011 00:26 (UTC) |
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Just wanted to add that fasting is not going to slow your metabolism - Top Ten Fasting Myths Debunked. |
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| Weight Loss | Can't seem to lose any weight. | Aug 08 2011 02:42 (UTC) |
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Some problems I see:
Yeah, the reason you lost so much before is because you were eating enough. Eat more, get more protein, sort out your sleeping, and start measuring yourself instead of weighing yourself - water weight fluctuations are ridiculous and are a huge demotivator. |
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| Health & Support | w | Aug 08 2011 02:31 (UTC) |
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@ twwyckoff: I wouldn't really consider flour and sugar to be food groups, and regardless, you can't really say that removing arguably two of the worst food ingredients from your diet could be unhealthy. I definitely experience the same reaction to refined flour and sugar - it's like it turns this insatiable appetite on that I can't control or stop. Are you removing starchy carbs/grains from your diet too? Nothing wrong with that, but whole grains might not cause the same response in your body as refined flour and sugar. Whole grains contain vitamins and fibre and will actually keep you full and there are also a lot of non-processed options: quinoa, oats and brown rice off the top of my head. I would recommend including a whole grain carb source if you do any high intensity exercise like heavy cardio/interval training or weight lifting, because carbs are the main/necessary source of energy in that situation and they'd also be needed in facilitating/fueling muscle repair. Just providing you with another perspective though, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, you could certainly do worse. :) |
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