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ParticipantI will bend down even for a penny in one quick sweep. Hope I can always do that.
ParticipantIf fitness is an investment skiing seems risky. Injuries are not good. I’m probably too conservative an investor.
Participanthere’s a weight loss day:
no breakfast.
a banana.
work out at lunch.
one scoop RAW MEAL protein powder, one scoop musclemilk.
dinner; huge green salad with no dressing, a few sundried tomatoes and olives.
fish oil pills.
not a lot of room for crap or booze…
a regular day
yogurt and 1/4 cup granola.
couple hardboiled eggs
a banana
RAW MEAL and muscle milk.
work out.
another raw meal and muscle milk…
for dinner, a very large green salad and some sort of protein ( fish…chicken?) on it. some olive oil and vinegar.
fish oil pills.
Participanthere is a fascinating bit of commercial history; the special k pinch an inch commercial from 1979:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9lTRfh0gcU
i remember this being a big joke in junior high–can you pinch more than an inch? and grabbing each others sides.
it’s hilarious! normal has moved wayyyy over.
ParticipantI don’t bench press.
I meant tv not gv.
ParticipantIf people have an hour a day for gv, they can spare that hour and be very very fit. If desired.
Participantmiddle age guide to buffness someday.
1. NO ALCOHOL. at best, it’s not helping, at worst it’s dramatically slowing you down. these are “empty calories” that make you slowerand less likely to move. alcohol also makes it much more likely you will eat something stupid….once you get your body under control, and beautiful, I will allow you to have 1-2 shots of alcohol per day witha non-caloric mixer (seltzer) if you stillw ant it. but that may be a few years out…
2. EVERY BITE COUNTS. this is very depressing, like realizing you have to live within your salary, or the day you find out yu’re not going to be a professional athlete after all. at 135 lbs, my goal weght, im only permitted about 1400 odd calories, not counting calories for exercise. that’s not much. plus, one needs a lot of protein. when you really get down to it, every bite has to count toward a nutritional requirement, or you’re gonna get fat.
3. HARD WORK. you can go an wave some light weights around like a baton. you can do some bicep curls and call it a day. but a bicep is not a body. a bicep is justa tiny portion of a body. you need to work the whole enchilada and work it hard. this involves big movements, like deadlifts, like squats, like actual physical labor type work, or as close as you can come to it with weights. and lots of it.
so don’t drink , you might miss the opportunity to get in another half hour of pullups and dips with your kid that evening.
4. DILIGENCE. the body changes very slowly. but ti will change, for better or worse. you need to push it up the hill….and make your workout more challenging each time, if you can. which ismuch easier said than done, cause most people just do the same thing over and over. it is very hard to improve, to do more, but, it must be done, or you’re not actually going anywhere. not sure that’s even enough to maintain, given the general way of things to deteriorate.
Participantwe are considering getting some rings and training to do an Iron Cross…
Participantnormally i just carry the 90 lbs up and down gym stairs a few times. but last night i walked with my kids downhill to the mailbox with two 45 lb plates. Gosh. it’s tiring. i had to stop and pant by the roadside while they watched. the oldest was home from sdsu.
this was decent entertainment for them.
strange mental image to have in one’s brain. walking to get the mail with your dad, down a hill, while he struggles to carry two heavy weights, his forearms sinewy with pointlessess and vanity. i remember my dad…he was a strange man….his arms were throbbing so hard he couldn’t get the mail key into the solt and we had to help him….
it was much further than i usually go witht ha quantity of weight. smetimes i stroll with a 35 lb kettlebell, which gets tiring, but not the same.
Participanti suppose. but all that work is necessary and yet not sufficient if there’s even some fat over them.
there really is no point at all to a 6 pack.
All Is Vanity
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.ParticipantUltimately it seems abs are mostly about getting all the fat off on top of them
ParticipantAnything is better than nothing. But I don’t generally do more than one hour a day. The question is how hard do you go in that hour? You can bop around and not push it, or you can try really try to get stronger every time. The latter is harder.
It’s ok not to go hard. But in reality I wanted more results but couldn’t quite admit it to myself.
ParticipantAnyone can get strong and lean. Diligence diet and effort. I thought I was genetically incapable of being strong but I had a bad case of fuckarounditis. I wasn’t really trying. Once you try 100 percent not just play around things change.
Age 50 changed things. Time is running out. Actually made it easier if not possible to improve.
ParticipantMy remaining kids and I do dips and pullups most nights outside. The eldest left for sdsu.
I want to do a muscle up.
Also considering a weight sled to pull around the neighborhood
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