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Fitness Thread IV: A New Hope
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I would really caution against taking any drug casually, it still has a long list of side effects and doesn't do your liver any favours.
If you're regularly needing to take pain killers from training, you're probably doing something wrong.
Perhaps someone else has investigated further?
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shin splints are common in new runners. They are common in regular runners too-- like if you jump up from once a week to two or three times a week. You probably land on your heal first then slowly(relatively obv.) lower the rest of your foot until it is in full contact with the ground. The shin muscles hold the front of your foot up while you're doing this-- putting enormous amounts of stress on them. It's not the wrong way to run, it's just that they went from virtually no work to lots of work and are super sore. Just need to let them rest, and then gradually increase running distance/intensity/amounts.
There are exercises to help strengthen these muscles-- but other than those you just got to give them time to adjust to their new amount of work like any other muscle. Except these usually sting more.
How old are your shoes? When my shins start hurting from running, that's my first sign that I need new shoes. As whenever I've gotten the shin splints pain stuff from running, a new pair of shoes clears it right up.
I had a feeling it had to deal with building muscle that wasn't really there before, I was unsure though because the pain was slightly different from the normal "burn" you get while working other muscles. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
My shoes are about a year old, but before last week I only wore them on weekends and the only strenuous things I did was the occasional 4 mile walk. I probably could use some new ones though.
Totally fell over today doing squats. Legs gave out, mainly, the one that was extra sore. I was in control enough to not come anywhere close to hurting myself, but I did damage the drywall in my apartment, lolz.
I did my benchpress and deadlift work sets fine, just the squat sets killed - and I'm not talking about huge weight here, I'm just some sort of pussy weak homo - 125 lb's caused me to bust my ass on squats (I started at 85 2 weeks ago today, and skipped work sets on Wednesday and Friday of last week so I should have been up to 145lbs by now according to starting strength).
Oh well, gonna keep fighting, just going to do sissy 5 lb raises - no need to rush, anyways, thrilled with my results so far.
there's a lot of really good stuff there, but the signal-to-noise ratio is relatively low.
grab your waders
i found the nutrition for newbies articles pretty helpful
as well as his training for newbies
those are good to read
Im back up to 96kg, but i had a pretty crappy easter break eating and excercise wise, so thats to be expected.
Talking about pushing through the pain though, its good advice. Today during my run, my calf started to really really hurt, and hurt more when I started to slow, so i maintained my speed and it eventually stopped hurting.
im probably talking completely different things but i thought i would chime in.
My shoulders start popping from overexercise(and some perma pops). As long as there is no pain you are in the clear. Stretching/general strengthening helps get rid of them. For strengthening don't forget to workout your rear delts + front+ side.
I've been losing weight for about 1.5 years now. I went from 125 kilo's to 97. The last couple of weeks i've been losing the whopping amount of 2.5 a week and that seems like an awful lot to me. I've kept track of my calorie intake and realized that I've only been eating about 1500 calories every day for the last 2 months. Everything in the gym is going great. I do mostly cardio with a bit of rowing and pushups. I can go faster and stronger than ever and I feel fantastic. But still, 1500 calories is not enough and 2.5 kilo's a week is too much. I know how slow losing weight normally goes. For the past year I've been losing 1 a week if I was lucky. So am I burning muscle here or something? I've always been broad built and I look more "muscular" than ever.
I never feel hungry at all and I eat a good breakfast, lunch and dinner and snack on some fruit throughout the day sometimes.Maybe a few beers in the weekend. So I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to up my calorie intake. Eat more Protein maybe?
Thanks guys, and advice would be really appreciated.
You could also have a myriad of other diseases.
Or you could be pushing yourself too hard in gym, and you are burning your daily caloric intake and then some, so you are at negative intake for the day. Then you a probably burning off muscle.
I would monitor it closely, and if it continues, i would talk to someone far more qualified than us.
Yeah I will certainly do this. I don't really feel sick at all, I feel better then ever. It actually took a while to convince myself this was bad for me. That's how healthy and fit I'm feeling.
There are two conflicting calorie rules and I don't know which one to break.
1) The maximum calories a woman should have in a day is about 2000.
2) You shouldn't try to lose more than 2 lbs a week (have a calorie deficit of more than 1000 a day).
My current resting metabolism rate whatever is approximately 3500 calories. This is after I factor in sleep and various daytime activities. Which means I have to break one of these rules every day, and I'm not sure which. Right now I tend to hover between 1700-1900 calories eaten most days, which puts me at about a 1600-1800 deficit a day, about 3.5 pounds lost a week (which is staying even since I've lost around 10 pounds in 3 weeks).
Is this maximum calorie count dependent on my weight or should I not break 2000 no matter what and continue to lose weight faster than recommended? Or is the 2lbs per week more important and at least for now I should eat more.
how tall are you and how much do you weigh
I know once I get down to 300 or so this dilemma will solve itself, but that's not going to be for a while.
EDIT: I'm definitely losing weight, but I've lost quickly and gained it back and I'm really, really trying to do this in the most healthy way possible. Even if that means doing it slower.
EDIT2: Also, man, that's opposite advice. I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this.
Well, obviously I can. But I don't want to.
you shouldn't need more than 2000 calories, just make them count. adding weights is good as this bumps your metabolism up for longer than straight cardio will. you'll still be burning calories after the workout if you do weights.
FitDay has been the best site for me. I used to dread counting calories, but I really need it because I'm the kind of person who, when it comes time for dinner, I'll forget to take into account what I had at lunch.
I'm still not eating the best food, but I'm budgeting better. I still need to get more protein in. I've realized my problem before is that probably 90% of my big meals contained potatoes and/or corn. That's been the biggest change for me. But it's been over a month of eating better with only the occasional "fuck this shit, I'm ordering in."
Hectic Schedule:
-Wake up at 6
-Arrive at work at 8 (usually takes 90 mins)
-Leave work at 6
-Get home at 8
-Make/eat dinner by 9
-Shower
-Bed
My schedule fucking sucks right now but I'm hoping it clears by next week.
Also, if you are doing curls, you should be doing an equal amount of tricep stuff anyways.
Whining. Constantly.
Haha awesome.
I think more helpful, albeit less hilarious, advice would be to drop the curls in place of chin ups. Are squats and deadlifts a part of your routine? If you aren't doing the bench press/squat/deadlift trio in your weekly routine in some way you may as well not even bother. I'd probably include chin-up and shoulder press to those 3 exercises too.
EDIT: Keep your elbows at your side and static! ie they do not move throughout the entire movement. I shake my head every time I see that stupid shit.
Also do dips and more tricep work.
Going 6 months without being to do any kind of meaningful lifting due to a metal plate in your shoulder from a massive AC joint separation. Then getting the plate taken out and getting your first real, good workout in. Bent over rows have never, ever felt so good.
A buddy of mine takes Hydroxycut and swears by it. I'm not looking for a miracle but they way he describes it it would help me a lot just basically helping me lose weight faster. I'm 6'2 and about 330ish if that matters (Yes I know I'm a huge fatty).