coolcolj
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Hi my first post
Not sure if I should post this here, but its diet related.
Anyway I used to bodybuild as a teen, and sorta got out of it - never really got ripped come to think of it. And at age 31 I had put a lot of fat on due to inactivity.
Anway 4 months ago I was like this
5'9" 210lbs 95kg 40inch waist - 24% bodyfat
With a wedding coming up I had to lose fat to get into my formal suit
So I started lifting weights once a week, doing interval sprints/walk a couple of times a week plus work (which is physical) and ate fairly normally (no junk food though) 5-6 times a day, plus a gallon of ice cold water. Oh yeah also downed Sudafet tablets and Guarana togther twice a day, 4 days on 3 off
I was losing fat quite rapidly, as much as 1/4 inch of my waist a day on some weeks!
after 6 weeks of this I got down to these stats and eaisly fitted in my suit
5' 9" 190lbs 86kg 35inch waist - 16.4% bodyfat
Then I kinda lapsed and put some back - went back up to 36 inches and bodyweight went back up to 88kg or 193.4lbs 18% bodyfat. When I had my drivers license renewed at this time and saw how fat my face was, I freaked!
I got stuck back into it again as above, and dropped my figures back to then ones below within a couple of weeks.
5' 9" 190lbs 86kg 35inch waist - 16.4% bodyfat
But then for the next 3 weeks I had hit a plateau. My waist wouldn't budge regardless of what I did or ate - which was lots of soy milk and cereals, rice and meat etc, with a fairly low caloric balance.
Then I thought I try an old diet I used back in my teen days - I trialed it back then for 3 weeks - it was taken from an article Diana Denise (female Bodybuilder) wrote in some mag. Its kinda like a Cycling low carb diet. Basicly a 3 low carb day to 1 carb up.
But you never go too low on carbs, basicly you keep carbs around 100 grams and basicly eat lots of meat and veges 6 times a day and then carb up for one day and back again. As a teen doing this diet for 3 weeks I lost 1.5 inches of my waist (1/8 a day) and got the lowest bodyfat levels I ever had in my life. That was good for a 28.5 inch waist! I wasn't ripped then, but was just off it
So then that was my goal today to get my waist to 27 inches!
Anyway that's what I'm doing now and hope to keep you people informed of my progress week to week. And photos once I get my digi cam
Basicly I just eat a breakfast cereal (2 weetbix biscuits and light soy milk) and chicken breast, plus veges at breakfast, and then the rest of meals are just small bits of meat/eggs with tons of lettuce and other veges, raw or cooked. I'm not really counting calories. I just nibble real slow and get amazingly full, I chew everything at least 30 times I eat anywhere from 4- 6 meals a day and off course gallons of ice cold water - helps burns extra fat from making the body heat the water to body temp.
I started the diet this week on Monday - plus a multi-vitamin, calicium tablets, fish-oil and that's it.
On Monday I workout - yeah just once a week. And the rest of other days, work is hard enough I've been doing this workout for 3 weeks already. I basicly work my whole body - basic exercises. Squats, Incline Benchpress, dumbless shoulder presses, bent over rows, curls and tricep extensions. 2 warmup sets and then 2 workout sets - I explode the weight as hard and fast as I can but slow down at the lockout position and then lower it slowly - 4 second down. I rest maybe 20-30 sec between sets if that. Its partly because I'm training for neural learning and explosiveness - gotta activate the fast twitch and speed-strength muscles.
I train at home BTW and after this workout I head down to the park and do walk-sprint interval training for 20mins - build up my calves and explosiveness and burns fat too. That's it just once a week.
Since Monday I have been on this diet for 3 days already, I'm on the 4th carb up- pig out day today
I've had amazing results so far - 1/4 inch of waist a day! No hunger as such - and no muscle loss as far as I can tell.
Stats as of today
5'9" 185lbs 84kg 34inch waist 15% bodyfat
anyway I'll report back next week or the next cycle - I need to get a digicam for pics too!
Also I'm Asian as well - not sure if that effects things
Never did roids and never will - don't need it really, never had much problems putting on muscle (within reason) - even now at 31.
My goal is to reach 27 inch waist or 5% bodyfat whichever comes first , increase vertical leap high enough to dunk and get real fast in sprinting
Colin
Not sure if I should post this here, but its diet related.
Anyway I used to bodybuild as a teen, and sorta got out of it - never really got ripped come to think of it. And at age 31 I had put a lot of fat on due to inactivity.
Anway 4 months ago I was like this
5'9" 210lbs 95kg 40inch waist - 24% bodyfat
With a wedding coming up I had to lose fat to get into my formal suit
So I started lifting weights once a week, doing interval sprints/walk a couple of times a week plus work (which is physical) and ate fairly normally (no junk food though) 5-6 times a day, plus a gallon of ice cold water. Oh yeah also downed Sudafet tablets and Guarana togther twice a day, 4 days on 3 off
I was losing fat quite rapidly, as much as 1/4 inch of my waist a day on some weeks!
after 6 weeks of this I got down to these stats and eaisly fitted in my suit
5' 9" 190lbs 86kg 35inch waist - 16.4% bodyfat
Then I kinda lapsed and put some back - went back up to 36 inches and bodyweight went back up to 88kg or 193.4lbs 18% bodyfat. When I had my drivers license renewed at this time and saw how fat my face was, I freaked!
I got stuck back into it again as above, and dropped my figures back to then ones below within a couple of weeks.
5' 9" 190lbs 86kg 35inch waist - 16.4% bodyfat
But then for the next 3 weeks I had hit a plateau. My waist wouldn't budge regardless of what I did or ate - which was lots of soy milk and cereals, rice and meat etc, with a fairly low caloric balance.
Then I thought I try an old diet I used back in my teen days - I trialed it back then for 3 weeks - it was taken from an article Diana Denise (female Bodybuilder) wrote in some mag. Its kinda like a Cycling low carb diet. Basicly a 3 low carb day to 1 carb up.
But you never go too low on carbs, basicly you keep carbs around 100 grams and basicly eat lots of meat and veges 6 times a day and then carb up for one day and back again. As a teen doing this diet for 3 weeks I lost 1.5 inches of my waist (1/8 a day) and got the lowest bodyfat levels I ever had in my life. That was good for a 28.5 inch waist! I wasn't ripped then, but was just off it
So then that was my goal today to get my waist to 27 inches!
Anyway that's what I'm doing now and hope to keep you people informed of my progress week to week. And photos once I get my digi cam
Basicly I just eat a breakfast cereal (2 weetbix biscuits and light soy milk) and chicken breast, plus veges at breakfast, and then the rest of meals are just small bits of meat/eggs with tons of lettuce and other veges, raw or cooked. I'm not really counting calories. I just nibble real slow and get amazingly full, I chew everything at least 30 times I eat anywhere from 4- 6 meals a day and off course gallons of ice cold water - helps burns extra fat from making the body heat the water to body temp.
I started the diet this week on Monday - plus a multi-vitamin, calicium tablets, fish-oil and that's it.
On Monday I workout - yeah just once a week. And the rest of other days, work is hard enough I've been doing this workout for 3 weeks already. I basicly work my whole body - basic exercises. Squats, Incline Benchpress, dumbless shoulder presses, bent over rows, curls and tricep extensions. 2 warmup sets and then 2 workout sets - I explode the weight as hard and fast as I can but slow down at the lockout position and then lower it slowly - 4 second down. I rest maybe 20-30 sec between sets if that. Its partly because I'm training for neural learning and explosiveness - gotta activate the fast twitch and speed-strength muscles.
I train at home BTW and after this workout I head down to the park and do walk-sprint interval training for 20mins - build up my calves and explosiveness and burns fat too. That's it just once a week.
Since Monday I have been on this diet for 3 days already, I'm on the 4th carb up- pig out day today
I've had amazing results so far - 1/4 inch of waist a day! No hunger as such - and no muscle loss as far as I can tell.
Stats as of today
5'9" 185lbs 84kg 34inch waist 15% bodyfat
anyway I'll report back next week or the next cycle - I need to get a digicam for pics too!
Also I'm Asian as well - not sure if that effects things
Never did roids and never will - don't need it really, never had much problems putting on muscle (within reason) - even now at 31.
My goal is to reach 27 inch waist or 5% bodyfat whichever comes first , increase vertical leap high enough to dunk and get real fast in sprinting
Colin