*"Physical Activity/Exercise Support Thread"*

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We will see about that .

50 grams. Are you trying to bulk up and have more muscle, or are those 50g. just for upkeep of what you already have?

I always have two eggs for breakfast, and drink half a liter of milk before and the other half after workouts. Now lemme see how much protein is that *google*

Six grams per egg and 32 grams in the milk, 44 grams. Close enough I guess, I'll start drinking protein shakes when I find a cheap brand or something. Today I ate around 800 grams of food at lunch, and around a fourth of it was chicken, beef and pork (gotta love all you can eat buffets! only $5!). I'll have to keep eating a lot if I want to reach 65kg though~

Heh Kjas, I do have trouble! Last time I plateaued at 62 for a whole month, and I was drinking four liters of milk per day plus meals! It still baffles me where did all those calories go, I should have gotten heavier even if it was fat-weight instead of muscle-weight

Well done Kjas, Shatbat and everyone keeping at this!

Tuesday I/we walked briskly for about 35 minutes, most of them in a gorgeous wooded and semi-abandoned parkland/estate near here on the way to the out-of-town-supermarket, ( walked back the short way with the bags of shopping ) and on Wednesday did weights and some core for about 30 minutes, and then yesterday took a day off, ( neither me nor my son felt up for it ), but today, Friday, we did 30 minutes of core and bodyweight again.

Felt better for eating very lightly indeed for two days, just fruit ( 2 melons, 3 peaches, and several apples ), a couple of pots of plain/unsweetened live-yoghurt and one tin of steamed-mackerel in dash of olive oil plus some lettuce. But today I made a tuna and yoghurt and parsley and garlic "mush" in the afternoon that just "had to be" eaten with rice-cakes ( not bread because I'm on a gf diet ), but feel instantly much heavier and hotter and less energetic and suspect the rice/starchy carbohydrate.

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Fun cardio this morning. Spent 20+ minutes on warm-up, ( it seems to take my muscles and/or tendons and/or blood/circulation? a long time to really warm-up, relax and get moving ), using a Japanese and then a German warm-up routine on Youtube, and then switched to a new Japanese video that we found on YT yesterday for another 10 minutes of slightly faster cardio before moving onto a wonderful 7-minute "High-Intensity-Burst" of MMA/combat workout ( from somewhere in South America! :lol ... Edit. Venezuela with great music ) which achieved that delicious aerobic buzz/high and all-over fuzzy feeling etc.

Cardio is the best. I love that feeling afterwards, ( *when* I spend long enough on warm-up to be able to speed-up painlessly but dramatically for at least one 5 minute all-out HI-burst at/near the end ).

PS. I love using all these foreign-language ( to me ) workout videos on You Tube because I'm really "picky" about/hypersensitive to both people's use of language, ( grammar, idiom, vocabulary etc ), and their voices, especially accents and intonation, such that I find very few of the english language workouts ( those available for free online/on You Tube anyway, especially the US ones ) tolerable ... one reason why was so deeply disappointed when Les Mills pulled/removed the awesome 20 minute body-combat workout with Rachael Cohen, ( the one which I have since heard was originally given out for free in cereal packets for a promotion a while back too!! ! ), because I absolutely loved her australian-english voice ... the energy!

PPS. This is the music on the 7 minute MMA/combat HI-cardio-burst: "Radio Hardcore" by ItaloBrothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pxQCJaIBk8

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pxQCJaIBk8[/YouTube]

I think you'll find that some people do extremely well on carbohydrates like rice, potato, pasta and other grains (Like Wolf, the lucky bugger!), and some of us do horribly on them (like me).

Rice is the most easily digestable grain, but even that slows me down. You might be better off sticking to meat/poultry/seafood with vegies and some of the healthier fats (olives, avocado, coconut milk, Macadamia oil, etc) with only the occasional bit of rice in there after a really hard workout. See if that takes away the "slow and sluggish" feeling.

I just went to a Rodizio ;DDDD

I ate at least one pound and a half of pure meat today. Plus a liter of milk.

I'm gonna miss this place~

Awww now I want steak, chicken heart and girlled pineapple.

I'm hungry again now.
Evil you are!

I'm definitely going to stretch and hit the core today as I hit the upper body yesterday.

Some girl seems to think I have the best abs and chest on cam, I must say that's subjective but it's a good complement. As you progress, people will notice your results more and more and that can be very rewarding and motivating

The benefits you will get to your confidence, physical and mental well being and long term benefits are amazing. Most of all you have to believe in yourself, go hard and focus, do that and you will see true results.

Heh, yesterday was the first time in weeks I took a shower in a bathroom with a mirror. The results are showing

Good work, bro, good work.

That's great, Shatbat!

Kjas, I love chicken hearts too, don't get them very often though, and chicken livers as well so long as they're organic/bio/free-range. ... Re. cereals: yes, it is extremely frustrating not to be able to eat starchy cereals especially the glutenous grass-grains/seeds because they are such a good cheap staple if can tolerate them ... I keep going back to rice, trying it again, hoping ... but ...

I managed to keep up the exercise the last three days again ; another great cardio on Sunday, then weights and some core on Monday/yesterday, and another, ( if rather shorter ) cardio today, ( because was feeling rather achey and heavy and "weak"/floppy, probably not coincidentally after succumbing to some luscious almond-rich raw-sugar marzipan yesterday! :lol ! ).
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Stats: Female, 1.5 m, 55-60 kg (derp, don't actually know, I don't weigh myself).

This has been a pretty active week for me. I've been watching the women's weightlifting events at the Olympics and felt very inspired, so Monday I put in an extra session on top of my usual weightlifting (at the moment doing Smolov Jr. on the squat, with bench, deadlifts and assorted barbell/kettlebell assistance exercises). I tried a barbell snatch for the first time and got a little over 20 reps in total, and some 10 reps of clean & jerk at 40 kilos. Wednesday had another lifting session, today I picked up the lunch time bootcamp classes (hardcore stuff), tomorrow I have another lifting session scheduled.

For goals, the numbers on my lifts need to go up. I also need to get better endurance, hence the bootcamp class because I loathe pretty much every form of "cardio" except for martial arts, but there's no room in my schedule for those at this point.

Wow, Smolov? Free weights? Not many women do that, kudos! How much are you squatting, benching and deadlifting?

As good a moment as any to say that I had a good amount of chicken hearts and yup, they were delicious. Didn't know about fried pinneaple though, I never went to the salad bar.

Thanks Wolfheart, and I must say that I'm not deluding myself, because several people have commented on how bigger I look compared to before.

Ounion, keep going! Good to see you're motivated.

And about progress: I've been progressing with my handstand pushups (against a wall for balance by now). I started out doing negatives, and then gradually lowering myself and pushing back up when near tipping point, and now that tipping point is near the floor. Soon I'll have to put my hands on a pair of books to allow my head to go lower. I was today able to do a straight-leg bent-knee back lever with my calves perpendicular to the floor, and the rest of my body paralell, and hold that position for 10 seconds. My upper back is killing me now though Within two, maximum three weeks, I'll be able to do a proper back lever, I'm so looking forward to that!
Eating one extra daily egg, found a place where they sell cheap whey protein, and bringing peanuts to the university to eat as snacks. Soon I'll start carrying around a carton of milk, to have one extra liter per day.

^^^
I think I see a capoeirista in the making!

Kitty: Nice on the lifts!
You're not the only one who despites cardio (or gym torture in general)

Shatbat: Handstand push-ups? Wicked! The back level looks insanely difficult.
Props!

My lifts are pitiful. I trained on and off since January, too many breaks, too little sticking to the program. Squat is around 70 kg, I haven't tried for a 1RM in a while so not entirely sure. Bench is 50 kg (3RM, heh). Deadlift, again I haven't tried for a 1RM in a while, 80 kg is 4-5 reps. The deadlift is my favourite. <3
I'm tracking my workouts on Fitocracy and combining my love of lifting with my passion for games - I'm level 27 now, rawr.