GOT Fitness LOG

[electricblue]

5k on the treadmill and 3k on the cross-trainer with a few weights in between twice a week does the trick. Never felt fitter.

 

[Saliba]

So, after living in Berlin for 8 months, i put on quite a bit of weight and im probably around 93-95kg. In saying that, i'm the strongest i've ever been as well. Currently my 1RM on bench press is 142.5kg (I'll try to get a video up in the next few weeks), as well as 45kg's each side dumbell shoulder press for about 5-6 reps.

In saying all that, I'm really keen on getting back down to around 80kg over the next 3-4 months, even though it means me losing a lot of my strength, i'm just looking way too stocky. Once i hit my weight target, it shouldn't be too hard for me to build up my strength again going off my past results. Really looking forward to the challenge.

My routine is currently 45 mins of weights and 45mins of cardio 5 days a week, with a 60 minute cardio session on the 6th day, plus one rest day. I only eat complex carbs in the morning and just before and just after a workout, but all in moderation. Can't wait for these months to pass.

edit: I should mention, when I say cardio, i'm really aiming for HIIT rather than steady state cardio. This is to minimise the amount of muscle I lose as well as helping me develop lean muscle quicker.

 

[SteKelly]

Might sound like a plum here but I joined Cardinal Heenan Lifestyles Gym around 1 week ago, am I able to go other gyms in my area such as Peter Lloyds as that is a lifestyle gym and use their facilities?

 

[Baines' left foot]

Might sound like a plum here but I joined Cardinal Heenan Lifestyles Gym around 1 week ago, am I able to go other gyms in my area such as Peter Lloyds as that is a lifestyle gym and use their facilities?

I believe so mate. I've got a membership with lifestyles as it was free with uni but I only ever use the Millennium one in the city centre. I think it depends on what membership type you have with what facilities you can use I.e footy and tennis facilities etc... but at the very least you can use all the gym equipment in each one.

 

[Pat's Van]

Might sound like a plum here but I joined Cardinal Heenan Lifestyles Gym around 1 week ago, am I able to go other gyms in my area such as Peter Lloyds as that is a lifestyle gym and use their facilities?

ya certainly can mate, there's a Liverpool Lifestyles web page that lists all the ones you can use

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Saw this yesterday and thought of Chico

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21576679-protein-supplement-industry-takes-punch-bruising

THENCE to the whey-house and drank a great deal of whey,” wrote Samuel Pepys in 1663. He had been at the theatre, but today’s whey-drinkers tend to come straight from the gym. After a lull in popularity—in the 19th century it was fed to pigs—this by-product of cheese-making is resurgent. Sales of sports-nutrition products, most of them based on whey protein, have doubled since 2007 to reach £260m ($396) last year.

The growth was driven by the decision in 2005 of Maximuscle, the leading supplier, to break the tight link between protein supplements and extreme bodybuilding, says Lucas Brown of Total Media, the agency which managed the account. It employed rugby stars as “brand ambassadors” and advertised in lifestyle magazines to reach mainstream consumers. By 2012 one in ten men was using sports supplements at least once a week, according to YouGov, a research firm. Eager consumers muscled sceptics aside like nine-stone weaklings. (Richard Miller of the British Dietetic Association says that for most gym users, a pint of milk provides sufficient protein for muscle recovery.)

Gym denizens are unlikely to drop their protein shakes for milk cartons. But bulkier opponents are appearing. Since December food marketing claims have been pre-approved by the European Food Safety Authority, a quango with a reputation for rigour. Its rulings mean that protein supplements can no longer be flogged as shortcuts to an Olympian torso. More troubling still, in October sports-nutrition products became subject to value-added tax. GlaxoSmithKline, which bought Maximuscle in 2010, says that as a result, “overall category growth has declined significantly”.

Salvation may come from the seven-eighths of Britons who are not gym members. Volac, Europe’s largest whey-protein manufacturer, has just launched a protein-packed dairy drink which will sit alongside fruit smoothies on supermarket shelves. Government surveys show average protein intake is currently “well above” the recommended level, but producers are confident that demand will rise anyway. They may be right: body image is a strange thing

 

[potato]

start the gym on monday, bought my diet food and my supplements (protein whey etc), gonna do weights to begin with and end with cardio (treadmill). Hopefully start to see results in 4 weeks.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Saw this yesterday and thought of Chico

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21576679-protein-supplement-industry-takes-punch-bruising

I've heard about this protein tax. Bastards! Apparently there's some protein powders that are classed as dietary supplements so they avoid the tax! Crafty buggers.

I know there's cheaper and more effective ways to get protein but I'm lazy and cba to cook good food all the time.

 

[maddison]

Saw this yesterday and thought of Chico

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21576679-protein-supplement-industry-takes-punch-bruising

No idea who Richard Miller is, but if bodybuilders did what dieticians advised they'd might as well pack up and go home. Typically dieticians are shockingly S**t at giving nutritional advice, just look at the 5 a day recommendation, that's a totally ludicrous way of eating, that makes many people fat and unhealthy, not to mention gives them auto immune diseases.

Milk has been around for a long time, the downside with Milk though is that some people are lactose intolerant. We're kinda lucky in the UK because our guts have developed enough to process it, although the needless practice of pasteurisation kills beneficial enzymes. Dairy tends to make you fat too, to steal a quote, "milk makes small mammals bigger mammals.". Whey helps to overcome many of the problems that dairy has as a food source.

Second point, the Government recommends eating a diet that promotes obesity and diabetes.

Anecdotally Samuel Pepys in 1663 was way behind the times, Hippocrates predated him with whey recommendations 420 B.C.

Chico's problem is he keeps snorting the stuff instead of drinking it :blink:

 

[chicoazul]

Saw this yesterday and thought of Chico

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21576679-protein-supplement-industry-takes-punch-bruising

start the gym on monday, bought my diet food and my supplements (protein whey etc), gonna do weights to begin with and end with cardio (treadmill). Hopefully start to see results in 4 weeks.

Pfft it works, I know this. I see it when I tense up, naked, in front of the mirror every morning for five full minutes.

The for most gym users thing is the key. Most probably don't as they're doing a mix of cardio and toning weights, but if you're looking to build muscle or maintain a muscular physique then there's very little doubt that a quick protein hit within twenty minutes of your finished work out does indeed have it's benefits.

Obviously for a fat wastrel like me the oversized protein tub is just a trophy to leave in the hall RIGHT by the front door so any unlucky soul that walks into my bedsit clocks it and thinks that it's muscle and not fat bursting out of my clothes. They're wrong but this is Derron Brown sh*t I'm talking here.

 

[potato]

i think you missed a word out as the first sentence doesnt make sense. The .... for most gym users.

can you finish it please.

thanks

 

[Pat's Van]

he doesn't even go the gym lad, he's got piggy nipples

 

[chicoazul]

i think you missed a word out as the first sentence doesnt make sense. The .... for most gym users.

can you finish it please.

thanks

You get to add the word yourself mate, that's the idea.

 

[steken1]

Might sound like a plum here but I joined Cardinal Heenan Lifestyles Gym around 1 week ago, am I able to go other gyms in my area such as Peter Lloyds as that is a lifestyle gym and use their facilities?

You can go to any in the city.

 

[potato]

day 2 and im ****ed

cant move my arms

yay..