Goals/Progress Thread - Page 4

Tiger · 06-19-2012, 04:44 PM

Spin bike.

Metal_Webb · 06-19-2012, 07:04 PM

Good to see this thread still going!

Well I'm getting towards the end of my 3 month weight loss period (will keep going though!).

I'm 1.77 m -ish (5ft 10") for reference, starting at around 20% bodyfat.
At the start of April I was weighing in at a constant 94 kg (207 lb). Atm I'm sitting at 87.5 kg last Friday (192 lb) The weightloss has all been from watching what I eat, supplementing with a thermogenic and acetyl carnitine. That's a weight loss of 7 kg (15 lb) which has must have been all fluid and fat, as I have to do a fair bit of lifting at my job and I've noticed no appreciable loss of strength or muscle size.

Going to put a note in here about the supps I've been taking. I'd gotten down to 91kg after about 3 weeks, then I plateaued (this was after I'd gotten my diet downpat btw). I sat there for about 2 weeks till I started taking the thermos and the ACL. Now, not saying they are the key to losing a ton of weight, but they defo helping to keep the weight coming off. I also have a protein shake each morning at breakfast and if I'm feeling peckish at night, I'll have a 2/3rd size one then instead of desserts. Using a Casein based protein atm which keeps me feeling a lot fuller for longer and is most likely helping to prevent the muscular atrophy.

SenorDingDong · 06-21-2012, 04:09 PM

I've been doing sprints for the first time in my life.

100M time is consistently around 11.89, repeats with 30 seconds rest. Not great, but decent.

I've been mostly working on my planches, handstand push ups and just doing gymnastics-style body-weight conditioning in general. It's hard work but it is so much fun. As of right not I can hold a planche for a little over a minute (I never tried them before last week, so I'm not that good yet).

Infamous Impact · 06-21-2012, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorDingDong

I've been doing sprints for the first time in my life.

100M time is consistently around 11.89, repeats with 30 seconds rest. Not great, but decent.

I've been mostly working on my planches, handstand push ups and just doing gymnastics-style body-weight conditioning in general. It's hard work but it is so much fun. As of right not I can hold a planche for a little over a minute (I never tried them before last week, so I'm not that good yet).

If that's the first time you've sprinted, you're insanely fast. I run an 11.05 after 2 seasons and working my ass off 24/7 for over a year.

SenorDingDong · 06-22-2012, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infamous Impact

If that's the first time you've sprinted, you're insanely fast. I run an 11.05 after 2 seasons and working my ass off 24/7 for over a year.

I've been doing a lot of circuit training for the last year, so that might have helped. Due to that, my cardio is pretty solid, I think.

Infamous Impact · 06-22-2012, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorDingDong

I've been doing a lot of circuit training for the last year, so that might have helped. Due to that, my cardio is pretty solid, I think.

Cardio isn't a big factor in the 100. Most sprinters do it in a breathe, Olympic sprinters don't even exhale a full breathe of air before hitting the finish. Good job though!

UnderTheSign · 06-22-2012, 01:31 PM

Up to a solid 89kg this week. Heavy summer bulk coming up.

EtherealEntity · 06-22-2012, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TankJon666

Awesome work!! Thats a great loss. Heading in the right direction

In my opinion you've done it the right way round. Drop the body fat and then bulk. Wish I'd done it that way

Thanks man

I'm down to 163lb now and think I've reached maintenance cals as I've weighed the same for four days now. Still carrying a lot more fat than I'd like but totally don't fancy losing any more weight or strength. I am living alone for work with a perfectly steady diet and lifestyle for the next few months so I'm going to see what happens if I carry on with this amount of food. Hopefully things get better now

Murmel · 06-25-2012, 08:25 AM

Woopwoop, my bench is starting to get better. I was stuck at 50kg for like 4 reps, then I switched to dumbbells for a few months and now I'm back at the bench making some progress.
Also added in some incline bench in the smith, has been working well.

troyguitar · 06-25-2012, 07:39 PM

Finally made the god damn 5k without stopping today, that is the furthest and longest I've run for by a wide margin (previous record being 2.75 miles@22 minutes)...

Week 8: 3.125 miles @ 25:00, 151 lbs, still #*$&^! 35" waist

It's apparently going to take some serious work to get rid of this gut, which is my only real goal with all of this. 8 weeks in and I've gone from 36" to 35"

Metal_Webb · 06-27-2012, 07:56 AM

Had 2 different ladies complement me on how good I'm looking atm.

Defo going to keep on going with this weight loss now

Tiger · 06-27-2012, 10:45 AM

Today is a victory day: Weight down to 142 for the first time and added 5lbs to my deadlift AND got it in epic slow motion w/dramatic scream. NOT my prettiest form ever but its hard to back down in the middle of a lift.

Of course thats I am Colossus playing, that song was made for PR's.

I love having my own gym at home. I had a killer workout, a super long bike followed by weights and sprints outside my house. All of this is fasted training, I wont change that until I get to BUD/s.

avenger · 06-27-2012, 10:53 AM

Well I will add to this thread. Started the get fit thing about a year and a half ago. Went from 200 to 165 (steady). Got really into lifting weights then had two injuries within 3 weeks of each other (exertion headache and something to do with inflamed fluid sack in my shoulder ><) and that killed my drive the past few (3 months).

Started getting really thin looking from not pumping the muscles and slightly decreased appetite.

Last month quit smoking (yeah!) and started doing lots of push ups sit ups pull ups planches etc. etc. (body weight stuff).

Feel great, looking great again! Also getting into 1 mile "death sprints" XD

TRENCHLORD · 06-27-2012, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiger

All of this is fasted training, I wont change that until I get to BUD/s.

Great progress, lifting at home is the best (except I would like one of those heavy duty bowflexs for cable work).
Won't the "buds" screw with your lungs though? That long distance stuff will get harder and harder the more you smoke.

SenorDingDong · 06-27-2012, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infamous Impact

Cardio isn't a big factor in the 100. Most sprinters do it in a breathe, Olympic sprinters don't even exhale a full breathe of air before hitting the finish. Good job though!

Thanks man!

I actually tried to do it in one breath a couple times. It couldn't do it, I think mostly because I'm so used to doing the 1600 from a couple years back when I did track in high school that I automatically start taking short, deep breaths.

Infamous Impact · 06-27-2012, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorDingDong

Thanks man!

I actually tried to do it in one breath a couple times. It couldn't do it, I think mostly because I'm so used to doing the 1600 from a couple years back when I did track in high school that I automatically start taking short, deep breaths.

Don't worry about it, breathing comes naturally from practice. If you think about it, you're screwed.

troyguitar · 06-28-2012, 08:29 PM

It's kind of BS because I'm slightly dehydrated, but: 149.0 lbs tonight.

Murmel · 07-01-2012, 04:44 AM

Still sore from leg day last friday. Probably one of the most exhausting workouts I've ever done, makes you long for chest day which is the easiest of them all

SenorDingDong · 07-03-2012, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infamous Impact

Don't worry about it, breathing comes naturally from practice. If you think about it, you're screwed.

Probably why I've been ....ing it up so much then

Tiger · 07-04-2012, 12:11 PM

15 miles, 4140 feet of gain two days after a hard 10 miler and heavy squat day. Good training week.

EtherealEntity · 07-04-2012, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiger

15 miles, 4140 feet of gain two days after a hard 10 miler and heavy squat day. Good training week.

Jeez..I would deadlift for days before considering that. Good work!

Quote:

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

Thanks man

I'm down to 163lb now and think I've reached maintenance cals as I've weighed the same for four days now. Still carrying a lot more fat than I'd like but totally don't fancy losing any more weight or strength. I am living alone for work with a perfectly steady diet and lifestyle for the next few months so I'm going to see what happens if I carry on with this amount of food. Hopefully things get better now

Funny, just after this my weight slowly started dropping again. I'm at 160 now. I feel good - I don't have to suck in to look flat from the side. I just hope I'm not still losing muscle. Strength is slowly coming back.

At worst my bench dropped from 90kg to 70kg, squats from 100 to 80, leg press from 180 to 140..everything is pretty bad haha. Only my back stayed pretty constant.

I realised even though I have quite low fat now I still don't have abs. I've never really trained them - always heard doing big compound exercises was enough. I have some abs but I'm considering starting doing some crunches and leg raises on my off days. Opinions?

Murmel · 07-04-2012, 02:15 PM

^
I'd say do some ab work. I try to incorporate some at the end of my back and leg workout. Compound lifts are obviously not enough.

I guess compound lifts wont build respectable abs until you're getting into really heavy territory though. But I don't really know, just throwing a guess.

Murmel · 07-12-2012, 03:31 PM

I think I have good lat genetics. I'm not even lifting heavy yet and I'm already seeing a taper coming along.

Infamous Impact · 07-12-2012, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

I realised even though I have quite low fat now I still don't have abs. I've never really trained them - always heard doing big compound exercises was enough. I have some abs but I'm considering starting doing some crunches and leg raises on my off days. Opinions?

Get working on mastering the hanging leg raise, ab rollouts, and the dragon flag. Those 3 alone will get you bricks for abs by the end of the 6 months it takes to get it all down.

troyguitar · 07-13-2012, 06:25 PM

Gained a bunch of weight over vacation despite getting piles of exercise and eating less than anyone else at the place, then went into hardcore diet and exercise mode after I got home.

147.2 lbs after running today, fairly dehydrated but I can at least say that I'm safely under 150 for now. Next stop, under 140.

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06-19-2012, 04:44 PM	#76
Tiger Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia, South Carolina Posts: 1,391 Thanked: 83 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Spin bike. The sanctity of this place has been fouled.

06-19-2012, 07:04 PM	#77
Metal_Webb Needs more strings Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Newcastle, Australia Posts: 1,129 Thanked: 19 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Good to see this thread still going! Well I'm getting towards the end of my 3 month weight loss period (will keep going though!). I'm 1.77 m -ish (5ft 10") for reference, starting at around 20% bodyfat. At the start of April I was weighing in at a constant 94 kg (207 lb). Atm I'm sitting at 87.5 kg last Friday (192 lb) The weightloss has all been from watching what I eat, supplementing with a thermogenic and acetyl carnitine. That's a weight loss of 7 kg (15 lb) which has must have been all fluid and fat, as I have to do a fair bit of lifting at my job and I've noticed no appreciable loss of strength or muscle size. Going to put a note in here about the supps I've been taking. I'd gotten down to 91kg after about 3 weeks, then I plateaued (this was after I'd gotten my diet downpat btw). I sat there for about 2 weeks till I started taking the thermos and the ACL. Now, not saying they are the key to losing a ton of weight, but they defo helping to keep the weight coming off. I also have a protein shake each morning at breakfast and if I'm feeling peckish at night, I'll have a 2/3rd size one then instead of desserts. Using a Casein based protein atm which keeps me feeling a lot fuller for longer and is most likely helping to prevent the muscular atrophy. "By the way, melted binding looks like marshmallow. But it really doesn't taste like it." - MapleLeaf97

06-21-2012, 04:09 PM	#78
SenorDingDong Smeller of Smells Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Bristol,CT Posts: 3,667 Thanked: 124 Feedback Score: 8 reviews	I've been doing sprints for the first time in my life. 100M time is consistently around 11.89, repeats with 30 seconds rest. Not great, but decent. I've been mostly working on my planches, handstand push ups and just doing gymnastics-style body-weight conditioning in general. It's hard work but it is so much fun. As of right not I can hold a planche for a little over a minute (I never tried them before last week, so I'm not that good yet). Tumblr: http://jwgriebel.tumblr.com/ My art blog. ".... Heaven. I haven’t gotten Earth sorted out yet." - Clive Barker - Imajica

06-25-2012, 08:25 AM	#84
Murmel Fapping to J-rock Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Hotgirl-City, Sweden Posts: 3,175 Thanked: 34 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Woopwoop, my bench is starting to get better. I was stuck at 50kg for like 4 reps, then I switched to dumbbells for a few months and now I'm back at the bench making some progress. Also added in some incline bench in the smith, has been working well. Schecters don't have baseball bat necks. Get the .... over it. "I think this mistake was the equivalent of a 6000 foot tall cock bukkake tsunami-ing Tokyo." -metallisuk Shono, forever and always.

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06-22-2012, 01:31 PM	#82
UnderTheSign SS.org Regular Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: West Coast, The Netherlands Posts: 1,421 Thanked: 32 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Up to a solid 89kg this week. Heavy summer bulk coming up.

06-25-2012, 07:39 PM	#85
troyguitar SS.org Regular Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Bloomsburg, PA Posts: 7,381 Thanked: 63 $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 10 reviews	Finally made the god damn 5k without stopping today, that is the furthest and longest I've run for by a wide margin (previous record being 2.75 miles@22 minutes)... Week 8: 3.125 miles @ 25:00, 151 lbs, still #*$&^! 35" waist It's apparently going to take some serious work to get rid of this gut, which is my only real goal with all of this. 8 weeks in and I've gone from 36" to 35" Infamous Impact likes this. American Metal with real singing!

06-27-2012, 07:56 AM	#86
Metal_Webb Needs more strings Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Newcastle, Australia Posts: 1,129 Thanked: 19 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Had 2 different ladies complement me on how good I'm looking atm. Defo going to keep on going with this weight loss now JP Universe, Infamous Impact and Fiction like this. "By the way, melted binding looks like marshmallow. But it really doesn't taste like it." - MapleLeaf97

06-27-2012, 10:45 AM	#87
Tiger Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia, South Carolina Posts: 1,391 Thanked: 83 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Today is a victory day: Weight down to 142 for the first time and added 5lbs to my deadlift AND got it in epic slow motion w/dramatic scream. NOT my prettiest form ever but its hard to back down in the middle of a lift. Of course thats I am Colossus playing, that song was made for PR's. I love having my own gym at home. I had a killer workout, a super long bike followed by weights and sprints outside my house. All of this is fasted training, I wont change that until I get to BUD/s. Murmel likes this. The sanctity of this place has been fouled.

06-27-2012, 10:53 AM	#88
avenger SS.org Regular Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: ON, Canada Posts: 1,645 Thanked: 11 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Well I will add to this thread. Started the get fit thing about a year and a half ago. Went from 200 to 165 (steady). Got really into lifting weights then had two injuries within 3 weeks of each other (exertion headache and something to do with inflamed fluid sack in my shoulder ><) and that killed my drive the past few (3 months). Started getting really thin looking from not pumping the muscles and slightly decreased appetite. Last month quit smoking (yeah!) and started doing lots of push ups sit ups pull ups planches etc. etc. (body weight stuff). Feel great, looking great again! Also getting into 1 mile "death sprints" XD

06-28-2012, 08:29 PM	#92
troyguitar SS.org Regular Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Bloomsburg, PA Posts: 7,381 Thanked: 63 $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 10 reviews	It's kind of BS because I'm slightly dehydrated, but: 149.0 lbs tonight. American Metal with real singing!

07-01-2012, 04:44 AM	#93
Murmel Fapping to J-rock Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Hotgirl-City, Sweden Posts: 3,175 Thanked: 34 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Still sore from leg day last friday. Probably one of the most exhausting workouts I've ever done, makes you long for chest day which is the easiest of them all Schecters don't have baseball bat necks. Get the .... over it. "I think this mistake was the equivalent of a 6000 foot tall cock bukkake tsunami-ing Tokyo." -metallisuk Shono, forever and always.

07-04-2012, 12:11 PM	#95
Tiger Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia, South Carolina Posts: 1,391 Thanked: 83 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	15 miles, 4140 feet of gain two days after a hard 10 miler and heavy squat day. Good training week. The sanctity of this place has been fouled.

07-04-2012, 02:15 PM	#97
Murmel Fapping to J-rock Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Hotgirl-City, Sweden Posts: 3,175 Thanked: 34 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	^ I'd say do some ab work. I try to incorporate some at the end of my back and leg workout. Compound lifts are obviously not enough. I guess compound lifts wont build respectable abs until you're getting into really heavy territory though. But I don't really know, just throwing a guess. Schecters don't have baseball bat necks. Get the .... over it. "I think this mistake was the equivalent of a 6000 foot tall cock bukkake tsunami-ing Tokyo." -metallisuk Shono, forever and always.

07-12-2012, 03:31 PM	#98
Murmel Fapping to J-rock Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Hotgirl-City, Sweden Posts: 3,175 Thanked: 34 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I think I have good lat genetics. I'm not even lifting heavy yet and I'm already seeing a taper coming along. Schecters don't have baseball bat necks. Get the .... over it. "I think this mistake was the equivalent of a 6000 foot tall cock bukkake tsunami-ing Tokyo." -metallisuk Shono, forever and always.

07-13-2012, 06:25 PM	#100
troyguitar SS.org Regular Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Bloomsburg, PA Posts: 7,381 Thanked: 63 $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $troyguitar is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 10 reviews	Gained a bunch of weight over vacation despite getting piles of exercise and eating less than anyone else at the place, then went into hardcore diet and exercise mode after I got home. 147.2 lbs after running today, fairly dehydrated but I can at least say that I'm safely under 150 for now. Next stop, under 140. American Metal with real singing!

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