Author Topic: FitnessBore - 2018 edition (Read 981356 times)

Eric P · « **Reply #4020 on:** April 19, 2012, 09:53:38 PM »

I've been getting rid of them in shifts. I have a bag which contains the last of my clothes from "before" and several intermediate pairs of pants. It was seeing how goofy I looked in size 42 that made me go buy clothes last night so I'm dumping those finally.

what's really great is i'm seeing a bunch of people i haven't seen since before i started paleo this weekend. it should be pretty awesome.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4021 on:** April 19, 2012, 10:07:27 PM »

I'm off work today and unpacking shit from the trip...just tossed out 4 old suits to make room. It's amazing how long the culling process can take. I can't believe the size of some of these things I'm binning, and I've only gone from XL to M.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4022 on:** April 20, 2012, 08:06:08 AM »

I took off of work yesterday to swim for an hour and ride my bike for 7 hours.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4023 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:06:07 PM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on April 19, 2012, 10:07:27 PM

I'm off work today and unpacking shit from the trip...just tossed out 4 old suits to make room. It's amazing how long the culling process can take. I can't believe the size of some of these things I'm binning, and I've only gone from XL to M.

It's awesome trying on some of these old shirts and seeing how much they resemble a muumuu

I need to visit Malaysia again with MrSingh to get smaller versions of my favorite shirts that I had to bin

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4024 on:** April 20, 2012, 04:45:30 PM »

do you guys wear your shirts more tight or more lose? i've always kinda disliked tight shirts

demi · « **Reply #4025 on:** April 21, 2012, 01:09:14 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 19, 2012, 09:32:09 AM

38s now.
before. This was taken June of 2010. It's the only photo I have that doesn't have me covering up my face or body. I really wish I had taken a "day one" photo so I could be more accurate.

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eat clean and move around every so often.

Disgusting, you look frail.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4026 on:** April 21, 2012, 05:59:12 PM »

Jesus christ I'm wearing "S" size T-shirts and they fit now. I am assuming that American S has gotten bigger over time because we are a nation of fatties or something.

WHERE IS MY TIME MACHINE, I NEED TO GO BACK AND BEAT MYSELF UP ARNOLD-STYLE

VHY ARE YOU EATING CHUNK FOOD, LETS GET FEET AND DO EGGSASIZES, IM TALKING TO YOU FATTY

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4027 on:** April 22, 2012, 01:00:53 AM »

was hoping he would reach into his backpack, produce a bunch of syringes loaded with roids, and start stabbing screaming fattie kids with 'em

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4028 on:** April 22, 2012, 04:55:36 PM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on April 21, 2012, 05:59:12 PM

Jesus christ I'm wearing "S" size T-shirts and they fit now. I am assuming that American S has gotten bigger over time because we are a nation of fatties or something.

Yeah I think so. I bought a few "M" sizes from sears over the weekend. Never ever thought M would fit. I have a pretty broad chest too.

My theory is that the big department stores run a tad larger than the boutiques. So if you go to Macy's the size Ms will be a tad larger than Express' Mediums.

Eric P · « **Reply #4029 on:** April 23, 2012, 07:08:58 AM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on April 21, 2012, 05:59:12 PM

Jesus christ I'm wearing "S" size T-shirts and they fit now. I am assuming that American S has gotten bigger over time because we are a nation of fatties or something.

yeah, vanity sizing has been creeping up in menswear the past decade and a half to accommodate our inflated egos as well as our inflated waistlines.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4030 on:** April 23, 2012, 11:47:28 AM »

From about 268 lbs to 200 lbs.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4031 on:** April 23, 2012, 12:24:24 PM »

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4032 on:** April 23, 2012, 12:24:31 PM »

in how long?

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4033 on:** April 23, 2012, 12:27:02 PM »

From July 2011 to April 2012.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4034 on:** April 23, 2012, 06:50:17 PM »

decided to workout today after my week+ hiatus with a foot injury. did horribly and felt lightheaded

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4035 on:** April 24, 2012, 12:21:21 PM »

I'd hit it!

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #4036 on:** April 24, 2012, 12:45:04 PM »

holy shit, gabe newell's lookin' good these days

Fifstar · « **Reply #4037 on:** April 24, 2012, 01:39:54 PM »

You actually look like you lost more. How tall are you?

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4038 on:** April 24, 2012, 06:35:04 PM »

I'm 6 feet tall.

I'm sure I gained a bunch of muscle. I've lifted a bunch and have been coin cross fit since September. To brag a little bit, my calves and quads look awesome. But I bike a lot and I guess I am getting biker's legs.

I did kind of look like Gabe.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4039 on:** April 24, 2012, 07:14:19 PM »

Does the t-shirt in the first pic actually read 'Pork City' or is that just me:lol

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4040 on:** April 24, 2012, 07:24:11 PM »

Might as well.

Funny because I lost all my weight eating almost nothing but bacon.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4041 on:** April 25, 2012, 10:11:45 AM »

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-090710

Quote

The devastating realization came in H&M. Specifically, in a pair of size 36 dress pants. I'd never bought pants at H&M before, and suddenly asked myself: how could a 36-inch waist suddenly be so damn tight?

I've never been slim — I played offensive line in high school — but I'm no cow either. (I'm happily a "Russell Crowe" body type.) So I immediately went across the street, bought a tailor's measuring tape, and trudged from shop to shop, trying on various brands' casual dress pants. It took just two hours to tear my self-esteem to smithereens and raise some serious questions about what I later learned is called "vanity sizing."

Eric P · « **Reply #4042 on:** April 25, 2012, 10:39:05 AM »

yeah my next size goal is to make my waist 38"

So I need to lose about 3" or so.

chronovore · « **Reply #4043 on:** April 25, 2012, 10:41:41 AM »

New job has a full gym, free for full-time employees. Had my first session yesterday. Did weights. Should have started with light cardio. I didn't overdo it, except for my forearms, apparently.

Ouch.

Ouch.

ow.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4044 on:** April 25, 2012, 12:27:09 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on April 24, 2012, 07:48:59 PM

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Fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I honestly thought that was Gabe Newell.

lol thought the same

HEY FLAME, HOW ABOUT YOU LOSE SOME WAIT FROM HALF LIFE 3 WHILST YOU ARE AT IT?! #shakefist

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4045 on:** April 25, 2012, 12:28:02 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on April 25, 2012, 10:41:41 AM

New job has a full gym, free for full-time employees. Had my first session yesterday. Did weights. Should have started with light cardio. I didn't overdo it, except for my forearms, apparently.

Ouch.

Ouch.

ow.

No, you shouldn't have started with light cardio. You did The Right Thing, fuck if I care if it hurts

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4046 on:** April 25, 2012, 06:51:48 PM »

i went back to work today, no one said anything about me lookign fitter or better

but my feet fucking kill. can't wait till ig et paid and get some shoes that aren't boating shows

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4047 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:33:50 PM »

Still haven't had any shoulder flare-ups, so tentatively doing some heavier stuff - deadlifts, 2 kettlebell clean and jerks and such. Will likely gain 10lbs in the next month

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #4048 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:29:44 AM »

Why is everyone trying to fit into small and medium? Y'all want to model for Abercrombie & Fitch?

I would start freaking out if medium became my standard size.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4049 on:** April 26, 2012, 10:42:21 AM »

Cause I grew up being a fatty. Size 42 pants and XL my whole life. I'm loving wearing size 33 pants and medium shirts. It's possible to be strong without being big, especially for endurance athletes.

First triathlon of the season is this weekend. I'm excited to say the least. It will be my first salt water swim.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4050 on:** April 26, 2012, 01:00:58 PM »

What Flame said, fitting into a Small or Medium feels awesome when you've been a fatty all your life wearing XL

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #4051 on:** April 26, 2012, 08:10:09 PM »

My weight is 180lbs and waist is 31 but most M shirts are too tight. I don't even look that big. I'm surprised that FOC can fit into M. For me to start wearing M, I probably would have to cut back 30% on daily calories and go on a full paleo diet.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4052 on:** April 26, 2012, 08:33:15 PM »

That black shirt in the picture is a medium, no lie. It's from sears, but I'll take what I can get.

My Waist to hips ratio is .86 which is apparently pretty good and my body fat % is 19% which is acceptable.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #4053 on:** April 26, 2012, 10:00:02 PM »

I went from about 10% at 165lbs to probably 14% now. I can't even see my abs unless I flex. It's cool though. Cutting tends to be easier for me than bulking.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4054 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:37:41 AM »

Knocked 20 minutes off my Olympic distance tri time AND had a blast.

The swim start was crazy, we all got on a boat, drove a mile out and then they had us just jumping off the ship like we were parachuting. It was chaos but fun. There was some wind on the bike course going out, but coming back I was hitting 30mph and flying by the noobs.

Rman · « **Reply #4055 on:** May 03, 2012, 09:25:45 AM »

Quote from: Smooth Groove on April 26, 2012, 10:00:02 PM

I went from about 10% at 165lbs to probably 14% now. I can't even see my abs unless I flex. It's cool though. Cutting tends to be easier for me than bulking.

How long are your cutting and bulking cycles?

Eric P · « **Reply #4056 on:** May 04, 2012, 11:24:40 AM »

Intermittent fasting is really weird.

I have had one meal in 48 hours and I feel totally fine.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4057 on:** May 04, 2012, 11:57:17 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on May 04, 2012, 11:24:40 AM

Intermittent fasting is really weird.

I have had one meal in 48 hours and I feel totally fine.

I'm going to start this after my race. Any tips?

Eric P · « **Reply #4058 on:** May 04, 2012, 12:35:21 PM »

well I have been doing an 18/6 window for the past two weeks. That means I basically don't eat breakfast, have a cup or two of coffee and then don't eat until noon where I eat a reasonable lunch and the eating dinner about 5-6 hours later.

What I'm doing right now is totally by accident. I did a normal cycle eating lunch at noon and then there was something about it which made my stomach a bit disgruntled, so i opted to not eat dinner rather than make it worse, so no breakfast and I'm about to finally eat lunch again.

This guy advocates a 12/12 split, but I was find just starting off with 18/6 but I've been paleo for about 9 months before I started, so my diet was pretty locked in and under control so it was easier and easier for me to just stop eating breakfasts w/o and sort of hunger or food hang ups.

http://www.paleoplan.com/2012/05-03/intermittent-fasting-part-how-to-do-it/

edit: forgot link

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4059 on:** May 04, 2012, 12:38:06 PM »

I dunno how I could handle that, breakfast is my biggest meal of the day. Light lunch then a minimal dinner.

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4060 on:** May 04, 2012, 02:15:53 PM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on May 04, 2012, 12:38:06 PM

I dunno how I could handle that, breakfast is my biggest meal of the day. Light lunch then a minimal dinner.

Me too, but I usually work out in the morning.

cool breeze · « **Reply #4061 on:** May 04, 2012, 02:25:02 PM »

is 12/12 basically Breakfast and Dinner?

I do that by accident, just too busy/unprepared to have lunch. I don't know how you can give up breakfast, unless you have breakfast food for lunch.

Eric P · « **Reply #4062 on:** May 04, 2012, 02:43:58 PM »

12/12 is basically you don't eat for 12 hours out of every day. Meaning that you stop snacking after dinner, really.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4063 on:** May 04, 2012, 03:11:14 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on May 04, 2012, 02:25:02 PM

is 12/12 basically Breakfast and Dinner?

I do that by accident, just too busy/unprepared to have lunch. I don't know how you can give up breakfast, unless you have breakfast food for lunch.

oh where did I put that link to the study where a guy went without ANY FOOD FOR OVER A YEAR again

cool breeze · « **Reply #4064 on:** May 04, 2012, 03:18:30 PM »

That's not what I meant. I'm saying breakfast food is the tastiest.

If I didn't make eggs, steak/sausage, vegetables, etc. in the morning, I'd make them for lunch or dinner.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4065 on:** May 04, 2012, 03:28:42 PM »

is there another kind of food now?

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4066 on:** May 04, 2012, 08:23:47 PM »

Do they not count sleep during IF? Sometimes I get confused because they'll say like "don't eat between 7 pm and 7 am" and i'm like "wait people eat in the middle of the night or w/e"? I don't think I could do 24 or 42 hour fasts that seems insane to me in like a hard way. Althoguh I love to drink water so I guess maybe you could just drink instead of eat or something,.

I mostly do that tho don't eat between 7 pm at night and 12 PM the next day.

although today i went out for chinese food and got a little out of hand. felt like I was going to barf my insides out

eating bad for you food after eating nothing but paleo for 2 months makes you feel so shite

FlameofCallandorReturns · « **Reply #4067 on:** May 05, 2012, 05:01:30 PM »

85 mile bike ride along the actual course this morning. I felt great and got my nutrition plan down. I got a flat which really sucked. But I still had a good time.

Every hour im gonna take 3 salt pills, 2 gu packets that have caffeine and 1 liter of fluid. Hopfullly this will make the run bearable.

2 advil at the middle and end of the bike and halfway through the run.

Now I begin my taper.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4068 on:** May 05, 2012, 11:54:47 PM »

Whoooooooooa time to cut back on my canned tuna consumption unless I don't want to have children, riskin' some mercury poisoning up in hyah

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4069 on:** May 11, 2012, 12:36:34 AM »

Been back at regular kettlebell training for about 6 weeks now (minus 10 days holiday stuffing my face with bread and sugar and Guinness in Ireland...). I've bulked up a fair bit vs when I did those kettlebell vids, just in time for summer

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #4070 on:** May 12, 2012, 04:26:07 PM »

Looking good sir!!! :brofist

CHRIST ON A BIKE, HOW DID THESE JEANS EVER FIT, YOU COULD PUT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING INSIDE THESE

I just donated a trunkful of old fatty clothes to the Clothing Bank -- looks like I need to make another trip. These jeans fit at the beginning of the year

Eric P · « **Reply #4071 on:** May 12, 2012, 05:48:37 PM »

would
would

i bought some shorts a month ago and then forgot about them because the weather went back to being cold
put them on today and they're too big.

still losing weight even though i've upped my carbs and have had some yogurt and blueberries. still intermittent fasting though, so perhaps that's the trick; the 18 hours of fasting nearly every day. i'll sometimes eat breakfast if i think i'm going to have a longer than normal day.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4072 on:** May 12, 2012, 08:30:04 PM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on May 12, 2012, 04:26:07 PM

Looking good sir!!! :brofist

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CHRIST ON A BIKE, HOW DID THESE JEANS EVER FIT, YOU COULD PUT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING INSIDE THESE

I just donated a trunkful of old fatty clothes to the Clothing Bank -- looks like I need to make another trip. These jeans fit at the beginning of the year

amazing. It's not like you were ever obese but that's a huge amount of shrinkage. Time to start doubling-down on the protein!

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4073 on:** May 12, 2012, 08:41:35 PM »

i was able to button a dress shirt from 8th grade today

made me happy.

cormac what would you say is the "ideal medium" size for a kettlebell if there even is one? I live in rural bum fuck and can't really test them out so i'd have to order from amazon

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4074 on:** May 12, 2012, 08:58:20 PM »

16kg is the start point for adult men. After that, I'd recommend getting a 2nd 16kg. Then a 24kg, then a 2nd 24kg.

But if you are training seriously and not just arsing around, that's a progression that could take years.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4075 on:** May 12, 2012, 08:59:44 PM »

Just get this:

http://www.ikff.net/store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_new.tpl&product_id=10&category_id=4

Most of the ones sold on amazon are terrible

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4076 on:** May 12, 2012, 09:13:07 PM »

Will do thank you very much.

Timedog · « **Reply #4077 on:** May 14, 2012, 05:07:47 AM »

Today I did 285 x 3 x 5 reps in squat (PR). Last couple of squat workouts my knees have felt slightly numb. Doesn't feel like i'm ripping anything or doing any damage and my knees feel great right now, just kind of makes me nervous when I'm squatting.

Also did 145 x 3 x 5 for an overhead press PR.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4078 on:** May 14, 2012, 07:12:45 AM »

congrats!

Maybe try to keep the knees warm in-between sets (and make sure the joints are warmed up before starting). As you get up there in weight, you tend to take longer and longer rests to recover, which can allow the joint fluid to cool down. Just walking around the gym instead of collapsing in a heap should be enough...

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #4079 on:** May 15, 2012, 09:04:28 PM »

Fantastic stuff here:

http://chriskresser.com/why-its-so-hard-to-lose-weight-and-keep-it-off

Be warned: This is mostly about defining the problem, which is huge and slippery. Chris starts from a very egalitarian position of accepting that multiple approaches can work, without sticking to low-carb or Paleo dogma. He explores the concept of food reward, which seems to create just as many problems for low-carb people as low-fat people.

There is apparently a follow-up post coming that addresses practical solutions in detail, should be worth a look.

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Author Topic: FitnessBore - 2018 edition (Read 981356 times)