Would the 'pops and clicks' be down to weight bearing on your knees? Perhaps try taking cod liver oil capsules? This is supposed to be very good for joints.
I don't want to keep harping on about what's happening for me, but I've seen many testimonies about IF helping drop weight and 'reset' the body's system.
I, myself, was suffering from leg and knee problems some months ago and was supposed to go for body scans, it was so severe.
But, since changing my eating habits I've felt nowhere the ailments I had.
Do you check your body fat ?Just done 10 lengths and 175 metres sprint and another salad.
No bread again today and no beer.
Scanned in and 23.7 percent body fat and visual fat rating down to 11 from 13.
This weather helps.
One of those machines that uses an electric current and will give you a different reading every time depending on how sweaty you are.How
Do you check your body fat ?
Serious question btw
One of those machines that uses an electric current and will give you a different reading every time depending on how sweaty you are.
They are notoriously inaccurate.
http://www.berkeleywellness.com/healthy-eating/diet-weight-loss/article/body-fat-scales-step-right
Oh absolutely. It’s fine for trends.Don't disagree but I find it useful as I am looking at trends over several months. for example I do a reading each week and back in December my body fat percentage ranged from 26.1 to 27 percent - after my mini efforts I am now between 23.8 and 24.1.
Just gives me an indication I am going in the correct direction.
I think @FantasyIreland is right. It’s from the workload I think. I went extremely hard at it the past two years. I did something serious I reckon about a year and a half ago where I couldn’t walk right for a month to my left knee. Now my right knee also pops, and you can feel the click on the top of the knee when I extend it. I’m also 33 so natural damage also.
I was doing 1-3 miles a day plus 1-5 miles walking and went from 215 to 175. A non muscular 175 mind you without lifting. I’m kind of lost as to what to do at this point as muscle is the priority. I know there’s typically a bulking and cutting phase but I’m a stubborn guy and want to play the long game and lose the fat while gaining muscle. I figured I’d shoot for about 175g of protein and try to minimize the calories but have that secondary. I was hoping to continue the cardio about 4 times a week while lifting about 5. The problem I’m faced with now is that I can’t really run and now I’m worried about lifting on leg days. I don’t want to have chicken legs but I’ll have that over bad knees :-( and muscle is the priority but I don’t want to gain much weight.
I’m kind of all the place here I know and was maybe looking for a few tips on trying to lift legs and maybe a few tips on cardio/heart rate. An old timer told me not to bike and I tried doing walking and 25 jumping jacks each lap but I could feel the stress on the knees so I’m cutting that out. I’m thinking maybe try jump rope or buy a punching bag?
I’m also back and school and low on funds so that’s an issue.
Confused mess at the moment grrr. Don’t have type to spellcheck so forgive the grammar please
Get on the cross trainer. Work your way up to doing 40 minute sessions on this, will melt the weight off you in no time, without excess pressure on the joints that running and other high impact cardio exercises do.
Get the heart rate to around 160 in order to be effective for these cardio sessions.
May be worth looking at some videos on YouTube and investing in a decent resistance band, if you can't afford to go to classes at the moment. There's loads of different functional movements you can do, simply by tying the band around a post in the ground or a garden fence.
Other than lifting weights 4-5 times a week. Try body exercises like press ups, pull ups and chin ups to give you a more athletic look pretty quickly. Also stress positions such as planks or 'bring Sally up bring Sally down' press up routine, will build strength and tone you up a bit more.
Hope this helps.