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Ah fuck em. The best thing one can do is take them every week. Nothing more motivational than to do that. What I won’t post is the first weeks though.
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Also @FantasyIreland how do you tend to cope with dropping fat and building muscle. Finding it a really delicate balancing act. I’m running approx 30km a week and hitting the weights quite hard and so far I’m certainly lighter and stronger but I know that balance probably won’t hold.
Would you recommend dropping the body fat first with increased cardio and then loading on the muscle, or vice versa, or just continuing to eat clean, avoid the sugar/carbs and keep the even balance of cardio and resistance?
I’ve never really had to do both at the same time before although muscle memory seems to be helping gains whilst the scales are still dropping.
Would you recommend dropping the body fat first with increased cardio and then loading on the muscle, or vice versa, or just continuing to eat clean, avoid the sugar/carbs and keep the even balance of cardio and resistance?
I’ve never really had to do both at the same time before although muscle memory seems to be helping gains whilst the scales are still dropping.
You look in good shape
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Its the holy grail......I rarely get out of shape in all honesty,as i constantly keep an eye on my diet,rotating and manipulating carbs accordingly - protein always stays constant with fats increased or dropped in relation to the amount of carbs consumed.
Personally,id drop the fat and then build.You can then use the mirror to gauge progress and adjust your diet to suit.Ive never seen any benefit in getting fat,i think the body respond s better when in shape plus you can train harder.
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Cheers mate. That’s what I thought, it’s just a touch annoying when catching glimpses of one’s string arms during cardio (which I’ve always hated) and you think “I’ve done five minutes, I should call that a warm up and hit the weights”.
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Other than walk the dog occasionally...i don't do any cardio really,just lift consistently and heavy three/four times a week.Along with the diet change,i use supersets/giant sets to help when cutting.
Mon - Chest/biceps
Wed - Legs
Fri - Shoulders
Sun - Back/triceps
Is a good split
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So I went to Sri Lanka at the start of April and immediately hated the holiday snaps the wife had taken of me. So in the five weeks I’ve been back, I stepped up back into my old training regime. At 37, I thought I’d struggle to drop weight and regain fitness but have been pleasantly surprised although I’ve been stupidly strict on my diet and calorie intake. If I took it in, it was a calorie with a purpose type of thing.
Been limiting carbs to very little. And completely cut out none natural sugars (not doing keto but just being sensible.) that was hard as I love sweets.
Virtually no booze (yes, both CL ties and the derby dry, had a beer against Brighton though).
Lots of protein and veg.
Been doing a lot of running and weights three days a week, took up boxing against couple of days per week before work as well and feel that my five week blast has nearly put me back in the shape I was seven years ago. Gonna continue this through until the summer (then relax into having a drink again after that as I’m boring dry) and try and see how shredded I can end up by the time we hit the Bahamas in July.
April 12th - 103kg (I’m 6’ 4” and hadn’t noticed the weight so much in my suit at work)
May 16th - 90.6kg (still 6’ 4” and back benching 100kg, was struggling with 50 back in April) and ran 11km this morning before I took an obligatory selfie in the lift.
I’m amazed how fast the weight falls off when cutting out booze and bread/pasta/refined sugar as I thought it would take another couple of months to hit 90kg.
Are you pouting.... ;0)
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You are Vin Diesel and I claim my £5, I am Groot..So I went to Sri Lanka at the start of April and immediately hated the holiday snaps the wife had taken of me. So in the five weeks I’ve been back, I stepped up back into my old training regime. At 37, I thought I’d struggle to drop weight and regain fitness but have been pleasantly surprised although I’ve been stupidly strict on my diet and calorie intake. If I took it in, it was a calorie with a purpose type of thing.
Been limiting carbs to very little. And completely cut out none natural sugars (not doing keto but just being sensible.) that was hard as I love sweets.
Virtually no booze (yes, both CL ties and the derby dry, had a beer against Brighton though).
Lots of protein and veg.
Been doing a lot of running and weights three days a week, took up boxing against couple of days per week before work as well and feel that my five week blast has nearly put me back in the shape I was seven years ago. Gonna continue this through until the summer (then relax into having a drink again after that as I’m boring dry) and try and see how shredded I can end up by the time we hit the Bahamas in July.
April 12th - 103kg (I’m 6’ 4” and hadn’t noticed the weight so much in my suit at work)
May 16th - 90.6kg (still 6’ 4” and back benching 100kg, was struggling with 50 back in April) and ran 11km this morning before I took an obligatory selfie in the lift.
I’m amazed how fast the weight falls off when cutting out booze and bread/pasta/refined sugar as I thought it would take another couple of months to hit 90kg.
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I thought the same but the longer you look at him, the less the resemblance. I'm thinking Lucas Browne, the boxer also