how is everybody's health and well being?
i'm on a summer diet. hehe
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how is everybody's health and well being?
i'm on a summer diet. hehe
I go to the gym 3 times a week. (i would consider myself under the healthy group:P)
What is your plan for this summer diet? More workout, less oily food?
i work out every day of the week just before i go to bed. they say it's not healthy to work out every day but i feel healthier.
i eat like a pig though...
errrm well its just no chocolate, cakes and crisps! :D so far so good. and i'm tryna squeeze in 100 sit ups a week - i wana flat tummyQuote:
Originally Posted by loveadmin [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
sorry lost, but you're gonna have to do a lot more than just situps to get that perfect stomach that you're looking for.
raverboy
I am fortunate enough to have been blessed with a naturally flat tummy, but if I don't start running a couple of miles a day, my ass is going to spread out like a big beanbag chair.
I eat right, though.
i know..but i'm not fat but i just wanted a flat iron board type stomch. hmm any suggestions?
I want to start working out so that I look better when I go to college and am more attractive.
situps will work the top portion of your abdominal muscles. if you twist from side to side, that will build up your side muscles.
i have 20 lb weights that i attach to the bottom of my shoe and i lay on my back and do a bunch of kicking and raising my legs. that helps build the lower portion of your abdomen.
if you have dumbells, lay over a bench face up and do tricep curls (i think that's what they're called) your abdomen is a big part of this and it helps neutralize other forces while your arms raise the dumbells. it really works up your abs.
and as for the situps, i found that something inbetween a crunch and a situp is best. go nice and slow, putting all your strength into each situp. you'll be really tired after a while and will only be able to do so many, but this is the best way to do a situp.
that's partly why i started working out again... but to also keep in shape because i'm starting to get chunky (i'm a midsized guy with natural muscle tones)Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Pilates. Anything that strengthens your lower back is going to result in a better looking tummy.Quote:
Originally Posted by LostNotFound [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
can someone tell me some good ab exercises you can do without laying down. i HATE laying down at the gym, it's very uncomfortable for me.
while standing with dumbells in both hands at your sides, slowly raise them until they are at eye level, then slowly back down. this works back muscles and arm muscles more than your abs though.Quote:
Originally Posted by misombra [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
if you're at the gym, there is an excercise machine where you push back a lot of weight using your ab muscles. try that machine if they have it. i could do all the weight on the rack when i was a freshman (which was about 500 lbs)
Or those frickin' leglifts- you can do them at home if you happen to have really sturdy chairs the right height. Stand between the chairs, which are back-to-back, grab them with your hands and lift both legs to horizontal. Hold until you want to die (.000000761 of a second), then lower them slowly. Repeat until buff.
I'm a scrawny little naturally thin kid who is stronger than he looks but I'm going to start working out 3 times a week. Starting Thursday with two of my friends. I don't eat the best but I have 3 proper meals and not that many bad snacks but when i do, i pig out.
Naturally wihtout exercise like 100 pounds, hope to gain some weight exercising.
i wouldn't call myself COMPLETELY out of shape..but i tell ya..lunges pretty much kill me every time i do them. i've been trying to do them every other day..my legs feel like jello. But these lunges are a nice balance for the days i eat unhealthy. i need to start a work out plan. I refuse to give in to the freshmen 15. reFUSE
you weigh 100 lbs? how old and tall are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by enterprise [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
can i re-fuse you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve2004 [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
*whips out fuse box*
That's impossible. dont be silly.Quote:
Originally Posted by lilwing [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Hey Miso, what about one of those big gymballs? Those work for me. Seems to me you could semi-recline and do crunches w/o going all the way down. Tho my instructors keep saying to 'keep my bellybutton tight', I think its to protect your back.Quote:
Originally Posted by misombra [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
From a pure physics point of view, I don't see how it matters how you set up to work abs so long as you're having to pull against some kind of resistance. I don't think you always have to lie down, just be pulling your body forward against a weight. I've also seen ppl standing up and pulling on those cable by bending forward at their waist. But I would worry about blowing a disc w/my back on those... personally, I like classes where an instructor can tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
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Originally Posted by lilwing [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
did you know that you're actually only hurting your lower back muscles when you do this. yes, i know that you feel like you're working your lower abs, and that you are, but not nearly as much as you're killing your lower back muscles. shit, i forget the name of the muscle but they are the lowest ones that stabilize your lower back and pull your pelvis back to keep it upright. think back to the first time that you preformed these legs raises, do you remember your lower back feeling stretched too??
as for a workout plan, mines various, but it goes like this. work at fedex lifting boxes with with various items that are not known to my knowledge, lift at the gym during my breaks, works some more lifting stupid boxes and climbing up hills to the isolated houses on some mountain in hawaii, then run when i get home. and after all this is said and done, i open up some heinekens and revert my accomplishments of the days. and still i haven't been able to break 135 pounds.. yes i'm that skinny asian that giga was supposed to piggy back.
raverboy
what exercise are you referring to? you quoted my situps but you mentioned another exercise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusional [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
i feel tension in my back when i do the leg raises, but no stretching or pain. is there a better way to do leg lifts or soemthing?
heh, the most i ever weighed was 190 lbs. i am 6 feet tall on the dot. i've been skinny, i've been chunky and i've been totally ripped. right now i am just about to that midway ripped part.
what i picture that is you're lying on your back and doing leg raises. well even so, something similiar to that puts a lot of pressure on the lower back muscle.. dammit not knowing the name is bothering me, but i'm too lazy to look though all my muscular anatomy books. but is that the exercise that you're talking about??
raverboy
alright so yeah i was bothering me, but i was too lazy to go through all my books from college so i used the modern technological advances that we have today via transformers via the www. it's called the multifidus, not that you're really interested.
raverboy
how do you tone your bum?
squats, running, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by LostNotFound [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
oh god. crunches? squats? I don't even know what half of these things *are*.
anyway, Lost, about that flat stomach;
You can't just tone one area of your body. Even if your happy with your overall weight, your body might simply be the type that likes to store some fat on your tummy; You can work out and build the most spectacular abs, but they wont be visible under that layer, in fact it'll just make your tummy look bigger! Many people fall into this trap, and some are just unlucky to have bodies who think the stomach is a good place to store fat.
Others are like my mom, who are super skinny (i'm talking some online BMI calculators consider her underweight) and work out and do yoga every day (she even works with weights I can't get off the ground), but who are cursed with IBS, bad digestion, etc, which makes their stomach blow up like a balloon.
this website [url]http://www.flat-stomach-exercises.com/[/url] contains pretty much everything you need to know to acquire a flat stomach. I am on the same quest.
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oh btw, this is my weight loss since I started changing my eating habits:
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IGNORE the last dot, it is just my goal for the end of august.
S.O sent me this. it's for tightening up your stomach muscles. it's harder than it looks. try it for 60 seconds.
[url]http://theslalom.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/plank1.jpg[/url]
thanks! (everybody and indigo). yeah i'd like to try one of those balls. i think i'm gonna get a yoga mat and a fitness ball for my house.Quote:
Originally Posted by IndiReloaded [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
as for my health and well being, my back is feeling so much better since i've been doing physical therapy. i also am enjoying my job. yay.
yup. Last time I had access to one of those fancy scales that tells you your body fat percentage, it was 25%, and that was a few years ago so i'm sure I weighed around 119, probably less. That website I linked before said to show defined abs, you need 10%. So yeah, that's pretty hard to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aegis [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
this is true. But it is too simplistic. Because the body has tricks up its sleeve: It controls your metabolism and your hearbeat and all that, after all! Your body, not your mind, has control of the things that burn the MOST of your daily calorie consumption. THIS is why some people have a much harder time of loosing weight than others. For some reason, their bodies REFUSE to burn fat, and instead they lower metabolism, make them feel insanely hungry, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aegis [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
It would be all to easy for someone like me, who looses weight pretty easily, to say "pfft, that fat person just has no will power! it's SIMPLE man, just exercise more and eat less!"
Most of the people who go to programmes for the obese drop out. Most of those that don't drop out don't loose a significant amount of weight. Most of those that loose weight gain it back. And the very few that don't gain it back still have to work REALLY hard to keep it off, for the rest of their lives!
this is NOT because they have no will power or are not doing it properly. It is because their bodies are different- or rather, stubborn as hell.
I think their bodies react similar to how my body would react if I tried to starve myself to 70 pounds. My body would think "HOLY SHIT! she's gonna starve herself to death!" and it would drastically lower my metabolism, make me really tired, make me really hungry. This response would be appropriate, because I really *would* be starving myself to death.
But a fat persons body might think "HOLY SHIT! she's trying to diet to 130 pounds?? she's gonna starve to death! better do something about that!"
furthermore, I know someone who was on the shot (depo-vera?) and gained weight on it. she tried to loose it. her mom thought she was becoming anorexic, she ate so little. She jogged and worked out, too.
she kept gaining weight. My first response to this was "that's impossible, you can't gain weight; if you spend more energy than you consume, you WILL loose weight". but it's like her body refused to burn fat. instead she got pretty weak and fainted.
she's better now she's off the shot!
yeah, this is very true. your body will always burn off the least amount necessary. Muscles? oh, you're not using those... let's burn those!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aegis [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I'm 5'7-ishQuote:
Originally Posted by lilwing [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
edit: 15.64
I have a friend who's 102, same height and 16.
wow tiay.. you were about as heavy as i am... muhahaha, but congrats on the weight loss.
raverboy
hm, I've heard that it's unhealthy to loose weight too fast, but I haven't heard of it causing permanent damage...
My best guess? Organ damage.
depending on your initial weight and fitness, you can really only loose so much fat a week. For an average person, that's probably only around one or two pounds.
If you're loosing more, it means you're loosing water weight, muscle and whatever else your body burns instead of fat. Your body really really needs those things, and I imagine it'd cause organ damage if you dehydrate yourself for too long.
Plus, many of the diets that promise fast weight loss are ones that cut out one whole food group. Like, no carbs. Sounds good, but that's bound to cause an unhealthy and possibly permanently damaging imbalance. On the long run, you need carbs to live.
also; obese people are said to get loose skin if they loose too fast.. and the only other thing I can think of is.... um being underweight is unhealthy?
for one, you throw your body into ketosis. when you starve yourself, your body will use the protein in your body after it's used up most of the fat and the carbs that your body stores. and then there goes your muscles.
raverboy
so, I lost about 10 pounds over 2 months. that makes what, roughly 1.25 pounds a week on average? I'm impatient so that seemed a bit slow, but I guess I shouldn't go any faster than that anyway. *sigh* c'mon already, I want to be at 116.. or at least replace some fat with muscle. I'd love to do weight training. but I don't know how and i'm afraid i'd hurt myself.
I lookedup the anatomy photo of that on wikipedia. All I can say to that is "pork tenderloin", baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusional [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Lilwing, you've been working your tender loin, no wonder you feel it... LOL!
Tiay,
I went on one of those 'fruit only' cleanses a few months back. Lost about 8 lbs in 10 days. Mind, I'm not overweight to begin with. But, I tell you, I felt great (after the 3rd day, which was the worst), my awareness shot up & I had tons of energy. Supposedly, you get addicted to all the carbs and caffeine and stuff in your bod...
I need to do another one soon. Sept, I think, after I'm back from holidays.
i still don't get the pork tenderloin thing.
raverboy
I think its their deep back muscles that run along the spine... ie erector spinae & multifidus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusional [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I'll do it with you. We can compare grody descriptions of what occurs.Quote:
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