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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 18, 2020 0:56:30 GMT
This is what I want to look like by the summer:
NO PRESSURE THEN. But that pic does bring to mind one thing: genetics. You go to a Japanese gym and see it time and time again. These guys desperately want to get big but they're just fighting a losing fucken battle against their own genetics. They need to be realistic. If you have narrow shoulders the fight is already lost. You can't change getting dealt a shit hand. Just accept the limitations or it'll drive you nuts. The dude in the pic just has to look at a cable row and his guns will be wired. I lost 12 kg a couple of years ago. I wasnt in shit shape but had a psoriatic flareup on my calves and arms and read some book saying I had to detox my guts. All shit food has to go. Coffee and grog too. Only fish, veg and nuts. Not even any bread. FFS. So thats what I did. Lost 6 kg in the first week. Then 12 kg over the 9 months. Fuck it was hard and horrible. But it worked. Then I learned a new word. "Homeostasis". The body naturally fighting to revert to its highest-ever weight. A holdover from our caveman days when we had to store body fat or die. Of course, once I'd calmed the psoriasis down all frugality went out the fucking window and I reverted to my homeostatic median. Still remmeber that first Snickers after having ZERO sugar for 9 months. Was expecting the most orgasmic sugar rush of my life. Yet all I could taste was........ salt? WFT. What a gyp. Must be some sciencey explanation for that |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 18, 2020 1:21:25 GMT
Not you, Sprague, I get what you're saying, but you'd be surprised by the number of bitches that try to drag you down. Yeah was more referring to the pumpy j-boyz in the gym every day who go the whole 10 kg bags of protein powder route and still look like Ichabod Crane. I try to refrain from using correct and accepted internet acronyms because they are all dumb iHomoFSF |
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Post by pussycat on Nov 18, 2020 13:50:41 GMT
Me and my gf got a stationary bike right as the pandemic started. It’s nothing fancy, no camera, no features to collect your data and spy on you, but it does the job of being a stationary bike. I was using it quite a lot for a time. I’d say about 3 times a week. Each session could be as short as 10 min or as long as a half hour, though it usually tended towards the shorter side. 10 min seems like nothing, and maybe it is, but they’d be a hard-riding, intense 10 minutes. Even though I was often working out a mere 30 min a week, I felt some positive gains from this both physically and mentally. Somehow I dropped the habit over the summer. Would like to get back into it.
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Post by sukebegg on Nov 21, 2020 4:52:31 GMT
I will turn 55 next month and have luckily been able to shed kilos over the last five or six years and just to need to push a little more and drop five kilos to fit into 30-year old jeans.
Exercise-wise I won't say much except no-impact cardio: bike, swimming, machine. But diet is truly 50% and I am lucky that I acclimated myself early in life to brown rice and salads. I can easily eat just a large salad for dinner with zero carbs many nights in a row. I sometimes skip breakfast but it is almost always real oatmeal with prunes, raisins, goji berries, etc. with honey or coconut sugar. I'm a huge proponent of coconut oil also ~ look into it! Other super foods also but the best cardinal rule is three to five servings each of fruits and veggies.
But when I go out, I eat whatever. Ultimately, it's mind over matter!
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 21, 2020 5:02:57 GMT
I'm a huge proponent of coconut oil also Said to burn kidney stones. I keep telling this to Camp Leader who is wracked with pain every couple of months and takes days off work as the tiny stupid shard travels another couple of centimetres. She ignores me and gets back on the cup ramen. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 23, 2020 22:23:38 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 24, 2020 1:50:27 GMT
- 23 kg dumbbells bench press. 2 sets, fuck knows how many reps, 10-20 I guess, just went till I was knackered.
- 23 kg dumbbells standing shoulder circle things. Not sure what called. Just stand there holding dumbbells, straight arms and make small ciurcular motions with shoulders. Great exercise. A minute or so till fatigue.
Obviously I have 23 kg dumbbells and can't be arsed changing the plates to vary my workout. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 24, 2020 6:06:58 GMT
Good lord how on earth do you lift 23kg, that's like 60lb. I'm considered quite strong even out of shape and I can't even do 10lb. Are you a musclehead? No, but at 100 kg I'm not exactly Karen Carpenter over here... 28kg dumbbells are about my max. I can go 30 for a few reps but don't think I've ever tried 32. |
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Post by sukebegg on Nov 24, 2020 8:06:56 GMT
Blew off yesterday and worshipped St. Slack with a little green lump of fun...sue me...
Today I went into the pool for the first time in well over a year I reckon. I use the gym at a smallish hotel and the pool is so small, I don't kick at all but it's a great upper body workout I reckon ~ I do three different strokes. Took it easy and it always feels nice just to get into the water...
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 24, 2020 9:03:47 GMT
I do three different strokes. I bet you do. |
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Post by sukebegg on Nov 24, 2020 9:14:35 GMT
I do three different strokes. I bet you do. Can't blame me, I have the pool to myself and those speedos be tight... |
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Post by pussycat on Nov 24, 2020 13:53:35 GMT
I believe in you, pussycat. Don't you surf, too? That's got to be amazing exercise. Maybe I'll add a surfing pose to my yoga stretching for fun. I've decided I'm going to post my before and after pictures when I reach my goal weight. I didn't workout yesterday lol, I fell asleep. I'll post my workout from today later. No, I’ve only surfed a couple of times and wasn’t vert good. This week for sure I will exercise. I absolutely mean it this time. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 1, 2020 7:28:56 GMT
I can't believe how small I was, I always felt so hideous and fat. Maybe you have that body dysmorphia thing? Reckon I might have a touch of that. I always look at other people and think, oh, I'm about the same size as that person. Then if I stand next to them it's holy shit I am wayyyy bigger than this cunt. Always seem to think I'm smaller than I actually am. When I see my t-shirts drying on the line I always think Jesus that thing is a dress, it must be way too big for me. Of course, it fits fine. MORAN. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 3, 2020 9:31:25 GMT
This is me doing a backbend in 2010. I'm straining bc I had the camera on a 10 second timer so had to run over, do the backbend and lift up my leg within 10 seconds. About a year after this is when I started gaining weight and by 2013 was very fat. I could still do the backbend though up until late 2018/early 2019 when the meds I was on messed with my thyroid and made me eat everything in sight. This is my goal, to be able to do this again. I'm about 135 pounds in this picture. I won't post what I weigh now until I've lost it all. Your pic isnt attached again, MORAN. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 3, 2020 22:25:45 GMT
Not sure if I want to post it now tho, feel weird. Yeah, putting your actual photo up on the internet can be a mistake at times. AT ALL TIMES. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 10, 2020 0:39:20 GMT
My diet is irreproachably healthy Thats 80% of the work done, iHomo. The kg's should be falling off you by now, MORAN. If I stopped eating pasta and bread for a month I'd be Karen fucken Carpenter ffs.
The best exercise of all is the pull-up, iHomo. I always feel great for the rest of the day afterwards. Great for posture too. Only problem is the things are fucking hard. Done properly, which means slowly, there is nowhere to hide and no way to cheat. You can either get your chin up over that fucking bar or you cannot, you pathetic bloated sack of shit. Chix seem to find this exercise really fuckign hard I pop down to the kiddies jungle gym at the park early mornings every now and then for a crack. Before the little wanker kids turn up with their sad little "playtime" agenda. Lightweights. Back in the day I used to do 10 pullups then 6 then about 4 and I was rooted. Don't think I've ever managed 12. These days my max is about 7. Quelle fucking pathetique. Here is the list of excuses for my abject deterioration in physical performance in handy bullet-point format: - my arms are too long
- my arse is too big
- my thighs are too heavy
- did I mention the long arms?
- I'm old
- I'm sad
- I hate the world
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 10, 2020 2:19:15 GMT
What exercises should you do to strengthen for a pull-up? Even just hanging from the bar and flexing your back for a minute or so is good enough. Your arms and back will be stiff as hell the next day but you will be well on your way to bitchin traps lats and delts hashtag suns out guns out bishes |
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Post by pussycat on Dec 10, 2020 13:18:54 GMT
Last week I worked out for a total of 1 days last week. Making progress, here.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 20, 2020 0:10:29 GMT
23 kg dumbbells incline flies. 2 sets, fuck knows how many reps, just went till I couldnt hold the stoopid dumbells up any more. This might be my party trick gym move. Just read on internet this exercise focuses on chest and deltoids and I seem to have weirdly naturally munty deltoids so can go the full arnie on this bad boy mofo exercise.
Dips. To fatigue.
I blame my burgeoning wee mountain bike spare tyre entirely on the lockdown and lack of walking. I am sure walking burns that shit off especially if you concentrate on the obliques as you walk and try to stride like a complete goombah when you think maybe no one is looking.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 13, 2021 8:04:11 GMT
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Post by fuckface on Jan 14, 2021 5:48:56 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 14, 2021 10:23:06 GMT
Actors are such prissy tossers. Find out they have to take their shirt off for 3 seconds in a film shoot 3 months from now so they spend 8 hours in the gym training specifically just for those 3 seconds of shirtlessness. I'm sure I read thats what Hugh Jackman did for X-Men. Almost feel sorry for "The Rock". He's a captive inside his own megashrine of a bod.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on May 18, 2021 22:42:19 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Aug 9, 2021 21:59:05 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 26, 2022 0:02:14 GMT
Now nursing some sort of elbow/upper forearm sprain I picked up a whole month ago doing some free weights lying on the bench. It's been a month and it aint gettting better. Constant pain in the arse. Or, elbow in this case. Googled the cunt and it looks like this:  Tennis elbow? Tendonitis? I aint seeing a doctor for that. Especially a Japanese doctor. Those fucking cunts are NOT in the business of health. No bastard has ever been cured of anything by going to see a Japanese doctor. Those motherfuckers are strictly in the $$$$ business. Same pattern every time. After waiting in line for 3 hours... "Uh, doc, my elbow is all fucked up."
"Huh. Looks like tennis elbow. Take it easy for a while. Get some rest. Next!"Pay my $50 on the way out and SWEAR never to engage in this pointless rigmarole ever again. |
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Post by nikkeisindex on Jan 26, 2022 23:36:19 GMT
I have gained about 5 lbs/ year since moving back from Japan. And I've been back 10 years..........
It's bad news.
I mean I attribute this to a lot of things. I didn't have a car, got a desk job, and instead of groceries would order a deep dish pizza and eat that for the week. Also started brewing beer. So I mean, pretty much was saying "Please god, make me a fat fuck." Which is really a shame cuz I was in a good place. I knocked all that off before too long but I think in the US it's just inevitable -- or -- the effort to keep it in check is just ridiculous.
In Tokyo I'd bike over to a crappy pool and knock out a dozen laps and be in and out of the whole joint in a half hour or so for Y200 or whatever. Lotta old people mid day. This lady was face down "dead man's float" in front of me for - way too long. I was thinking oh shit, do I have to intervene here when she finally whipped her head up gasping.
I'm okay jogging in Chicago but it's just not reasonable so much of the year so I finally bought a cheap ass treadmill and have been pretty good about hitting that 20 mins a day.
Not looking for a miracle here but you know, I'd like to see myself step away from all time heaviest.
yes, when I return to Japan I am informed I've become debbu.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 27, 2022 1:31:51 GMT
I have gained about 5 lbs/ year since moving back from Japan. And I've been back 10 years.......... 20 kg. It's not that bad. It's just as if, compared to 10 years ago, you now have a small school child inside of you. Oh shit. That came out all wrong. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Apr 19, 2022 3:43:08 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 14, 2022 2:42:27 GMT
Now nursing some sort of elbow/upper forearm sprain I picked up a whole month ago doing some free weights lying on the bench. It's been a month and it aint gettting better. Constant pain in the arse. Or, elbow in this case. Googled the cunt and it looks like this: Tennis elbow? Tendonitis? I aint seeing a doctor for that. Especially a Japanese doctor. Those fucking cunts are NOT in the business of health. No bastard has ever been cured of anything by going to see a Japanese doctor. Those motherfuckers are strictly in the $$$$ business. Same pattern every time. After waiting in line for 3 hours... "Uh, doc, my elbow is all fucked up."
"Huh. Looks like tennis elbow. Take it easy for a while. Get some rest. Next!"Pay my $50 on the way out and SWEAR never to engage in this pointless rigmarole ever again. 7 months later and my elbow is still fucking constant stabby stabby pain. This could be me for life. Of course, about 3 months ago I reneged and went to the Doc and yes the EXACT conversation above took place, just as I knew it would. Still, the x-rays and rigmarole only cost 2,200 yen so cheap as shit. FFS whats that in seppo dollars, about $15? |
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Post by pussycat on Jun 14, 2022 23:52:45 GMT
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