The Bodybuilders Thread!

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Cool, I do HIT gym training once a week and HIIT swimming training 3or 2 times a week. Will be interesting to see if this works
 
You guys doing HIT and HIIT wanna lose weight I assume? I doubt for me wanting to gain weight it will have any benefits over just regular training.
 
Tinuva said:
You guys doing HIT and HIIT wanna lose weight I assume? I doubt for me wanting to gain weight it will have any benefits over just regular training.
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I'm going to do it while bulking too - its only twice a week - and I want to keep my fat as low as possible.
 
I dunno, my body shed fat like there is no tomorrow at the moment. Its like I am back to the days when I was in school. Everytime I eat more, I manage to pull new PRs in the gym, but in doing so, it looks like I burn more calories than I took in. I lost like 3 kg again, back at 68.7kg :( At least all my lifts are still mostly at my last PRs.

Next serious bulking session to commence in October, using Layne Norton's PHAT program, think I need the hypertrophy a bit to induce muscle growth on top of strength gains.
 
I'm still happy with 5,3,1 :p I'm just going to put my calories through the roof.... and try fight the fat with cardio. I want to surpass my strength levels at the close of last year, but at this body weight.

Not a fool proof approach, but I think it'll work for me.
 
hmmm, I wonder why we all use calories WRT to diet and training :confused:

Just for those counting kilocalories (conviently and incorrectly put as calories in standard diet and exercise talks), that is part of the imperial system like inches ect ect , so some people might be wondering reading this forum "How do I check how many calories in what im eating my food label doesnt say so" , thats because we use the metric system and our unit is the kilojoule.

1 cal (kcal if you being technical) = 4.2 kJ :D ... now you can count according to what ever diet advice you recieving

Just thought I add that :p ... and my conversion is rounded off
 
If it's in joules I just work out how many calories based on the carbs, protein, fats. Those details are more important than calories and joules anyway. Right?
 
Tinuva said:
Haven't read it, but the 8 hour diet plan name sounds like intermittent fasting from www.leangains.com
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It works for me. Been doing intermittent fasting for a few months now. I fast from 12am to 4pm every day. Top 4 abs are finally showing nicely. It takes some getting used to eating +5000Kj in one sitting but it's nice to be able to eat big meals without gaining fat.
 
Sensorei said:
It works for me. Been doing intermittent fasting for a few months now. I fast from 12am to 4pm every day. Top 4 abs are finally showing nicely. It takes some getting used to eating +5000Kj in one sitting but it's nice to be able to eat big meals without gaining fat.
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Oh I know it works, I been following the rules by accident, and lost more weight than I wanted to, so it definitely is a good program to follow. Was just mentioning, the pdfs made me think of it.
 
I stop eating from 6pm and then eat breakfast at 10 am. Just followed the guide in the pdf :p
 
Sensorei said:
By accident?
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Yeah the basics are:

- Only 8 hour eating window
- Workout days, eat more and mostly protein/carbs and some_fats
- Non_Workout days, eat less, still mostly protein, with with less carbs and more fats
- 3 workout days per week

That is if you don't go into details with the calculations ect, which then fine tunes what you eat a lot more.

So how did this happen by accident? Well didn't have much time in the mornings for food preparation, but come lunch time I would be as hungry as a Lion, same for the rest of the meals, so I didn't eat any less, mostly the same, in much less time. Feels like I am eating like a beast, but losing weight.

However, I can come to a strange realization, that I am actually not eating enough. Whenever I hit a plateau in the gym, I couldn't understand it, but without thinking about it, I would end up eating more because of the automatic bi-weekly_to_monthly volume increase. While that is fine and dandy, I would then go back to the gym and break my previous PRs, which in turned caused burning more energy in the gym, which also usually happened faster than my food intake increases. So basically, I think I need to eat A LOT more even now, while I still think I am already eating too much. One thing I never realized, is just how much energy power-lifting burns! I can't wait till I get to the weights I have in mind as my general power I want, and then go on a cutting phase and hopefully see some impressive fat-loss without muscle/power loss when changing to intermittent fasting's way of cutting.


Now, my next bulking session intermittent fasting is not exactly going to work, because I will have 5 workout days, possibly 6th as cardio day, but the cardio day is optional.
 
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That feel when you rip your shorts on your 2nd set of sumo deadlifts.
 
Tinuva said:
You wear super tight shorts?
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Eh...nope! I use those normal Adidas shorts, but ever since I started gymming I've grown quite a bit, so they started sitting more tight. Thankfully I anticipated this and had my backup Nike pants close by ;P
 
:erm: I think you growing in the wrong places :p

I tore my tracksuit about 3 weeks ago doing squats - didn't have a backup, so tough luck to everyone else there
 
xrapidx said:
:erm: I think you growing in the wrong places :p

I tore my tracksuit about 3 weeks ago doing squats - didn't have a backup, so tough luck to everyone else there
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Quads have gotten a lot bigger! Did you finish your sets like a man, tore suit and all? :P
 
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