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Number 2 is coming next month, also a boy.
So gym has taken a back seat for the last 4 days as wife is ready to pop, lol.
Sticking to diet with occasional cheating on weekend but starting to feel flat.
I think the rest will do me good though.
 
I need to shed some serious weight. ATM the gym is turning them into muscle, which I do not want.

I'm following a water detox program to see if I can shock my system to again drop a few since I stagnated after losing 6kg's. Eish... had the mother of all headaches last night I believe to be a result of the excessive water drinking.

Program:
3 days 7 litres of water a day - only eat lots of broccoli
4-7 day 3,5 litres of water - add dry chicken breast
8-14 days normal water consumption but keep the eating clean as possible, chicken breast, broccoli (no breads, rice, etc.)

Lets see if this works.
 
Dude if I've got you correctly you're planning 3 days at <200kj a day, and then 3 more days of 200-500kj per day, and then expecting to eat clean continuously after? You're gonna literally be starving at the end of the week and nicely setup to binge on whatever you're craving... add some good fats/oils in both for calories and to stimulate your body to move to keto. I don't think you can reduce fat faster than a proper keto cycle, but if you want to lose lean mass too then I guess your way will work. What level of activity are you intending for this period?

MyWorld said:
ATM the gym is turning them into muscle, which I do not want.
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I don't understand, "them"? if you don't want more muscle are you only looking for strength? Your training plan needs to be structured as such (low reps and volume, heavy weight).
 
Grammar fail, "it", meaning excess fat and body mass.

I left out a lot of detail for the "detox", video later in the post.

I did rework my program to focus solely on muscle definition, but my body stalled and I'm now trying to get it (body) to respond again and drop another few kilos. I'm struggling to follow the program, it is heavy on your body since you now deprive it of everything you are used to, even vitamins.

Level activity is very light on the weights since most strength is sapped and lots of training bicycle.

[video=youtube;3BVhKKLe1eA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BVhKKLe1eA&list=WL78C1A350341F9B02[/video]

Some swearing in the video, so mature content. I'm not disillusioned, I know you cannot just magically drop 10's of kg's over night and I know if I do drop a few kg's it will be mostly water weight, but that is not the goal, the goal is to reset the metabolism and start fresh with hard work and cardio.
It is only two weeks, never tried something like this before and thought why not.
 
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Ah ok it's a 2 week program, that makes more sense. I'm actually on a 4 week program myself at the moment, it's called Whole30. http://whole9life.com/2012/08/the-whole30-program/
It's basically a really strict approach to paleo. Whole foods only, but no grains, dairy, legume, alcohol or any kind of added sugar/sweetener for a month, with the objective of giving the body a kind of digestive/metabolic reset. I'd been doing CKD for a couple weeks before I found out about it, so it was an easy adjustment.
Although it's not the aim, fat is coming off at least as quick as it was on full keto.
 
Do any of you ever offer unsolicited advice to people working out around you?

Happened to me this morning by someone who had attracted a lot of attention to themselves by screaming on each rep of whichever exercise he was doing, dropping the weights of the machines he was using and throwing the free-weights on the floor. Because of the constant commotion, he naturally drew attention to himself and people were quietly commenting to each other on his lack of form and amount of weight he was trying to push/pull/lift being too much for his ability.

Whilst I'm sure his intentions were well intended, I have to say I was frustrated. I just said, "I'm good thanks" but to be honest, I did contemplate telling him to check his form on all his exercises, to please use the squat rack for squats and those aren't dead-lifts they're some sort of back bend also please replace the weights you've left laying around!

I'm sure, had I said all of that it probably would've been a case of 'and that's how the fight started'. :wtf:

So do you offer advice and are you happy to have someone offer their 'expertise' to you?
 
Developing broad/impressive shoulders

This article http://www.literallylean.com/the-best-exercise-for-your-shoulders/
says you gotta do military press, lateral raises, front raises, shrugs/upright rows to develop impressive/broad shoulders.
When you train shoulders, you should perform pressing, raising and shrugging exercises. Each movement targets different areas of the shoulder and they should be performed in one workout.
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Do you guys agree?

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So do you offer advice and are you happy to have someone offer their 'expertise' to you?
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There are times when advice should be given or received IMO, it just depends on the situation :)
 
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This article http://www.literallylean.com/the-bes...our-shoulders/
says you gotta do military press, lateral raises, front raises, shrugs/upright rows to develop impressive/broad shoulders.
When you train shoulders, you should perform pressing, raising and shrugging exercises. Each movement targets different areas of the shoulder and they should be performed in one workout.
Do you guys agree?
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These days I always start with military presses, followed by bent over laterals, reverse cable type thing using cable crossover (hits my rear and upper, middle back), http://www.proactivefitness.com/shoulder-mr-cable-crossover.html

Then I'll finish with lateral raises.
So I focus mainly on rear delts, I would think front delts get a decent workout in almost every exercise.
 
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Was quite interesting and worth a watch.

Boston Loyd
http://www.youtube.com/user/bostin69/videos

He talks about the darkside of bodybuilding.(Untold truth)

mybad if its already been mentioned.
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It is discussing seeing those "pregnant bellies" of modern day competition body builders. GH make them look totally out of proportion, same with Boston, he's got a HUGE waist.
 
There was a discussion here about shoulders and why we mess them up with weights.

Have a look here as well, it may be that our bench technique is all messed up.

[video=youtube;oizAS9gfIwo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_654899&feature=iv&src_vid=WtWbVXTdpZg&v=oizAS9gfIwo[/video]
 
Behind the neck pullups.

I recently added these to my shoulder and upper back routine, I hear they bad for you?
From what I can gather if it hurts or you have bum shoulders then it's an exercise to be avoided BUT if you are flexible enough and experience no pain or discomfort then it's a decent exercise to add to one's routine.

I recently like last night end my shoulder/upper back routine with 5 sets 8 reps of behind the neck pullups, legs hanging and straight, pullup so bar touches back of my neck - then jump straight into 40kg standing behind the neck presses with barbell.

I find behind the neck pullups easier than from the front and felt as though I could go to 10 reps, strange.
 
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I'm getting fat.

I was 59 kg November last year @9% bf.

I am 76 kg now @12.5% bf.

I can now BB curl 40 kg's and Skullcrushers 40 kg's as well, albeit I can do more reps with the curls.

Other than that, still stuck at 85kg x 4/5 reps Bench Press
 
InternetSwag said:
I'm getting fat.

I was 59 kg November last year @9% bf.

I am 76 kg now @12.5% bf.

I can now BB curl 40 kg's and Skullcrushers 40 kg's as well, albeit I can do more reps with the curls.

Other than that, still stuck at 85kg x 4/5 reps Bench Press
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Fast is over YAY. Time to get back, I'm also gone fat, went from 85kgs to 87kgs in a month :sick:

All the fries, pies and haleem :)

My back is rested as well, I think il return to the SL5x5.
 
InternetSwag said:
I'm getting fat.

I was 59 kg November last year @9% bf.

I am 76 kg now @12.5% bf.

I can now BB curl 40 kg's and Skullcrushers 40 kg's as well, albeit I can do more reps with the curls.

Other than that, still stuck at 85kg x 4/5 reps Bench Press
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lol :p well the gain in fat came with awesome muscle gains at least :D
 
remus786 said:
Fast is over YAY. Time to get back, I'm also gone fat, went from 85kgs to 87kgs in a month :sick:

All the fries, pies and haleem :)

My back is rested as well, I think il return to the SL5x5.
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Eish, must be hard training on a fast, did you take a break? There's a few Muslims in my Sports Fitness course and they all were taking some strain with the aerobics/cardio sections.
 
InternetSwag said:
I have a left to right muscle imbalance.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1150927_282010578604383_2011122282_n.jpg
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I think you need to switch hands a bit while helping yourself :P


Jokes aside, that does happen, and it is not going to be fun to fix it. You are going to have to keep your right arm in maintenance mode, and then go heavier on the left arm whilst still eating above maintenance intake. Dumbbells is your only option doing this.
 
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