The Bodybuilders Thread!

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xrapidx said:
Intermittent fasting?

Read up on it - but I think I'll stick to carbs/protein for building :p and calorie deficit for loss (although I'm trying keto at the moment)
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Keto diet is the bomb. How long have you been on it? Are you getting your ketones measured?

Notice a slightly acidic taste in your mouth? Maybe it was just me...
 
Just gone three weeks... First two/three days I felt like crap... but been fine ever since, initially lost 4kg in the first two weeks, its now at 1kg this week.

No funny tastes :p
 
xrapidx said:
Just gone three weeks... First two/three days I felt like crap... but been fine ever since, initially lost 4kg in the first two weeks, its now at 1kg this week.

No funny tastes :p
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Well good luck man. It's a tough diet to keep - making meals that keep the carb intake low enough is a form of rocket science. Ask your SO if you smell different. After 3 weeks your body should be producing ketones and you should have traces of acetone in your sweat. You'll also have some acetone in your breath - which is why I ask about the taste. Had a not all unpleasant apple-cidery taste in my mouth.

If what many modern dieticians and doctors are saying about the harmful effects of carbs we'll all be ketogenics soon. I find the changes in one's body while on this diet fascinating.

I'm almost tempted to take up the challenge myself again just talking about it!

Do you have a set keto meal plan?
 
Following this one, but you do a "recarb" once a week .

It works out around 2,500 calories, with 30g of carbs.
 
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I have put my ego aside when it comes to gymming and a good thing too because I am finally seeing the results I want and need.

I think it all comes down to bad information and habits on what it takes to grow and feed muscle, my first response to anyone who wants to start body building would be to sort out their diet first, then consult a trainer to find out the correct way of doing things.

I have noticed since I dropped the attitude of adding too much weight and thinking I'm completing a set in good form, all that got me was a nice pump and little else.
Since I started the "burning sessions" as I like to call them now, its' scary the difference that the last month has made, I'm sore today and almost everyday, the good sore, the sore you know you have torn the fibers to grow.
Still getting the diet right, it's tricky but can be done.
I look at everything I eat as How can that repair me

I only use free weights and body weight now adopted a lower weight, make each rep longer, make each rep count, you got the weight up remember it needs to go down slowly, if you don't feel the burn you are not doing it right, stay below 10 to 12 reps.

A magazine that's getting me to my goals is Men's Fitness, very good articles.
 
:erm: A trainer who knows good form in SA, don't think I've seen one... maybe they at private gyms.
 
xrapidx said:
:erm: A trainer who knows good form in SA, don't think I've seen one... maybe they at private gyms.
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the trainer i use occasionally does.

this is him

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yes a private gym
 
A trainer who knows good form in SA, don't think I've seen one... maybe they at private gyms.
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That's a problem there are too many cocky know it all's around who think they know everything.
 
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lol yeah it is insane, you can see his 8 pack through normal shirts, not even tight fitted shirts :D

When i train with him for a session I know i trained for sure. And he doesn't push me with huge weights etc, he pushes me to do it properly and push past my mental limit

edit, he is also a body building champion btw, he won his category at mr universe or something if i recall
 
Shirts fit him? :p I had a personal trainer years ago,always made sure form was right. Also on the bench press he made me only use the bar,something about getting use to it. :confused:
 
Korn1 said:
Shirts fit him? :p I had a personal trainer years ago,always made sure form was right. Also on the bench press he made me only use the bar,something about getting use to it. :confused:
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lol, you ALWAYS start with the bar. At least I do. It doesn't matter if I can do 200kg or 100kg or only 60kg on my lift, I will start with the bar, to program myself to use as good as possible form I know without having to try too hard.

Once I done that set, I add little bit of weight and do it again, just to be sure I have the movement right. I do this for both Squats and Bench press, both which usually end up as my first exercise for the day. I also do it for overhead press, but I will admit I regularly skip it on deadlifts and pendlay rows.

Focusing on the movement is kinda key to me.

Where I do currently lack in my opinion, is whenever I bring down the weight on bench press, and overhead press, and going down on squats. I realized, if I skimp a little on those, it is 10-100 times harder doing the actual push back up. So lately my focus was on doing those properly, and it actually helped me break through a few plateaus.
 
Slootvreter said:
Has he successfully managed to convince you that that is all natural?
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xrapidx said:
That size is possible without using, but considering he competed, he probably was.
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lol, that is his issue not mine, You know i feel that that crap is for douches, but each to his own. Perhaps he did/does unlikely since he competes but who knows. Regardless my point was about the form, not just that but about his advice like eating properly.
 
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