Eleanorsbee

definitely negatives ... you can do them even when the rest of your body won't comply, its a great way of getting all the muscles involved when a couple of them are stopping you from doing anymore or your 1st one I also found hanging a door pull-up bar and leaving it there so every time I walked past I did 1 .. then 2 as I got better, helped but most of all ... weightloss ... as the kgs came off, I physically feel lighter on the bar

Hello Assassins My Level 0 -1 goals were to loose weight and establish a routine for working out ... now I am happy-ish with my weight and I have the motivation its time to step it up and start my Assassins training. My goals .... Strength, endurance and Health ... all the time keeping my wife happy My Motivation .... as always to be a badass Daddy that can play at anything my 3y/o daughter can play at Quest 1 - Strength I will be starting a new 3 day a week Bodyweight Workout on Monday, this includes handstand practice .. now I know I can do 3 times a week workout and stick to it, so the 1st challenge will be to practice handstands every single day for 10 mins Quest 2 - endurance Whats the point of all this strength if you collapse 2 miles down the road ? .... so far I have been able to row 8k in my off day cardio workouts ... I want to be able to reach 10k by the end of 6 weeks Quest 3 - Health Fat daddy, is fat because overtime he goes to the cupboard, he comes out with a handful of nuts or currants stuffed in his mouth .. THIS WILL STOP and my side quest Keep my wife on my side - I don't neglect her, but I could spend more quality time with her, so once a week I will devote to playing Scrabble / chess / jigsaws with her ..... but the best bit, I am not going to tell her its a quest .... my love will sneak up and grab her without her realising ... at the end of 6 weeks she can grade me on how well I did I'll update this thread later with how I plan on scoring it .... right now I have a meeting to attend

hmm, is there a conversion table of Weights to bodyweight ? ie x bench = n handstand pushups x deadlift = n pullups etc etc

Yay ... 8 weeks ago I started doing pull-ups well .... I started doing negatives ... suddenly I could do 2 pull-ups BUT ...... today ... 5 good form pull-ups for 3 sets .... .... and perfect timing as well seeing that the new challenge starts on monday and my new bodyweight routine incorporates sets of pull-ups so chuffed .. my wife but be able to see the change 8 weeks has had on my belly ... but going from 0 - 5 pull-ups x 3 sets .. WHOOOOP

5am for me too ..... I can get an hours work out and a shower before waking the rest of the family up

. waaah double post

nuts and dried fruit high calorie and good for energy levels without filling you up ... you can eat hundreds of the little blighters before you start feeling full ... and before you know it you are 600kcal up

I do a mix of body weight and weights on Mon, Wed and Fri and add to that 45 mins on the rower on Tue, thur, sat and sun I make sure though I walk every day ~3miles

not getting too big is easy .... just dont eat at a calorie surplus. The body obeys the laws of thermodynamics perfectly ..... if you use more calories than you eat, then you loose weight as your body consumes the required energy from its stores of fat and muscle and if you eat more calories than you burn the body stores the extra it doesnt use as fat and uses the excess to repair and make muscles bigger if you have been stressing them. So on that .... eat for the weight you want to be ...... doing a functional strength program ... see the bodyweight resource, and the strength unbound site and its resourse links will give you loads of info and workouts for bodyweight functional strength ... you will get progressivly stronger as you work through the routines. control the weight and size by your diet. when you stop making gains in strength, you might decide you need more muscle mass .... so keep working out, but add more calories .. the muscle AND fat will pack on .. albeit annoying slowely in the case of muscle

Definitely go with the look good naked goal .... I started as a 199 lb 40 y/o ... I am now 166lbs ... Muscle definition looks good and is getting better weekly, my t-shits hang off my chest rather than ramp from the moobs to the belly But the best bit ... I ran across a 4 lane road today ... Got to the other side and my heart rate and breathing hadn't shifted at all ... The boundless energy, recovery rate, better sleeping, no anti-acid drugs, general happiness .. All through being fitter I wished I had had th motivation earlier !!! Find out what motivates you, find out what your goals are and go for it

back on topic .... you have a ripped boyfriend that is physically stronger and fitter than you ? .. sitting next to you use him to your advantage .... tell him, not to give you any no matter what you do .... eventually you will give in and try to fight or wrestle him for an M&M ... that wont work, he is bigger than you .. all you will do is expend calories fighting him. so in absence of enough will power I think you have 2 choices (1) instruct him not to share (2) Punish yourself each time you give in .. is 1 m&m = 10 pressups right there on the spot

assuming that physics is correct, and you cant destroy energy, it just changes state ...... all the energy stored in that fat had to go somewhere .... in this case waterfall Nice work though ... excellent results

definitely alone .... as you said, its "me" time ..... its the 1 hour of the day I can be on my own, no kids, no wife, no colleagues, no conversation, no politeness, no stress Just me my headphones my workout the upside is I am getting fitter and leaner at the same time as chilling out ... where as me time in the past involved 1000 extra calories and a sofa

its believable ... its why I am here ..... not only do I hear with my mouth, I think with it, look with it and used to make all my decisions with it ..... needless to say most of my like has revolved around too much food

this was the question I was thinking about over the weekend. how long do you strength train for before you decide to bulk ? .. I assume its along the lines of when you stop making improvements in the amount you can lift or how many pull ups you can do but .. generally speaking as a newbie lifting 3 times a week is this likely to be 2 months ? ... 6 months ? .. when can I start to have fun and eat more

agree with the extra protein sugestion ..... recently I have discovered that DOMS seems to disappear over night on the days I really ramp up the protein

I think it makes a great curry ?

instead of going for duration to train ... I would try the progressions, I am sure if you hold a incline plank for 1m .... when you tried the regular one it would be easier. its like weight lifting ... reps vs increased weight .... and increase weight promotes muscle growth quicker.

To add to this, if you are doing the same workout your body will have got used to it and adapted to do it ..... Mix up your workout ... Add calisthenics or hiit, kettle balls etc Bodies adapt to everything so mix it up ... Start running and do sprints for example

you say that but every superhero had to take a leap of faith the 1st time .... Spiderman felt like he could jump off the top of a building, the hulk felt like he could rip his shirt off, the flash felt he could get to the kitchen and make nachos before the commercial break finished. .... none of these would be superhero now if they didn't take that leap of faith and "punch the wall" although to avoid unnecessary injury you might want to start with a cardboard box

I wish .... after lifting I start to yawn incessantly and want to go to sleep

don't worry about bulking up .... it won't happen without a lot of hard work .... i.e. lifting heavy AND over eating ... then at best you will only gain 0.5lbs a week at best .. its not going to happen if you ant over eating by 500 calories a day I alternate weights and cardio .... so do a full body workout on Mon / Wed / Fri ... and combine Squats, Pullups, rows, dips, pushups, curls, and finish with HIIT on a rower. then Tue / Thur and Sat I do 45mins - 1hr of cardio as a beginner to strength training I am under the impression I can get away with making suitable progress with Full body workouts where I exercise all body parts on the same day without the need to separate them out on to different days. Especially seeing that I am eating a calorie deficit anyway so am not going to gain muscle, just improve neurological conditioning. After Xmas I should be at a stage to start eating back at maintenance and then start to over eat again .. but on purpose to actually bulk

yup ... its 80% diet 20% exercise unfortunately you cant spot reduce fat from your stomach, moobs or anywhere else ...... the only way to do it is eat in a calorie deficit whilst working out to maintain muscle. Eventually you will loose the fat all over and your muscles will show so if I was you (1) LEARN to cook (2) eat cleanly and with a calorie deficit (cut out all the crap, don't eat junked, don't eat processed food, don't drink soda or alcohol) (3) lift weights 3 days a week at the gym (4) increase your activity everywhere else .... walk to school/work .... go for a walk in the evening .... actually walk everywhere

ha ha .. I see a business venture coming on ... domestic chores + keep fit at the same time I dont know if there will be much uptake though to hire a man to run up and down stairs with one pair of underpants at a time between the washing machine and the bedroom grunting as he squats for the 7th sock

subscribing to this thread ... nothing is more rewarding than seeing another parent suffering Good luck, if it works, I'll follow your steps .. but I am waiting 3 months to see your results first