Dick van Viegen Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 Hey guys, I just recently came across NF in my search of a way to finally get the body and become the healthy person I want to be. Just a little history on me; I'm 21 years old, and until I was about 17 years old, I trained 4 or 5 times a week in some way or another (7-8 years of basketball, 3 years of tennis, 4 years of judo, 3 years of baseball, 4 years of gym-going, some of these overlapping), so I was in quite a good shape, weighing around 78 kg and being 1.91m tall. Then I moved out of my parental home, and got a place of my own, and went to attend uni. I joined a rowingclub there, and got motivated to kick my own ass in an even higher gear. I was too light for the heavyweight rowers, and too heavy for the lightweight rowers (I really couldn't lose the 3 kilo's I had to, to be able to join them), so I started training 6 days a week, and 2 of those days I even went twice. In hindsight, that might've caused my injury. I blew out a knee during one of those trainings, 3 months in (I was at 84 kg, gained mostly muscle). My physician told me I couldn't row for at least a year, and I would have trouble walking for about 4 months, which was a pretty accurate guess. This led to me getting way more involved in the social side of attending uni, and got me into an unhealthy habit: drinking. Over the course of 18 months, I lost pretty much all the muscle mass I had, and gained my fair share of weight; the scales told me I weighed about 100kg. I wasn't in the best state of mind at that particular time, and in the end moved back in with my parents and took on a full-time job, to recuperate and get my life on track again. I've been living on my own again, for about 7 months now, and have been trying to get into working out, but haven't really had the discipline to keep a nice regular schedule going. I'm pretty much failing my new study (Business Administration) as well, so all in all, I just need to get my ass in gear. When I got to the gym, I did an intake, to see where I was at at the time, it was pretty discouraging; 102 kg, 30,5% bodyfat, 33,3% muscle. This saturday I have a secondary evaluation (6 weeks in), so fingers crossed I guess The last few weeks I've been pretty proud of myself, going to the gym about 5 times a week (training 3 days, then 1 day to rest, then 2 days training, then 1 day to rest, repeat), but I'm not really seeing any results just yet, which I think is to be blamed on the fact that I don't know jack about the right nutrition and excercises. So I figured I'd do some research and eventually ended up here (full circle, yey!). So right now I have been counting calories for about 5 weeks, and don't even usually hit the 2k cals per day (which is already a lowered amount, to encourage weight loss). Now I've been wondering if it wouldn't be better for me to just go all-out strength training, since I also seem to be endomorphic (body type theories 'n all that; http://www.brianmac.co.uk/bodytype.htm, just a quick link). Any ideas on that? Now I also know nutrition is a big part of it, so I guess I'd need to start eating MORE than I am now, to start gaining muscles. I read Steve likes the Paleo-diet a lot, anyone else got any thoughts on that? So, wall of text, hope you could get through all of it, and hope to get a lot of motivation from these forums and the site! DvV Link to comment
Dick van Viegen Posted March 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Thanks! Will certainly check out t-nation, am just about to start on paleo, just have to finish some stuff that I still had in the fridge Link to comment
FyreFlies Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Steve's article on the Paleo breaks it down nicely. I've read it 20 times since I went Paleo on July 1st and have been consistently losing weight and lifting more weight in the gym. Good luck, I look forward to seeing your 2nd evaluation score. Level 3 - Half-Elf Warrior, STR - 5 | DEX - 1 | STA - 6 | CON - 5.5 | WIS - 3.5 | CHA - 5 I know where I'm going, and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. ~ Ali Previous Challenges: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Link to comment
I-Jo Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 I'ts the best article I have found- and I recommend it to everyone. Unlike most other sites that describe Paleo- it's not so damn overwhelming- even marks daily apple- I had a completely visceral negative reaction to the YOU DON"T EAT <_________________> list of crap that's bad for you. And I walked away going ? okay- so what CAN I eat- and I hate that notion. Steve's is great- and I eventually came around to a semi-paleo lifestyle and love it. Link to comment
Dick van Viegen Posted March 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Sooo, just had my evaluation, turns out I did progress a bit, not as much as I've hoped for, but here are the new values; Weight: 100kg (down from 101,9 kg)Fat%: 27,6% (down from 30,5%)Muscle%: 34,7% (up from 33.3%)Visceral fat: 8 points (down from 9) So, booked some progress, not there for a while though.Just to specify my goals; Getting my fat % down to 19% or less, get my muscle percentage up to at least 39%. Weight is less of an issue at the moment, but if I could get it down to around 90 kg, while still building muscle, I'd be a very content man Link to comment
Dick van Viegen Posted March 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Oh by the way, thanks for the replies I'll keep Steve's article on Paleo on hand when making my grocery lists ^^ Link to comment
AnnleaArtsy Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 I am in no way able to give any educated thoughts on the paleo diet. All I know so far is I am slowly on my way to it. If I were to go all out now I would fail within one week. So far all I have down is no fast food (haven't had it in over a year), and cutting out processed foods day by day. Instead of buying juice I make it with a vitamix. And only having meat twice a week..this one is surprisingly easy. I don't know if that last bit counts as apart of paleo but I remember a bit in Steve"s article where it says briefly it's mainly about vegetables. Link to comment
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