Holiday Fitness Progress

[taiga]

How're you guys going during holidays with your progress?

I started at 96.7 kgs straight after exams with 26% bf (16th November)

Got down to 91.5 (20th December) then just reweighed myself today and was at 93. Am in India at the moment so protein intake is low with high carb and overall calorie intake.

That said the 96.7 and 91.5 are at minimum, dehydrated weights, so the 93 (hopefully) is water.

Unfortunately haven't got anything to test for bf atm, and have only had access to a gym once a week for the past few weeks, so nothing solid in terms of lean mass/lifts

Post away

[Hutchoo]

I'm slowly getting back into my 500kgs squats.
Loljks.
Joined a gym, exercising ~2-3 times a week there + doing stuff at home! Lost a little bit so far!

Eating some good meals as well Chicken breast (steamed) with green beans/broccoli for most meals, a couple eggs here and there.. swapped white rice to brown etcetc. Protein shakes after workouts and such.

[abd123]

Good strength gains in all my lifts, due myself to eating over maintenance and keeping low repetitions in all lifts.

TIPS: If you guys wanna burn fat faster be sure to have two leg day splits in a week. Make one day heavy and make one day light. Also be sure to Squat two times a week.
The benefit of training legs two times a week is that you'll be burning a lot more calories, don't worry about getting massive legs it won't happen, Chinese olympic weight lifters tend to train legs 2-3 times or more, their bodies look really tone, why? due to doing training legs over two times a week. Your bodyfat levels will decrease at a fast rate (srs), but still have the cardio going .

Great Jobs on your progress guys .

[HERculina]

I went to the gym for the first time yesterday! how many calories should you lose per session? I think i lost ~500 calories.does this equal 5 chocolate bars?  And does anyone noe if diet shakes/meal replacements work just to lose weight short term?

[abd123]

I went to the gym for the first time yesterday! how many calories should you lose per session? I think i lost ~500 calories.does this equal 5 chocolate bars?  And does anyone noe if diet shakes/meal replacements work just to lose weight short term?

Green tea or Caffeine pills (srs), it has a great thermogenic effect. Thus, causes a greater fat loss .

As for diet shakes, it is best to go for whey protein, only supplement it, if your not getting enough protein throughout the day. For losing fat be sure to have two meals or three meals consisting of a lean protein.

Shakes, wouldn't matter much for fat loss (srs). Just chug down some green tea or swallow caffeine pills .

[HERculina]

Will whey protein make me have muscles? 0.0 i just wanna lose like 4 kg not increase my BMI     I saw ultraslim diet shakes in the supermarket the otherday for only $17.80 so i think I'll try these first but the green tea sounds like a good idea and i already have a supply at home ahahaa    How much is your typical gym membership? The one near my house is $199 for three months - is this an ok price... Or expensive?

[aes_999]

Girls don't get ripped muscles, unless they're on steroids.
Whey protein should be fine, it'll get you toned muscles
if you exercise enough and eat healthily.

[nacho]

I weigh 70kg
100% bf

[xZero]

Still remained at 55kg -.- though my body fat went from 11% down to 9%

[abd123]

Will whey protein make me have muscles? 0.0 i just wanna lose like 4 kg not increase my BMI     I saw ultraslim diet shakes in the supermarket the otherday for only $17.80 so i think I'll try these first but the green tea sounds like a good idea and i already have a supply at home ahahaa    How much is your typical gym membership? The one near my house is $199 for three months - is this an ok price... Or expensive?

Well, this picture would explain about girls would 'think about' and the 'reality of it', Kenoy used this pic .

$199 dollars is really expensive, I know theres a gym called "Derrimut Gym" that charges $173 dollars for 6 months

[aes_999]

^...nice pics / pecs?

On holiday fitness progress things,
does anyone go to Monash Uni gym?
If so, how much are they per year if
you're a Monash student?
I miss MHS gym, but can't go there for
free anymore...

[taiga]

You can still go to MHS gym till the end of Jan for 2 bucks a day.

Monash is 24 per forthnight. Get referred by someone and get a month free, and refer a mate for another month free. (You can do that for a total three months).

Meal replacement shakes are complete rubbish. Either use protein shakes as a meal replacement (as opposed to a supplement as usual).
In all seriousness, if you get some Sustagen Hospital Formula and mix it with milk and replace two meals a day with a glass of that accompanied by a punnet of strawberries (yeah you can have the whole punnet) you'll lose weight, remain full, and still be nutritionally complete. There's nothing magical in meal replacement shakes that make you lose weight, it's just 200 calories to fill you up to stop you from eating a real meal.

[HERculina]

I knew it was expensive! I think it must be because most of the equipment is fairly new. I had to pay $15 just to use the gym for the whole day, wasn't even allowed to use the weights cause i was underage or something :/  hmm i guess maybe i shouldn't buy ultraslim/optislim ... Just eat more fruit/veggies, drink green tea, make my mum stop frying food?

[WhoTookMyUsername]

a delicous reasonably healty way to cook chicken breast ( i tried this) mix a few tbs (4) of pistachio dukkah with about a table spoon of olive oil, a bit of salt and 2 table spoons of lemon juice. Spread the mix over 3 or 4 thighs put the thighs on top of some foil and pop it in the oven at 180 ish for 25 minutes (if someone wants to cook ill check the exact recipe). Is very tasty and healthy

[Allygator]

 I've just started P90X which is freaken awesome as it's absolutely slaughtering me. I did only a third of the plyometrics workout and couldn't walk properly for the next few days. I'm not so good at the whole healthy diet thing though. How do you guys discipline yourselves to keep up such clean eating?