agoratoad
hello
any amount of movement is the right movement. I aim to walk 3 miles 4 days a week, but some weeks I feel lazy and that's okay too
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any amount of movement is the right movement. I aim to walk 3 miles 4 days a week, but some weeks I feel lazy and that's okay too
My lifts are pretty similar (assuming youre not repping that shit like crazy) and I feel like Im getting good results. I do substitute deads for kettlebell work because I just dont like deadlifts. It's a big part of the program that you SHOULD start working at a weight thats on the lighter side. Last set is AMRAP so it goes to your "limit". 5/3/1 has a million variations but if you dont enjoy it you just dont enjoy it. I've tried the program before but this time it just clicked for me. Its hard to get something with a good flow honestly.
Do something more mentally stimulating. Instead of running, ride a bicycle or play basketball, something like that.
What you're doing sounds good and sufficient to lose weight, it's mostly diet, but yours looks fine. Yeah the alcohol will get you with weight gain, just too easy with beers. I'm trying to drink less too. I'm unfortunately a slave to nicotine, but I'm trying to not smoke during the week and only during drinks. I also exercise in cardio and weight lifting to try offset it a bit.
I have done zero research into this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that nicotine decreased hunger and the main worry was the weight gain upon quitting nicotine
Yes this is true. I think my post was a bit confusing - I'm not overweight or trying to avoid weight gain. I exercise to try offset the damage that smoking does and keep myself healthy in every other way lol. If anything, not smoking during the week is helpful for gaining weight, eating for muscle, etc.
hah, i'm the same for nicotine. i used to be a pack a day smoker but then swapped to vaping and hooked on that now. i have a similar mentality to you where i'm trying to make up for it by being healthy everywhere else but i know i shouldn't be doing it. oh well, can't be perfect; everyone has their vice
just coffee as pre-workout, but yeah I think it makes me feel more energized lifting heavy
If you run a bunch without getting injured you should already be pretty strong. That said, if weights aren't working, just do daily sets of pushups basically. Start with like 5x10, and then increase sets. Works pretty well for upper body as a runner.
i dont need to try. its just one of the things i naturally love doing. i put on the headphones, pull up some tunes and run. weightlifting was the same, until the industry fed me slop instead of actual advice and the demoralizers insisted i should give it all up if im not a certain height and the prices got higher and higher and crowded gyms became more and more annoying and the irritation of every gym around me being some shitty commercial variant with only one squat rack grew more and more. so i stopped. and i kept running and did chin ups and push ups instead.
I understand not wanting to go to the gay mecca the gym can be. Check out what prisoners do. Charles Bronson wrote a book about how he stayed jacked in solitary confinement. It helps a lot to keep track of your numbers even if every set is max effort.
so you know it must be good. The only thing that I don't know how to feel about is the once per week deadlift, I don't feel like I actually progress so when I get to week 3 it can get a little ugly. I also mix in lat pull downs in as I find it easier to overload than chin ups. This has continued to go well, thankfully. I did the power zone discovery program a while back and now those are basically the only classes I do, twice weekly on the rest days of the above program. The things are stupid expensive, but definitely worth it if you use it.
Gotta admit that I've come to love zyn. The rules I have for myself to avoid getting addicted are to never have it two days in a row and never buy a new pack until the one I have is used up. I've gotten increasingly sketched out by vaping over the years as all these disposable ones come from China and there's all kinds of weird heavy metals found in them - not just lead but uranium too.
Only on days when I'm feeling drained but need to get through a workout, maybe once every week or two. I drink so much coffee as it is that I feel like it's a bad idea to start mega dosing caffeine 5 days a week on top of that. Been using Gorilla Mode but kinda hate the taste and would like to switch it up next time I buy. Any suggestions?
Man I've tried getting into zyns but they just burn me so much, stomach feels like shit. Might be too much nicotine for me to handle honestly.View attachment 97468
Gotta admit that I've come to love zyn. The rules I have for myself to avoid getting addicted are to never have it two days in a row and never buy a new pack until the one I have is used up. I've gotten increasingly sketched out by vaping over the years as all these disposable ones come from China and there's all kinds of weird heavy metals found in them - not just lead but uranium too.
