Think Chief has got more like this in mind .... please log in to view this image Tel me you are, and not fantasising about the fat Ginger hippy
Get your bench press in first next time mate, your compounds are always best done first then your isolations. You'll measure your bench increases better that way, rather than hitting compounds when some muscles are already fatigued. Great going though, I've just had a pack of doritos
Yeah, I would ordinarily but someone was on the only bench so I did it arse backwards. I could have done it with dumbbells I suppose. Didn't think of that, just grabbed the free cable station.
I've always preferred dumb bells anyway. I tore my rotator cuff on flat bench so always db's now anyway.
Played 5 aside for an hour and a half. Still got the touch but **** all stamina. Best moment was my lads saying they were impressed at how good I was
Got that niggle behind my knee again after last night. The old popliteus issue! Got to be the rowing, it doesn't occur when running, so I might have to sack that for something else. Seem to recall the yoga helped it last time so I'm booked in for some of that Monday evening.
No, I haven't. It's meant to be agonising! I'd have to pay for that, the yoga I got to is part of my monthly leisure centre membership so is 'free'.
Wimp! I'm sure you already know, but be sure to stretch your hamstring before getting back on the rowing machine. Your dodgy knee will love you for it.
Might not take that long. Wasn't too bad today. Another lighter session tomorrow and back in on Sunday. Then my first ever yoga session on Monday night. Gonna shift these extra pounds if it kills me (which is a distinct possibility!)
That's where the yoga also comes in. It is very good for keeping that area in check. Although I admit I jumped right in last night and hadn't warmed up. Well I had, but not my legs.
Am going to ease into the Newcastle diet from tomorrow. Will start at max 1000 cals per day for a week and reduce to 800 in week 2. Will try 600 in week 3 if I survive. Starting weight is 14.8lbs at 6'2". Goal is 13.0 in 6 weeks.
Got a few bits of equipment indoors; bike, weights, power plate (very effective) and do a fair bit of walking during my working week. Enough to tick over, but the low number of calories shouldn't become a concern. I started a low carb, higher fat diet 2 years ago and lost a fair bit of weight in a matter of 2 weeks (20lbs), but the weight hasn't shifted since then. I'm a TOFI - Thin Outside Fat Inside and really need to hit the visceral fat.
I don't know, I think losing weight is pretty easy as long as you are committed. Really isn't that hard to stick to a diet of 1800-2000 calories a day eating healthily, and you will see results. My biggest issue when I was doing my first cut was actually getting to 2000 calories eating only healthy stuff as they are so low calorie (I did basically only eat chicken and veg though). You could have 2/3 decent sized meals at 1000 calories I reckon if you have a grilled chicken breast and vegetables for every meal. Doing that for longer than a week though and I think you will find it very hard to maintain it and will just crave **** food and binge. The whole point in losing weight is surely to keep it off long term so it shouldn't just be a diet for a month or whatever, it should be changing your eating habits in a positive way and I don't see how massively restricting your calories does that.
I managed to keep the weight off that I lost with the LCHF 2 years ago, so would expect to maintain any new weight loss as I eat healthily anyway what with being diabetic. For me, it's all about directly attacking the stubborn visceral stuff which the Newcastle Diet has shown to be very effective at. Cutting the fats that are a necessary part of my current eating regime (LCHF) should go a long way towards my ultimate 600 cal goal.
OK so to put it simply if you have kept the weight off from 2 years ago but not losing any more then what you currently are eating is your maintenance calorie intake. Have you tried maybe trying to cut out 300-500 calories from what you would normally eat? You would see results from that pretty quickly and it would be sustainable. I have never heard of the Newcastle diet so can't really comment on it, but most of these crash diets are bad news in my experience. I am assuming that it doesn't advocate eating 600 calories a day for longer than a week or 2?
600 calories is starvation territory. You’d better be in pretty good shape before you even attempt that one or you’ll suffer! A guy called Montignac actually wrote a book on not mixing carbs and proteins, I think well before Atkins’s version. His idea was not that you cut out carbs altogether, just never mix the two. So steak and salad is fine, fries No! Pasta is ok, but with no meats or proteins of any kind, Can’t remember it all now, but it’s to do with how the pancreas reacts to the mixture of the two.
