I'm a Vegan. A typical day consists of porridge in the morning. Several pieces of fruit and veg. Tofu and salad or my vegan shake. Later in the day pasta or with tomatoes and ****. I try to make a good portion of my diet raw fruits and veg + nuts and seeds.
I need to eat more fruit and veg but I'm simply too lazy, however enough is enough I'm going to pull my finger out because my skin needs it
That sounds like my worst nightmare, fair play to you though pal if it's working and you can live like that. You best hope the bees don't go extinct
I cannot understand how my generation have survived eating all of the things we enjoyed , I have no aches and pains, no signs at all of arthritis, wear glasses only for reading, little hard of hearing , prone to irritability over delusional claims by some football supporters , otherwise OK And of course we must not forget the magical benefits of that Pennywell water
It's not that bad, really. This morning I'm having - Vegan mock bacon that's just been released. Quite nice actually. Not as nice as I remember bacon but still nice. - Also some vegan sausages that are awesome and everyone I know who's tried them has loved them. - A couple of slices of toast with Tofu scramble - It gives me a similar experience of scrambled eggs on toast. - Tomatoes - Beans - Pot of tea. Tonne of protein in that, some decent carbs and fibre. Not a health freaks wet dream but it's a good replacement for the traditional saturday english breakfast.
10 for both health and fitness. The latest pacemaker has me running around like Benny Hill. Never touch alcohol. Eat to live, so another 10, a proper diet, bacon, sausages, chicken, steak, tatties. Drink healthy full fat milk, coke, lucozade, even been known to have the odd drop of water. None of the crap that some on here seem to shovel down their necks.
Half term this week, so I am off of school runs as the missus is off work. Played football yesterday, so was a bit achy this morning, but managed to get into the gym at work at 6 (bearing in mind it takes 1hr 30 to get to work!) and did a quick 5km, then will head back again and do a weigh sesh. Gonna try and do it every day this week, or die trying.
Anybody ever used a personal trainer? Many people in current day and age are 'self taught' using sites on the internet, 9 out of 10 of these sites will be funded or influenced by supplements they sell or have rights to. I've used two, one to recover from injury, who was a physical therapist as well. The other a completely useless idiot who bored the **** out of me. The difference between person one and person two was around £60 per hour. If you're paying £30 you're gonna get a complete gimp. They are worth it though, I see so many people ignoring basics in the gym, mainly lifters, who ignore the core lifts and eccentric contractions, then wonder why they become hard gainers. A good PT is worth every penny if you are committed to healthy lifestyle. Even if you're just having a refresher, they correct bad form and habits that you may have picked up and not noticed.
Life changing. Granted its not cheap and many would not be able to afford it. I had no interest in lifting weights at all up until about 2 years ago. Always been in reasonable nick due to football, but after a problems with ankles/knees I jacked everything in. Extra weight set in pretty quickly. Every time I tried to get a bit fitter I had a few issues. Someone recommended a PT who was a sports injury specialist. Not cheap and initially I only went in to sort out the issues to allow me to get fit. I quickly realised this guy was looking after all sorts from Falcons lads to NUFC footballers. I'd heard about good and bad PT, I think the big difference is form and doing things right. He has been strict since day one. Won't count bad reps, will just stop explain and drop weights if necessary. It took me probably 2 month just to understand form and do the conditioning work. He is off to these symposiums all the time, learning and taking in info from the top trainers. Obviously committed to it. I will probably drop after xmas to just doing my own and then have the odd refresher. You can't buy that understanding of how your muscles work. Obviously we all want to develop. However there is a good way and bad way. I see so many younger lads powering in the arm days and chest days. They rock up with twigs for legs and you just think "FFS mate, do some leg work"
Exactly mate, the best kind are PT's who understand the human body and that includes nutrition. I see so many of these PT's that have done a 5 day crash course and got a job in a gym somehow. All they teach is squats, farmers walks, battle ropes and how to use the cardio machines. You get many lads at gyms just turning up and copying other lads, there was two in my gym who used to copy everything I did. I tested my suspicion one day, as I do a kettlebell workout and put an exercise in called 'The Long Cycle', and I've never seen anybody else in any gym doing it in my life, yet the following day, Pinky and The Brain were doing their very own version of it. One of the PT's tried to tell me I was doing a Turkish Get up wrong, as I have to modify it for my shoulder injury, so I told him I watched him tell a girl her form was fine on a squat despite her wearing Air Max and distributing her weight onto her toes. Most of them are absolute ****, but when you get a good one, they are the difference between being a hard gainer and seeing fast results.
I want a PT, but I'm not prepared to pay extortionate prices, I am quite happy doing what I do in the gym and seeing a reasonable difference and basically stopping myself from becoming obese. I'm not adverse to a leg day myself, but I play football twice a week (thurs and Sun) so it's impossible to get it in without the doms destroying me and affecting my play. I find running, whether it be a solid continuous run or a 30 sprint 1 min walk interval does what I need to keep myself fit(ish).
I think the other key is actually liking the lad/lass training you. We get on well and have a good bit craic in between. I couldn't do the uncomfortable silence or forced conversation routine. We train together sometimes on a Saturday. That is great too as a change. Him and another of the trainers, you get a bit of egging each other going, it can really turn a good sess into a great one. We went to a local gym the other week to train together, just to give another place a go (he has his own). It was enlightening to watch others. You had a couple of meatheads doing just about everything wrong. The number of times they just did the curl (doing arms of Saturday night obviously) and ignored any negative was bewildering. Every single negative was just a fire down to get to the next concentric. This wasn't some form of concentric training only either, it was just pure ignorance. Then there was this lass who was obviously a bit of a power lifter. Her technique was absolutely flawless in every exercise. I tell you what, she couldn't half shift some weight too. At some stage she'd had professional training obviously. That was the most obvious example I've ever seen of right and wrong.
With them blokes mate you see it everywhere, strength is everything for them, they're usually carrying a huge frame on top of a bulky visceral midriff. That type of training will never interest me, it's your typical 'door man' training, it is what it is, you rarely see them doing pull ups or box jumps, instead they'll focus on the lat pull downs or the shrug or dumb bell curls, usually wearing a belt because they put so much lower back into their curls they get injured every time they do them. Each to their own innit. I don't particularly like the db and barbell type stuff, it bores me but I know I need my core strength back, after that I'll go with the calisthenics and climbing walls for conditioning.
Anyone fancy going to Christmas without a drink? CMon, a little challenge for our health bitches. Then you can get drunk cheaper.
