[CKD] trainerdan..zeus...someone HELP

[hereigo]

Ok well i have not posted in a while but i have been faithful on LCing..its not working..i feel so blah :cry: ..dont even want to see what i weigh. Someone please tell me how i can move this weight loss to a faster and more successful pace..i want to do it the right way but i am getting desperate
Lee

[Trainerdan]

Check out the CKD101 thread at the top of the forum.

Sift through it and find the section on CARB LOAD.

Do it this weekend, and resume LC on Sunday.

By the way, what does your exercise program look like?

[Zeus]

Someone please tell me how i can move this weight loss to a faster and more successful pace..i want to do it the right way but i am getting desperate

-Hmm, you'll have to give us more details as to why you may be stagnating. Also, are you using a 'fat-burner'?

[hereigo]

I am not sure what fat burners are exactly...does metabolife count? If not any recomendations..
ok excercise :rolleyes:
mon, wed, fri 30 minute walk in AM & PM elliptical 20 min. or stepper/bike (this is usually 30-45) If i can get to a pool i do laps
tuesday aerobics level 2/3
thursday whatever if anything i feel like...LOL
weekends are mine and to catch up on all errands (blah blah) i am not doing any weights yet i have not figured that out exactly..i am way shy and do not like to lift in front of those guys especially as they are neighbors :blush:
besides that i never seem to stop and i drink about a gallon of water.
ok well time to sleep, my bf is starting to hate my pc :lol:
thanks in advance
Lee

[Zeus]

I am not sure what fat burners are exactly...does metabolife count? If not any recomendations..

-Yes, that's a fat-burner. As well as Xenadrine, Ripped Fuel, etc.

ok excercise
mon, wed, fri 30 minute walk in AM & PM elliptical 20 min. or stepper/bike (this is usually 30-45) If i can get to a pool i do laps
tuesday aerobics level 2/3
thursday whatever if anything i feel like...LOL


-As far as 'cardio' is concerned, this looks alright.

weekends are mine and to catch up on all errands (blah blah) i am not doing any weights yet i have not figured that out exactly..i am way shy and do not like to lift in front of those guys especially as they are neighbors

-Go to a different gym.

besides that i never seem to stop and i drink about a gallon of water.

-Huh?

[hereigo]

ok well sometimes i tend to babble and not make sense...i drink tons of water and that is suppose to be important..right? and for the never stopping part i am on my feet all day, i work in a daycare, so i figure that this should help with the whole weight thing. not hinder it
hope this expalined the ?HUH? thing..LOL

[Meg_S]

Hello! I *hate* gyms. If you're too shy to lift in front of a bunch of guys, invest in some dumbells and work out at home.

-you can put a bar in the doorway for pullups/chins, and if you can't do them yet, put your feet on a stool to take some weight off.
-there is a ton of exercises you can do without a workout bench, but I love the one I have.
-if you're worried about not having a spotter for squats, one thing you can do is pre-exhaust your legs so that by the time you get to squats you need very little to no weight.
I love to work out at home, I can grunt, scream, shout, swear and wear whatever I want.. or don't want ;) I can blast medieval bagpipe music if that is what pumps me up.

If you want to change your shape, lift some weights!
Good luck on your plan.
Meg

[Zeus]

I can grunt, scream, shout, swear and wear whatever I want.. or don't want

-You can do that at a gym too.

[Meg_S]

Of course you can do that at a gym, with the exception of wearing what you want.
But if someone is self conscious about working out in front of other people, they are not going to get the quality workout they would if they were alone, or with a friend in private.

Personally I love to work out at home, and would not pay the outrageous gym prices that are in my area, unless I was the kind of person who made the gym my personal, social and recreational life and would then have no reason to be anywhere else except maybe bed.
As for cardio, no treadmill can beat real rocks and dirt under my feet or bike tires.

BUT I didn't want this to be a Is home or gym better, I was just pointing out that Hereigo can work out at home just as well as in a gym, because she mentioned feeling self conscious in front of people.

Meg

[Niky Brady]

Originally posted by Zues -You can do that at a gym too.

Not at my gym!! There are rules posted and "unessesary grunts or sounds are not permitted".

[Trainerdan]

You can do that at a gym too.

Not at the gym I work at. I'd be the one asking you to leave. LOL.

A few grunts at the end of a hard set are OK, but the loud swearing and yelling are not necessary. I've seen some big boys squat some major weight, and I've seen guys bench so much that the bar was bending ... all I heard from them were grunts and maybe the occasional strained growl.

but hey, if you can do 4 plates per side on any upper body lift, you can get away with that. LOL.

I've also seen young bucks doing 25 lb. db curls and yelling their heads off. The gym is no place for that.

[Zeus]

I said you *can* do it at a gym. I didn't say it wouldn't be frowned upon. Also, I dislike those who scream, yell, etc... personally, I grit my teeth.

[cmorera]

Originally posted by Trainerdan


Not at the gym I work at. I'd be the one asking you to leave. LOL.

A few grunts at the end of a hard set are OK, but the loud swearing and yelling are not necessary. I've seen some big boys squat some major weight, and I've seen guys bench so much that the bar was bending ... all I heard from them were grunts and maybe the occasional strained growl.

but hey, if you can do 4 plates per side on any upper body lift, you can get away with that. LOL.

I've also seen young bucks doing 25 lb. db curls and yelling their heads off. The gym is no place for that.


GOD, 4 plates for upper body!?!?! I would let them do whatever the freak they wanted if I owned the gym, probably let them rob it if they wanted to. DAmn, I've seen a few of those people at RIMAC (UCSD gym), we have some powerlifting champ who does like 8 plates on the deadlift, and other ridiculous weight on stuff too. He looks fat more than anything though, **BIG** dude. Interstingly enough he is a computer nerd, works for SDCC (San Diego Supercomputing Center)


As for the young buck screaming on the 25lbs., those guys are total loses --------> ME :( heheh, it's all good.

[Trainerdan]

I said you *can* do it at a gym

Defensive?!?! LOL. Just rippin' ya man. You know you're the one yelling at the top of your lungs while you do cardio. Singing all those crazy military cadences. I saw ya. It's OK. There's no shame in being who you are. But, I would leave the military pants and the Kill 'Em All shirt at home next time. LOL.

There actually WAS a guy like that at the last gym I worked at. Everyday I had to go tell him to shut up. Everyday for a month it was a confrontation. LOL. the final straw was when he was running laps on the indoor track in his boxer briefs ... white ones. Then he started sweating. It was ugly. LOL.

When I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing he said, "What? I'm wearing shorts. If you got it, flaunt it." He got his membership revoked shortly thereafter since it turned into a name calling event and he threatened me.

Then, as if he wasn't causing enough trouble, as he was changing to leave, he made some bad racial comments to some BIG boys in the locker room.

They came to me and said "Dan, tell that dude to shut it before the bruthas wait for him outside."

After I filed the reports to get him revoked for violating the dress code, threatening a staff member, AND using inapproprate language all in the same day I told "the bruthas" that if some incident happened the next night in the side parking lot where Mr. Military usually parked, I could make sure that there was a staff meeting for ALL staff members around that time... including parking lot security. LOL.

Mr. Military never came back.

[hereigo]

thanks everyone ;)
ok well...i for one could never yell and grunt in a gym (at least i do not think that i could) but i would really like to lift so maybe i will buy some at home things..i carbed up this weekend so ill see what i weigh at the end of the week after lcing..

i dont have a lot of room for big equipment, the bf's fault (lol) so any recomendations besides like hand weights????those i already have.

[Zeus]

i carbed up this weekend so ill see what i weigh at the end of the week after lcing..

-Why did you 'carb-up' if you haven't started lifting weights yet?

[hereigo]

oops..i did not realize that in order to carb-up you have to lift.. should have been more careful i will be next time.

[hereigo]

Ok i have another question..i have not been able to hit the caloroies required...i cannot seem to consume that much..and besides this i know my cardio is fine but my weight lifting isnt great. will these two thing sbe ok together ( will ne compliment the other) or will it stall me? Could more cardio substitute lifting?
thanks Lee :daze: