Exercise and weight loss advice thread

Anyone who has scales and claims to never have done this is weird. For me it's 1lb.

Well, I’m “off” bread and wheat in all its forms again, girls and boys.

Some may recall from the Old Place that I go through phases of this.

Earlier this week, I felt bloody awful after having just a couple of biscuits on one day, and two rounds of supermarket wholemeal bread, toasted, on another.

Bloated to fuck, miserable and in pain.

So, my usual method applies: stay off wheat for a few weeks, lose some weight and feel amazing, and then (hopefully not, this time…) think, “I’m alright now,” and blimmin’ eat it again.

I’m largely aware of the arguments for and against the “Wheat Is Bad” proposal (Dr. Davis et al), but I genuinely seem to have a problem with the stuff.

Hmmm.

Either certainly could be, but I’ve always ruled out actual celiac, as it seems to affect a tiny minority of people and I would expect the symptoms to be even more severe.

Work out in the early morning? Not that I ever could be arsed to do so, it's always right before dinner for me.

Are you able to share any information on the routine? I'd be interested to see what you do.

The bodybuilding, I'm not planning to try it or anything just curious!

At the moment I'm attempting to "maingain", if that's even a thing. Currently doing:

nSuns (3-4x/week) I did this a few years ago and saw good gains so giving it another go & enjoying it.
Crossfit (2x/week) I know, I know but it's a good workout.
Mystery activity (1x/week) Speculation welcome.
Cycling maybe 45km/week.

I'm in that in-shape, out-of-shape stage, aiming for around 2750 calories/day, weight is about 87.5kg.

Damn, did you pay $99 for it? Please keep us updated on how you get on!

I wrote a detailed response to this and lost it when posting.

The tl;dr version:
- I know it's good from previous experience with his programs.
- It comes with lots of info on goal setting, nutrition, energy systems, etc, which is useful for most people.
- Even without the above, the programming factors in intensity and volume, deloads, muscle lengths, exercise selection and pairing, workout phases, etc, that come from his experience studying and 1-2-1 training 100s of people, though they are never explicitly explained (he has PT courses for that).
- Personally, I don't think $100 is a lot for a quality, repeatable 3 month program.

There are probably decent free programs around but most don't tend to be that useful for anything above a beginner trainee. MC, along with a few other people I follow, have completely upgraded my knowledge on and ability to train, so I see the value in it.

And saying that, the strength program I use is free and I like it a lot, and I get decent results from it. I am looking at a paid program for that too, though I won't bite on that until next year.

Weigh in tonight, 96kg, down from 97.2 last week, not so bad considering I've not done any excercise.

So I've made a bit of an effort to not to eat enough dinner for 3 people and stopped filling my face with crisps every night, and in the last three months I've lost just over 2 stone. According to the NHS if I lose another half a stone I officially won't be fat anymore. I'll be right at the top end of not fat, but I'll take it.

It all come back to £££. Both as it's relatively cheap to farm and buy, but is/was very lucrative.

Well done Rob. Bet you're feeling the benefit eh?!

Ooh, gullet crumble!

Recipe?

Day 18 of "closing my rings" since getting an Apple Watch. It's definitely helped me be more active, which has always been a challenge when sat at a desk from 8-5 (after which it's parenting, cooking etc).

Really enjoyed some of the stuff on Apple Fitness+ and have utilised the cycling and core stuff on there, hell I've even taken a yoga class now, which was way better than I expected. Turns out that I'm unsurprisingly not very bendy.

Question for those that lift weights: I've now left a set of dumbbells in the kitchen. I'm making it a habit of lifting them whilst brewing tea/coffee etc. Is there any benefit to this, or am I more likely to do myself a mischief? I'm of the mindset that ANYTHING is better than nothing, but I'd be interested in the thoughts of those that take this sort of thing more seriously than I do.

Don't do heavy cardio after weights or anything that tears/ stresses muscle. Big no no. Feel free to go for a 2 mile warm up run or something and then weights after but never the other way round.