Exercise and weight loss advice thread

It was really visceral, like slowly cutting into the meat. I'd just been watching that Jeffrey Dahmer thing on Netflix before bed so I'm either turning into a psychopath or just really hungry. Maybe both.

Unless you’re actually taking your sets to or near failure, which I’d wager he’s not doing while making tea, you won’t need to worry about training too regularly or doing the same things too often.



Similarly, this won’t apply to a bit of casual work. It all stems from a fear of “impacting gains” but even when that does occur you’re talking about small percentages, and if your sleep, nutrition and training isn’t all optimal you’ll be leaving more gains elsewhere anyway.


If you’re just doing odds and sods whenever you’re making a tea, do whatever makes you feel good and that you can stick to. Something is better than nothing. If you get overly sore then give it a rest for a day or two, or do a different set of exercises. If you want to take it further then look at simple body weight routines to do regularly and scale up.
Google ‘trigger sessions’ for a simple starting point.

I am an idiot (Yes, I know you all knew that already). I was re-racking some dumbells at the gym, and someone walked by. Thinking it was someone i knew, who I'd seen at the football a few days before, i looked up to chat and nipped the side of my little finger between rack and weight.

It was no-one i knew. Now i have a nice cut on my finger and a well-earned reminder to pay attention when re-racking weights.

What a twat. Never done that in 25-30 years of gym going...

Ha! A reasonable guess, but no, it was an old(er than me) bloke. 😀

I have avoided this problem by never having visited a gym.

Decided I need to lose the man tits so I broke out the kettlebell last week and have some dumbbells arriving today. I know what I'm doing with the kettlebell but would really welcome any guidance on dumbbell workouts for my arms and shoulders.

As a side note, I've never taken the nutrition side as seriously and I cannot believe how much I am eating at the moment.

Agreed, though the kettlebell training will help.

I have recently been able to go the gym regularly due to a job change and am really enjoy it. They have punch bags and I am trying to learn to skip as cardio.

I'm not too fond of the treadmills.

Indoor (&outdoor) cycling, rowing, even an elliptical trainer would let you do cardio with low impact for dodgy knees.

Swimming too.

There's no excuses accepted in this thread!

20 minutes of Human Flag should get the heart going

What sort of thing can / should I do at home that's good cardio but low impact? 

I'm reluctant to join a gym because I'm hoping to move to the other side of town before too long, and I don't have much room in my flat for more equipment (hence trying to maximise the impact of daily kettlebell and dumbbell workouts). I figure I probably need to be doing some cardio and some strength every day - probably about 20 minutes of each - and getting my nutrition and sleep right to make gains.

Basically need to be hench(ish) by the end of March - probably not possible but I reckon I can lower my body fat - I reckon (accordingly to back of a fag packet maths) that I'm at around 18% at the moment. I'd like to get down to 15% at least - while building lean muscle. 

I know this is essentially a big change to my lifestyle so I've stopped drinking and I'm being extremely careful with what I eat alongside the workouts. I'm actually finding it hard to eat enough at the moment, hence the Huel Black...

(end of March is the start of Ramadan which means any serious gains are off the table for a month because nutrition and sleep will go out the window!)

Awesome - that's really helpful, thanks man. 

Yeah, this really. Cut out this and booze and it'll fall off. The challenge then is eating the right stuff to build muscle.

Assume I'm also right in thinking that while it might be good to bang out a set or two between meetings, the real benefit comes from consistent time under tension?