Exercise and weight loss advice thread

Even though it’s a hassle if you don’t have a fancy rice cooker that can do it for you, GABA brown rice is great. Gives a slightly different taste than regular cardboard brown rice and is nutritionally better anyway

Just bought a treadmill for my wife for Christmas in an early Black Friday sale. Dropped £60 from this morning which is good.

Just realised how that sounds and like my wife will give me a slapping when she finds out. To clarify, she wanted one and is putting in some of the money. I've just did the research and said I'd pay the money that I would have spent on her for Xmas towards it.

It wasn't a case of me saying "I think you need to start using one of these..."

Does anyone here partake of Huel? I keep seeing adverts for it and it sounds ideal for a quick nutritious meal replacement that would suit me. But every comment thread is people putting laughing emojis and taking the piss out of it. I'm not sure if it's worth it.

First week or so back at running over with four 5ks and two 7ks over eight days. Times and pace are more or less equivalent to tired days pre-op which is a pleasant surprise.

Main difference is I can feel the distance in my legs now. So not evening going to attempt any of my longer routes yet, I wouldn’t stand a chance.

My sympathy. I've just had a week off and that was enough.

Does someone have a link to a good and simple dumbbell workout? "Simple" meaning with exercises like "bench press" and no "half-inclined overgrip side-gyrating dyslateral dumbbell bench press" silliness, which is all I could find so far. Preferably one that focuses on hypertrophy, although I could just increase reps if it doesn't.

Thanks.

The motion thing eases off as the brain adapts. I prefer to run outside, but years ago i did use them at the gym, first couple of times was a bit dizzy after hopping off after a 5k, but it soon stopped.

At the gym last night for first time in 10 days due to being stupidly busy at work the last week or so and over the weekend. I think i may have gone a bit overboard to make up 'teh lost gainz' and can already feel that tomorrow is not going to be pleasant.

Is one "lovely evening stroll along the coast of the French Riviera"?

Well, there are worse things to do than working out and seeing beautiful places from all around the world.

Found a very nice strength training device online, the Eisenhorn. Sort of looks like a cable station, but it looks like you can do proper squats and deadlifts, albeit more Smith-machine-like. Goes up to 112kg resistance. And there's an optional cabinet to hide the machine and all accessoires. If only it weren't eye-wateringly expensive (£1600 for the base model).

No need to rude dear.

Depends on what you want to achieve. With its solid oak panels, the Eisenhorn looks like a wall-mounted cupboard when not in use, and stores all the accessoires, whereas the Tonal looks nothing like furniture, but more like a big TV (which it partly is) and you need to store the accessories somehwere else. I know with which I can convince the GF more easliy.

Considering the both cost about the same, I see no reason to go for a Tonal, unless you want that the connected/digital features.

Christ, had a look at that tonal thing. Obvs ymmv, but to me, it looks bollocks.

Basically, the Peloton of cable machines by the looks of it.

I'd sooner just buy a cable machine tbh, i can totally live without the online tv thing and subscriptions.