OT: Summer Fitness Thread

[Chytilmania]

Those are good points. I may have to add more muscle but I have limited my lifting since I ran in to some problems (injury). I have mostly been doing 30-45 minutes a day biking. I'm fortunate not to have much stress nowadays but I do not sleep well. I wake up at 4 am often (bathroom).

Your body could be getting used to the biking and now not burning as much. Lifting would be a new stimulus, put on some muscle and burn more overall. Hopefully not a serious injury!

Would you call yourself skinny fat? Or you still have muscle?

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Haha best way to fight the love handles are wider chest, back and shoulders. Works for me. Haven’t figured out the lower abs trick yet which annoys the s*** out of me. I’d probably have to drop 10 lbs I’m not willing to drop.

Oh for sure, but that doesn't mean that the lower back/LH fluff doesn't exist!

I've gotten over it though and the amount of work that it would take to get lean enough where it's basically gone isn't worth it - I've done it and I felt like ass.

 

[NickyFotiu]

Your body could be getting used to the biking and now not burning as much. Lifting would be a new stimulus, put on some muscle and burn more overall. Hopefully not a serious injury!

Would you call yourself skinny fat? Or you still have muscle?

Definitely not skinny fat. Have muscle. Arms and legs are muscular. Its just those last inches of fat on my ab area that are stubborn. I may follow your advice but with lower weights.

 

[Chytilmania]

Oh for sure, but that doesn't mean that the lower back/LH fluff doesn't exist!

I've gotten over it though and the amount of work that it would take to get lean enough where it's basically gone isn't worth it - I've done it and I felt like ass.

Agreed! It ends up being a full time job or like you said you feel like ass. Not worth it to me either.

Definitely not skinny fat. Have muscle. Arms and legs are muscular. Its just those last inches of fat on my ab area that are stubborn. I may follow your advice but with lower weights.

Do super slow eccentric movements (lowering the weight) you’ll build muscle without lifting heavy. Form and strength will also improve from this.

 

[NickyFotiu]

After months of great discipline I cracked earlier this week. I ate around 1600 extra calories one day. Back on the grind though. I'm going to lose those 3 pounds even if it takes me 3 years to do it lol.

 

[NickyFotiu]

After 2 weeks with no positive movement and some negative movement the scale started moving again. 160.4 this morning. Close to that 159 goal. Also starting to see some of that crazy stubborn ab fat going finally. Tried on my 20 year old suit. I fit although it was not as loose as I would like so I'm lowering my goal to 156. I started this around December 20 2022 so its taken a long time.

 

[Chytilmania]

After a month I’m starting to see and feel a difference since I have started taking the gut peptides and cutting out the foods that were irritating me. Lower abs are very slowly getting better, not as much bloating as I used to have. Hoping after the 3 month mark I see a more noticeable difference.

 

[Ben Grimm]

I found something that motivates me to work out 365 days a year. If I don't, my old hockey knees hurt. My coach was my (born in 1934) dad. I tried telling him that having all our practices and games outside in -20 weather (before the wind chill) wasn't healthy. We could hit as hard as we wanted (PIMs for hitting too hard were unheard of in our 1970s league) and not feel it due to frostbite, we won the city championship, and that was all he cared about.