*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

Easy convenient foods you could eat: Pork pies, scotch eggs, sausage rolls. If you fancy some cooking you could oven cook some burgers and make some cheese burgers up. I buy lean burgers from the butcher, cook them for 20 mins and throw them into some big wholemeal baps with 2 cheese slices and jalapeno relish. Very quick and tasty! Hard boiled egg mashed with mayonaise (maybe a bit of cress if you fancy it) slung into a wholemeal bap is also another quick and easy meal.
 
Calories decide fat gain/loss, eat what you want aslong as calories are counted for, if thats your type of thing. Most people like to eat clean food to maintain health, but a few things a day dont do any harm.
 
It's never as simple as calorie counting. I'm on a diet at the moment that sees me eating 5000+ calories a day, but I'm losing fat.

Eating well is a complex system, there is no simplifying it.
 
Thought I'd post my stats up now to encourage myself to carry on working, currently around 5'6", short arse I know.. currently doing stronglifts but have reduced from 3 times a week to 2 times as I was finding I wasn't getting long enough to recover. Current (very poor I know) stats are:

Squat 5x5 - 82.5kg
Deadlift 1x5 - 85kg
Dumbell bench press (no spotter hence dumbbells) 5x5 - 25kg db's

Swapped out press ups for weighted dips as I read it as a recommedned substitution in a few places and I'm a bit fed up of press ups having done them for years before starting in the gym.

Was doing another basic full body split two times a week before this but changed to stronglifts as I like the easy to follow progression week on week.
 
Hey FF,

Down to 15st! Is it a ripped look? I'd be gutted if i lost my bulk, having said that i'ma gonna catch ya on that 200k squat mark my words. Training every other week on it now and in 2 weeks have gone up for me reps of 10 by 10kg. Had an attempt at 170 the other day had to drop it. Have you got any tips for a bit of form as since going back to doing it i feel my balance (particularly with the heavier weights) has been a bit off. Which is odd as with bench and deadlift the more weight you add i find the better the balance.

I've been focusing heavily on getting strength up using a few additions.

Typical Bench day is now:
115,120,125 x10, 130 for 7 (nearly got 9 the other day!), 135x6 147.5x2 <-- this latter has gone up from 142.5-145-147.5 week on week now! Then back down to 112.5x8(x2)

I reckon i'm easily comfortable for a 17X bench :)

Everyones also commented on my size i'm literally a litre of water off 16stone now :)
 
ben90 said:
Calories decide fat gain/loss, eat what you want aslong as calories are counted for, if thats your type of thing. Most people like to eat clean food to maintain health, but a few things a day dont do any harm.
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To a point, but the processed stuff like sausage rolls and scotch eggs will contain good amounts of trans fats which are best totally avoided
 
tom_e said:
To a point, but the processed stuff like sausage rolls and scotch eggs will contain good amounts of trans fats which are best totally avoided
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Unless your a powerlifter! haha. But I agree, healthy eating for the most part, but il still enjoy some ice cream or chocolate without worry most days.
 
ben90 said:
Calories decide fat gain/loss, eat what you want aslong as calories are counted for, if thats your type of thing.
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But one calorie from a chicken is not the same as one calorie from a McFlurry. If I ate 1500 calories a day from Mars Bars my body would look very different compared to if I ate 1500 calories a day from mackarel.

Of course some treats are nice, but to imply that if you want to get very lean the only thing that matters is sheer calorie balance, is wrong imo.
 
Robbie G said:
But one calorie from a chicken is not the same as one calorie from a McFlurry. If I ate 1500 calories a day from Mars Bars my body would look very different compared to if I ate 1500 calories a day from mackarel.

Of course some treats are nice, but to imply that if you want to get very lean the only thing that matters is sheer calorie balance, is wrong imo.
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Yes but thats getting slightly extreme, no one is going to be doing that! I hope! :D It applies more to a well rounded diet. If your body is using more energy than you give it, you have to lose weight on a basic level.

The guy from leangains (martin berkhan) is proof of it, he literally eats anything, but he hits hits calorie/macro goals and still maintains sub 8% body fat all year.
 
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Hit my lats, 100%. Didn't get DOMs, though. In fact I didn't get DOMs in my back for the first time ever today.
 
1 scotch egg and a sausage roll isn't going to make or break a diet. I'm suggesting practical solutions to the problem of fast and convenient food. I'm also going to dip my toe into the sea of controversial and suggest that for an active individual who weight lifts and has other athletic activities that a bit of transfat isn't going to kill them.

By all means if you have the time, money and facilities to plan, prepare and eat 3500-4000 calories of slow cooked wild rice along with a poached organic chicken breast 6 times a day go for it. If not, just do what you've gotta do.
 
Aedus said:
Hit my lats, 100%. Didn't get DOMs, though. In fact I didn't get DOMs in my back for the first time ever today.
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They aren't essential as a sign of a good workout. DOM's effectively are a sign that you've pushed your muscles harder or put them under greater intensity than you have before. For which they will then need to adapt (hypertrophy). You don't need DOMS but I quite like them as I find them a good indicator as to exactly how a varient or different load/tempo for an exercise affects me and also highlights imbalances.
 
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