OcUK Health Seekers: Post your progress pics

iamtheoneneo said:
serious question.
What does an online trainer actually do? why not just get a trainer at the gym who can help you push that little bit extra.
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The good ones will customise your training programming/periodisation around your life in terms of days you have free, what your recovery is like, what your goals are and more importantly how you respond to diet/exercise (for instance some people just don't do well with hitting the same weight for x amount of sets v.s. pyramidding down, aren't built well for certain movements, have better/worse recovery time than average) and try and optimise things for you to make progress, identify/fix your weak points etc. You won't follow a cookie-cutter beginner routine and everything is tailored for you. There is obviously the accountability element in terms of having someone to report your progress (or lack of) to.

Generally you have several kinds of online trainer:

1) those who work with mostly beginners for things like diet accountability/adherence/protocols e.g. Andy Morgan from RippedBody.JP or JC Deen, who are trying to teach you to walk for yourself when it comes to nutrition and being able to be in control of your body composition. Typically they keep training simple as most clients are fat untrained people looking diet get lean for the first time in their lives and stay that way.

2) Those who work with people who know what they're doing for physique 'sports' contest prep/off-season for getting to extremely low body-fat and/or the psychological stuff that comes with that, as well as structuring their transition into an off season so clients don't not go off the rails, e.g. Team 3DMJ. Bodybuilding stuff basically.

3) Those who work with people who know what they're doing for powerlifting/strength sports like Greg Nuckols, The Strength Athlete etc, and there are a couple of people that offer weightlifting coaching online although they concede they'd rather you have a coach physically with you.

The latter two are similar to the kind of coaching an actual athlete would get at best, and at worst they're just rinsing people of their money. The examples I listed would be the former though.
 
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Sorted my diet out and started doing the classes at the gym :D

I definitely need someone yelling at me to keep me motivated lol

Freefaller said:
PAH my 150-170g looks like kids play now :( :p
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I've been going for 240g day for the past month :o

mostly though cause it keeps me feeling full and stops me eating every biscuit and cake in sight.
 
Tefal said:
On 2300 calories a day.

And lifting will be later trying to actually get some cardiovascular fitness for once.

5' 10" 80kg
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IMO thats no where near enough for you. More so if your working on cardio.

But thats goal dependent. Im 60KG 5'5 and maintain at 2300.
 
Tefal said:
On 2300 calories a day.

And lifting will be later trying to actually get some cardiovascular fitness for once.

5' 10" 80kg
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Amazing base to start with mate. If you did something like strong lifts and ramped up to 3.5k cals a day, you'd be looking beastly in a years time.
 
In trying to lose my beer just for once lol.

After March ill start adding in cars again and start gaining some weight but I just wanted to see what I actually looked like lean for once

Mr.Stu said:
Amazing base to start with mate. If you did something like strong lifts and ramped up to 3.5k cals a day, you'd be looking beastly in a years time.
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Yep that's the plan I used to do strong lifts before sacking off the gym for about a year and a half.

So since new year been losing the fat, and doing that less mills body pump class twice a week plus some swimming am a bit of the rowing machine.

Diet atm is very high protien quite high fat an low carb.

So around the end of march ill add back in the carbs which will easily bring it up to 3k and up the fat a little to bring up the rest and start doing more heavy lifting.
 
Mr.Stu said:
Amazing base to start with mate. If you did something like strong lifts and ramped up to 3.5k cals a day, you'd be looking beastly in a years time.
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No, not in a year's time - three years and definitely more so.

Looking very blurred Tefal, but nice and lean. Please lift... and please eat! :D
 
mrthingyx said:
No, not in a year's time - three years and definitely more so.

Looking very blurred Tefal, but nice and lean. Please lift... and please eat! :D
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yeah its from the slightly steamy mirror in the gym.

also im not actually that thin most of the time lol ive still got a bit of a beer belly.

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that was today
 
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