*** The 2015 Gym Rats Thread ***

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Good point, I was writing something but here's a better explanation of the power clean (which I also would suggest starting with) for Razor-BladE's benefit -

 
FutileBreadMachine said:
Keep at it man, don't fall into that trap of "I'm married now, no need to bother anymore.". I saw so many grossly obese married men on holiday recently, now way I am ever going to let myself go like that.
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Thanks for the encouragement, it's appreciated.

I certainly won't be giving it up. In fact the trigger for starting last year was realising how much I'd let myself go as a married middle aged man. I looked around at other people my age with large bellies and thought **** I'm just like them. This is a lifestyle change, not an overnight thing (13 months now). I've worked out in my garage in the depths of winter with several layers on to stop freezing and then in the height of summer in boiling heat with sweat pouring off me. Most times I'm in there at midnight as it's the only time I have free, and still get up a few hours later for work.

It's only one part of a self improvement effort I'm putting myself through. In the background while I'm training I listen/watch a lot of motivational videos and speeches on a huge range of subjects. Some long standing friends have commented on the change in me and instrumental to that is feeling good about myself physically. Without that everything else would be built on sand.

I worked hard for what little improvement I have achieved and I'm not letting it go now :)
 
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Anyone recommend a good supplement? Thinking something like a milkshake to take after weight training. I am starting to train 3 or 4 times a week from tomorrow. Good quality not cheap rubbish. I have my diet sorted in general, just want a little extra to help.
 
Great, quite happy to buy more food, got a high quality butcher and a farm shop about 2 mins walk away from me.
 
Shakes have their place and are a great quick and easy way to get some food in but if you have time and the ability to do so just have a meal. :)
 
Every time I try and get back into the gym I end up disheartened within a few weeks. I find it hard to fit in eating enough at work as I don't really get the time to and then with walking anywhere between 7-9 miles each day I need to eat quite a lot to make up for it. Any progress is soooooooooo slow and then I just get bored of feeling like its going no where. If I don't gym at all I end up around 150lbs and feel like I am wasting away (5ft10). When I do stick at it for a while I end up getting back to around 160 and find it hard to get past that! I both love and hate the gym.
 
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Every time I try and get back into the gym I end up disheartened within a few weeks. I find it hard to fit in eating enough at work as I don't really get the time to and then with walking anywhere between 7-9 miles each day I need to eat quite a lot to make up for it. Any progress is soooooooooo slow and then I just get bored of feeling like its going no where. If I don't gym at all I end up around 150lbs and feel like I am wasting away (5ft10). When I do stick at it for a while I end up getting back to around 160 and find it hard to get past that! I both love and hate the gym.
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If you don't mind answering, what do you do for a job?
 
Yeah I use to use that myfitnesspal last year when I trained a bit more. At the time I was cycling to work (only about 7 mins each way), work and then gym it said I needed something like 4k calories!

I take food to work but it is limited to sandwiches/wraps. Typically I would eat something like this

Breakfast 6:30 - omelette with spring onion, pepper, chillies. Or scrambled egg with the same in it and toast. A weight shake with milk.
Lunch break (around 8:45/9) - handfuls of almonds/brazil nuts and some fruit
9:30-10 - A wrap with chicken/mayo/salad or with guacamole and an apple
Somewhere between 12:30-1:30 depending how busy - Another wrap typically the same and a banana
Gym 2:30-3pm
A weight shake and maybe some spicy chicken wings or toast with peanut butter but usually by time I am home I would just make my dinner which would be anything like sweet potato fries with fish, steak, pasta & tuna, chicken and rice of some sort.
Cottage cheese before bed.

This week I may mix it up a bit more and have porridge for breakfast with a shake. I also bought some salmon so may have salmon and scrambled eggs and a shake. Take a bagel to work and some peanut butter. A wrap but with chicken, salad, cranberry, brie and I have some bacon to add to it.

I just find I am also quite tired physically some days when I get to the gym and I have to force myself to go. This is worse on Wednesday and Friday which are the busier days of the week (along with Thursday but I don't gym on a Thursday).
 
Ideally for you a mass gainer shake could work. You can easily get over 300-400 cals from one alone. If not more.

From your diet you are hardly eating anything, so you either need to eat more for breakfast and dinner to make up for the fact you are out and about or carry more food with yo.
 
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Ideally for you a mass gainer shake could work. You can easily get over 300-400 cals from one alone. If not more.

From your diet you are hardly eating anything, so you either need to eat more for breakfast and dinner to make up for the fact you are out and about or carry more food with yo.
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I can do more for breakfast and for dinner but not when I am at work. I work with someone so its not fair if I stop to keep eating and hold us both up. I will make sure I consume some shakes. I bought one from TPW and have been drinking them.
 
Freefaller said:
Ideally for you a mass gainer shake could work. You can easily get over 300-400 cals from one alone. If not more.

From your diet you are hardly eating anything, so you either need to eat more for breakfast and dinner to make up for the fact you are out and about or carry more food with yo.
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400 calories a pop? Pfffft... I know you can do better than that. ;) :D
 
FeFiDoh said:
Yeah I use to use that myfitnesspal last year when I trained a bit more. At the time I was cycling to work (only about 7 mins each way), work and then gym it said I needed something like 4k calories!

I take food to work but it is limited to sandwiches/wraps. Typically I would eat something like this

Breakfast 6:30 - omelette with spring onion, pepper, chillies. Or scrambled egg with the same in it and toast. A weight shake with milk.
Lunch break (around 8:45/9) - handfuls of almonds/brazil nuts and some fruit
9:30-10 - A wrap with chicken/mayo/salad or with guacamole and an apple
Somewhere between 12:30-1:30 depending how busy - Another wrap typically the same and a banana
Gym 2:30-3pm
A weight shake and maybe some spicy chicken wings or toast with peanut butter but usually by time I am home I would just make my dinner which would be anything like sweet potato fries with fish, steak, pasta & tuna, chicken and rice of some sort.
Cottage cheese before bed.

This week I may mix it up a bit more and have porridge for breakfast with a shake. I also bought some salmon so may have salmon and scrambled eggs and a shake. Take a bagel to work and some peanut butter. A wrap but with chicken, salad, cranberry, brie and I have some bacon to add to it.

I just find I am also quite tired physically some days when I get to the gym and I have to force myself to go. This is worse on Wednesday and Friday which are the busier days of the week (along with Thursday but I don't gym on a Thursday).
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You are tired because that is an insanely low amount of food to eat if you are training dude, I'd either up the volume or add in more meals, even a few oatmeal and whey shake meals if you are struggling for time.

Diet can be by far the hardest to get right
 
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