raz wrote:i find circuit training shifts my fat pretty quickly i can easily drop a stone a month if im doing it and it focuses on all ur core muscle groups.. most martial arts clubs usually have lessons 2 or 3 times a week its a great way to get in shape and as a fellow smoker i find my lung capacity increases the more i train.. but ofcourse i need to quit smoking but its easier said than done
I like the idea of circuit training, sounds like my cup of tea, also apparently HIIT is good for a quick fat burner too
yes it is easier said than done! I can't even count the number of times I've tried, not a nice experience lol
But I am also not a big fan of exercise for bodyfat control, for me exercise is for fitness, diet is for weight control, I like the saying , "you-cant-out-exercise-a-bad-diet"
But I am also not a big fan of exercise for bodyfat control, for me exercise is for fitness, diet is for weight control, I like the saying , "you-cant-out-exercise-a-bad-diet"
your right about the diet having to be right i dropped from 27 stone to 19 just from changing what i put in my mouth.. the biggest problem ive found is drinks even changing from fizzy to fruit juice is useless as the amount of sugar in both is insane so im a fan of water these days. im happy walking round at 18st in winter then dropping down to 16 for summer without changing my diet the circuit helps burn off the excess quickly an build up ur fitness and stamina at the same time ready for the summer hols
I'm going to count myself very lucky with this topic. I'm very fit, have no difficult covering an real distance on foot, it helps that I run over 100 mile every month and run most days. I have speed and stamina- meaning I can run a mile in under 6 minutes but can also cover 9 or 10 mile in an hour.
But it counts for nothing in a prepping scenario as I have a family to support and protect and can't ever visualise a scenario where I would need to put my fitness to the test for prepped reasons.
iceprep wrote:I'm going to count myself very lucky with this topic. I'm very fit, have no difficult covering an real distance on foot, it helps that I run over 100 mile every month and run most days. I have speed and stamina- meaning I can run a mile in under 6 minutes but can also cover 9 or 10 mile in an hour.
Erm, I don't think that's luck - I think that's your hard work!
But it counts for nothing in a prepping scenario as I have a family to support and protect and can't ever visualise a scenario where I would need to put my fitness to the test for prepped reasons.
I can! What if one of your children is ill (definitely hope that this is never the case, by the way, just an imagination thing) and there's a flash flood? Your fitness will enable you to pick them up and carry them out of harm's way, while your partner leads the rest. Or if there's a fuel strike, and you need to chop lots of wood, because the temperature's gone really low? Or in the recovery from a flood, when you can't get a carpenter or labourers for love nor money, and you're having to strip out your house yourself, and then do all the prep work for the renovation?
Since October I have been using the out door gym and my dumbbells at home to help me get fit. Now I am a tall lanky thin person made of string and paperclips (tall and thin) so putting on any muscle at all seriously means looking at the macro nutrient Protein and making sure am getting enough both on training days and non training days. Since I started this routine I have changed my protein sources. I started with tonnes of eggs and bacon with sausages and tins of beans to get the main protein an after a (for me anyway!) knackering workout, you do feel the protein entering the working muscles a short period after the meal.
So the procedure for me here is:
Pre workout supplement before strength and tone exercises: One cup of coffee made up in the aeropress. Taken 30 - 45 minutes before exercise (as it takes 45 minutes for all the caffeine from a real coffee to kick in)
Take exercises before lunch
Use the machines that there there for toning and strengthening, not the cardiac machines at all, (eg ellipticals) as I am trying to build some basic muscle first before I tackle stubborn body fat.
Then come back to a high protein meal.
Sometimes I do a 20 minute dumbbell workout before hand to help the stubborn shoulder muscles (mine are ghastly), the biceps and triceps
Now, you can do some meal planning with websites such as cronometer.com to work out whether you are likely to be getting your protein scores in (one gram of protein per day per LB of bodyweight, some say different amounts, but that's the value I am going to. Use Google to convert units)
These days I am using more pea protein isolate, rice protein isolate and hemp protein (all purchased from the "pure" series on bulkpowders.co.uk ) plus Huel (from huel.com) as the sources of the protein and general nutrition.
The Hemp protein being fibrous and not an isolate will not metabolise 100% so I use the rice and pea protein to the most part plus some healthy cooking too.
Observations: Thanks to the assisted pull up machine at the out door gym, the back muscles are slowly coming along giving me a little more of a "V" to my general shape which makes me feel awesome. My shoulders and neck are a little more shapely and I have a bit more strength and agility when doing tasks that use the body (setting up a meeting room or helping in the church with shifting chairs and such like). I can also handle one or two degrees of cold better presumably as a result in an improvement to the circulation.
Opinion: Its very early days in this one particular attempt at fitness. I have tried different methods, over the last 3 years and have learned things from each attempt, but now I feel that I am progressing. I am still made of paperclips and string, but I do hold more presence and seem to be able to cope better and have more energy.
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I know we are all prepping for different scenarios, but I'm thinking endurance training might come in handy. I've got mates who can run around a track carrying a tractor tyre, but take them on a 45 minute walk up a hill and they are stuffed in 20 minutes.
My idea of a wander back in my young fit days was an 18 mile walk, then I'd walk 3 miles each way to the pub in the evening .
Wish I was that fit now.
but if you fancy them have a look at PHA Training https://www.muscleandstrength.com/artic ... g-fat-loss
