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Fighting Blubber—The Gym Reassurance Questions.

wildrain2008 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:06:36 -0800

Fighting Blubber—The Gym Reassurance Questions. INFORMATION:
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Background: So here's the deal, during late high school and early college I hit the gym on and off for a month or so, always breaking my routine and never getting the the exact point that I wanted to reach—which was getting cut like B. Lee but with a bit more mass.
After college work left me drained so even though I had time to hit the gym after.. I rarely did.

Negative Result: The result of not hitting the gym was not so much as getting overweight (I have a relatively fast metabolism) but rather the addition of blubber... that fat over the 6 pack and the love handles and especially Gluteus Maximus.

Resolution: After a year I switched jobs (on my new job 5 months now) and I've forced myself to get back into shape—watching my diet and resurrecting my gym routine. My current weight is 190lbs, I guess that's not so bad for a guy who's 5'11. But there's definitely has room for improvement from what I've read.

The Stalling: So I've been hitting the gym 3 days a week for almost 2 months now. My routine involves 30 mins of jogging or stationary bike, followed by 45 mins to an hour of weight lifting.

Weightlifting Routine breakdown:

Bench Press: 3 sets/ min 127lbs max 157lbs
Lat Pull Down: 3 sets/ min 90lbs max 100lbs
Sitting Bicep Curl: 3 sets/ 22.5lbs
Tricep Pull Down: 3 sets/ 40lbs
Dumbell Shoulder Press: 3 sets/ 30lbs
Butterfly: 3 sets/ 110lbs
Shoulder Machine: 3 sets/ 70lbs
Glutes Leg Press: 3 sets/ 260lbs
Abb Death Circuit: 3 sets of: hard medicine Ball leg lift, large medicin ball crunches (lying on top), standing oblique lifts (45lbs each side)

Positive Results: I've noticed definition on my body in general and the showing of the 3pack lol upper abbs.

Again my goal still remains to: to get cut up but have a bit more mass than just the average kung-fu fighter lol.

QUESTIONS:
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I know that 2 months at the gym is a short time for me to expect major results, but I would really love to get rid of the blubber that is still covering the results that I'm trying so hard to improve (aka the muscles and the tone that is slowly appearing.. again very slowly lol).

1. How many moths do I have to wait to see substantial results aka the evaporation of this darn flab?

2. Is there anything I can do to improve the weight loss but not damage my other goal (building mass)?

3. My brother after a year of swimming completely transformed his body, would adding maybe 1 or 2 days of pool to my overall routine damage or improve the results I'm striving towards?

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I told myself this time that I'm never quiting gym again.. and it looks like I've caught the gym bug as I get antsy (like an addict) towards the end of my work.. to get back into the gym.. :)

Andy advice is always helpful.

Get out and do something, you punk kid!

pcameron — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:00:51 -0800

My 17-year-old little brother needs something enriching to do this summer. Any suggestions? He is a very smart, straight-A kid (he just represented Haiti at the UN Model Conference for high school students in NYC, and debated in favour of a position paper he wrote in front of 3000 people in the General Assembly hall). He used to think of himself as the dumb kid compared to me and his older sister, but my parents sent him to a new school this year and he is suddenly excelling beyond our wildest hopes.

However some of his friends from his old school are not, shall we say, high achievers and are pressuring him to get a crappy retail job and spend the summer drinking in the park with them. As his older brother, I think it's my responsibility to encourage him to pursue something a bit more enriching than that. But I need some intruiging ideas to throw at him to get him thinking of the possibilities.

Anyone have some suggestions or leads? Examples I'm looking at would be volunteering somewhere out of the city, French lessons in Quebec City, camp counselling, a summer educational program, treeplanting... Personal anecdotes are extremely welcome.

ps we live in downtown Toronto, and our family budget is average middle-class meaning we can spring for something not too extravagant

tucking a t-shirt in

thomcatspike — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:48:28 -0800

When wearing a T-shirt do you tuck it into your jeans and why? The question came from a response in a previous question today. Americans are the only race in the entire world that tuck T-shirts into jeans. We don't know why you do it. Also, if wearing a belt will it make an influence on your decision?

Did the Fonz have an influence with us doing it more than others? Being he was "50's" and that is what we think when wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
For me never think to tuck or not tuck since the shirts are usually too long for me. Because the sizing of the shirts for it to fit my shoulders comfortably force me to buy ones that are too long.
So will tuck into jeans.