Keep in mind that you're a novice lifter for a longer period of time than you think you are. Novice lifting can last anywhere from a few months to a year or two, depending on how hard you hit the weights and where you started.
Once you've reached the point where you don't make regular progress on the SS program, you are ready to move on to the intermediate stage, which can last you for a good number of years. Find it HERE:
If you're a very advanced lifter (many, many years of CONSISTENT weight training), then there are lot of programs out there, and which one you pick is simply a matter of preference. If you're really that advanced, you should know what works for you and what doesn't by this point. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lewdog:
There's absolutely no reason to be Vegan. Not one benefit.
I had done it for awhile, but man the info is so hard to find for who is right. I think I would just follow history for the healthiest longest living people and I don't believe those people were vegan. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
I had done it for awhile, but man the info is so hard to find for who is right. I think I would just follow history for the healthiest longest living people and I don't believe those people were vegan.
Live like the Chinese brah. Seafood and green tea. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dunit35:
I weighed 179.5 today. I stalled for a couple weeks and didn't gain or lose any weight. I lost 1.5 lbs in the last week. 55 lbs total since January.
I'm at a comfortable weight but I'm scared to gain it back. I don't want to lose anymore either.
Should I add more carbs to my intake? I usually keep it around 50-75 a day. I added a bun to my dinner tonight (20g carbs). Which is really about all the carbs I've had today. I try to workout four days a week. Should I skip hardcore running and focus only on weights for muscle building? I run two of those days and do a lot of jump roping on another one of those days.
Edit: I wouldn't mind adding 5-10 lbs of muscle.
Guess I haven't updated in a while.
On Friday I weighed in at 177. Not really putting on any muscle like I hoped. I usually run twice a week at 10 minutes per run and hit the weights four days. I'd like to be at 185-190 with added muscle but no luck yet. I've added more carbs to my food this weekend and worked harder on the weights.
I feel way better now than when I was overweight at 235. [Reply]
Yeah I'm trying to be like the old Okinawans. I eat a lot of fruit and only some vegetables, which is hard bc green veggies can be hard to eat consistently. Kinda wondering if the fructose intake is bad even with fruit? [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Yeah I'm trying to be like the old Okinawans. I eat a lot of fruit and only some vegetables, which is hard bc green veggies can be hard to eat consistently. Kinda wondering if the fructose intake is bad even with fruit?
Originally Posted by Silock:
Fructose isn't bad, especially in fruit.
That's what I think and have researched. It's crazy that some people have diets where think they that all fructose is horrible for them and equate a whole fruits (not juice) to a snickers bar. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dunit35:
Guess I haven't updated in a while.
On Friday I weighed in at 177. Not really putting on any muscle like I hoped. I usually run twice a week at 10 minutes per run and hit the weights four days. I'd like to be at 185-190 with added muscle but no luck yet. I've added more carbs to my food this weekend and worked harder on the weights.
I feel way better now than when I was overweight at 235.
I'm not the nutritionist here but shouldn't you up the protein not carbs? Not throwing stones, you're doing a lot better than me, but why carbs? [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
That's what I think and have researched. It's crazy that some people have diets where think they that all fructose is horrible for them and equate a whole fruits (not juice) to a snickers bar.
Apple=snickers? God that would be amazing if true.
you'd be surprised how much fructose is in some fruit. A date has as much as a bowl of fruit loops but the fiber makes the sugar digest significantly slower in our system and doesn't affect our blood spike.
I'll never understand people that juice all the time and think it's healthy....it's not. [Reply]
