Af3, you doin okay brother? Many of your posts lately have read kinda cranky. Kind of AT people and is if you're typing in caps... hope you're okay man. Take it easy. Peace and brotherly love, man. I mean it.
So when I got my gym membership I got 3 free trainer visits plus a blood and fitness health profile combo test. I took about 3 months into my major weightloss program to finally do these. I had lost 40 pounds already. He added up with my typical daily workouts and Bathmater, I was burning 2100 calories laying in bed in a coma, so 3000-3200 daily with my workouts. He'd seen me daily for 3 months so he knew this was no shit.
But my meager diet I described he actually plugged the actually products by name into the computer and it added up the breakdown... I was eating 1500-1800 calories per day. I was floored. No wonder I was dropping
weight so fast. I knew I couldn't go on so I was seeking a new plan.
I told him my budget did not include continuing to go long term with paid trainer. Maybe twice a year I might shell out for blood/fit check and tune up my program. I told him I might go for some basic suppliments but I didn't have even $100 per month for supps including protien and vitammins... so this wasn't a rich client ongoing deal. I needed a simple plan to follow for 6 months and check back in.
So the bloodwork showed excellent health, high good cholesterol, low bad cholesterol, good oxygen count, good blood sugar after overnight fasting... I don't remember the details exactly being 6 months past. My fitness was great with good aerobic capacity... just needed to lose about 40# more bodyfat. Otherwise no points docked off anything else. They gave me 84 out of 100 points. Only lost points for still overweight.
Then the trainer visits I gave them a baseline history of where I was coming from and my goals heading towards. He did some homework in between the next visit. Then gave me a sample routine based on my goals and starting fitness and knowledge. Added more volume to my lifting, meaning my stronglifts 5x5 was okay but lets try a series of freeweights, especially dumbbells, low
weight high reps... slow and careful on form. Had to Master form or higher
weights could injure me. He showed me how to do each move right.
. 3 main workout days of different body groups but intense work. I mean my
weights were low but after an hour of "push" moves I was spent. Felt awesome. Pull day and "legs" day.
And get 20-30 minutes minimum of *something* done *every* day. So daily walking outdoors, jogging, biking, hiking... The routine worked in some " real world" moves like pushups, pullups, dips... I liked the real world aspect. I'm not fond of the weird motion of elliptical trainers but treadmill I can do every day. I'm up to 5 miles (before leaving wife's house I was the classic, winded by the 1 flight of stairs in her house.)
3rd visit was about diet and suppliments. I mentioned I had read somebody"caveman diet" article and liked the concept. He referred me to a "Paleo diet" book, I think same one mentioned above. I read from library. Nice healthy concepts. Raw foods, whole, organics, plenty leafys, good mix of main 3 energy components and a Tad weighted to carbs just watch the empty carbs and starches, like no big sugar bowls at night before bed... kinda tips. Said even fiber is a carbs, most fruits and veggies give a locarbs"carbs" so to not get too freaked out or hung up on "low carbing".
He told me about eating fuel at the right time before and after workout and throughout the day. Some cool recipes. Resource references.
So as far as vitimins only, just a good, preferred organic, multivitamin. And fish oil.
For growing muscles to use protiens and creatine as the Better version of that...
So two things happened. One is my appetite returned, after 3 months of starvation it was expected... and my weihtloss slowed. Two my muscles grew a bit faster, so I lost 15 pounds fat but gained 10 pounds muscles... it looked like no more weightloss. Took a while to get to my -50# goal. When I hit it my arms and shoulders had grown and started showing.
Then my focus shifted to dating my wife n trying to save my marriage... 3-4 months. I gained a little which ive already cut back off. So when my main job starts back up in a couple weeks, I will be able to get on a consistent lifevscheduke, I plan to make regular gym a part if it consistently again. I'm going for that next -30 pounds fat. Then trainer visit and see where I'm at then.
I know the only reason I'm not where I wanna be is ME slacking. Need to balance consistency, intensity, duration and multiplex attack... same as Penis Enlargement.
Advice, comments questions fellas?