Justnaverageguy's Fitness Tips

Since you all have been so welcoming to me and share so much PE advice with all of us, I figured I'd return the favor by giving some fitness tips. I may post my regimen at some point but for right now I'll just be posting tips and things to consider and remember when they come to me.

Hopefully this can be helpful to some people.

Okay, the first thing you need to understand is that before you can even so much as lift weights or run or do any kind of exercise, you need to re-establish the discipline you probably lost years ago. You need to teach yourself to isolate each muscle group and not let others cheat and do the work for that muscle group, and you need to use each individual part of your body to hold itself up and only that part.

You need to fix your posture, as straight as possible. You need to fix your sitting position, always keeping your ass and thighs hovering on a chair or whatever you're sitting on, not sinking into it. The idea is you should be able to sit in that same way without even having anything to sit on. This takes time and discipline, but it's important to understand that we're not supposed to use things like chairs or beds or anything else to support us. They're just props.

Once you've established discipline, which is an absolute bitch for the first two or three weeks but then becomes second nature as long as you never give in, then you need to make healthy and more active choices. Walk rather than drive. Stand rather than sit. Sit rather than lay, etc. It's not about what you do in the gym but what you do 24/7.

Once you have done these things, everything you do when you work out will be a thousand times (not literally of course) more effective.

The next thing to remember is that you need to walk before you can run, literally and figuratively. The absolute most important thing is to not do too much too soon and to instead ease your way into things one step at a time.

The other thing to remember is to use your bodyweight to do workouts before ever so much as looking at any kind of weights. You need to be able to do every kind of bodyweight exercise with ease before you can lift correctly. Strengthening your entire body without weights will make you much stronger when lifting them in the end run.

Lastly, remember that 100% correct form and discipline is more important than anything else and always will be. Start with low weight and very, very slowly (over weeks if need be) work your way up. Never settle for doing something incorrectly just to lift it.

justnaverageguy;637623 said:

Since you all have been so welcoming to me and share so much PE advice with all of us, I figured I'd return the favor by giving some fitness tips. I may post my regimen at some point but for right now I'll just be posting tips and things to consider and remember when they come to me.

Hopefully this can be helpful to some people.

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Great idea justnaverageguy, I really appreciate your efforts.

Thanks. I'm happy to help.


One thing I forgot to mention is how important it is to ease into it simply because of your heart and the fact that you want to get your heart rate up and the blood pumping but you don't want to do it too fast too soon. What I would do when starting on the treadmill is I would start off with the lowest possible speed and just walk, then after a certain amount of time I would up the incline and then the speed little by little until I was full out sprinting at a fairly decent incline, then again start decelerating and lowering the incline until I was back at the lowest speed and a completely flat incline. The idea is as you go along to very slowly throughout weeks get it so you're taking less and less time to get to full sprinting at that incline, sprinting for longer, and taking less time to decelerate and lower the incline to flat and end that run. In the past, I got myself able to run whenever I wanted to out of nowhere without being winded. That comes in very handy when running late for the bus haha

Oh, and another great thing to do is to do ab exercises throughout your entire workout and especially before and after you walk/run the treadmill. This causes your abs to be working the entire workout and causes your treadmill work to be even more effective. Also, do your ab and treadmill work both in the very beginning of your workout and at the very end. This will give you the absolute best way of working your abs and conditioning and keep your body working long after your workout is done. It also makes it a lot easier to do. I did at least a thousand crunches (three different kinds added up to the total) in my workout but it was so easy because I broke it up into sets of 50 done throughout the entire workout. If I posted my routine somewhere or told a girl what I did when in my full fitness regimen, the response would always be shock and amazement. What they didn't know is how easy I made everything by using this system. The important thing is to push yourself through the first few weeks of everything being hard until it becomes easier and easier. You'll thank yourself later for it.


Maybe the most important thing though is to view food and drink as fuel for your body and not just comfort, and to not drink or eat anything right after a workout until the crazy thirst disappears. This will allow you to get in shape quicker and toughen your body up. By all means, drink water as much as you legitimately need to, but don't be a pussy about it and just give in. That and have a strict diet you follow every day, and have a small breakfast first thing in the morning before doing some kind of exercise, then a real breakfast that's fairly large after that exercise, then little snacks throughout the day (one in between breakfast and lunch, one in between lunch and dinner, and one after dinner, at least), a fairly large lunch, and a nice size dinner but not crazy. You need to keep that metabolism up. Lastly, before you go to bed, have a peanut butter sandwich. Trust me on that.


All of these things take time but the great thing is once this all becomes second nature, you can basically cheat on your diet whenever the hell you want.

Also, the most important thing you can do for your body is not smoke. Smoking makes all of the above very difficult to do, and is just really shitty for your health in general.

By the way, if anybody does follow all of the things I say in here to a T and gets the kind of body that can get you and decides to share the things with others that I have shared with you, act like it's all your own, okay? Don't mention where you got it from, who told you, this forum or my username on it, or anything else.

I'm not like DLD. What matters to me is that the information is out there and that I get to not have to put my face or identity behind it. This is especially true if I post my fitness regimen, which I had to take off another site because of the negative attention it drew to me and my anonymity being in danger already. A lot of people would rather think they know everything than take the time to learn and to better themselves.