Now I am 107.5kg down 0.6kg.
My sincere thanks to all of you who have supported thus far. Finally my face doesn’t look as pudgy and I feel restless most of the time.
I did the hair removal thing from the back on Friday. It was pretty much as painful as I thought it would be. Wax on wax off basically. Mind you the pain never got to scream stage just the grit and bear it thing you know.
I am wondering if a broader fitness range beyond weightlifting is a good idea. I have done a few step and circuit classes perhaps a standard sport would be a good idea. It would certainly make it easier to increase my
aerobic activity. I have no idea about most ball sport. Cruelty when I was young turned me off. Could take a bit to get around that.
There are several thing I'm not doing which may or may not hamper my progress but it appears the consensus here is it would. I have decided to list them and my reasons in the hope some of you might point out which ones are more important.
1) I am loosing fat. It’s suggested that will at best limit growth and at worst slow growth loss. Not much I can do about that cos loosing the fat is my priority.
2) I train from once per 2 to 4 days. Usually 2-3. I’m wondering if this is too often. It seems about right but I’m appealing to your know-how.
3) I try with form but I’m afraid it might not be good enough. It seems to me some people must do form badly because everyone in the gym seems to do things differently. I’m pretty sure swinging the body is a no-no. I don’t cheat mind you but I think it’s time to d/l the movies on exrx and see if my form is acceptable.
4) I don’t take any supplements. No protein, no creatine or anything fancier. I wonder how significant this is. I have looked it up. ‘Health’ stores are loaded with this stuff. It’s all very strange huge buckets of it with gaudy packaging and silly pictures of buff blokes on it. It’s not too expensive I suppose about 50 bucks for 2 pounds (Australian dollars that is). Which brand? Seems the
optimum nutrition protein brand is the most popular. How much and when. Well the when seems to be all day from what I’ve read so far. Seems creatine is used heaps less 5 g every now and then. Of course protein would add to my fat if it isn’t utilised by the body I suppose.
5) I’m not religious about multivitamins. I take one per week to fortnight. Essentially as insurance I suppose. The ones I have taste dreadful so I guess it turns me off.
6) Some of you seem to think only benching, deadlifts and one other are the ones you should build your lifting around. Dismissive of other lifting seems to be the view. I only bench of the three.
7) I do 12 reps 3 sets. I try to fail on the third and usually mange to guess the resistance right for that. This seems the consensus here.
8) I have 3 meals a day. It’s obvious most think 6 or so meals (smaller of course) are better but I think that is very expensive time-wise and not a whole lot of fun.
Anyway I hope someone might add their two cents because I know there questions are not precisely new. It’s just hard to see what the answer actually is amongst the crowded opinions.
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Keep up the good work.
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