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Showing posts with label weight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Friday, 1 January 2016
#Fitness - Happy New Year #Gym Goers!
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Always being hungry is an issue for this man, especially after a really good workout.
Lately I have been looking back at my time in Masset BC, Canada. I was eating 3 meals a day, 1800 calories a day, and losing crazy weight. Sure the life style was a bit different, and I wasn't starving either.
Now the complicated thing happens, I come home to Ontario from Masset and my weight plateau's out. And I find it harder and harder to move around, constantly drained. Its the different style of living that I have at home, its far more restricted but it is acceptable for why. But still.
It took me a few months to figure it out but I finally got it on lockdown. My eating habits while different started to go back to the original ones. Which is terrible. Aiming to control that will yield the best result. Then I will be able to enjoy my baby birdie sandwiches again. With it being New Years, my resolution is to get my eating back on track. That means I have to take control of my diet again and really hammer down on it. I already goto the gym daily and work out, now its time to get my diet squared off again.
I also expect people to have new gym resolutions, but I think they need to look at their lives and think to themselves, is this what I really want, or is it I want the convenience of a gym without rarely accessing it. That is a terrible way to live and it is truly a terrible way. At least in my opinion.
I look forward to seeing people in the gym for the next 2 weeks then never again. As per every year. (This is a terrible joke, but I really am looking forward to seeing some new faces)
If you want to be helpful to the new resolutionsers, please see my blog post on how to welcome them, and if you are new to the gym, you should read the post as well, its got my basic rules for gyming. Its nothing special, but its just some helpful hints for all, you can find the link right here: Welcoming New Years Resolutioners.
With that said, to all my new friends who have taken up the call to change your life, whether it is to get fit, or keep fit. To lose weight or bulk up, welcome to the gym, and I look forward to seeing you all there.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Always being hungry is an issue for this man, especially after a really good workout.
Lately I have been looking back at my time in Masset BC, Canada. I was eating 3 meals a day, 1800 calories a day, and losing crazy weight. Sure the life style was a bit different, and I wasn't starving either.
Now the complicated thing happens, I come home to Ontario from Masset and my weight plateau's out. And I find it harder and harder to move around, constantly drained. Its the different style of living that I have at home, its far more restricted but it is acceptable for why. But still.
It took me a few months to figure it out but I finally got it on lockdown. My eating habits while different started to go back to the original ones. Which is terrible. Aiming to control that will yield the best result. Then I will be able to enjoy my baby birdie sandwiches again. With it being New Years, my resolution is to get my eating back on track. That means I have to take control of my diet again and really hammer down on it. I already goto the gym daily and work out, now its time to get my diet squared off again.
I also expect people to have new gym resolutions, but I think they need to look at their lives and think to themselves, is this what I really want, or is it I want the convenience of a gym without rarely accessing it. That is a terrible way to live and it is truly a terrible way. At least in my opinion.
I look forward to seeing people in the gym for the next 2 weeks then never again. As per every year. (This is a terrible joke, but I really am looking forward to seeing some new faces)
If you want to be helpful to the new resolutionsers, please see my blog post on how to welcome them, and if you are new to the gym, you should read the post as well, its got my basic rules for gyming. Its nothing special, but its just some helpful hints for all, you can find the link right here: Welcoming New Years Resolutioners.
With that said, to all my new friends who have taken up the call to change your life, whether it is to get fit, or keep fit. To lose weight or bulk up, welcome to the gym, and I look forward to seeing you all there.
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
#Fitness - The First 20lbs, my #gym success story.
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20 pounds down, the first of my initial 60 pound loss!
When I started my weight loss journey I was very depressed about my weight. I weighed in at 292lbs. My blood pressure was crazy bad. I simply wasn't well. I struggled with change and fulfilling a promise to get healthy.
The struggles were very real! Everyday was temptation for me, I'll explain why. You see I was drinking 12 cans of Pepsi a day. Not to mention between 4 and 8 energy drinks a day. I was very addicted to the caffeine and the rush it gave. I'm not blaming the drinks though. I blame myself for not having any restraint.
I knew the first thing I had to do was give up the things that were impeding my health so I cut out pop and energy drinks. Juice, Milk, I went to straight water. I even gave up drinking alcohol. It was very hard as I went cold turkey. I was addicted and I had a struggle to go everyday. I still do months later. But I haven't relapsed on it. I've been strong.
So back on track. When I cut the drinks out I also added a new level of fitness training to my life. It was crazy hard but worth it. I added in a 5km walk per day and an hour of weight training at the gym. I followed a simple 4 day routine.
- Back
- Chest
- Arms
- Legs
- Repeat.
In 2 weeks I lost 20lbs. Crazy extreme. But that was my all diet and influx or physical training. I had a very bad diet and without those energy drinks and pop I basically cut my daily calorie intake by an exponential amount. So I had to adjust my diet more and my weight loss slowed down. But become extremely healthy there on out.
But those first 20lbs were the beginning of the road ahead. The addiction to fitness grew. Being able to breath properly when walking up stairs. Not feeling like death anymore from doing the simplest of tasks. I've learned much about myself from this.
#Fitness - #ChestDay post workout 'feelings'.
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When I was younger this was easier to do, I was going up 10-15lbs a month or so, no I'm lucky to go up 5 a month. No matter how I train. I feel that with my new training being a slower more controlled to prevent injury of this old man body of mine that the effect is taking even longer. Of course I'd love to blame a slower training on slower gains but the truth of the matter is I need to train properly and I just don't like things taking so long.
I am impatient.
I'm in my early 30's but I feel so much worse, having had a bad go (accidents, broken limbs, and so on) it just feels as if it has taken its toll on me and I want to get my old body back sooner than later. I know there is no easy way to make it happen. As a young man it still took me a long time to sculpt out my body, but as an older gentleman I am finding it much harder to get back in the swing of things and getting my body back on track.
From there though I move into fly's, inclined press, cable cross, etc, basically all the exercises I can do to focus on the chest. It has worked in the past to get me to bulk up chest wise, but I also need to burn more calories, as I am trying to lose weight while building more muscle, again sometimes I wish there was an easy button for this.
Post workout feelings this Chest Day
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Those Feels
Have you ever worked so hard towards meeting or reaching a goal that you felt sick to your stomach when there wasn't immediate results? I know I feel that way everytime I work chest. It has been a very, VERY long time since I have been able to push 2 plate. I'm getting back to it but it makes me feel a little sick knowing it is taking so long.When I was younger this was easier to do, I was going up 10-15lbs a month or so, no I'm lucky to go up 5 a month. No matter how I train. I feel that with my new training being a slower more controlled to prevent injury of this old man body of mine that the effect is taking even longer. Of course I'd love to blame a slower training on slower gains but the truth of the matter is I need to train properly and I just don't like things taking so long.
I am impatient.
I'm in my early 30's but I feel so much worse, having had a bad go (accidents, broken limbs, and so on) it just feels as if it has taken its toll on me and I want to get my old body back sooner than later. I know there is no easy way to make it happen. As a young man it still took me a long time to sculpt out my body, but as an older gentleman I am finding it much harder to get back in the swing of things and getting my body back on track.
What I'm lifting
On chest day I tend to start out with my heaviest exercises first, wel starting with medium weight and working my way up to my heavier weights obviously, this is where I bench or chest press. I keep this first so I am training this way with the optimal body strength. So basically me at my best so I reduce risk of injury. I'm not sure if this is the best way to train though. I guess I am going to have to read some books/epubs on this so I get a better idea on what to do.From there though I move into fly's, inclined press, cable cross, etc, basically all the exercises I can do to focus on the chest. It has worked in the past to get me to bulk up chest wise, but I also need to burn more calories, as I am trying to lose weight while building more muscle, again sometimes I wish there was an easy button for this.
Friday, 18 December 2015
#Fitness - A little Dietary Planning goes a long way
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As a shift worker I have to find ways to such schedule out my days/eves/mids. Luckily my work supplies me with time for my workouts (as we have an hour and a half gym time on shift). Its a good gig like that. So I drafted up a slight diet change for me, and some workout plans.
Note below that I mention Xbox Fitness. Thats because I love and use Xbox Fitness. Its been essential to my weight loss to date!
My dietary changes may not be the healthiest either, but should they be unhealthy, that seems like someone elses problem. But really they are my problem but I am working on it and changing and adjusting daily. These are just base guidelines to my health and fitness routine. And so far they are working out for me.
As a shift worker I have to find ways to such schedule out my days/eves/mids. Luckily my work supplies me with time for my workouts (as we have an hour and a half gym time on shift). Its a good gig like that. So I drafted up a slight diet change for me, and some workout plans.
Note below that I mention Xbox Fitness. Thats because I love and use Xbox Fitness. Its been essential to my weight loss to date!
My dietary changes may not be the healthiest either, but should they be unhealthy, that seems like someone elses problem. But really they are my problem but I am working on it and changing and adjusting daily. These are just base guidelines to my health and fitness routine. And so far they are working out for me.
Saturday, 12 December 2015
#Fitness - Finding your Inspiration
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Lets talk about inspiration a bit...
Every single person who I meet in the gym when asked why they work out, what drove them to look into the gym. The single most important thing what their inspiration was to seek out a life of fitness.
Every single person who I meet in the gym when asked why they work out, what drove them to look into the gym. The single most important thing what their inspiration was to seek out a life of fitness.
Everyone has their own reason, for some it was they wanted to look good, others to be healthy, some to lose weight (like me). Whatever their inspiration is, the dedication to the gym is the thing that I personally find super important.
Once I found my inspiration, which had been in front of me all along (my wife and kids) I knew I had to make that change, that leap of faith towards the future and get myself back on track, to take control of my health, my physical appearance, and get myself back to the way I used to be oh so long ago.
It is beyond important to find that inspiration, I don't understand why I was so blind to mine for as long as I was. Frankly I never should of been, perhaps it was the endless depression that started with my Ex Wife. Or maybe it was the physical limitations and pain I felt after my car accident. Maybe it was from that time I slipped and fell and broke my leg. I don't know when it started, someone suffering from depression doesn't ultimately identify with the exact day it started. Normally it just sits and festers for long periods of time until it finally makes a physical appearance on your life. Some people don't even identify it then, but only when someone brings it up to them.
For me, I identified it when I wasn't with my family anymore, work had sent me away from them for a few months and during that time I identified my physical limitations and I started asking myself the really hard questions.
- "How did you get like this?"
- "Why haven't you fixed this already?"
- "Whats wrong?"
Those questions, and many more just like it led me to an answer I wasn't willing to hearing before hand. Maybe it was me missing my family, or maybe it was how I looked in the mirror, maybe both I don't know. But I was inspired to change my life. For my family.
I started to diet, I cut out crazy amounts of food and started to hit the gym daily. I walked on average of 15 kilometres as well. And in 17 weeks, I had lost 60lbs. Of course I hit a plateau but I lost a lot of weight, I feel healthier, stronger, faster. I live in less pain, my back used to kill daily, and now it doesn't. Things feel simply better since I had made this change. I'm continuing to train, lose weight, build muscle.
So what is your inspiration? What is your reason to hit the gym or go for long walks, train wherever it is that you train, what is what drives you? Leave it in the comments below.
Friday, 11 December 2015
#Fitness - A little late, but its happening
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For almost a year now I have been hammering away at losing weight. I have had my ups and downs, my ins and outs. Tears have been shed, along with blood. I have poured sweat and spent countless hours trying to make a difference in my health. And I have been quite successful.
Would you be surprised to know that in 19th April 2015 I weighed in at an astounding 292lbs? I sure was surprised by it, I never felt like I looked like I weighed all that much. But boy was I wrong. How was I ever so wrong....
I looked at myself in late April 2015 and realized that I was gianormous. (or fat) Something was going to change, I was going to die if I didn't make a change. I was drinking 12-15 cans of pop a day some days, drinking at least 4 energy drinks per day. And while I had been going to the gym pretty steadily for 2 years, all I was doing was tricking myself into thinking I could keep going the way I was. So I made a change.
In april 2015 I left my home for work and was gone for 5 months doing hazmet related work (asbestos abatement). 12 hours a day inside of a hazmat suit, walking 15km a day, and most importantly not drinking any pop OR energy drinks. Those were the changes I made, I could make those changes as I had left my family behind. And while it hurt to leave them behind it gave me a level of freedom to get well. So I did. Leaving my family behind wasn't exactly a choice though, and of itself was very demoralizing. I used every moment I could to talk to them, which re-inspired me to keep with the changes that needed to happen.
17 weeks into my abatement I had lost 60lbs. A plateau I am still at today. I weight in today at 232lbs. Its a lot better then I weighed before. Quite a lot better at that, but I wish it was more. My goal weight is to hit 200lbs (or 90lbs of weight loss). And I have hit this plateau and it is demoralizing, being stuck at a weight for so long.
Again my Diet comes into play. I eat a very basic diet, nothing too special, but the part that hinders me is the fact that I eat a lot of carbs, too many carbs at that, and now I have to make another change in my life. Cut the Carbs, so thats where I am today. I have to create a new diet, and hope and pray that I get it right and I get back to losing weight.
And that leads us up to date. I wanted to start writing about this before but I never felt inspired to do so. I never felt the need to convey my feelings with regards to this, and albeit a little bit ashamed of myself for letting myself get so out of shape and let my body fall apart the way I did. But now I have started this journey a new.
So starting today I will be writing weekly posts, every Thursday it should be up by 1230AM EST. I hope you will all join me on my journey to health and happiness.
To my family, thanks for inspiring me and helping me through this difficult time and getting me back in shape, and back to being healthy. I love you all!
Would you be surprised to know that in 19th April 2015 I weighed in at an astounding 292lbs? I sure was surprised by it, I never felt like I looked like I weighed all that much. But boy was I wrong. How was I ever so wrong....
I looked at myself in late April 2015 and realized that I was gianormous. (or fat) Something was going to change, I was going to die if I didn't make a change. I was drinking 12-15 cans of pop a day some days, drinking at least 4 energy drinks per day. And while I had been going to the gym pretty steadily for 2 years, all I was doing was tricking myself into thinking I could keep going the way I was. So I made a change.
In april 2015 I left my home for work and was gone for 5 months doing hazmet related work (asbestos abatement). 12 hours a day inside of a hazmat suit, walking 15km a day, and most importantly not drinking any pop OR energy drinks. Those were the changes I made, I could make those changes as I had left my family behind. And while it hurt to leave them behind it gave me a level of freedom to get well. So I did. Leaving my family behind wasn't exactly a choice though, and of itself was very demoralizing. I used every moment I could to talk to them, which re-inspired me to keep with the changes that needed to happen.
17 weeks into my abatement I had lost 60lbs. A plateau I am still at today. I weight in today at 232lbs. Its a lot better then I weighed before. Quite a lot better at that, but I wish it was more. My goal weight is to hit 200lbs (or 90lbs of weight loss). And I have hit this plateau and it is demoralizing, being stuck at a weight for so long.
Again my Diet comes into play. I eat a very basic diet, nothing too special, but the part that hinders me is the fact that I eat a lot of carbs, too many carbs at that, and now I have to make another change in my life. Cut the Carbs, so thats where I am today. I have to create a new diet, and hope and pray that I get it right and I get back to losing weight.
And that leads us up to date. I wanted to start writing about this before but I never felt inspired to do so. I never felt the need to convey my feelings with regards to this, and albeit a little bit ashamed of myself for letting myself get so out of shape and let my body fall apart the way I did. But now I have started this journey a new.
So starting today I will be writing weekly posts, every Thursday it should be up by 1230AM EST. I hope you will all join me on my journey to health and happiness.
To my family, thanks for inspiring me and helping me through this difficult time and getting me back in shape, and back to being healthy. I love you all!