Causes bloating as well or something.

Pre-workout caffeine is sometimes good, sometimes bad.. depends on the alignment of Jupiter relative to your gooch.

I've got tough mudder next year so my routine is as follows:

Weekday Mornings, wake up, banana coffee 1 sugar and a fairly short run to get metabolism up for the day.  Normal lunch from soups to sandwiches (no white flour) with plenty of fruit and either carbs or protein depending on what day of the week -Tuesday Thursday and Saturdays are weight days so protein - Mondays and Wednesdays are carbs for cardio... every weekend I eat and drink what I want and have fun so as not to go insane (so curries beer and crisps!)

Dinners are fairly normal also based on whatever exercise I did with the day (eating lots of greens).  I eat a lot of chicken and use red meats as a weekend treat (got well into cooking up a nice Sunday Roast).

I think just having an awareness of what you're consuming and weighing it up realistically with your life style is all people really need to concentrate on... muscle bound gym body diets with put too much stress on your heart, and eating like crap makes you lethargic, so just balance it out.

Haha, I haven't had cheese or sausage for ages! I eat a lot of egg though... fucking egg everything.  Like I say man... it all goes to shit @ the weekends when it is fun eating time! I ate like 3000 cal on Sunday

I know what to do Jaco, I just rarely do

I used to work out twice a day morning and lunchtime. Now I'm gonna target 5 days a week with a daily walking the dog.

Gonna head up tonight and start my muscle grouping. Think I'll start with back and biceps.

I tend to do back first anyway, then onto biceps. I generally follow the Brock Lesnar daily workout plan.

But I might give your idea a shot.

Sigh. Long story short for me. Few years ago. Was pretty fit. Gym/martial arts combo 5 days a week. did a lot of walking. Injured my ribs on the side of a bath and stopped all gym/martial arts for about 9 months to recover.
Never went back...Now I m driving so dont get much walking in. Anybody recommend a low time impact workout routine that I can do at home?
cheers

Salad lunch day 03

Way better than Tesco shit sandwiches.
Having half a bag of mixed salad (whatever one is on offer) and half a pack of Bernard Matthews turkey pieces, then make my own dressing using lemon/cider vinegar and a bit of olive oil adding in some flavour chives/coriander/minced red chillis etc.

If you have room for a punch bag they are great cardio and excellent for stress relief.

Will also destroy bingo wings.

Sadly I do not, although a punch bag sounds fucking great.

Thanks to this thread I'm back on the weights and cut back even more on the weed/alcohol. Woo, forgot how much doing weights lifts ya mood.

Hey there Hulk, how the hell are you? Been out of the training game for a couple of years what with injury and LIFE, damn it. Still, back into it now and rapidly getting unfat. Would love to be paid to train full-time. Would happily do 6 hours a day in the gym, followed by a 2 hour swim and sauna. Bliss.

I can't imagine anything more boring than the gym, there is literally nowhere more devoid of humour than a gym.

I tried being a headphones on type but it is still dull, can't imagine socialising either, "hey sweet lats bro"

Jaco wrote:

monkey wrote:

How can I strengthen my crap back in the gym? Basic stretches that a physio gave me aren't cutting it anymore. I'm moving around more and sitting with a better posture but I've got about a decade of office chair damage to undo.

Ab exercises. Strong abs take the pressure off. Hyperextentions and deadlifts for the lower back and bent rows and lat pulldowns for the upper. Rowing is good too.

Hmm sounds like hard work but ok.