So while college is getting me a good education, it's also gotten me a good sized beer gut. When I came home from college, I set myself a goal to lose the beer gut and get some abs showing by the time I returned. I started the Weight Watchers Diet ssh:, which uses a calculated points system depending on calories, fiber, and total fat per serving. With my weight, I was limited to 22 points a day, and for a 30 minute run I can gain 4 more points worth of good eating. I got in touch with my friend, who spent last year at Marine boot camp. I got him to show me some workouts and ab routines that were forced upon him at camp. For 2 weeks I've been working out (running & abs everyday minus saturdays) and sticking to the diet, minus weekends of course when I still like to party a lil bit still. Since then I have lost 13 lbs, gone down 3% in body fat percentage, and started to lose teh beer gut. Not that anybody cares, but it also makes me feel more confident about myself. Well thats my happy story, other than that I've been scammed on eBay and am filing complaints with eBay, Paypal, and the US Mail Inspector. I bought a LaCoste shirt from some dude, and it's definitely not LaCoste! I know it's only $30, but it's the principal of the matter, and I don't want him to get away with it to scam others. I was just gonna leave him negative feedback, but when I tried to do that and found out he deactivated his account so nobody could leave bad feeback, I decided I would take it further. I also have the dudes address in Miami, not that it will do me much good . Craig (bored at work)
gratz! I need to start working out. Finding time and the energy is the hard part for me. Good luck with the ebay thing..doubt you will get anywhere with it though. must not be very good at their job if they are still alive edit..damn beat me to it craig
I figured I won't get anywhere with it. I figure at best maybe the US Mail Inspector will pay him a visit, scare him outta doing this again. I know it's not that big of a scam, just can't believe there are pathetic people out there that try to rip you off for a damn shirt. I'm just gonna start wearing it, everybody else that has seen it couldn't tell it's fake, so whatever. If somebody notices, I'll tell them I made it :wiggle:
Let me know if you decide to join a gym, I need a gym buddy to stay motivated. Gold's up in Snellville was pretty reasonably priced when I checked with them; we have a corporate one here at work but it's all silly cable machines that you can max out pretty easily.
i have a nice weight set and bench at my house. i cant afford a gym membership but I have the weights here at my house. If you are serious would you be interested in coming over a few nights a week? no spandex allowed though :keke:
As long as you promise to wear underwear while spotting. hnoes: I actually have an olympic set and a squat cage (rated for ~600 lbs) at home too (garage, so can get brutal in the summer), just hard to find the motivation to do it. Also have probably some 500-600 lbs of olympic weights and a few bars + DB handles. We can definitely work something out. :naughty: Last I maxed I benched 190, deadlifted around 365 and squatted like 285, but been slacking off since. I need to work to get those #s up. I'll shoot you a PM...
Sounds like you're exactly on the right track. FYI, ab work doesn't do the work of reducing the gut, it's all the cardio and diet that drops the fat laying over the ab muscles. Ab work just makes those muscles stronger, and often bigger and more visible once the fat is gone.
however, more muscle means more calories burned during regular activity. It's not gonna matter where you get the muscle, as it's a total body wide effect, i.e. more muscle around your abs won't burn just the fat around there. But it will add to your goal for fat burning if you weight train upper and lower body a bit on the side instead of just ab workouts
Any good program should include deadlifting and squats, IMO. True... but a pound of extra muscle only increases your RMR (resting metabolic rate) by ~5 kcal/day. IOW, muscle alone doesn't really help out much. However, using more mucles for working out definitely has a significant impact on calorie usage!