In Fitness and in Health
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Been losing a bunch of weight over the last few months due to stress. The last week and a half, been downing a pint of whole milk and two tablespoons of regular peanut butter everytime I feel "not full". I've put on nearly twelve pounds. Pretty happy with that. Hoping to hit my ideal weight of 180 again soon
Mind you, I've also been working out like a fiend too, so I'm not putting on fat, but rather muscle
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Thanks for the plan, Doug.
As far as eating - if I even look at whole milk I can put on 5lbs.
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Thanks for the plan, Doug.
As far as eating - if I even look at whole milk I can put on 5lbs.
I tried a couple times to have a total body workout with barbells, but I would have to be in the gym for a long time and towards the end, I was more fatigued from being in the gym for that long than from actually lifting.
Skogg explains why kettlebells is a different workout than traditional barbells like this: when you use a barbell, you tax a single muscle group 100% (ideally). With kettlebells, you tax ALL your muscles at 30%.
This works out for me. I used to have one day a week when I would work out biceps and triceps. One week, one day, 100%. I now do kettlebells 4-5 times a week. That's 120-150% per week. Even if it's not cumulative in a linear fashion, I'm at least doing as much as I was before, but not feeling like death the day after
NB: this might or might not be true, but my bullshit sounds very convincing to me and I'm happy
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Doug, I don't follow your fuzzy math, but you seem to know what your talking about. Apparently your BS is working for me too
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I've been married for 15 years and have a 3 year old daughter. I'm very happy to spend time alone in the gym with my inefficient workout.
Kidding aside, I've heard nothing but good things about kettle bells, but I'm just not into it.
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Day 2 of the Whole 30 plan diet, and i am at the stage of "I fucking hate this diet". I am reliably told by friends (Jeff, Seawolf and Mrs Seawolf) that this will change after the first week, I hope so.
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Gav are you serious since day 1 I have loved it and haven't deviated at all other that 1 dark chocolate candy bar that was 87% cacoa
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Yup, the main principles of the diet are….
- No sugar
- No grain
- No alcohol
Up until 2 days ago, my diet consisted of...
- Sugar
- Grain
- Alcohol
This is quite a change.
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Nope
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Personally I've used kettlebells for near 8 years now, but mostly as a supplement to my barbell routine. I find it hard to replace especially heavy deadlifts and squats with kettlebells.
What I use kettlebells for are explosive one hand drills like the one hand snatch and turkish getups. I find that kind of supplement exercises to work very well alongisde a more normal barbell routine. Add inn some terapimaster/trx-work, and you've got yourself a game.
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So I mentioned before that about this time last year, my shoulder gave out on me and I was in a tremendous amount of pain
I couldn't even do a seated shoulder press with a 35lb dumbell in each hand (well, my left could but my right shoulder would be in tremendous pain and then give out)
So I started DDPYoga to fix myself, then started with the Skogg Kettlebell System after my shoulder felt good again. I've been on Virtual Skogg since Thanksgiving
This is today with that same shoulder. 80lb single handed kettlebell clean and press
All you guys with fitness goals: you can do it
Doubters can suck it
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Inspiring
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Body is still tired from lvl 2 roots from Friday. Tomorrows lvl 2 roots should be interesting.
