For BG fitness fanatics, a question..

[Weiing]

You're just making me worry a lot. Please make sure you're eating enough (because it seems like you're not?)

[Omnipotent]

augh, I need to do squats\

edit: @omni well I was 150, but I've been losing weight since summer started. I weighed myself the other day and I hope to god the scale was off because I was 130 and there was no way I lost 14 lbs over 3 weeks during vacation.

6'3" 140 we'll say

Eat, eat, eat. I am someone who can eat 2 lbs of pasta in one sitting and still lose weight. 5'9/10, 150lbs here. Once I added a lot of Meat / bread / nuts (nohomo) into my diet I started bulking up. Went from 110-150 in a year and 3/4, almost 2 years...

[Headspace]

I was eating a ton during the school year, and I was seeing nice gains in weight and muscle, but since summer started I've had no appetite and I don't know why.

[Omnipotent]

I was eating a ton during the school year, and I was seeing nice gains in weight and muscle, but since summer started I've had no appetite and I don't know why.

Active? If you sit back and play FFXI/Games enough you will lose your appetite.. try some sports, make your body hungry, don't wait for it to get hungry.

[Headspace]

I guess I'm less active than I was during the school year when I'd walk to class every day etc, but I don't think it was a huge decline.

[Moss]

Active? If you sit back and play FFXI/Games enough you will lose your appetite.. try some sports, make your body hungry, don't wait for it to get hungry.

This. It's a vicious cycle for me; if I'm lifting 3/4 days a week I have a much increased appetite and am motivated to eat so I don't "waste" my workouts.

Headspace you sound like a slightly elongated version of me, I'm 6' 150 lbs. Definitely start doing squats/DLs and the other compound exercises. In high school I dreaded those and worked only on upper body stuff, but now I enjoy those lifts the most because they really exhaust my whole body. I just got back home so no free school gym, hoping the nice athletic club will let me sign up for just 2 weeks >.<

[Headspace]

I've tried out squats before, just doing the bar, and I couldn't get the form or balance right. I'm sure it works out lower back, but I felt pain (soreness maybe? i dont' remember) in my lower back so I didn't continue with it.

Don't really have anyone to spot/teach me proper form so I don't really do squats/deadlifts just because of injury risk

[Atreides]

I've tried out squats before, just doing the bar, and I couldn't get the form or balance right. I'm sure it works out lower back, but I felt pain (soreness maybe? i dont' remember) in my lower back so I didn't continue with it.

Don't really have anyone to spot/teach me proper form so I don't really do squats/deadlifts just because of injury risk

That's a pretty common reason people why people don't do squats, and it's also a crappy reason. You can easily teach yourself how to squat online, and if you're careful about not adding weight too quickly you have almost no chance of injuring yourself.

Also balance and some minor form issues actually tend to go away once you start using a weighted/loaded bar. Just the empty bar or squatting without weight is actually a lot more difficult than using 100+ lbs.

[Headspace]

Hmm, I've got legs day tomorrow, maybe I'll try it out.

[Moss]

I'm guessing you have watched videos of proper squat form? Is there anything specific that you have problems with, like keeping your chest up?

[Zoolander]

Toss two tens or one 25 on each side, agree with Atre on the empty bar thing. Every now and then I try warming up with the empty bar and I get reminded why I don't do that; shit just feels weird. Make use of the gym mirrors too, and I bet you could ask someone to make sure your back is ok for one set or something. I know I would if someone asked me (shit sometimes I say something anyways, few people I've seen with their back arched so bad while doing squats and their friends don't say shit, scary lol).

[Weiing]

I'm still concerned... you ever have a physical or just see a doctor? Maybe a medical thing.

[Headspace]

I'm just skinny lol


When I tried squats my roommate at the time told me to try to get my chest to go down like it's against a wall (straight down) while sticking my ass out, and I never really got the motion down, and the farther I went down the more I felt like I was gonna fall back on my ass.

[Nyx]

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[In Flames]

I've tried out squats before, just doing the bar, and I couldn't get the form or balance right. I'm sure it works out lower back, but I felt pain (soreness maybe? i dont' remember) in my lower back so I didn't continue with it.

Don't really have anyone to spot/teach me proper form so I don't really do squats/deadlifts just because of injury risk

If you're worried about your squats, try front squats. I've been doing them for months because my gym didn't have a squat rack up until yesterday. Less risk of injury in my opinion, easier to get the technique right and if you're in trouble it's easier to let the bar go. Only problem with them is that unless you have a squat rack to lift the bar off with, you can only go so high on the weight before you're unable to clean it. I can't clean the bar once I'm on around 65kg.

As for your deadlift... just ask a member of your gym team or another member to look at your technique while you use a low-medium weight. Don't use an empty bar because practicing with that doesn't prepare you for lifting with weight on the bar.

If you really don't know anyone that can assist you, you can always look online for tutorials on the exercises. Startingstrength's wiki is a good one.

[Palpatine]

So I've been doing bench press heavy once a week (10-8-6-4-2, add 10lbs each set) and light once a week (3 x 10) as a way to rest. I've been stuck on the same weight for about a month and a half now for the pyramid work out--starting at 160, ending at 200. I'm going to keep doing this type of lifting, but is there something I could do on the light day to help raise this again?

I've lost about 7-8 lbs in that same time...I can imagine that probably had something to do with it, but it was just fat. Am I at my peek, or can I keep bumping that weight up? If it matters, I weigh 155lbs. (and my form is good)

[Atreides]

front squats have just as much risk of injury as back squats, when performed incorrectly.

also if your workout program calls for back squats, don't substitute another kind of squats. Front squats are great yea, but they should be something you choose to do and not a compromise.

[Atreides]

So I've been doing bench press heavy once a week (10-8-6-4-2, add 10lbs each set) and light once a week (3 x 10) as a way to rest. I've been stuck on the same weight for about a month and a half now for the pyramid work out--starting at 160, ending at 200. I'm going to keep doing this type of lifting, but is there something I could do on the light day to help raise this again?

I've lost about 7-8 lbs in that same time...I can imagine that probably had something to do with it, but it was just fat. Am I at my peek, or can I keep bumping that weight up? If it matters, I weigh 155lbs. (and my form is good)

you can try adding some weight to your light days, but if that doesn't work you should probably try 3x5 or 5x5 twice a week instead (all at the same weight).

If you're losing weight then that means you're eating less calories than you burn, which may make it difficult to see the kind of constant strength increases you can only get from a constant caloric surplus. You're definitely not at your peak, but you'll be ultimately limited by your diet the way you're going now.

I assume you're not just bench pressing, but doing other exercises as well. Squat/deadlift, or anything for legs at all?

[Lucavi]

Alright, I'm seeing nice gains on my chest, shoulders, arms, forearms, and back, but nowhere near enough in actually dropping fat off of my abs and the lower abdomen.

I was looking through MSN for this one article of this guy that was determined to get a six pack and ate nothing but eggs and fish for about 6 months, but I figure I'll ask the fitness buffs in here:

What's the best routine (food, workout, ect) for doing nothing but shaving weight off the waist? I know that even when I do my crunches and dips and everything else, unless I'm burning fat off the top, the muscles underneath aren't going to show very well. It seems that when I do m workouts nowadays, I burn fat everywhere, not simply in one targeted area, which is fine, but I'm already slim everywhere else (except for this ghetto black ass), so that really doesn't do much for me.

Is/are there any specific routines designed just to shave off fat from the belly and let the abs underneath shine through? I'm up to 4 liters of water a day, I treadmill/run outside on a 2-day/1-rest schedule for about an hour each time, I work out on a 3-1 ratio, covering a upper on day one, lower on day two, and a full body on day three.

I just can't seem to target just the fat on the waist. I know its going to be a slow processes, but I want to make sure that I'm at least on the right path.

My diet now consists of tons of water, yogurt + peanuts for breakfast, some kind sammich w/ meat and veggies for lunch, moar nuts for a snack, or possibly a bowl of cereal, and meat and veggies for dinner. The last two nights have been a home-made combination of beef and pork stir fry.

[tyven]

spot reduction is a myth, your body is gonna lose weight from all over. JUST KEEP WITH IT SOLDIER