I don't lift but used to work @ a gym. The PTs there swore by calipers over the electronic pulse things.
WickedFire lose weight and get ripped thread (2015 edition)
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I don't lift but used to work @ a gym. The PTs there swore by calipers over the electronic pulse things.
Joined a new gym 2 weeks ago.
Got my free training session today with personal trainer.
He asked for my goal and I said I would like to get a six pack and be in good shape. So he says I should aim to lower my fat % to 12%.
Later in the session he checked my body fat, and its 12.4% lol. So I set my goal over the next few months to get it lower to 10% or less. Though I don't care for a time limit, I'm in no rush.
He gave me advice which is opposite to what i am doing now e.g. eat lean meat and eat small regularly. I eat fatty and I fast.
Still doing same regimen, but have increased my reps:
I do 3 sets of 40 crunches, 3 sets of 40 bicycle crunches, and 3 sets of 28 push ups. No cardio.
Got my free training session today with personal trainer.
He asked for my goal and I said I would like to get a six pack and be in good shape. So he says I should aim to lower my fat % to 12%.
Later in the session he checked my body fat, and its 12.4% lol. So I set my goal over the next few months to get it lower to 10% or less. Though I don't care for a time limit, I'm in no rush.
He gave me advice which is opposite to what i am doing now e.g. eat lean meat and eat small regularly. I eat fatty and I fast.
Still doing same regimen, but have increased my reps:
I do 3 sets of 40 crunches, 3 sets of 40 bicycle crunches, and 3 sets of 28 push ups. No cardio.
Recieved my scale and it calculated my body fat as 15.7%. Don't know which reading is accurate, my scale or the gym's scale. Either way, its just about getting the % down.
Spot reduction doesn't work man. Abs are made in the kitchen not in the gym. Just worry about working your whole body. Squats and deadlifts are very good and burn a ton of calories because they work very large muscles. You don't have to go big either, just buy some adjustable dumbbells and squat with them in your hands and learn how to straight-leg deadlift. You can chest and shoulder press them to and get very thorough workouts, get one of those chinup bars that goes in a door frame to.
I know you can get those six pack abs doing what you're doing but it's going to take a lot longer trying to do spot reduction and you're going to be weaker overall when you get them. Just my $0.02 though, good luck.
I know spot reduction does not work and spot reduction is not the point of my training. I train my abs for abs, not to reduce fat around abdomen.
I lose fat via low carb and fasting.
Also I don't do exercises to burn calories. That's why I don't do cardio. If I do weights it's to gain muscle which can help increase metabolism but not for the process of burning calories while lifting weights.
Still chasing my 184kg/405 squat, in the last few weeks I did a weightlifting meet and placed third - got 106kg in the snatch and a 130kg clean and jerk, it was super fun.
Its fun if you have a goal/purpose for your training and keeps you more focused.
Its fun if you have a goal/purpose for your training and keeps you more focused.
Increasing metabolism == burning more calories. Really feel like you have fucked up priorities when it comes to exercising man. You're on some '30 minute abs' type shit.
No mate, burning calories on the exercise itself and burning calories by increasing metabolism are two different approaches.
You were suggesting burn calories via working muscles, not increasing metabolism via building muscles.
You have already mistaken me for trying to do spot reduction.
It does not take 30 mins on my abs training at all.
@ Phear
Don;t get me wrong, I do believe what you suggest would work in speeding up my progress. Since I'm building more muscles, I'll increase my base metabolism.
However, my priorities is to be able to do this long term and so my workout needs to be:
as simple as possible
least time exercising as possible
I don't see myself doing it long term if I am to do a whole body workout which I did do on and off in the past, and the longest time I stayed with that is around 6 months.
I see this as a lifestyle integration rather than a race to get to my goal. Attain and keep, that is what I want.
Don;t get me wrong, I do believe what you suggest would work in speeding up my progress. Since I'm building more muscles, I'll increase my base metabolism.
However, my priorities is to be able to do this long term and so my workout needs to be:
as simple as possible
least time exercising as possible
I don't see myself doing it long term if I am to do a whole body workout which I did do on and off in the past, and the longest time I stayed with that is around 6 months.
I see this as a lifestyle integration rather than a race to get to my goal. Attain and keep, that is what I want.