Anybody into weight lifting/body building?
- Thread starter TankDempsey
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Id love to make 200 by August when football starts. Right now im averaging about 183... when I started I was 160. Hoping that with this diet I can make it or at least close.
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What I've learned man is that you have to keep to your diet and eat clean and hard. Mass gainers are great it's achievable hardest part is the commitment and discipline.
+1 and try to eat a gram of protein for every lb of body weight, sugar is your worst enemy lol
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I have a harder time getting my carbs in these days lol. Especially during the school day
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Haha looking over what I said I definitely do not put on a lot of muscle but its just lots of push ups, pull ups, and sit up vacations.
I do like 50 pulls ups, 280 push ups, and 250 different sit up variations over 45 minutes maximum.
I do different variations of all three exercises for different muscle groups.
You'd be surprised how much muscle push ups and pull ups can add on for you. My freshman year in high school I played football, like every freshman in high school. My school was brand new and we didn't even have a gym so all we did was push ups and pull ups and just during summer camp, I went from 115-150lbs. Granted, that was also my first time ever really working out and I was still growing.
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I've been lifting since the 5th grade, due to my poor grades on my report card 
After I graduated I weighed 175 and was lean/cut. Fast forward 16 years and I now weigh on average 250-260lbs at 6 foot tall. Me heaviest was 267lbs which then I benched my highest ever at 480lbs. I started to gain unwanted weight and didn't really care for what it looked like around my stomach, even though I was eating semi-healthy, compared to how I eat now, I wanted to lose the weight. I workout 5 days a week, off on the weekends. I was doing Crossfit for 4 months but it got expensive so I took what I learned from that and applied it to my sessions at the gym.
I currently bench 315lbs 10-15 times. If my spotter is around I hit 405lbs. I should be well over my PB by now but Gold's Gym got bought out my LA Fitness, closed down the gym I have been going to for 10 years now and now at a new gym with crappy equipment. The benches at the old gym were perfect for my long arms, the ones we have now screw me up big time. I almost have to do a 1/4 bench just to lift it off, which takes a lot of strength and the bench is thinner. It's almost like I'm finishing out the last part of skull crushers. The same thing with the military/push press. I was at 315lbs at the old gym, this gym I'm at 275lbs plus I have to sit on a 25lb weight just so I'm tall enough to get it off the bar and it starts back so far, I can't get it off if I load 315lbs and to make it worse, the spotter can't even lift me off because of the angle. The incline bench is worse, it has no spot for a spotter, so my PB of 405lbs on incline will probably never be higher so I stick with 315-365lbs. I can go on and on with the new gym setup. But it's all I have till I get a house.
I'm currently a semi-vegetarian, I don't buy chicken but only eat it at holidays/get together's, etc. I've been this way for 6 months now, ever since I watched Forks over Knives http://www.forksoverknives.com/, subscribed to FoodBabe http://foodbabe.com/, watched FreeLee the Banana Girl on YouTube http://thebananagirl.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/user/Freelea along with ihealth on Youtube, Dr.McDougal http://www.drmcdougall.com/ - I have been so much more healthy, lots of energy, etc. I put all this together and mix up different recipes, etc.
Ever since I went to this lifestyle a lot of people told me I will wither away to nothing, bench will go down, etc. But here I am, 6 months later and still going strong. I don't take it hardly an animal protein and the animal protein I do take it wont amount to nothing with regards to my weight and heavy lifting at the gym. I also did a blood test and all my levels were normal. Only thing I do is take a B12 supplement, which others have argued it's a stupid diet if you have to take a supplement but yet they take MANY supplements to workout.
I'm a pretty healthy guy, last time I got sick was 5 years ago when I contracted Mono. Before that I would get the 24 hour bug every other year it seemed like but nothing serious.
I think there is to much hype in the workout industry, about protein, supplements, etc. I've tried so many, nothing seemed to ever work. I think it's all a scam if you ask me.
Everything I eat is always 100% organic and when I can I get it at the local Farmers Market.
I don't use butter of any kind, cheese, dairy, anything that has MSG, preservatives, etc. I read the label on everything, if it sounds like a science project, I ditch it. I'm lactose/casein intolerant anyways so it doesn't do me any good to eat this garbage.
On a day to day basis I eat:
Morning - Shake with 5 bananas, hamachi tea leaves, mix of apple, orange, mango, strawberry, and blueberry with Silk almond milk
Lunch/Dinner - Potatoes with Himalayan salt, mixed dry herbs, fresh cilantro mixed with onions and I bake them. I don't used a microwave as the microwave kills off the nutrients in the food. I sometimes mix that with vege pasta.
Snack - apples, grapes, bananas, carrots, oranges, etc.
Drink - water only which is filtered and stored in a glass jar.
Bread - organic sprouted only.
I eat a lot more stuff but this is the biggest part of what I eat day to day. All of what I eat has a lot of carbs and a lot of protein.
I wish I was 18 again and know what I know now, back then.
After I graduated I weighed 175 and was lean/cut. Fast forward 16 years and I now weigh on average 250-260lbs at 6 foot tall. Me heaviest was 267lbs which then I benched my highest ever at 480lbs. I started to gain unwanted weight and didn't really care for what it looked like around my stomach, even though I was eating semi-healthy, compared to how I eat now, I wanted to lose the weight. I workout 5 days a week, off on the weekends. I was doing Crossfit for 4 months but it got expensive so I took what I learned from that and applied it to my sessions at the gym.
I currently bench 315lbs 10-15 times. If my spotter is around I hit 405lbs. I should be well over my PB by now but Gold's Gym got bought out my LA Fitness, closed down the gym I have been going to for 10 years now and now at a new gym with crappy equipment. The benches at the old gym were perfect for my long arms, the ones we have now screw me up big time. I almost have to do a 1/4 bench just to lift it off, which takes a lot of strength and the bench is thinner. It's almost like I'm finishing out the last part of skull crushers. The same thing with the military/push press. I was at 315lbs at the old gym, this gym I'm at 275lbs plus I have to sit on a 25lb weight just so I'm tall enough to get it off the bar and it starts back so far, I can't get it off if I load 315lbs and to make it worse, the spotter can't even lift me off because of the angle. The incline bench is worse, it has no spot for a spotter, so my PB of 405lbs on incline will probably never be higher so I stick with 315-365lbs. I can go on and on with the new gym setup. But it's all I have till I get a house.
I'm currently a semi-vegetarian, I don't buy chicken but only eat it at holidays/get together's, etc. I've been this way for 6 months now, ever since I watched Forks over Knives http://www.forksoverknives.com/, subscribed to FoodBabe http://foodbabe.com/, watched FreeLee the Banana Girl on YouTube http://thebananagirl.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/user/Freelea along with ihealth on Youtube, Dr.McDougal http://www.drmcdougall.com/ - I have been so much more healthy, lots of energy, etc. I put all this together and mix up different recipes, etc.
Ever since I went to this lifestyle a lot of people told me I will wither away to nothing, bench will go down, etc. But here I am, 6 months later and still going strong. I don't take it hardly an animal protein and the animal protein I do take it wont amount to nothing with regards to my weight and heavy lifting at the gym. I also did a blood test and all my levels were normal. Only thing I do is take a B12 supplement, which others have argued it's a stupid diet if you have to take a supplement but yet they take MANY supplements to workout.
I'm a pretty healthy guy, last time I got sick was 5 years ago when I contracted Mono. Before that I would get the 24 hour bug every other year it seemed like but nothing serious.
I think there is to much hype in the workout industry, about protein, supplements, etc. I've tried so many, nothing seemed to ever work. I think it's all a scam if you ask me.
Everything I eat is always 100% organic and when I can I get it at the local Farmers Market.
I don't use butter of any kind, cheese, dairy, anything that has MSG, preservatives, etc. I read the label on everything, if it sounds like a science project, I ditch it. I'm lactose/casein intolerant anyways so it doesn't do me any good to eat this garbage.
On a day to day basis I eat:
Morning - Shake with 5 bananas, hamachi tea leaves, mix of apple, orange, mango, strawberry, and blueberry with Silk almond milk
Lunch/Dinner - Potatoes with Himalayan salt, mixed dry herbs, fresh cilantro mixed with onions and I bake them. I don't used a microwave as the microwave kills off the nutrients in the food. I sometimes mix that with vege pasta.
Snack - apples, grapes, bananas, carrots, oranges, etc.
Drink - water only which is filtered and stored in a glass jar.
Bread - organic sprouted only.
I eat a lot more stuff but this is the biggest part of what I eat day to day. All of what I eat has a lot of carbs and a lot of protein.
I wish I was 18 again and know what I know now, back then.
