Wall of Mouths

The steak’s a good thing, as long as you’re not smothering it in blue cheese sauce…

The eating’s not too much of a problem for me, at least not 4 days out 7, but I think I’m probably drinking a bit too much to lose much belly at the moment. so need to dial that down a bit. The overall strategy is supposedly to get bigger muscles and therefore burn more calories throughout the day. Hopefully my foot will soon be less fucked and I can start running again… but am also aware that doing long slow cardio is not great for putting on muscle either…

What cardio are you doing, Gav?

My current plan at the moment is:

Monday - 1 1/2 hrs of weights (chest, shoulders, arms, back, stomach) with 10 minutes at the end for stretching, then straight into a Kickboxing class
Tuesday - between 40 - 60 minutes cardio on excercise bike
Wed - Kickboxing Class (1 1/2 hrs) - but mainly technical so not really breaking a sweat.
Thurs - 1 1/2 hrs of weights - pretty much the same as a monday, can push harder because I know I dont have a class after, but then look to do 30 mins cardio (Skipping, bag work).
Friday - 40 - 60 minutes of cardio on excercise bike
Saturday - 1hr session pad work (kicks and punches)
Sunday - mountain bike day - could be anything from 3 to 15 miles off road x-country (if the bike isn’t busted)

Usually in any given week, one day will get knocked on the head… this week I did nothing Sat/Sun

@Deadsetgav Sorry for late reply. The joys of parenthood mean Im rarely able to gget online. I used to lift a good bit but have been slack for the past 12 months or so. Ive a sport science degree and work in the area so Ive seen all the products being pushed and various fads come and go.

A mixture of the following: Bench press, incline bench press, chest flys, incline chest flys, bicep bar curls, seated bicep curls, tricep pulldowns (2 x var), lateral raises, front dumbell raises, side lifts, bent over rows, lat pulldowns, overhead tricep extentions, tricep kickbacks, shoulder press.

I dont do any leg work at all.

In the 90 minutes I have a little stretching as well - I’ve dropped the weight im lifting at the moment in favour of going for higher reps / extra sets.

Wow! I think I’m probably with CS on this one, that sounds like a hell of a lot. Then again your whole weekly plan sounds like a lot - how do you find the time?

So I’ve been doing whey-shakes for nearly two weeks, creatine for one and have changed my programme around a bit. Annoyingly both my weight and my cheap-and-nasty bodyfat monitor seem to be registering no change but my trousers feel a little looser around the waist and I think I look a little more toned possibly (g/f has not convincingly confirmed this). I think my main problems are possibly a lack of consistency in going to the gym and Friday and Saturday nights being a bit too much pizza-filled booze-ups. Rest of the time I’m eating pretty well, although cutting the booze right down would probably help.

Abs wise, I’m doing gym ball stuff one session, medicne ball stuff and hanging leg raises another and a variety of no-kit crunches on a mat for the third.

24 days to go before I need to be in better shape… :-(

Good luck with that - I’m just trying to look a bit better when I go away with some mates for a long weekend in Majorca (i.e. there will be swim wear)

Not quite my thing - slightly too much self awareness for budgie smugglers unless I get my fat %age down by about 7%.

I’m reasonably sure my core’s fairly strong, its more the layer of insulation on top of it that’s the issue, but yeah, as they not aching all the time after workouts I don’t think I’m overdoing it, and I’m trying to leave at least a day between work outs.

Last night’s steak should help, although not so sure about the blue cheese that went on top. Oh well. Apparently I can’t go swimming for a couple of weeks either, which is a bit of a blow.