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Originally Posted by fisher1000
Holy crap! That much protein? I can barely get in what I'm supposed to...I can't imagine 5 protein shakes a day plus eating...the one I drink now gags me but I suck it up and do it anyway.
Yes, I'm doing light resistance, for at least a couple more weeks...then I can move out onto the "Big Boy" machines. Since I haven't done any exercise in years, they put me on what I call the "Baby" machines. Initially, I was embarrassed, but they sufficiently kicked my butt enough to respect them a little more. I'm also on the treadmill and the elliptical machine. The Elliptical hates me, but I'm up to ten minutes on that mother (from a beginning of barely a minute!) before I want to jump off and lay down on the floor of the gym and cry tears of happiness because it's over for the day!
Sorry for the hijack Squishy Mike but this is really interesting to me...
Thanks, John...
-Mike
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Yeah I know some of the figures can be quite shocking but, everything in refference. You don't need to start really building until you are close to goal weight or at it.
If you recall all my training was cardio and light resistance until I reached 193lbs. Remember all my 20mile threads? Heavy cardio at 300lbs WILL build muscle anyhow. I can prove it with my data analysis sheets. My LBM stayed the same with a near 40lb weight loss inbetween 275 and 235lbs. That means in all that weight I lost it was almost all water weight/fat weight. NO muscle whatsoever.
Seriously if you have an hour to hour and a half to train. Spend it on the treadmil NOT the bench press. You will see more results and feel better. It takes quite alot of work to build even 5lbs of muscle mass.
To give you a idea of what kind of eating muscles do. For every 1lb of muscle mass on your body you burn a extra 50cals a day at a resting heart rate. So to do any kind of real difference in your calories in to calories out numbers you'd have to gain atleast 10lbs of raw muscle to effect 500 cals a day.
You know what it takes to gain 10lbs of raw muscle? ALOT. I've gone from 192-201 and trust me its a bitch.
THATS why I tell people spend time on the treamill and concentrate on fat loss not muscle gain. You will see much much greater gains that way. Its a hellva lot easier to burn a extra 500cals doing cardio than it is to gain the extra 10lbs of raw muscle needed to burn it for you.
I hope this makes sense and im making myself clear. Everyone should be concentrating on intense cardio and high heart rate exercises NOT gaining mass/muscle. Once you cut your body down to a low fat range THEN and only then can your body properly take what it needs from eating right/training right and turn it into muscle mass on your frame.
This is the ONLY way to train. Ask any serious body builder/trainer. They will same the same. You must
first cut your body down
before you can build it back right.