Gloves and Speedo Workout, Fitness & Nutrition Thread

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

did you have to order that or was there a store that carried it?

Bought it at Safeway but I believe most supermarkets have these in a Keto bread section even though it isn’t actually keto because it still has a good amount of carbs.

 

[HSanders]

Bought it at Safeway but I believe most supermarkets have these in a Keto bread section even though it isn’t actually keto because it still has a good amount of carbs.

looks like a local meijer and walmart stock it. will try it! thanks! i love bread but i seldom buy it and will treat myself to it when i am eating out.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Gonna tackle this one as someone arguing KETO > CICO.

• This guy likely didn’t burn 4,000, 3,000 calories, or 2,000 calories in a day unless he was training for the Olympics. That sounds insane. Calories burned is (calories burned exercise MINUS calories burned as basic metabolic rate.) You burn about 200 calories an hour just by living, so if you just burned 300 by walking for an hour, you’ve really burned 100 extra calories, not 300.
• Sounds like because of point 1, he vasly over-calculated his calorie budget, thinking he had some insane 5,000 calories spent per day. On a normal calorie budget, there’s no way you can eat pastas and sweets regularly and expect to lose weight.
• So he’s getting fatter because he’s eating way too much, and doing tons of cardio (which is stupid), and being bad at math. But even if he were in a calorie deficit, belly fat and facial fat is always last thing to do. Why? Because when you put on weight what’s the first thing you notice? Bigger waist, double chin. First fat deposit areas on, last fat deposit areas off.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

And let me add I like Keto. Keto-ish diets are a great way to feel full and satisfied, get plenty of protein, etc, and for a lot of people combining with intermittent fasting works well for their hunger control. I basically do a variation of it. That post is still stupid though, and there are zillions of other stupid posts like that.

In the end though the calorie equation is the underlying law of the land. And posters like this are probably all gonna come crashing back to obesity due to a poor understanding of what’s really happening.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

If you want to hammer your calves, this is a must have. Solid cork platform.



Foam sucks. You sink into it and it’s probably an injury risk with your toes digging in.

Using a weight plate sucks. Circular shape and not enough extension.

Standing flat is pointless as it doesn’t even engage most of your calves.

I use these on standing dumbbell calf raises (one legged ones will destroy your calves in a good way), barbell/smith standing raises, and barbell/smith seated raises. Basically everything with free weights. I do calf press machines for variation but I don’t think they work very well compared to the stretch I get from these platforms, which was frustrating before I got these because I felt like the calves weren’t isolated at all, or I’d need to do like 30-40 reps to get there.

Just line these up, toes on top, and then go all the way down and all the way up. Calves will get worked and you’ll get a great pump too, within normal rep ranges.

 

[HSanders]

one instructor in climb loves doing calf raises on the climb machine. we take our feet half off the pedals and do them.we get full extension that way. she also has us turn our resistance up and get on our toes and rest our arms and pedal that way to work the calves. ouch!

 

[Deus Irae]

Y'all know that you could just go up and down a hill, right?

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Y'all know that you could just go up and down a hill, right?

You’ll get good shape and tone doing that but if you want to grow muscle you need to progressively overload with weights.

 

[Deus Irae]

You’ll get good shape and tone doing that but if you want to grow muscle you need to progressively overload with weights.

When I was younger and playing college and post-college sports, I had the biggest calves most people had ever seen on a guy of my height, without overloading with weights. Now a lot of that was undoubtedly genetics, as I'm very stocky, but it was also trudging up and down hills as part of my workouts.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

When I was younger and playing college and post-college sports, I had the biggest calves most people had ever seen on a guy of my height, without overloading with weights. Now a lot of that was undoubtedly genetics, as I'm very stocky, but it was also trudging up and down hills as part of my workouts.

That’s awesome and sounds like a great way that worked for you. I was obese before and my calves blew up too, so I shouldn’t say weights are the only way to do it. But I dislike cardio ish stuff and I train all my other muscles with weights so if I’m training my calves I’m just gonna stick with the same routine (even if ironically they got big initially due to being fat and just walking around.)

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

I just can’t understand people who say they struggle to eat enough calories to reach their goals. Lol wtf?!?! What I’d do for a few spoonfuls of peanut butter or heavily buttered toast before bed.

 

[Kontradiction]

I just can’t understand people who say they struggle to eat enough calories to reach their goals. Lol wtf?!?! What I’d do for a few spoonfuls of peanut butter or heavily buttered toast before bed.

Just keep drinking water. The downside is that you’ll have to get up and piss at some point in the night, but it helps with cravings. Do you still go to bed late? That could also be why you’re starving before you go to sleep. I’m in bed between 9-10 PM.

 

[HSanders]

I just can’t understand people who say they struggle to eat enough calories to reach their goals. Lol wtf?!?! What I’d do for a few spoonfuls of peanut butter or heavily buttered toast before bed.

my calorie allowance to maintain is 1,400.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

my calorie allowance to maintain is 1,400.

Oh damn. I couldn’t handle that.

 

[Lord Guts]

When I was younger and playing college and post-college sports, I had the biggest calves most people had ever seen on a guy of my height, without overloading with weights. Now a lot of that was undoubtedly genetics, as I'm very stocky, but it was also trudging up and down hills as part of my workouts.

My dick still bigger than yours....


Just compensating cause I can't grow my calves for shit

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

My dick still bigger than yours....


Just compensating cause I can't grow my calves for shit

Obesity is still undefeated

 

[Lord Guts]

Obesity is still undefeated

Yo the golds gym in Milpitas is sweet

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Found that Nature’s Own bread and made a tuna sandwich. It was good, tasted 85% like white bread, just lacked the sugary kick but the texture was normal.

A can of tuna, half serving of mayo, relish, slice of tomato, two slices of bread = 300 calories, 41 grams of protein. That’s fantastic. I’m gonna try a BLT and grilled cheese soon as well. It’s great eating normal things without my calorie/protein ratio getting compromised. If I can still eat regular butter and mayo, even better.

 

[Deus Irae]

Found that Nature’s Own bread and made a tuna sandwich. It was good, tasted 85% like white bread, just lacked the sugary kick but the texture was normal.

A can of tuna, half serving of mayo, relish, slice of tomato, two slices of bread = 300 calories, 41 grams of protein. That’s fantastic. I’m gonna try a BLT and grilled cheese soon as well. It’s great eating normal things without my calorie/protein ratio getting compromised. If I can still eat regular butter and mayo, even better.

If you're on a diet that prevents you from eating actual, real butter, you're on a bad diet.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

If you're on a diet that prevents you from eating actual, real butter, you're on a bad diet.

I just track the cals. Butter itself is fine.

All just numbers.