Fitness Report

Congrats whale, that's pretty legit dude.

Keep in mind that dietary fats, cholesterol, and even moderate sodium intake do not cause health problems in most, and that meats are not evil.

Also, you could probably shave your beard and get a respectable haircut and lose 30 lbs in the process.

http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Good link. Read it, live by it, and you won't have to worry about not losing weight. The only people who don't lose weight on a weight loss program are those who do it wrong.

Any questions you have, I'd be glad to help. I know a ton about this and have a lot of experience, fitness is my hobby and my life.

For Weights: Any friends who work out and look like they know what they are doing? If not, look into etting a personal trainer who looks like they know what they are doing to give you a single lesson on how to do the big lifts properly (deadlifts, squats, bench press, overhead press, rows, etc...) Be careful because 90% of personal trainers are complete crap but if you get a good one, they can show you the basics in a single session which would not be expensive and would pay off in the long run. Don't get suckered into buying their supplements or more training.  

If all else fails, watch youtube videos on good form and ask someone who looks like they know what they are doing to critique your form. Most people will have no problem spending 5 minutes of their life to help a new guy out. 

Learn to work out properly from the beginning and you are already ahead of half of the gym who has been working out for years.

That being said: If your goals are more towards general health than pure weight loss, It is my opinion that you should exercise in whatever way is most fun for you as long as it is done with good intensity. Biking is a great way to get or stay in shape if that is what you enjoy.

It is obvious that you are seeing the results of a better lifestyle already. As you continue to better yourself and make yourself healthier, you will start to wonder how you ever lived the way that you did before. I do.

Keep it up.

Dazed wrote: I think you might like "The Four Hour Body" by Tim Ferriss, Whale. His diet is unconventional, but works. His writing is good, and the book is more about "body hacking" than just dieting. Lots of good info and fun to read.

Looked it up.

Some of the promises made by the book are horrendous and impossible.

Gain 34 lbs of muscle in 28 days? Lose 20lbs in 30 days with no exercise?

Low carb diets and using ice to lose weight? SPOT REDUCTION?

No offense. It's just that the thing about nutrition and fitness is that all the best advice is available free online. And generally, the more you pay, the less effective advice/product you get.

Dazed wrote: It's completely non traditional, and mostly based on bobybuilding techniques. You should give it a read before decrying it too much. A guy I work with is having pretty good luck with the diet. He hit 16 lbs. in a month, he also tried to start his workout during the third week of the diet and his weight loss plateaued that week. The guy freely admits that he's doing things outside the norm and completely not recommended by doctors today.

Pretty much everything I read there is super traditional. In a bad way. I looked at their site at the topics covered. Did not look good.

Note that the vast majority of that 16 lbs was probably initial waterweight. When I started my current cut last month, I lost the first 10 lbs in under two days. It was waterweight.

If his weight loss plateaued by starting to exercise, he is doing something wrong.

I don't want to sound like a jerk. But the majority of fitness advice/products out there is/are a bunch of crap designed to convince people who don't know much about fitness that there are "mystical secrets" to losing weight that only fit people know. This is not true.

agentwhale007 wrote: Oh, another point: I've started taking a multivitamin. Just the basic Centrum one. Pretty much every doctor I've asked has said that unless I have a noticeable deficiency in one area, just a standard cover-all multivitamin will do what I want it to do instead of trying to mix-match things.  Except it makes the ol' peepee green. Which is always a pleasant surprise when I forget that vitamins can do that.

Mine makes it neon yellow.

Not that you necessarily need a multivitamin. But it's not a bad thing to take either. I currently take a more expensive athlete's multivitamin but will be switching to a mainstream cheaper one for the exact reason that you stated.  Fish oil and vitamin D are a good call too.

agentwhale007 wrote: carl_the_sniper wrote: For Weights: Any friends who work out and look like they know what they are doing?  Actually, yeah. My dad used to do competitve power-lifting and Olympic weight lifting for about thirty years.  Maybe when I get back to Florida I'll ask him to show me how that stuff works.  [QUOTE] THIS SUCH THIS If you are interested, it is a great sport to take up. Dazed wrote: carl_the_sniper wrote: [QUOTE=Dazed]It's completely non traditional, and mostly based on bobybuilding techniques. You should give it a read before decrying it too much. A guy I work with is having pretty good luck with the diet. He hit 16 lbs. in a month, he also tried to start his workout during the third week of the diet and his weight loss plateaued that week. The guy freely admits that he's doing things outside the norm and completely not recommended by doctors today. Pretty much everything I read there is super traditional. In a bad way. I looked at their site at the topics covered. Did not look good. Note that the vast majority of that 16 lbs was probably initial waterweight. When I started my current cut last month, I lost the first 10 lbs in under two days. It was waterweight. If his weight loss plateaued by starting to exercise, he is doing something wrong. I don't want to sound like a jerk. But the majority of fitness advice/products out there is/are a bunch of crap designed to convince people who don't know much about fitness that there are "mystical secrets" to losing weight that only fit people know. This is not true. I understand that there isn't a magic pill. So does this guy, he's been working out for 20something years. Half marathons, weights three days a week while running 3 other days a week, minor roids before the "roids are bad" days. He's also a nerd and a hacker, and says lots of this works and is basically body hacking. Maybe not as good as advertised (but who doesn't advertise their best instead of their average?) but its working. Is it for everyone? Probably not. You seem to be as fundamentalist as they come and angry at anyone trying anything else. It probably isn't for you. I think that Whale, however, would like the writing style and find some of the addtional info in the book to be interesting. The diet is also fairly close to what he's doing (a lot more protein though) and agrees with the "splurge days" he's doing.