triplexpac's Forum Posts

My suggestion is simple. I am hoping you can find a way to register paragraph breaks in journal entries. I wrote up an entry with a few paragraph breaks, and it came out as one lonnng block of text. It’s really hard to read and ugly, so hopefully you can figure something out!

Topic: Feature Discussion / Journal - Paragraph breaks

Feel free to add me, anyone. I’m working on cutting down body fat & increasing muscle mass.

Topic: Motivation and Support / Looking for GymBuddies?

I recently starting using protein powder to make shakes after my weight workouts. I’m finding it hard to get enough protein in my diet, I was wondering if it would be OK for me to mix a protein shake to bring to work, in addition to my workout shakes?

Topic: Supplements / Daily protein shake?

Thanks! Yeah I am going to add a protein shake & some natural peanut butter & celery to my snacks at work, that should bump up my protein without inflating my carbs.

Topic: Supplements / Daily protein shake?

When I was growing up cheese made me really sick often, so I have a thing against cheese haha. It’s sad though, because yes I hear cottage cheese is great for protein. I just can’t even think about it without gagging!

Topic: Supplements / Daily protein shake?

Personally, I split my cardio & weight days. I find that if I do both on one day, either one or the other suffers. So I do 3 lifting workouts a week, then fit in cardio into my off days.

Have you ever heard of the Starting Strength program? I’ve been on it since January, and I’ve been seeing nice gains. It’s meant for beginners like you and me, so I would look into it.

If you can find a trainer or someone else to show you proper form for all your lifting, that would also help you a lot!

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Exercise Routine Help --- Weights vs. Cardio.

I recommended this in another thread, and I’ll recommend it to you too. I’d check out a program called Starting Strength. It’s designed with free weight exercises to work your entire body.

You’re already doing most the exercises, it would just be structured differently. Here is my split:

Day A:
3×5 Squat (barbell)

3×5 Bench Press (barbell or dumbbell)

1×5 Deadlift (barbell)

2×5-8 dips (only add weight if you are doing >10 bodyweight dips)

You can also substitute barbell or dumbbell decline bench press for dips.

Day B
3×5 Squat (barbell)

3×5 Standing military press (barbell) or dumbbell overhead press

3×5 Bent-over rows (barbell or dumbbell)

2×5-8 pull-ups (only add weight if you are doing >10 bodyweight pull-ups)

You can also add tricep extensions & curls at the END of each day, but if you’re pushing yourself hard this will tire you out.

I go three times a week, alternating A & B. You don’t really worry about “Leg day” or “Back Day” with this, because the lifts are working more than one major muscle group at once.

Anyway, give it a try and start with low weight while you figure out your form. I’ve been doing it for months and I love it. Just make sure to leave a day of rest in between lifting days. I do cardio on my in between days.

Feel free to add me as a motivator if you want to ask any questions.

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / General weight lifting advice needed.

Yeah, I can’t do pull ups yet either. I am using my gym’s assisted pullup machine. It basically gives you a boost so you can pull yourself up. You slowly lower the amount of assistance, and eventually you’ll be able to do them solo.

One thing I’ve just started doing is called Negatives. What you do is you use a step of some sort to boost yourself over the pullup bar, and try to hold yourself up. Don’t worry about pulling yourself up from a dead hang, just boost yourself up and try to hold yourself up there. Slowly lower yourself down, bit by bit, until you can’t hold yourself up any more. Then repeat. Apparently if you practice that, you’ll be able to do pullups in no time.

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / General weight lifting advice needed.

Are you so sore that it’s making it hard to move around and do things? Or is it just a bit of muscle soreness when you wake up and you don’t really worry about it through the rest of the day.

After a workout day I’ll have a bit of muscle soreness, but it’s really nothing at all to worry about. Once I start working out again, it feels better.

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Why am I always sore after working out?

Apparently you’re supposed to be careful when storing rice. If it sits at room temperature too long it can build up bacteria. I haven’t had this happen to me personally, I was just told this when I was thinking of cooking up a big bunch of rice and storing it.

Some people have kept rice a week and have been fine though so who knows.

Try to make sure you put it in an airtight container as soon as possible after cooking and throw it in the fridge. Don’t reheat it multiple times.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Bulk Cooking for the Week

I just keep my lettuce in a big ziplock bag, I find it works fine.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Bulk Cooking for the Week

I was hoping someone wouldn’t mind taking a look at what I eat in a day, and helping me out with improving it.

Breakfast
3 eggs
4 strips of chicken bacon
1 glass of skim milk

Snack
Applesauce

Lunch
1/4 cup of rice
3/4 cup of mixed veggies
Chicken breast or steak or some meat
Salad (Just lettuce & some light dressing)

Snack
Celery & 100% peanuts peanut butter

Dinner
Usually another 2 chicken breasts or steak w/ salad & veggies

Snack
Some fruit (strawberries, melon, etc).

On top of that I’ll have a protein shake if I’m working out.

The problem I see is that I’m STILL not getting enough calories. According to this site yesterday I only got roughly 1800 of the 2100 I need. I did forget to put my olive oil & margerine that I cooked with in though, would that make up the difference?

Oh and I’m a 24 year old, 6’1, 185 lb guy.

If someone could give me some tips on how to improve, I’d appreciate it!

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Help critique my diet

The reason I only have 1/4 cup of rice is I find its really easy for my carbs to get out of control. I’ve never even heard of Quinoa before, I’ll look into it! If it has more protein it might do the trick.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Help critique my diet

Well, I think everyone wants to be healthy haha. I’d also like to gain muscle… and lose fat? So I’m not really sure how to answer that.

I assume that if I’m eating the right amount of calories with a good enough split, and i keep hitting the gym hard, I’m going to lose fat and build muscle at the same time. Is that wrong?

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Help critique my diet

I managed to hit all my nutrition goals today for the first time, all those green checkmarks are beautiful sniff sniff.

Haha anyway thanks everyone for the advice, keep it coming! I’m going to keep tweaking things as I need to.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Help critique my diet