https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/164568/finally-going-to-get-back-into-shape/p1I've been following this thread and finally want to get my fat arse back in gear. I'm 60, and I've been doing HIIT and various other exercises for quite a few years but fell off the wagon a while ago. I want to get back to doing some proper resistance training and not just rely on HIIT and cardio, because I know it's really important. I also want to get back on a LCHF diet too, with a view to losing some weight but also mainly starting to feel better again. I've had various times when I've felt really good on exercise and diet but find it too easy to slide off the wagon and then struggle to get back on it. But I'm going to do it now.
I found the Peter Brukner in that other thread talk really inspiring - I kind of knew this but hearing it set out so clearly really helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=4WPF3RMPI9k&feature=emb_logoI want to be back in a proper groove before Xmas so that I'm not tempted to slide into eating all the usual shit that's around then. I've a new album coming out next year, so I want to have the energy and drive to do a decent job on promoting it and playing some lively, energetic shows.
Comments
just finished losing some 4 3/4 stone in weight through diet alone now keen to get my much healthier and lighter frame moving
My saving grace is that I've kept reasonably active. Even when I'm not going to the gym, although I work from home, I still get up and head out with my wife and walk up the hill to her work. We stop for a coffee together, which is a very civilised way to start the day, then I walk back down the road and start the fannying around process that passes for my working day. As a result of this, although I sit on my arse most days, I still have a daily average of 11,200 steps for the past year. At least that gives a base for getting back to the gym - I think I've been about 5 times in the last month. Onwards!
Target for tomorrow is a gym session at 6am. Going to see Calexico and Iron and Wine playing tonight but it won't be a late one so I should still be in bed early enough to get up at 5.50 and stumble down the road to the gym.
absolutely fucking starving for the first few weeks but then that subsided
Went to see Calexico and Iron & Wine last night - if I'm being honest, they were a bit dull but the support, Lisa O'Neill, was amazing. If you like folk music in any form, go see her if you get the chance. Anyway, not sure why, but I struggled to get to sleep and eventually turned off my alarm for getting to the gym. Happily-ish, fate intervened and I found myself wide awake at 5.30 after only less than 6 hours sleep. I grumpily got myself and went to the gym for 20 mins cardio warm up and then 40 mins of resistance training. By the time I got back home, I felt pretty pleased with having made the effort.
Regarding diet, I did some more research and I think I'm going to settle on a low carb diet for the next few weeks. I've long suspected sugar messes me up so I want to at least try to do something about trying to do without it, or at least a lot less of it. We'll see how it goes. But it's 10pm and I'm whacked.
Anyway, a good day and a decent start.
I'm fairly active and the meals I eat are healthy. My problem is absolutely no self-control when it comes to snacks. Oh, and a love for craft beer.
Anyone got any practical tips for cutting down on snacking? "just don't" doesn't work...
Could try filling up more wit good stuff at mealtimes. Or swapping to healthier snacks.
It's meant to be better for you to eat small and often though I think.
I can't really handle big meals these days so I have to snack all day to keep me going. Try to keep grapes blueberries carrots things like that.
Shoot for a 500 calorie a day deficit to your BMR and then exercise on top.
Drop alcohol completely.
It is the fastest way that is safe.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
That worked for me - I’m 170cm and 68kg and in the best shape I’ve been in for years and stronger than I’ve ever been
Anyway, I'm fasting this morning. It sucks, so it had better work.
Anyway, don't worry, I won't be doing daily updates as that would be too dull for everyone, but I'm off to a decent start. And twice to the gym so far, so that's good. HIIT session looming next, I think.
In other news, the gig was great. Withered Hand are really good, although Dan (who kind of is Withered Hand) takes shambling and bumbling between songs to the very edge of tolerable. Thankfully, he's funny, charming and engaging enough to not let it become annoying... but sometimes only by a whisker.
I keep thinking about Lisa O'Neill's set on Monday night. I'm not a big folk music fan but she gave a masterclass in engaging an audience and giving it all in a performance.
(And this has eaten up another few minutes before I fire into lunch... eaten... eats...... oh.......... quiet sob.............)
Onwards.
My friend is a psychotherapist and he said if you continue something for six weeks straight, it becomes habit forming.
That's why cycling always works for me, its part of my day to day.
We've also cut down completely on junk food (literally no takeaways at all). We scehdule a healthy meal plan for the upcoming week.
And we make sure we have the right sort of snacks in the house helps a lot. For instance for a chocolate hit we have those fibre one bars that are only 90 odd calories. For a cheese fix those laughing cow light triangles are about 25-50 calories. No crisps at all in the house, and having a Brita filter for water helps. We rarely drink beer anymore, and avoid anything breaded and beige.
the one advert that really stuck with me as an indication of how fucked things are was the Snickers one where one was encouraged to eat one and "say good bye to hunger". never need have a hunger pang again. and there lies the essence of it for me.
people have forgotten that it is normal to be famished before a meal....