Official Health/Fitness Thread

I agree this should be stickied.

I'm 6'1 and about 180, and I really need to lose about 5-10 more pounds of fat, but it's hard when I have literally nowhere to work out and all my food is chosen by my parents. When I actually get to choose my food I try to choose healthier food though. My main weakness is Coke.

I literally do not know anything about weight measurements but I just know I'm 6'4" and I'm not exactly thin, I really want to get in shape and I should be joining a gym soon, more exercise and a better diet, I should be in much better shape this time next year.

I'll say something. I use to work out but I can't get the motivation to go to the gym all the time, so I quit going

I was a tad bit overweight the past few years. I took a fitness for life class at my college and they told me I was 10 lbs overweight so I had to loose that amount by the end of the semester. I did it by cutting back on what I ate, by rarely drinking sodas and eating things like chips, and started to drink a lot of water

In case any of you would wanna read my story -

I'm 16, 5'4, 61 kg.

I was fat, didn't even have muscle under my fat. I was so fat I was never able to feel my abs but I didn't really care much about it. Started hitting the gym on July 22nd 2013 few days before turning 15, just because it was the latest trend in my school and a friend of mine introduced me to Jeff Seid and the aesthetic bodybuilding world. I only went like 5 times, and right after, I always used to have royal cheat meals (Pizza Hut, Coke, Oreo etc.). Later in Sep, I started doing a few push ups and crapty 8 mins abs but that wasn't enough because I wasn't on a diet and I was not very serious about it. On December 24th, I finally started hitting the gym. No real diet yet, but I did some cardio and some machines. I didn't know much about it back then, I used to just use any available machine and try to hit all the muscles the same day. Even though it was not clever, it started paying. I of course took a break from Jan 24th till March 3rd when I ate all so much junk and stopped exercicing. and that's where someone told me I should work by muscle groups. Looked up programs, and started lifting. I hadn't done any bench pressing or any free weights exercices in general before. I used to throw in Passion4Profession's 15 mins INSANE ABS after every training. Two months later doing the exact same program (yes, my bad), I got ripped. My gym subscription ended and I felt like I didn't like my gym. To not waste time finding a new gym, I got back to the Passion4Profession videos but picked the insane workouts. I was loving it. I used to workout everyday unlike the gym which was only three times a week. I also used to do Bar Brother's Fat Burning routine before every session, and man, those are awesome. At this point I already wasn't fat anymore, I just didn't want to jiggle not even a bit. I've always believed in 'If it jiggles, it's fat' - Arnold. Saved some money and bought myself a doorway pull-up bar and dumbbels. I was hooked. Unlike what I read on the net, bodyweight exercices worked better than lifting for me and the gains were real. To mention that through those three months (March-May) I was on a real diet. Green salad, chicken breast, rice, water, oats. I was over junk food, and could easily resist the need to have it.

Unfortunately, it was late May and exams came in the way. Didn't have time to workout, and slowly started eating junk again. Stopped working out for about 15 days without dieting, the loss was heavy (well, to me). Tried getting back on track again, worked out like 3 times, stopped, and kept repeting the same scenario all summer long. I've lost so much muscle and my bodyfat went up to like 12-11% when it was around 8-7% (I used to do HARDCORE cardio everyday, like an hour, I was so addicted with being lean af).

I planned on changing gym, getting some supplements and starting clean again in mid august. but I ended up taking MMA/kick boxing class for self defense purposes. The HIIT of 40mins this intense isn't helping either so I burn a lot. Now I totally lost motivation for doing everything, I skip my MMA classes, I can't get ed eating healthy. I still workout whenever I feel like, I'm not fat or anything though my abs are flat from not hitting them, but I hate myself for that. Looking back at the pics I took earlier, I can't believe I got to that point because I was too busy being hungry for more, and wasn't even satisfied with where I had got to.

Pics -



*last pic is from this week*

For mates who believe that big brains are important but not as important as big gunz -



I have crap loads of pics of both fat and SHREDDS but that's useless because I don't look like either now...

My next goal is to get big cause even when I'm shredded, I look small wearing something.

Also, someone please sticky this.

What happened to your shoulder?

Great idea on this thread by the way. Working out has been a lot tougher the last couple weeks with all the overtime I'm putting in at work lately.

I was 210 pounds in 2011, lost 60 pounds in 6 months, dropped to 150. Did it too quick, got sick and took a month to recover. Maintained my weight until recently. I'm around 190 again, feel crappy and fat! I just got lazy and started eating crap. I'd like to lose back the weight.

Good to hear, I've had both my shoulders operated on and the time following the surgery was critical in terms of maintaining a healthy intake while activity was at a minimum.

My family is about to move, and the new house has a garage connected to the bedroom I'd be in, and my parents said I could use it so I'm going to use it as a home gym. Now my problem is just that all the food in the house is utter crap health wise.