Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

[Jesus]

Just had my first visit with a physical therapist....

 

[MustafaSTL]

Tip: Where Does Body Fat Go When You Lose It?
Only 1 out of a 100 people really knows what happens to fat when you diet. Sad!
by TC Luoma | Today

Okay, What's the Real Answer?
The short answer is that you literally breathe most of it out through your lungs. The rest leaves your body via urine, sweat, and any and all other liquid bodily secretions.

Here's exactly how it happens, step by step:

1. All fats in the body exist as triglycerides and many of them are stored as droplets of oil in the fat cells that exist throughout the body. They exist as a fuel supply.
2. If you cut calories through diet or exercise, an enzyme called hormone-sensitive lipase is activated by hormonal messengers and breaks down triglycerides into glycerol and fatty acids.
3. These breakdown components are then released into the bloodstream where they're absorbed by first and foremost the liver, followed by the muscles.
4. Once absorbed by the liver or muscles, the triglyceride components are further broken apart and rearranged, resulting in large amounts of acetyl-CoA.
5. The acetyl-CoA combines with oxaloacetate within the cells' mitochondria to form citric acid.
6. This initiates the citric acid cycle, aka the Krebs cycle, which generates carbon dioxide, water, heat, and ATP.
7. The carbon dioxide then leaves the body through the lungs as you exhale, while the water exits through mostly urine and sweat. The heat that was released through the citric acid cycle maintains your body temperature, and the ATP generated powers every movement you make, whether conscious (walking, lifting a weight, chewing gum, etc.) or subconscious (the beating of your heart and breathing, among other things).

so is this why they say to drink a lot of water when trying to lose pounds? Because you’ll piss more out the more calories you burn and shyt?

 

[PortCityProphet]

Dude need to jack off or get some cheeks. Sounding like a horny demon

 

[Waterproof]

so is this why they say to drink a lot of water when trying to lose pounds? Because you’ll piss more out the more calories you burn and shyt?

Yeah Bruh, you didn't know that brother

When you burn fat some of the fat flows through your bloodstream, if it's not burned some of it stays in your body, that's why you have to drink at least a gallon to piss it out, sometimes when you piss and shyt you can see the fat in the toilet

 

[Waterproof]

What Build Muscle Also Retains Muscle
If the goal is fat loss, the general consensus is to train a metric shyt-ton and make yourself hate life and exercise till you can't feel the left side of your face. While I can respect the sentiment, it's a faulty approach with regards to fat loss.

Fat loss plans should alternatively be referred to as "muscle maintenance" plans. The idea should be to maintain or keep as much muscle as possible while in a caloric deficit. The easiest way to do so is to lift heavy things – remind the body to hold on to precious lean tissue.

To that end, traditional strength training should still be prioritized even if fat loss is the main goal.

This isn't to say you can't help expedite the process with some strategically placed circuits/HIIT/or metabolic finishers. However, if you've already ensured a caloric deficit via nutrition, adding in copious amounts of training volume via high(er) rep sets and endless metabolic conditioning is usually nothing more than a one-way ticket to Crankypantsville and sacrificing muscle.

Don't forget to lift appreciable weight. Force the body to keep your hard-earned muscle.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

It wasn't that big of a deal man.

It each it's own.

I'm different.

 

[Capitol]

One of the homies posted about how he finished the broad street run(10 miles) yesterday. Now this is a guy that was on the verge of being obese back then but hes been putting in work since the tail end of senior year. Got me inspired. Always wanted to finish one of these things

 

[brownsugah]

Came from the gym not too long ago and I feel good.

 

[Waterproof]

Training with Tendonitis
How does one lessen inflammation between workouts?


In situations in which tendonitis is severe, I would recommend completely resting the area for up to a week so as not to make a bad situation even worse. However, in cases when the pain is tolerable, it’s certainly possible to still train while continuing to heal. Just follow these rules:

1. Begin the workout by increasing your core temperature with 10 minutes of moderate cardio activity.
2. Flush the injured joint with plenty of blood by engaging in several light warmup sets before your first “work set.”
3. Avoid any exercises that cause pain to the extent that you cannot focus on the target muscle.
4. Keep sets at about 15 to 20 reps so you don’t force the inflamed joint to withstand too much resistance.
5. Use perfect form and a slow tempo on every rep. After the workout is complete, the injured area should be iced for 20 minutes every hour or so till bedtime. In addition, NSAIDs can be utilized to reduce inflammation as well, but not for more than a few days since these medications can interfere with the anabolic process.

 

[Waterproof]

I got tendonitis in my elbows and biceps and The shyt is not cool, that's the part of the game when you train heavy

So now I'm changing my training a little until I heal, I'm using lots of machines and cables with moderate weight

 

[The ADD]

Tinkering with 4x8 reps with a much shorter rest time in between sets from now until Labor Day

 

[Kal El]

Been low key stealing exercises from dudes who got certain body parts I want (no )

Been getting great results

Some dude who got some massive arms be doing single arm preacher curls on an incline bench, and machine preacher curls religiously. Like everytime I see this dude.

Then another dude with boulders for delts does these seated front raises where he starts off with a neutral grip and supinates his wrists at the top of each rep.

Added them shyts to the rotation

 

[patscorpio]

I got tendonitis in my elbows and biceps and The shyt is not cool, that's the part of the game when you train heavy

So now I'm changing my training a little until I heal, I'm using lots of machines and cables with moderate weight

Yup that's me...thats why I'm taking this year off from lifting and focusing on the calisthenics and extreme cardio routines I've been talking about...dial it back and next year ease back into it

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Elbow/wrist problems are the worst. Hope yall heal up soon

 

[BillBanneker]

Was looking into Madcow or 5/3/1 after this deload/reload doing 3x5 but all the possible apps look like crap. I've gotten lazy as fukk, I'm just going to have to log my (future) workouts the old fashioned way then.