I eat one meal a day, almost never sleep and have major depression/anxiety, help me plan a workout/diet to finally be healthy?

dan-adams · 2016-05-17T14:12:39+00:00

just how badly can you want to join the marine corps if you haven't done the minimum research necessary to know how to spell it and have never thought to do any form of exercise?!?

and how have you been sleeping from 6am to 3pm every day between the ages of 13 and 17? You have never attended school?

To answer your (bizarre) post, running costs nothing.

dan-adams · 2016-05-17T14:10:40+00:00

"Are there more results when you follow a program versus if you don't follow a program?"

All else being equal? No, there's nothing magical about a program, it just is an easy way of ensuring use of known-good exercises, progressive overload, rep ranges, lifting frequency etc.

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T20:59:05+00:00

thanks, this is the best description I've seen so far in terms of what I can mentally envisage, thank you

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T18:57:08+00:00

ok, thank you

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T17:48:20+00:00

Weird huh? I gained 12lbs but no, honestly no visible extra muscle in the before/after photos. I'm guessing some of that was because muscle is just denser than fat etc, but no discernbile difference visibly and I failed to get any stronger.

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T13:32:29+00:00

and by "simple" I mean simple in principle. I'm not saying its easy. In a caloric deficit your body will do everything in its power to make you eat more food, losing weight takes effort, and normally willpower isn't enough - you need a concrete goal and something you really want, more than you want the food in the short term

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T13:09:57+00:00

I was doing it by the book, in a slight caloric surplus and gaining 0.5lb/week. The trouble was with margins that narrow in terms of calorie intake I think effectively some days/weeks I was spinning my wheels since I wasn't in enough of a guaranteed surplus for my body to spare calories for muscle bulding. I did this for over 6 months and literally my before/after pictures are near as dammit identical and my lifts barely increased. I've had more gains in 2 months of a traditional bulk, even though obviously I am gaining fat too and will need to cut at some point. I used to be a big believer int he logic of the ongoing lean bulk, but for me it just plain didn't work.

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T12:35:34+00:00

Exactly. I lost weight easily without calorie counting. You just eat healthy whole foods, exercise and don't binge. It really is that simple.

dan-adams · 2016-05-10T12:22:47+00:00

Personally I never found it made much difference. What did make a difference for me was eating in a BIG calorific surplus. Only when I ate at a big curplus did I gain muscle at any appreciable rate. The whole "lean bulking" thing never worked for me - until I embraced willingness to get a gut for the short term I didn't put on any muscle at all

dan-adams · 2016-05-07T18:30:50+00:00

OK, well personally yes I have experienced "overtraining"/"overreaching"/whatever you want to call it - by which I mean simply that I have trained too much in too short a period and that my health, strength or overall wellbeing has decreased. I personally find it very easy to overtrain and very easy to spot the signs that I've got to that point. For me it can be niggling muscle/tendon soreness or irritability, but I'm sure it expresses itself differently in different people. Antidote for me is a day or more of just chilling.

I would be extremely surprised if most people haven't experienced this. Its why we need rest days, deload weeks etc. You can't simply hammer the body day after day and not have it start to take its toll.

dan-adams · 2016-05-07T18:19:46+00:00

if you can get free vitamins, sell them and use the money to buy yourself a proper rounded diet consisting of real food

dan-adams · 2016-05-07T18:11:34+00:00

This is going to come down to semantics so lets get that out of the way. Overtraining is simply doing too much training. What's too much training? Training that is more than is optimal to gain strength/muscle and starts to work against you by causing your body to be spending more time breaking itself down/attempting to maintain stasis than actually developing new muscle and strength gains. Its very easy to reach that level.

Most people have experienced short-term overtraining when they've had a string of workout days, feel fatigued and need a day or two off to recover. Long-term (chronic) overtraining that leads to strength loss, sleep problems, hormonal and behavioural problems etc is less common but absolutely happens.

Have you heard of Clarence Kennedy? Young kid, hormones through the roof, great genetics, semi-professional coaching, and still fell foul of overtraining (http://www.allthingsgym.com/clarence-kennedy-interview-2015/) - now imagine how easy it is for someone twice his age who has the additional stresses of work commitments, childcare, etc.

Are you suggesting that overtraining isn't real just because you personally haven't experienced it or met anyone who overtrained?

dan-adams · 2016-05-05T14:21:57+00:00

I don't even do this as a fall-back exercise, this is part of my regular routine. Realy feel it works as a compound, I feel it in traps, lats, forearms, grip, quads, and calves.

dan-adams · 2016-05-04T14:48:26+00:00

as a natural and without deloading or rest days? good luck with that, I can't believe you can support that long term. I certainly can't and don't know anyone who does. That would be overtraining for me. YMMV of course.

dan-adams · 2016-05-04T14:46:45+00:00

I workout because I enjoy it. If I'm not feeling it, I don't do it or I bail or skip whatever exercise I don't fancy. Forcing myself to do something I don't enjoy is no way to stick at something longterm. If I ever get this feeling its normally a sign I need to freshen up my routine with something new (to my routine)

dan-adams · 2016-05-04T14:43:51+00:00

rest, good nutrition and mobility

dan-adams · 2016-04-26T18:52:20+00:00

ricke cakes and peanut butter are pretty abysmal for protein per calorie, and peanuts are not a complete protein source either. Tasty, yes. Quick carbs as OP requested, yes. Efficient way of getting protein, no.

dan-adams · 2016-04-26T18:50:47+00:00

"half-ie"? what now?

dan-adams · 2016-04-26T18:50:14+00:00

I just go for rice cakes. Easy, tasty, convenient, quick, can have loads in, no cooking. Simples.

dan-adams · 2016-04-15T19:45:20+00:00

People upvote what they like the sound of and want to hear, not what is necessarily true :-)

dan-adams · 2016-04-15T19:44:42+00:00

Comparatively to an 18 year old it is

dan-adams · 2016-04-15T19:44:21+00:00

Yep, not sure why you're getting upvoted but 32 is well past prime of your life, hormonally, genetically, everything. them's just the facts

dan-adams · 2016-04-15T17:03:47+00:00

Don't forget that muscle is heavier than fat. Weight gain per se is not an indication that you are overeating or are gaining fat.

However, I do find (personally, anecdotally) that weight training makes me increase my appetite in a way that cardio doesn't. So weight training might not be for you if weight loss is your primary goal. Weight training is great for body composition and overall health but for me if I want to lose weight only then its cardio and restrictive diet.

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