Strength Weight Training: Anything and Everything II

[dirty2]

It's like people who weigh their food precisely. I'm around about the mark. My smoothies are anywhere between 1800 and 2200kj, my fish and chips usually 2000 to 2500kj. 500kj per day isn't going to make **** all difference, and it's also pointless because every single day is different in terms of energy expenditure.

I've been losing 700g per week according to my spreadsheet so it's working with a no b.s approach.

My diet pretty much consists of don't eat shit and get min 150g of protein.

Gone from 91kg in July to 84kg now while still going up in the weights I lift. I'm not huge compared to when I started lifting in September.. but I'm more toned and I feel I'm heading in the right direction.

I still spoil myself at times (food/alcohol). I seem to be going In the right direction my belly is smaller my arms, shoulders more toned.

I do ask people who know what they are doing and take everything on board and learn..

Still wouldn't say I really know what I'm doing...

 

[Piggy Smalls]

I try to stay away from social media because it's 90% bullshit, the influencers are full of shit, and liars. You've got seed oil groups and carnivore groups fighting anyone not in those groups. You've got pseudo dieticians spreading bs advice. Being 100% natty in great but not elite shape looks like you have never hit the gym in contrast to the people on juice.

To add to that, there is a very popular female influencer here in Australia who is natty but every single one of her photos is a professionally shot photo, professional lighting, she definitely morphs the photos. In her regular unedited videos she looks tiny. The whole Instagram/tik tok thing gives a false sense of reality.

I'm down from a high of 83kg after bulking from doing little exercise in 2021 to 65 at the current moment. If I get to my target, I'm going to be lean and really good definition but I'm going to look small. That's the reality.

That's a 20% drop in your weight already. What is your target in kg and bf%?

 

[JHF1870]

That's a 20% drop in your weight already. What is your target in kg and bf%?

I was carrying way too much weight. I'm not sure. I'll get to about 62KG and see what it looks like then go and get a DEXA. it's $95

So basically 72kg to 67 saw most of the belly weight disappear, and now it's just the back and sides that's really showing. I'm at about 65 and have only just started to see real definition in the arms.

I want to go farther than I did before because when I bulked again I got unhappy within 2 months. I want a more manageable weight to move with.

 

[Themanbun]

In terms of body composition you're nearly always a higher body fat percentage than you expect in my experience.

As an example, a lot of blokes aim for a long term goal of say 10% body fat at 75kg and then they find they need to get to 72kg for ten per cent.

It's also why natural athletes like footy players just look like ordinary blokes but taller unless they're wearing a singlet.

 

[rye]

at the end of the day there just isnt enough content to be milked out of the basic principles of progressive overload and caloric deficit / surplus to justify most of these 'science' lifting youtube videos.

 

[Glorfindel]

I've watched some YouTube lately.... But yeah... They contradict each other alot and just leaves me more confused

When you stop thinking about the information being contradictory, and consider it all supportive of the notion that (pretty much) everything will work for the right person at the right time, it becomes a lot less confusing.

 

[T2B_]

I really like Dr Mike. I've seen some snippets on YouTube but not sure of the details.
I think he's been cherry picking data to support his claims, beyond the typical that you'd expect and be OK with.
I've taken a lot of good advice from Mike, and his training videos consistently have elite body builders at their absolute max effort level. I'd still recommend him to new lifters for form and technique advice.

Fun fact, he's only about 4 ft 11 IRL.

I like Dr Mike too, mostly I think as he can be pretty entertaining (he's a bit of a clown) and while he's far from perfect, I don't think he goes to huge lengths to even hide it. He's very flawed, but in a weird way I find it kind of endearing, and there's stuff I'd disagree with him on or just don't apply to me (I have to be keto most of the time, so his nutrition stuff doesnt apply to me usually) but I've found his lifting/training/technique type stuff to be quite useful.

 

[JHF1870]

Bis and tris. Not ****ing around

16m workout

 

[faible]

at the end of the day there just isnt enough content to be milked out of the basic principles of progressive overload and caloric deficit / surplus to justify most of these 'science' lifting youtube videos.

Or they end up recycling content, I only bother following a couple of guys in this arena and they tend to pop up with mostly the same content on rotation every few months.

For most people the exercise you'll actually do > the scientifically optimal exercise you won't do.

 

[Jugada]

The different variations videos would actually be the most useful if they were just like hey here's another way to do a row that you might prefer rather than pretending like it's going to unlock some massive gains you have been missing out on

 

[Mofra]

The different variations videos would actually be the most useful if they were just like hey here's another way to do a row that you might prefer rather than pretending like it's going to unlock some massive gains you have been missing out on

It's what happens when views become more important than quality.