Beginner Fitness: Moronic Monday - Your weekly stupid questions thread |
- Moronic Monday - Your weekly stupid questions thread
- Figuring out a diet is overwhelming
- Should I hold off on increasing weights?
- My BMR is scaring me
- Using only a floor mat to transform your body
- Upper/Lower vs PPL+FullBody for a 4 day schedule.
- Deadlift form advice
- Scales (Like Bristol) to Track Health?
- Combat Sports Diet?
- Prednisone help? :/ Feeling at a loss..
- How hard is moving homes? I am generally fit, but I just finished and my entire body feels broken.
- Isolation focused, high volume program similar to GZCLP/nSuns?
- Would I do myself more harm than good if I were to practice combat sports 4x a week and work out 5x a week?
- Getting back in shape as a student that's mostly turned off from sports or traditional exercise
- Floating leg in single leg RDLs
- Need help with diet choices
- Should i skip a workout if i cant eat afterwards?
- Is there a point to lifting as much with little protein
- Noob Gains vs diet
- Bodyfat estimate please?
- Cutting back on protein? female new to lifting.
| Moronic Monday - Your weekly stupid questions thread Posted: 02 Mar 2020 12:27 AM PST Get your dunce hats out, Fittit, it's time for your weekly Stupid Questions Thread. Post your question - stupid or otherwise - here to get an answer. Anyone can post a question and the community as a whole is invited and encouraged to provide an answer. Many questions get submitted late each week that don't get a lot of action, so if your question didn't get answered before, feel free to post it again. As always, be sure to read the FAQ first.Also, there's a handy-dandy search bar to your right, and if you didn't know, you can also use Google to search fittit by using the limiter "site:reddit.com/r/fitness". Be sure to check back often as questions get posted throughout the day. Lastly, it may be a good idea to sort comments by "new" to be sure the newer questions get some love as well. Click here to sort by new in this thread only. So, what's rattling around in your brain this week, Fittit? As per this thread, the community has asked that we keep jokes, trolling, and memes outside of the Moronic Monday thread. Please use the downvote / report button when necessary. [link] [comments] |
| Figuring out a diet is overwhelming Posted: 01 Mar 2020 11:48 PM PST I'm trying to figure out how to eat healthy, as I've recently moved out, live on my one, and gained some weight due to eating randomly. I've calculated that in order to get to the the weight I want, I need to eat 1500 calories a day. So that's cool and all, but is it really healthy to eat 1500 calories of fast food, chips, and frozen pizza everyday? Obviously not. I see stuff like this. I went out and bought all the ingredients, only to let it go to waste (chicken and beef is in my freezer) because I don't know what to do with it! I find this process of eating healthy very difficult. I feel as if I need a shopping list created for me, and then I need recipes for the exact food i purchased that fit my daily calorie intake. If I buy a ton of veggies, fruits, and meats, how the heck do i incorporate them all into meals for a day, inside my caloric limit and macros, perfectly without any going to waste? It seems like I would need to sit down and do a bunch of math all the time just to figure out how much to buy of what and how to cook it into what, and how often to do so. All this stress encourages me to eat fast food because that's easy, you order a burger, fries, and input it into myfitnesspal, and because it's just one meal and not a week or month's worth of ingredients, it doesn't go to waste. I just feel lost. I don't know how people do this without a fitness coach or something. [link] [comments] |
| Should I hold off on increasing weights? Posted: 01 Mar 2020 07:17 AM PST Hey fitness. I've been following Nsuns 5 day variation for a few months now. I'm about to hit solid stopping points on my lifts, and I'm curious if it would be smart to just stay at these weights for a few weeks. I know that you have AMRAP sets, but I've just been shooting for 3 on those. Stats for those curious: 24, 166lb M (currently trying to cut down to about 145lbs) OHP- 135x3 (Plates!!!) Squat- 275x3 (2.5 Plates!!!) Bench- 225x3 (2 Plates!!!) Deadlift- 315x3 (3 Plates!!!) What are your thoughts? I'm on a heavy cut rn for summer season, it's why I'm thinking about stopping. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 12:18 AM PST Hi everyone I got on this fancy machine at the gym and it calculated my bmr at 1344. I'm 5'5, female, 28 years old and weigh 161 Isnt 1344 an extremely low number? That means to cut 500 to lose weight I can only eat ~800 a day??? Am I one of the unlucky ones to have a bmr this low??? [link] [comments] |
| Using only a floor mat to transform your body Posted: 02 Mar 2020 04:01 AM PST Has anyone had any real success with only a small space in their room and a floor/yoga mat to transform from an absolute noob to something commendable? And without the use of any equipment other than your body. How was your journey? How did you keep at it? How have things changed? [link] [comments] |
| Upper/Lower vs PPL+FullBody for a 4 day schedule. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 03:31 AM PST Hey Reddit, I've read that training each muscle twice a week is optimal for gains, so does that mean a Push - Pull - Legs - Full Body weekly routine is as optimal as an upper lower split twice a week? I have 4 free gym days and I'm trying to make best use of time. :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:39 PM PST Hey all, I'm having some trouble with the deadlift form and can get around to posting a form video when I can. I had a question about the movement itself. I had a low back injury (probably lumbar spine) years ago. I never had an MRI done or went to the doctor for it, just did a bunch of exercises myself and it doesn't really bother me anymore. I feel completely normal doing regular activities. However for the deadlift when I hip hinge backwards, I feel some tension in my lower back even if my back is flat. I've tried hip hinging backwards many times to try and find the right position but I feel like I may not have it right still. Also, I know people say keep your fit more narrow, but I find that if they're about shoulder width for me, I find that I don't feel that odd tension on my lower back. To expand on this, I don't have any real pain or anything, it is just tension that I can only take so much of. I know the deadlift movement is an essential movement pattern of humans and I should be able to do this. I just don't want to screw up my back while trying to deadlift. What should I do? Should I do some decompression work on my lower back? Would it help to raise the barbell off the floor with some plates? Or should I find some alternative to the deadlift? Thanks for reading my wall of text. [link] [comments] |
| Scales (Like Bristol) to Track Health? Posted: 02 Mar 2020 04:15 AM PST Hi Everyone, I'm starting a diet and exercise change and trying to track the data in excel. Within a week of healthy eating, I've moved from type 5-7 on the Bristol Scale to Type 4 and want to track other health goals too. Right now, for "Brain" I have notes like "Foggy upon waking, no coffee", but I am hoping for something more objective so I can graph the data eventually. Does anyone know of any scales for the following: 1) Brain Alertness/Fatigue 2) Back pain 3) Skin dryness 4) Waist fat/body type fat Or any other useful info it may be smart to track? I am already recording weight, BMI, reps/weight, and nutrition macros. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 04:11 AM PST Started doing Muay Thai about 4 months ago and I've done some browsing and haven't been able to come up with much on what kinda diet I should be going with, anyone who does the sport or something similar have some recommendations? [link] [comments] |
| Prednisone help? :/ Feeling at a loss.. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 03:39 AM PST After having to increase my prednisone dosage, I somehow gained 6 Ibs in 4 days and haven't been able to lose the 6 Ibs. It's been a week and I've been extra thorough about counting my calories and according to my BMR and calorie intake, I should've lost at least 1-2Ibs, but I'm still at that 6 pound gain. The only logical explanation is water weight, but why wont it go away if I'm dieting? I cant do cardio atm due to health issues, it really triggers flares for me. The only safe workouts I can do is muscle building or light walking. What's your advice for this situation? I think I have to be on steroids permanently or until I hit a remission but I'm new to having health problems.. [link] [comments] |
| How hard is moving homes? I am generally fit, but I just finished and my entire body feels broken. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 03:36 AM PST I'm in my 40s now. I used to move myself solely. This time, I got movers and even so, we had so many odds and ends I ended up doing a ton - likely a couple tons actually in real weight. I thought I was ready to do anything at anytime, but now I just feel messed up. I get that moving uses a lot of muscles I don't usually use (normally I bike a lot, play basketball, swim, box, lift). In the past, I'd feel super strong after moving. This all got me thinking: is feeling this messed up after moving mean I'm unfit, or is moving so extreme that it isn't a good indicator of fitness? [link] [comments] |
| Isolation focused, high volume program similar to GZCLP/nSuns? Posted: 02 Mar 2020 02:53 AM PST This post will propably be deleted, as it looks like easly searchable. All I know, is compound lifts. My whole gym life orbits around Big 3. BUT! I sprained my ankle pretty bad. Do you know something easly calculated, like programs in the title? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 02:44 AM PST I'm 5'10, 160 pounds, pretty much athletic body type and 20 years old. I'm currently trying to plan a new work out schedule and right now the best I could come up with is Monday - Arm work out 2 hours + Muay Thai 1 hour Tuesday - Leg work out 2 hours + Boxing 1 hour Wednesday - Body work out 2 hours+ Muay Thai 1 hour Thursday - Arm work out 2 hours + Boxing 1 hour Friday - Nothing Saturday - Body + Legs work out 3 hours Sunday - Nothing Will I destroy my body and gain absolutely no muscle gain Edit: Lmao chill with the downvotes, can't even ask a fitness question in a fitness sub huh? [link] [comments] |
| Getting back in shape as a student that's mostly turned off from sports or traditional exercise Posted: 02 Mar 2020 02:38 AM PST Hello. First thread here, figured this would be the best place for some advice. I'm a 23 year old student and I've been looking into getting into shape for a while, I don't smoke at all and I drink very rarely (maybe a few times a year, if that), but I'm struggling to find something that will work for me properly. The past year I've made small attempts to, that seem to last a week before I decide that I need to do something far more important (usually coursework that's due in soon), or get put off due to my other hobbies becoming more interesting. I recently decided it's kind-of important to deal with my health too as it's begun impacting my studies. I'm in a state where I put off doing any physical activity saying "I need to do coursework!" and then put off coursework going "well my health is goddamned awful so who knows if I'll even be around for this to matter" (melodramatic, yes, but the mind wanders sometimes) I became really unhealthy over the past couple of years and began to indulge in takeaways regularly. Long story short, I had a family tragedy about 3 or 4 years ago now and for a year I basically just kinda "got by" however I could. This meant grabbing a ready meal from the local shop because that was the fastest way to get something, and not even bothering to plan a shop, and if the shop was closed, takeaway. Of course, this kinda left me completely unable to cook or prepare a proper meal and since then, my diet hasn't improved. My exercise follows a similar pattern, though tbh, from school onwards I was always very disconnected from sports and the like. In terms of hobbies, I'm a fairly stereotypical nerd type. Someone who tunes in every year at 3am for the E3 press conferences, plays 1 tabletop RPG a week, and is studying and enjoys programming. I pretty much have an entire setup of a PC + Nintendo Switch to make sure I'm never within a few meters of a good game. Is there anything I can do to finally get a grip on my own health that won't result in quick demotivation or becoming bored immediately? Are there any useful apps I should pick up to begin getting a handle on all of this? I'm not aiming to get "totally ripped" in 6 weeks or anything like that. I just hate how quickly I'm getting out of breath, how I feel tired a lot and how I just feel like the unhealthiest person in almost any room. It's more about doing something about my health before it gets much harder to deal with. I can easily fit in the basic stuff, like walking to uni for 45 minutes rather than getting the bus and making sure I just don't keep fizzy drinks in my apartment. But what else will I need to do? Is there some kind of good way to mix some basic fitness with my hobbies to keep it interesting? [link] [comments] |
| Floating leg in single leg RDLs Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:50 PM PST Does it matter how high your floating leg rises up during single leg RDLs? I want to think that all that really matters is isolating the grounded leg, so that it doesn't really matter how high up the floating leg goes up. I'm mostly concerned about this because the height my floating leg reaches differs whenever I switch legs and I don't want to create a muscular imbalance in my hammies. TO be clear: I'm pretty certain I reach the same "depth" in my hip hinge in either leg, it's just the height discrepancy in my floating leg. Anyone else have this issue? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2020 11:33 PM PST So I've been working out every day for a month now, and I can't get the proper diet to take it to that next level. Right now I've lost 10 pounds in 4 weeks, but it was slow losing weight cause I was building muscle at the same time. I'm 285 and I'm 6,5. I try to do 30 mins of cardio everyday but can't, but I'll fix that. It's just need I need a good diet for losing weight but keeping tone. Just need to lose body fat and keep the muscle. [link] [comments] |
| Should i skip a workout if i cant eat afterwards? Posted: 02 Mar 2020 01:57 AM PST Sorry if this a noob question but i have a coloscopy tomorrow and because of the preperation for it i cant eat until tommorow in the early afternoon so my question is would it be bad to workout today if i am not able to eat something afterwards? Thanks in advance [link] [comments] |
| Is there a point to lifting as much with little protein Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:03 PM PST Noob here, so I havent noticed much progress for a while now and honestly just found out about how much protein I should be taking for gains. Lets say I take about 60 to 70g of protein a day and my lean body mass is 170 lbs ( full 230 lbs). Is there even a point to do all of PPL? Whether its cutting some days out of the week or removing a excercise because honestly I dont look much different when I use to do PPL without ohp and tricep isolated workouts. I'm asking because I started fasting trying to go from 230 to 200 in less than a month that wont have much protein, around 20g or less. Should I just cut down on working out? As much as I love working out, it would be a waste of time if I'm not getting gains and feel weaker. Sorry if anything is confusing. EDIT : after some research it's best that I just do a water fast only to get into ketosis which maintains muscle the best with minimal loss and to keep working out 5 times a week with lower weights to maintain. If I were to keep those days with eating at low calories it would contribute to big muscle loss, for whatever reason fasting/ketosis helps maintain muscle than calorie deficit. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2020 07:43 PM PST Hey yall My friend wants to start working out. She's basically never stepped foot in a gym. Pretty sure she's like a pear body shape (she has some fat in her hips and upper thighs, relatively flat stomach though), and she can eat whatever she wants and not gain a pound. Was kinda curious that if she starts working out, what would her progress be like if she started going to the gym, and if she maintained her current diet how would that affect her? As it is she doesn't have the best diet.. I'd say she consumes no more than 1,200 cals a day, and usually eats all at once towards the end of the night (she also drinks alcohol at least 2x a week, and sometimes will drink casually most nights of the week). She's been sedentary almost all her life (22y/o . About 115-125lbs . About 5'3"-5'5"). Would she have to be on a surplus in order to see progress? I understand that diet is a big part of overall health and fitness, just didn't know if newbie gains took precedence over that. Tia! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:14 PM PST Dropped 30lbs since November. Pretty proud of myself but just trying to figure out my current bodyfat as I'm nearing the end of my cut and am trying to figure out a goal weight for single digit bodyfat. I appreciate any guess lol. Thanks. https://imgur.com/gallery/nuB0OVW [link] [comments] |
| Cutting back on protein? female new to lifting. Posted: 01 Mar 2020 07:23 AM PST I'm fairly new to fitness. My goals are strength gains and muscle gain. I have a chronic illness that affects joints which means squat progression is really really slow annoyingly. I can't squat during a flare. I'm a woman, 5'7 currently weigh 79 kg/ 21.6% BF Squat pb: 85kg ( 7 reps) Deadlift pb: 125kg ( 7 reps) Hip thrust pb: 145kg ( 7 reps) Not sure about my 1RM Only recently started benching. Started going to the gym last year for a few months but wasn't serious about lifting and didn't adjust my diet. I lost weight then was out of gym for months. I put on 10 kg during this period. I started back to the gym at the beginning of this year following a 5 day lifting programme with 2 upper body days/ 3 lower body days. I also do yoga weekly and a few Hiit sessions when I can remember. I did a mini cut for the first 6 weeks and lost 7kg. I'm now eating slightly above maintenance. I've been eating 179g of protein and between 1900-2200 calories but honestly I hate it and my doctor has concerns that it's too much for my kidneys. It has been helping my strength gains though. I'm dairy free so hate eating so much meat/fish. Has anyone had experience cutting back on protein and still making progress? How much can I cut my protein intake in and still make progress? [link] [comments] |
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