Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 07, 2020 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 07, 2020
- Getting Burnt Out on Tracking Macros. Any Tips for Someone Looking To Step Away from Tracking?
- Gym Story Saturday
- Self-Promotion Saturday
- Bench keeps going down??
- How can I lose gained skin?
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 07, 2020 Posted: 07 Nov 2020 02:04 AM PST Welcome to the /r/Fitness Daily Simple Questions Thread - Our daily thread to ask about all things fitness. Post your questions here related to your diet and nutrition or your training routine and exercises. Anyone can post a question and the community as a whole is invited and encouraged to provide an answer. As always, be sure to read the wiki first. Like, all of it.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" after your search topic. Other good resources to search are Exrx.net for exercise-related topics and Examine.com for nutrition and supplement science. Be aware that the more relevant information you add, the more relevant the answers you receive will be. And if you are posting about your routine, please make sure you follow the guidelines. (Please note: This is not a place for general small talk or chit-chat. Also, the community decided long ago that we keep jokes, trolling, and memes outside of the Daily Q&A threads. Please use the downvote / report button when necessary.) [link] [comments] |
| Getting Burnt Out on Tracking Macros. Any Tips for Someone Looking To Step Away from Tracking? Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:11 PM PST Happy Friday everyone. As the title explains, I think I've finally hit a breaking point when it comes to tracking everything that goes in my mouth. Little bit of context here, I'm a formally overweight 33yo male that dieted down from 290lbs to 145lb over the course of the last two years. Roughly 8 months ago, at my lightest weight, I decided it was time to put together a solid weightlifting routine, and entered what many would probably consider a lean bulk. I started using the Carbon Diet Coach app from Layne Norton to track my progress, and have seen success with this method. Both in training progress, and physique overall. Everything was going great until an app update wiped my progress which was very frustrating, so I decided to jump over the the RP Diet App as the training routine I was using was from RP and figured I'd go with their nutrition protocols as well. Again I found success using the app, and I've steadily progressively overloaded all my lifts nicely. Over this period, I've gained back about 10lbs (mostly muscle) and I'm very happy with where I'm currently at, though my overall goal is probably to get to the 160-170ish range in weight before I try to just hold it there long term and continue training. With that out of the way, this morning I woke up and went to check in my weight in RP, but it seems a recent iOS update caused a major bug that wasn't allowing me to log my data and get my new macros for the upcoming week. This kind of was a lynchpin moment for me as I at first got so frustrated and had this weird sense of all my progress being fucked up (even though that's ridiculous) and I somewhat had a come to jesus moment where I feel like I want to give up all these apps and tracking macros altogether and just focus primarily on eating intuitivly, being able to enjoy all the food my wife cooks without spending 25 minutes weighing everything on a scale, and just keep hitting the weights hard and progressing there. I said fuck it and for the first time in well over a year, I haven't tracked a single thing today. Just kinda ate what I normally eat, not weighing anything and just loading my plate with the amount of food I felt I was hungry for. So far, if I was to estimate consumption, I'm actually probably under what RP would have me at for the day. I feel fine. Energy is great. Hit legs hard today and got an awesome pump. The world didn't end because I didn't weigh out exactly 180g of egg whites for breakfast. My question for you all is this. Am I making a mistake here? Two years of tracking consistently has I feel prepped me in terms of knowing what's in food and what the right choices and amounts are. Sure I'll probably have days here and there where I'm snackier than usual, but if there's one thing I've learned in these two years is that consistency>perfection. Has anyone else here been a strict tracker that one day decided to step away from tracking and just ate normally to satiety? If so, what sort benefits/drawbacks did you find? I'm still going to monitor weight and progress pics, and I know what needs to be done to tweak my consumption here and there when needed, so I'm not like, terrified I'm just going to balloon up. And in many ways, this is just an experiment for now to see how it goes not tracking for a week. But yeah, wanted to see if anyone else here that has been in this game much longer than me has any wisdom to share on that front. Thanks for taking the time if you read that, and looking forward to seeing what ya'll have to say! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:16 AM PST Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2020 02:04 AM PST Welcome to Self-Promotion Saturday This thread will serve as a weekly AutoModerator post, for anyone looking to get exposure for their Instagram, Youtube, blogspot, RedditMade, Kickstarter, TeeSpring, MySpace, AOL, stand-alone website, or stand-alone physical product. This post is the one time where people can advertise without repercussions, and the one thread when anything goes. All other advertisements will continue to be removed as per Rule #8. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2020 01:07 AM PST 2.5 months ago was doing 205 for sets of 5. I've been lifting pretty consistently since then yet I've gradually dropped to the point where I can only do 185 for 5 on a good day. At first I thought I was overtraining, so I took 10 days off and lowered my volume and training frequency once I returned, but I still kept getting weaker. The only thing I can think of is that I'm not eating enough (I've heard bench is the most responsive lift to your calorie intake) but I've been working out with my brother who more or less eats what I do and his bench has gone up about 20 lbs over this period. I've watched a bunch of videos and read a lot about form but none of this has seemed to help. It's extremely frustrating to go to the gym and bench less every workout, so I'm wondering if any of you have had this problem and how you fixed it. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:42 AM PST I'm curious if it is even possible to lose gained skin in my case. The current situation looks like this: https://imgur.com/h7ubmUX At one point in my life, I was just under 100kg and I've gotten to the point of staying around 75kg, losing most of my fat, but that shape just won't go away. I've gone as far as starving myself down to 68kg but that made no difference in terms of loose skin, so I'm wondering - may be there are specific exercises that can help? Or something? [link] [comments] |
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