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buff from the waist down

Legs like Wiggins, body like Biggins.

I've found that doing gym stuff too hard makes it difficult to do the biking I want to do. There just isn't the recovery time. I'm wondering if these kinds of workouts are intended to be all that you do.

But try it, and let us know how you get on. And how old you are 🙂

If you want to get a six pack then lose weight, well more specifically body fat. Sure you need the muscles but if you are covering them in an inch of blubber then it doesn't matter how much gym work you do there'll still be a barrel in the way.

Legs like Wiggins, body like Biggins.

Lungs/Liver like Higgins.

Legs like a Panther, body like a Bantha

Legs like Jackman, Body like Pac-man

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BOBFOC?

If you want to get a six pack then lose weight, well more specifically body fat.

I know, it was tongue in cheek...... I'm trying but I think I'll be setting a more reasonable goal in reality. One that doesn't involve people being sick when they see me topless.

BOBFOC?

Bit harsh - I wouldn't say i have model looks, and you could rack toast in my 'laughter lines' but I'd snog me far sooner than a few whose photos I've seen on here.

I've given up the upper body stuff as a bad idea and stick strictly to cardio!

Why?

@mollie, I'm 48 all but. A year younger than Daniel Craig (but I've lived a much harder life, obviously. If eating pies counts as a hard life)

You should post a before pic.

I took another one before starting Stronglifts 5x5. I'm going to post an after pic either in September, or if/when I give up on the lifting.

I look better than when I posted up the last 'before' pic - but I never posted an 'after' pic then because I thought I'd be able to continue getting skinnier. I was wrong tho.

I have read that posting selfies on social media is actually a very effective weight loss tool - holds you to account.

my body is a temple......in ruins 😆

Bit harsh

In case it's not obvious it was just a joke, I don't have the faintest idea what you look like.

For a 40 year old bloke I'm in pretty decent shape most of the year. However, as soon as I go on holiday, I enjoy the been and bread only to " blow up " into some sort of wobbly man shaped object.

Ah well. Miles on the bike and a few chin ups / push-ups sees me alright.

I really want to use the

my body is a temple... one of those temples with monkeys sh**ing everywhere

If you want a proper 'whole body workout' may I suggest a day at the Dave Thorpe motocross experience ?
I say this as a 56 year old, sub-3 marathon running full time,self employed plasterer/ builder, who's off work today as I can't lift my arms past my shoulders or put my own socks on! And that's without falling off!
Boot camp, bunch of big girls blouses

Legs like Wiggins, body like Biggins.

😆

My body is a temple

An assortment of domes

I have the body of a god. Sadly it's buddha

I've just hit forty. Pretty skinny, but I've started to become kind of shapeless 😯

Time to put down the crisps and pick up the suspension trainers I reckon. My body is a temple, that one in India that's full of rats.

pick up the suspension trainers

The what?

Legs of a stoat.. body of a goat.

I've one better than a six pack. It's a keg....

I have to say I was glad when BST rolled around again so I could tell the gym to stick it for 7 months - I don't do a lot of weights, but they kill me.

My wife is spending her evenings doing some hellish stuff with massive ropes, she says it's great - but I notice she can't raise her arms for about 48 hours afterwards so I'll give it a miss.

My wife is spending her evenings doing some hellish stuff with massive ropes

Fifty Shades of Grey has a lot to answer for.

I have the body of a greek god, hermaphrodite i think. 🙂

OK, technical question because if yesterday hurt, today I'm ****ed.

I know it's DOMS and that if I keep doing these new exercises and developing the muscle groups that haven't been used then I won't get DOMS (or at least not as bad)

How many sessions do you think that takes? And does anything else work to alleviate symptoms in the meantime?

Just remember flab or muscle it's all just weight on those climbs if it's above the waist

My body is a temple - to Bacchus, Saturn and Loki

My body is a temple, which is why I leave the shoes on the outside

- care of Dennis Leary 🙂

I'd snog me far sooner than a few whose photos I've seen on here.

When I was a teenager, the boys up the street used to call me "legs like a footballer, face like a pig" 🙂

pick up the suspension trainers
The what?

These:
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Best form of exercise (for me) when time and space is an issue.

Still slim and toned. 11.5 stone and 5ft 10.
Eat healthy, maybe a bit too much chocolate sometimes, drink alcohol at Christmas, birthday and on holiday.
I do smoke however.
My joints are knackered though because I abused them in my mid teens playing football, cricket and running, falling off motorbikes.
Had two tibial plateau ops, and cannulated hip screws.

Meh. Why have a six-pack when you can have a keg?

My body is a temple. Shirley Temple.

Meh. Why have a six-pack when you can have a keg?

I've got a six-pack but not the plastic bit that holds it together.

Just have regular sex and do most of the 'work'. That's all the upper body workout you need.

What about the other arm?

What about the other arm?

My six pack turned into a party 7*

*Obscure reference to anyone under 50

I have the body of a god. Sadly it's buddha

Two wrongs not making a right

My six pack turned into a party 7

Yay!

"She treats her body like a temple..... I treat mine like a Honky Tonk!"

My body is a temple.....just sadly no one preys at it 🙄

I know you started the thread with tongue firmly in cheek but you have sixteen weeks and a motivational reason to succeed. If you (secretly) want to get a bit more buff for the beach then do what Molgrips is doing - 5x5. If that's too much go 3x5 but do it three times a week for twelve weeks and spend the final four weeks doing some cardio or serious (read dangerous) calorie deficit to show off those hard earned muscles.

I'm not being entirely serious about the extreme calorie cut but fat will fall off if you reduce to something like 1200 - 1000kcal a day - dangerous because your body starts to chow down on what's available so if you have little body fat it'll start on something else, as I understand it. Last year I experimented with weightlifting and calorie deficit to see how much I could lift and how little I could get away with eating. I had to stop lifting around 800kcal as it got a bit ridiculous.

Doing it all again after the hernia surgery and I'm eating lots of clean food - around 2800 - 3000kcal daily - and lifting a lot more weight a lot earlier than last time and losing fat whilst doing so. Not hurting anywhere near as much so the calorie surplus is taking care of the repair process.

Follow 5x5 (or similar) to the letter and you'll see some results that'll inspire you. You probably won't get lighter - the complete opposite unless you're obese - but you'll gain some very usable strength and a decent-ish body to boot.

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Right. Week 2 tonight. I'm going to die.

Instructor asked last week if anyone has any injuries or niggles and she'd adjust exercises accordingly. It could be an hour of finger curls and toe raises for me.

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but I'd snog me

I'd snog me hard

I've the body of a starving African child, skinny all over but a huge bloated stomach 🙁

(I know that's bad taste, even for me, but sadly accurately describes my physique )

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My apologies for that tautological nonsense.

so week 2 done and it didn't feel as hard (maybe I was just lazy) and i don't hurt as much this morning.

I didn't do the sprint runs as hard as i could where I have a bit of a muscle strain I didn't want to aggravate, but was still up with the front of the class. And all strength exercises were either completed or done to failure (as noted before, above the waist is a bit of a bombsite so abs in particular get exhausted quickly)

What was / is interesting is that being a cyclist I reckon I've got pretty strong thighs - yet we were doing a particular exercise (not even sure what it was at the time) and it's ripped them to pieces this morning, but right up high (about the level of the bottom of my boxers). Just goes to show how specific cycling is that I don't even have strong thighs, just parts of my thighs.

Daniel Craig look is still some way off.

The cycling thighs rely on lack of extension, when you do full extensions you will feel it.