There’s fighting, and then there’s fighting…

How much does your head weigh…?

Something like Chad mendes would be what I was after (in a non Ghey way).

not sure if attainable though…..

Completely possible.

Similar ability may not be though.

I would say it was attainable, but to maintain that level of cut will be a joyless affair. Fairly easy for the young, but gets harder with age.

but to maintain that level of cut will be a joyless affair require hard work and dedication

If you like hard exercise and healthy food you’ll be fine.

Adding a pretty tough MMA strength and conditioning session to my week has had the biggest effect on my physical appearance. We mix it up every few weeks but at the moment it looks like this:

10 deadlifts – 100kgs

20 “Michelles” (lying on the floor, back against a punchbag lying on the floor and doing glute raises with the bar/ weight combo from the deadlifts) – 100kgs

10 sand bag get-ups – 35kg bag

20 ass-to-bag bar bell squat thrusters – 30kg

20 one handed kettle bell swings – 32kg

10 dumbell squat thrusters – 30kg each dumbell

20 medicine ball slams

10 ladder walks

10 farmer walks – 30kg dumbell in each hand

Repeat all that 3 times

6 weeks of this has had the biggest impact on my physical appearance. Stronger with more muscle and starting to appear vascular along with a noticeable drop in body fat. The rest of the guys in the gym also pinpoint this as the being the session that helped them the most.

BoardinBob – blimey… you must be pretty hench!

BoardinBob – blimey… you must be pretty hench!

I’m a runt compared to most of the other guys I train with

Runt?!?!?!

I very much doubt you’re striving to get to 11 stone lifting weights like that!!

Interestingly enough, no one is huge, they’re just all ripped (I’m far from ripped) but there are guys weighing 10kg+ less than me, deadlifting 160kgs, adding 10kg onto the bar bells and dumb bells etc.

I forgot we had a wee video on youtube

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qd6Vb38urc[/video]

How big is not huge?

I’m fascinated in all this stuff.

Edit – great vid.. cheers.

TSY, I guess it depends how important it is to you and what your lifestyle dictates. At 38 I can comfortably maintain at around the 9-10% mark without it being an obsession. As a younger man I was around 7% fot the same effort, it does get more difficult.

nice vid, where can I get one of those ladders?

That ^^^ video.

I see alot of movements which seem to be executed in that Mov Nat video, ” The workout the world forgot “.

It’s about training when your stomach is rumbling first thing in the morning.

Don’t you get those awful low blood sugar shakes (I don’t mean the drinks!) when you do that?

Depends how long the ride is. I do a couple of commutes a week in summer on a cup of black coffee and eat breakfast when I get in. My commute is 20 miles and I do it at a reasonable pace. I don’t feel bad either during or after it and I’m fine for the ride home.

I think most of probably have enough of a store of energy to ride for at least an hour on an ’empty stomach’.

Looking at the op’s excercise for the week I would say you could easily do more. You’re not doing that much.

where can I get one of those ladders?

http://www.blitzsport.com/Speed-Agility-Ladder

Surprized to see how many folk now fess-up to riding in the morning, before breakfast.

I’ve done that for ages, but reading all the posts by people claiming to fuel up before a ride.
Made me feel I was mental to ride out without breakfast.

You live and you learn, eh ?.

‘fess-up’?? Its hardly something to keep quiet about then annonce to the world.

**sighs**

does this mean i can eat a cake before i leave the office tonight? I am going riding and am well hungry. I don’t want to catch the bonk

to clarify, can eating high gi food several hours before riding be acceptable if you are already hungry? I am aware it would be better to eat low gi food 12 hours earlier but I obviously haven’t had enough low gi food and I am now famished. it will be a fast ride.

Given the choice between the bonk or cake.

I’d have the cake.

Esp as, if you bonk, you’ll need cake anyway.
😉

this is what i thought. but there does seem to be so many ‘conflicting’ principals that you need to tie in together.

this is what i thought. but there does seem to be so many ‘conflicting’ principals that you need to tie in together.

Nah, not really.

Pop your cake.
Ride your bike.
If you become a biffer.
Less cake.

🙂

well I am not a biffer and I eat well (healthily) just find the whole low gi high gi carb cycling baffling.

just find the whole low gi high gi carb cycling baffling.

Same here.

you’ll be fine.
😉

I’ve had similar problems in shifting the last few kg. I expected to gain a little fatoverchristmas but now I am back training again, I am still not losing weight despite sticking to the idave eating plan as I have done for the last year or so. I a, actually gaining weight some weeks.

Early morning training is a problem for me because of work and kids. I don’t really know what t o do next, training is going ok, but weight loss is not (and it isn’t muscle gain).

Any smart ideas for good training sessions?

I am road racing and already 94kg and about 15% body fat so I don’t want any extra muscle mass, just to get leaner .

and about 15% body fat

Thats mission accomplished for iDave diet.

To get a lower BF, you may need to go for the iDave diet – plus.

TSY may be able to assist.

I’m not on the iDiet+. Unless it’s by accident.

How tall are you oddjob?

I’m not on the iDiet+. Unless it’s by accident.

Calm down, don’t get your mankini in a twist, TSY.

Using plus allows me forum license to describe anything.
😉

You obviously don’t understand the licensing and royalty agreements that DD set up with regards to iStuff.

Even Apple are paying him.

You obviously don’t understand the licensing and royalty agreements that DD set up with regards to iStuff.

Even Apple are paying him.

😯

Hhmmm.

But I can probably convince you to keep schtoom.
Or I’ll be forced to publish those pictures of you in that burlesque mankini.

You’re now in iDebt x2.

Can we have an iDave diet party now ?.

I’m 1.93 or about 6’3″ in old money

I think I am struggling to get leaner as a result of being slightly overweight for most of my life despite being active (played rugby for many years throught school and uni and then cycled and did triathlon for some years before having kids and settling into bike racing.)

Why ask about my height

Why did I be leaner than this last year, but am struggling this year?