Fitness Challenge!

[Kilted Rogue]

right now I am at 43% body fat with a total weight of 210 lbs for a 5'6 body frame. I'm starting to get a little worried about it cuz my recruiter told me that the latest I can join before I lost my GA Military Scholarship is late August. Even though I have been doing some P90X (i only have the dvd workouts, not the whole package), it has been really slow going, and I can't afford to lose this scholarship.

Sorry i am late in chiming in on this thread but here goes.
for anyone looking to watch there diet as well as use programs like P90X and insanity, check out this site Spark People add your info(Height weight and goals) and it will give you a break down of how much fat, carbs, and protein to eat on a daily basis. THere Database of food is HUGE!!! it its a bit tedious,, but i went from 206 210 lbs to 186 lbs inabout 3 months. i didnt work out but once or twice.

Also take a look at this page as wellBody Rock Her interval training ( much like P90X but Free) will blow you away!

[biblemonkey]

Sorry i am late in chiming in on this thread but here goes.
for anyone looking to watch there diet as well as use programs like P90X and insanity, check out this site Spark People add your info(Height weight and goals) and it will give you a break down of how much fat, carbs, and protein to eat on a daily basis. THere Database of food is HUGE!!! it its a bit tedious,, but i went from 206 210 lbs to 186 lbs inabout 3 months. i didnt work out but once or twice.

Also take a look at this page as wellBody Rock Her interval training ( much like P90X but Free) will blow you away!

Thanks for the extra! P-90X and Insanity do have nutrition programs built into them, though. Thanks for looking out for us, though.

[tripleblessed]

My apologies to all offended. Few if any will ever match what I have lifted, and I'm just short of 6 feet and under 200 pounds. I've been working with nutrition and health science longer than most on this thread have been alive, and my only interest is informational for your health and longevity. In this life, ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances. Be well, live long, have fun. I'll not bother you on this thread again.

Joshua, thanks for the offer. Saw this information years ago, and through the years. Broader reading is a good habit.

Again, I regret any hurt feelings.

[Reverend Graham]

I'm in, just finished 1st ( in the over 55 age group ) in a Triple Ironman.

So, my next target is a Deca Ironman in the UK in 2012, I used to do the marathon section in a pink TuTu ( difficult to swim and bike in one ) so I'm thinking of doing the last marathon in the Deca in my Leather kilt, if any of you guys in the UK fancy crewing/helping, give me a shout.

Rev G

[Droid]

I got sick a couple weeks ago. I got two fevers each about a week apart, so that kinda put a halt on my workouts. I'll be jumping back into things today after work.

[tripleblessed]

I will interject here that a lot of fad diet info is easily available, complete with faux science to boost book sales. Proceed with caution. Short term weight gain is possible, certainly, but long-term over-consumption of animal protein and suppression of complex carbohydrates is a virtual recipe for cancer. Plus, your brain cannot operate w/o fuel, and that's built from the carbs.

I will grant you that it's theoretically possible to transmute anything into what you need, but it's a lot of work and few are equipped with the necessary info and focus. Easier to eat properly. It's actually easier to live w/o food than to transmute everything.

[Joshua]

I will interject here that a lot of fad diet info is easily available, complete with faux science to boost book sales. Proceed with caution. Short term weight gain is possible, certainly, but long-term over-consumption of animal protein and suppression of complex carbohydrates is a virtual recipe for cancer. Plus, your brain cannot operate w/o fuel, and that's built from the carbs.

Your commentary about cancer could not be any farther from the truth. I will leave it at that, as I do not want to water down Biblemonkey's thread nor do I want to get involved in an Internet argument, but let's just say I've extensively researched this particular diet, and trust it enough to feed my only son and wife.

If you would like more information, please feel free to send me a PM. But please, please, don't make statements like those above without some kind of legitimate research behind it.

[biblemonkey]

I will interject here that a lot of fad diet info is easily available, complete with faux science to boost book sales. Proceed with caution. Short term weight gain is possible, certainly, but long-term over-consumption of animal protein and suppression of complex carbohydrates is a virtual recipe for cancer. Plus, your brain cannot operate w/o fuel, and that's built from the carbs.

I will grant you that it's theoretically possible to transmute anything into what you need, but it's a lot of work and few are equipped with the necessary info and focus. Easier to eat properly. It's actually easier to live w/o food than to transmute everything.

I don't know where this even came in at. This thread is about fitness goals. Excercise and good nutrition is the order of the day. No one mentioned fad dieting.

by the by Reverend Graham and Joshua-Good job! Keep it up!

[budd4766]

I've started this program this very week. I haven't run since a motorcycle accident left me with a rod in my lower leg, but I used to LOVE to run. This starts you off slow and builds you up to running a 5k.

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/...shtml?cmp=18-1

[biblemonkey]

I've started this program this very week. I haven't run since a motorcycle accident left me with a rod in my lower leg, but I used to LOVE to run. This starts you off slow and builds you up to running a 5k.

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/...shtml?cmp=18-1

Sweet! Do you have a race in mind?