**** it checks into The Gym: 1st question how did you get started?

[Pool_Shark]

I'm 6'1, 265.

I've never been this fat in my life but because of my job, family, and drinking I've gained an enormous amount of weight over the last two years.

I've tried working out at the gym but it felt awkward as fukk. I've been avoiding exercise and eating whatever I can cause I don't really have money for groceries and am not the only one that eats.

Excuses, excuses, excuses, I know but fukk it I've been avoiding this forum for a minute. I'm going to go for a run today and am stuck with at home work outs cause my pockets have rabbit ears so I can't sign up at the gym.

I plan on using this thread to track my progress and have somewhere to report to so I won't fukk up. If I do you guys are more than welcome to roast.

I'll post pics at the end but I'm the definition of :flabbysick:

Shout out to MMS for posting all that info but it's kinda hard to read, cause I'm retarded when it comes to the terminology.

Thanks for any advice, I'm just going to be posting in here for a minute so check back for updates.

First question:How do you get started? How did you get past the first weeks where everyone is getting mad at you for making time to exercise?

 

[DrunkenNovice]

fukk em....

Its only 1-2 hours a day, and you're improving yourself/health.

 

[Jesus]

Start of with the basics...drink water only and cut off the processed foods. Get your treadmill game going if you have bad knees. Everybody starts off somewhere...don't feel ashamed going in the gym being next to buff dudes.

fukk nikkas in your life who don't understand your "me" time getting into shape.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Start of with the basics...drink water only and cut off the processed foods. Get your treadmill game going if you have bad knees. Everybody starts off somewhere...don't feel ashamed going in the gym being next to buff dudes.

fukk nikkas in your life who don't understand your "me" time getting into shape.

I had already dropped crazy weight once before but this time it's way harder. First thing I'm doing is cutting out water/sweets/ and fast food. When I get my funds up I'll be going back to the gym. Gotta make sure I'm going to last this time cause what'll happen is I'll be good for a week then I'll just give up. That's why I made this thread, to keep me on track.

I was going to post about my sons mom giving me shyt for needing an hour or two to myself but then I was like "Your sounding like a bytch right now put your foot down and tell her how it's going to be."

I'm going to start my first run tonight. I'll post how it went later.

 

[semtex]

Start on a diet. And if you're self conscious about being at the gym, do burpees at home. Set a stopwatch for 5 mins and do as many as you can and go fast.

 

[MMS]

I'm 6'1, 265.

I've never been this fat in my life but because of my job, family, and drinking I've gained an enormous amount of weight over the last two years.

I've tried working out at the gym but it felt awkward as fukk. I've been avoiding exercise and eating whatever I can cause I don't really have money for groceries and am not the only one that eats.

Excuses, excuses, excuses, I know but fukk it I've been avoiding this forum for a minute. I'm going to go for a run today and am stuck with at home work outs cause my pockets have rabbit ears so I can't sign up at the gym.

I plan on using this thread to track my progress and have somewhere to report to so I won't fukk up. If I do you guys are more than welcome to roast.

I'll post pics at the end but I'm the definition of :flabbysick:

Shout out to MMS for posting all that info but it's kinda hard to read, cause I'm retarded when it comes to the terminology.

Thanks for any advice, I'm just going to be posting in here for a minute so check back for updates.

First question:How do you get started? How did you get past the first weeks where everyone is getting mad at you for making time to exercise?

anything you need explaining, i can do it for ya it may seem long but its pretty condensed

basic ideas

1) find how much you need to eat a day to stay the same, cut some off of that
2) lift weights atleast twice a week
3) eat as much protein as possible

thats basically the jist of it

 

[Nintendough]

I started by doing bodyweight exercises. I eventually moved on to lifting weights by doing stronglifts. I gave up soda and started to drink more water too.

 

[the cac mamba]

I'm 6'1, 265.

I've never been this fat in my life but because of my job, family, and drinking I've gained an enormous amount of weight over the last two years.

I plan on using this thread to track my progress and have somewhere to report to so I won't fukk up. If I do you guys are more than welcome to roast.

I'll post pics at the end but I'm the definition of :flabbysick:

Shout out to MMS for posting all that info but it's kinda hard to read, cause I'm retarded when it comes to the terminology.

First question:How do you get started? How did you get past the first weeks where everyone is getting mad at you for making time to exercise?

keep them shyts to urself regardless

but yea stop drinkin calories, eat shyt like chicken n tuna that fills u up

dont eat at night

run

 

[infamous212]

I started when I got clean off drugs. I started with a one 25 pound dumbbell and bodyweight exercises in my 8x9 room. I went from 130lbs to 160 before I even joined the gym.

 

[Turbulent]

in my opinion, the first thing to do is to physically write down your goals. your goals should be measurable (either body weight,body fat percentage, lifting goals, run time, whatever your goal or goals are). so basically write down a realistic goal with a date. the date is important because it makes it a little realer.

second, write down the steps you'll take (some sort of plan) to achieve your goals. you should also try to predict potential obstacles (nutrition problems, scheduling issues, passed injuries, etc) and find creative ways around them.

don't become OCD about this though. keep it as simple as possible. plan smart, stay focused and visualize yourself achieving your goal.




as far as concrete stuff. definitely cutting juice and soda would already make a huge difference. i'd say eat A LOT but make it mostly veggies and fruits that you like. if you eat a lot and it's veggies and meat, you won't feel hungry. since the gym isn't an option for you right now, i suggest pushups, squats (with dumbells if you have some, if not, just do them without weights). if you like running go running. find a program you like and stick to it.

 

[Serious]

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[Pool_Shark]

Day 1:

All right so I fukked up yesterday and didn't have time to go running. I did go today though. I ran a mile and a half. Goddamn it was sad, I used to do 4 a day and now I struggle through one. I did it and that was what was important. Like that saying "The journey of a 1,000 miles begins with one step." Took the first step today. Thanks for all the advice and I did what Turbulence said and wrote down my goals.

Goals for the Rest of July First Two Weeks of August:

1.Improve mile and 1/2 time by 4 minutes.
Right now I run it at 14 minutes but it's cause I walk and I know a lot of it is stiffness from not using my body.

2.Run 6 days a week and take a long walk on the 7th day. No exceptions
A big reason for me giving up is I'd hit the rest day and just stop right there. With this goal I plan on keeping myself active without overworking myself.

3.Establish an eating schedule. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, with two vegetable or fruit snacks in between.
I want to do this cause my attitude was to eat whenever I can, whatever I can. With this goal I plan on taking control on what goes in my body and what times I eat. One technique I'll use is write down everything I eat to catch myself if I slip. I'm going to be eating breakfast at 7:00 A.M. snack at 10:00 lunch at 12:00 snack at 5:00 dinner at 9:00 p.m.

4.Eliminate completely soda, juice, sugary drinks, and milk. Mainly drink water and 1 cup of black coffee a day.

5.Avoid fast food/junk food when possible.

Those are my goals, pretty simple. Just need to get used to this stuff again. The eating foods is easy causing I'm not picky with what I eat. So is the water part. I think these are reasonable. Any tips would be appreciated.


What I Ate Today:

Breakfast:
Ham sandwich ingredients: Wheat bread, ham, sour cream, and jalapenos.
Bagel:plain
Carrot
Blue Gatorade
Black cup of coffee

Lunch:
4 fish tacos ingredients: tortilla, fish, lettuce, sour cream, salsa
Carrot
Honeydew Melon pieces

Dinner:
2 McDonalds side salads, with a chicken patty. no dressing

Today I didn't stick to my goals because I was unprepared but I'll ready for tomorrow and should be on track. I've been drinking water all day. Thought about buying a soda but then I chugged down two cups of water. Had me pissing like a mug.

Exercise Today:
Ran a mile and 1/2-Time:14 minutes
Walked a part of the way.

My goal is too eventually stop walking and improve the time. Once this routine is up I'm going to bust out my dumbells and start running two miles.

This was my first day. I'm going to do better tomorrow. I gotta say typing all this and knowing I'd have to report back here really motivated me to go running and get this process started. Thanks for the feedback or just for reading.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Just finished my run for the day. I made a huge mistake and miscalculated my time from yesterday. It wasn't 14 minutes it was 24 minutes :huldup:

My goal still stands. Although today I did it in 20 minutes but it was because I didn't stop to walk. Ran it straight. I still want to cut it down to 15 minutes then.

The run was good. At first I felt like giving up then I pushed through and didn't give up.

I'm going to update this once a week with any improvements and questions.

 

[Action Jackson]

Biggest step you made was cutting the soda and switching to water. LOTS of H2O. Gotta clean that diet up don't want all that hard work your doing running be for nothing.

Suggestion: for 5-10 mins of each run sprint then jog, sprint then jog.

Resistance bands are cheap pick yourself up one. Crunches, push ups, you can start those now too.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Biggest step you made was cutting the soda and switching to water. LOTS of H2O. Gotta clean that diet up don't want all that hard work your doing running be for nothing.

Suggestion: for 5-10 mins of each run sprint then jog, sprint then jog.

Resistance bands are cheap pick yourself up one. Crunches, push ups, you can start those now too.

Thanks.

I've been avoiding soda, junk food, and anything that isn't part of my meals. Sometimes I get hungry but I gotta wait till my time to eat. Like a few minutes ago I was just counting down to get to this orange Next week I'll have money to get myself on a stricter diet.

Drinking water has helped keep my appetite down. I enjoy it though, it's like a challenge to not eat bullshyt, it's all about how bad I want it. With this thread I plan on keeping myself on track.

It sucks that it's the weekend though. I usually get drunk on the weekends but I'm not doing it this time. Gonna be hard as fukk but I'm going to keep myself busy.

I'll be getting my dumbells back from my ex tomorrow and am going to buy a kettlebell, next week. I got the insanity set too so I'm going to pick up a few exercises from there.

What I'm trying to day at least till the end of next week is just run. Just to get over the first days hump where I go to hard or feel like I'm doing too much.