*.* 2014 General Fitness Thread *.*

[penguinz]

Welcome to 2014! Now get your ass in top physical condition!

No one else started it so here it is!

**From the 2013 Thread**

If you want to get back into lifting, or need a new lifting routine, START HERE:

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wi...inner_Programs

If you have questions about the SS programs, look here:

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ

Keep in mind that you're a novice lifter for a longer period of time than you think you are. Novice lifting can last anywhere from a few months to a year or two, depending on how hard you hit the weights and where you started.

Once you've reached the point where you don't make regular progress on the SS program, you are ready to move on to the intermediate stage, which can last you for a good number of years. Find it HERE:

http://madcow.hostzi.com/5x5_Program/Linear_5x5.htm

If you're a very advanced lifter (many, many years of CONSISTENT weight training), then there are lot of programs out there, and which one you pick is simply a matter of preference. If you're really that advanced, you should know what works for you and what doesn't by this point.

[Aspengc8]

Originally Posted by tooge

Elliptical I get. Knees can't take the pounding. Bike I get, not everyone has a safe area to ride, like me. I live right on a county highway with no shoulders, no way I'm riding on that road. So, I've got to go somewhere else to ride. Not good if time is limited. But sprints on a treadmill I never understood. I do them from time to time with my son. We just go to the high school near my house.

I do incline treadmill sprints after I train lower body. I'm not driving to a hill/track 10:30 at night...

[tooge]

Ok, I see. I just wouldn't feel comfortable going full bore on a treadmill. Seems like knocked out front teeth waiting to happen.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by tooge

I have to LOL at "run as fast as you can on the treadmill" guy. Ummm, it's sunny and beautiful outside, there are school tracks and parks everywhere. Don't get that one.

I have to disagree with this. it is a freaking steam room outside.

[tooge]

I love running in the heat. Or used to. The old knees don't like running for distance anymore.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by tooge

I love running in the heat. Or used to. The old knees don't like running for distance anymore.

Don't care about the heat. it is the amount of humidity in the air.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

I know exactly what dudes talking about there, there are all kinds of dubious "programs and supplements" around purporting crazy growth... but those are usually adds in respected magazines, not special reports from the magazine itself.

Damned if I can find it, but it was backed by Mens Health, they put their name on it, seems a strange thing for a respected publication to do if its some BS product.

[Aspengc8]

Originally Posted by scott free

I know exactly what dudes talking about there, there are all kinds of dubious "programs and supplements" around purporting crazy growth... but those are usually adds in respected magazines, not special reports from the magazine itself.

Damned if I can find it, but it was backed by Mens Health, they put their name on it, seems a strange thing for a respected publication to do if its some BS product.

they pit their name on it cause they want a cut. the only supplement that can literally change a physique like that in only 4 weeks is juice.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Aspengc8

they pit their name on it cause they want a cut. the only supplement that can literally change a physique like that in only 4 weeks is juice.

I suppose you're right, otherwise I would've been able to easily find it online.

But what it claims to do sounds great... opens the capillaries big time enabling more blood to flow more freely into muscles and increases oxygen absorbtion as well.

I went into GNC yesterday to see if they had it, nope, but they did have a similar product "chrome cellucor", so I signed up for the member card... buy one higher priced product and get the other half off... pretty decent deal if you ask me.

Going hard on fat burners and new style protein shakes, I hear they're waaay better than when I was using them back in the mid-late 90's.

[Hammock Parties]

Don't ever go in a GNC. Worst store on earth. Even worse than Christian bookstores.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by scott free

I sup. se you're right, otherwise I would've been able to easily find it online.

But what it claims to do sounds great... opens the capillaries big time enabling more blood to flow more freely into muscles and increases oxygen absorbtion as well.

I went into GNC yesterday to see if they had it, nope, but they did have a similar product "chrome cellucor", so I signed up for the member card... buy one higher priced product and get the other half off... pretty decent deal if you ask me.

Going hard on fat burners and new style protein shakes, I hear they're waaay better than when I was using them back in the mid-late 90's.

What is better? OTC fat burners? Not hardly. The good shit eventually gets banned.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Count Zarth

Don't ever go in a GNC. Worst store on earth. Even worse than Christian bookstores.

Well... where the hell do you go? the huge guy in the lockerroom Mickey Rourke talks to in the Wrestler?... hey, in this one horse town I cant believe we even HAVE a GNC, I'll take it.

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

What is better? OTC fat burners? Not hardly. The good shit eventually gets banned.

I'm missing the question here, bro... otc fat burners are all I can get until I work my way into the gym, and even then I'm not sure juice is the way I wanna go.

I know much of it can be beaten/isn't as bad as it used to be etc... but shrunken testicles, acne at 43? hahaaa... I'm not aiming for massive mega at all, just good and buff for my age, I'm ready for a second young adulthood.

I've been very fit since those days, used to do cardio like a BEAST and the ex-wife looooooved it... but I haven't been filled out and pumped up since my army days.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by scott free

Well... where the hell do you go? the huge guy in the lockerroom Mickey Rourke talks to in the Wrestler?... hey, in this one horse town I cant believe we even HAVE a GNC, I'll take it.



I'm missing the question here, bro... otc fat burners are all I can get until I work my way into the gym, and even then I'm not sure juice is the way I wanna go.

I know much of it can be beaten/isn't as bad as it used to be etc... but shrunken testicles, acne at 43? hahaaa... I'm not aiming for massive mega at all, just good and buff for my age, I'm ready for a second young adulthood.

I've been very fit since those days, used to do cardio like a BEAST and the ex-wife looooooved it... but I haven't been filled out and pumped up since my army days.

I'm just saying the over the counterfat burners have not gotten better because the FDA usually bans the good shit like ephedra and DMAA.

[Dunit35]

Is there a supplement that I can take before a meal that keeps me from over eating?

[Silock]

Originally Posted by scott free

Well... where the hell do you go? the huge guy in the lockerroom Mickey Rourke talks to in the Wrestler?... hey, in this one horse town I cant believe we even HAVE a GNC, I'll take it.

Amazon, bodybuilding.com, dpsnutrition... all are better and cheaper than GNC.

I'm missing the question here, bro... otc fat burners are all I can get until I work my way into the gym, and even then I'm not sure juice is the way I wanna go.

The most effective stack you can get over the counter is a caffeine, yohimbine, ephedrine stack. But that will seriously jack up your HR to levels that might be quite uncomfortable. Yohimbine HCL if you don't want to take any chances. It's supposedly tolerated much better. Caffeine you can get anywhere. If you want ephedrine, just go to the pharmacy and ask for Bronkaid.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by Dunit35

Is there a supplement that I can take before a meal that keeps me from over eating?

Try copious amounts of dihydrogen monoxide.