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Glad to see someone that understands the effectiveness of Crossfit style training but does not follow the ridiculous cult behavior
Good to know about p90x-2 appreciate it
That's awesome
To all you guys who have a hard time putting on muscle, I know that feel
While yes I have been training for years I always struggle with actually gaining weight/size
Cardio/strength always got better, but being an ectromorph ( tall skinny dude ) it felt impossible.
However As you can see I have been able make some solid progress
in just the past year after changing up my training from MMA/BJJ to focus on purely size/strength gains ( this is necessary if your looking to gain size )
This picture was taken while I was recovering from a difficult lower back injury, being nearly completely physically inactive for nearly two months I lost a ton of weight and strength.
So I dropped any MMA training and focused primarily on size/strength gains and Did this through a bulking phase which you can see below
EDIT- How the heck do I scale these pictures down lol
You should just post a picture of you before and then photoshop your face on someone like Jay Cutler
Oh absolutaly not. For one they throw up a WOD on thier website that has no real programing or goal. It's just this is a badass workout so you should all do it and send your pics in. Some of them are good workouts but still. It's great in the beginning when you're new to it, especially if you're really out of shape as you'll see improvment you'll never see in body building style workouts. I was lucky to fall in with the people I have in the last 5 years or so. Secondly they have people trying to do Olympic lifts and other advanced movements on the first week, sometimes the first day! Those movements take a serious long time to learn, there are multiple other lifts you need to have down very well to even begin. Again it's cool if it's new to you, but you can train explosive strength in other ways just as effectively as well as safer for new people. At the end of the day doing Snatch's is only gonna make you great at Snatch's too. If you wanna get pegged on your heart rate while moving heavy things there are again other ways to do it that will suck just as bad or worse. Not all Crossfit gyms are like that but most are. Another thing that is funny is that most of the "top level crossfitters" don't even do crossfit. They build thier own programs so they can own at the competitions. Most of the gyms just become affiliates so they can use the name and charge absurd fee's. My gym is in an old auto garage with no A/C or heat and cost $75 a month. The local affiliate is $250
I have done a similar gig a few years ago. It was call "the warrior diet." the concept was similar. Basically you were to fast all day until the evening and have one massive meal. Of course with all your vegges and lean meats etc. The idea behind it was that people use to eat like that and they used the roman soldiers and other warriros and ancient/older cultures as an example. March all day or battle and feast at night. They also used the example of wild animals vs. domesticated ones. Wild animals are lean, usually gorge on a kill, until they get thier next one. Domesticated ones eat multiple times a day and are not lean. It also spoke of how you are able to fully digest all your food and use all the energy from it as opposed to constant fueling and wasting/adding fat. Of course there is more to it but I don't want to type a book. I did it for several months and really liked it. But it became very problematic if anything in your scedule was thrown off which happened too often and is ultimately why I dropped it. If you can keep it up keep it up.
I always thought the same thing until I tried this plan and got better results.
Important note about nutrition: everyone metabolizes differently. For some people, a fasting diet could work, though there are negative implications for blood sugar/glucose levels by doing this along with a host of adherence issues for what I would guess is a majority of people.
I disagree. With the proper routine, weight lifting is considered a higher calorie burning method.
Agreed - any good workout routine will involve cardio endurance and cardio strength along with muscular endurance/strength/power.
I was only saying that weight lifting workout in general will burn more calories as a cardio workout. I don't believe it's significant (personal opinion) but I do believe it's true in a general sense.
Fitness is a multifaceted subject and in general you can't make blanket statements, which is why I'm trying to be careful to preface things with "in general" and "typically" because the fact of the matter is, what works for one person may not work for another for a plethora of reasons. Adherence, properly built routine, properly built schedule, goals, nutrition, sleeping habits, history of personal fitness, past injuries, mentality, etc., etc...there are a lot of factors which all need to be accounted for.
But anyways...
Also ... nothing is superior to burning calories / fat than lifting weights. Nothing. Well, okay a liposuction would be superior -_-
Have you tried weight gainer protein shakes? Also how often do you eat?
