Not getting much writing done these days, primarily due to having started training again, but also due to the fact that bike season is finally here and I just can't get enough of driving around on my motorcycle. 
Anyways, back to the working out bit.
I was quite avidly into bodybuilding in my mid to late teens, but toned it down a bit when I started getting more work when I was around seventeen. Then around eighteen or so, I stopped completely as work started taking up more and more of my former spare time.
I didn't stop with my training diet for quite a bit however, as I kept telling myself that I'd get started with training again, like next week. And when next week came, I was going to start next week instead, and so on.
So I kept on eating a hearty breakfast, sandwhiches for my morning coffee break, a hearty lunch, sandwhiches for my afternoon coffee break, a hearty supper and then something to snack on later in the evening.
While doing nothing more physical then walking to my car, driving to work and walking from the car to the office in the morning and doing the same in revese in the evenings.
Meaning I bulked up in fat and lost the muscles I previously had.
Then about one and a half month ago, we got into a discussion about diets, training'n shit at work, as a bunch of the girls started going on various funky diets or weird-ass training methods to prepare for the summer and this years bikini season. As they were discussing starting eating some crappy freeze-dried meal supplimentaries, Atkins diets, GI methods and whatnot, I got all upset and started giving them a lecture on the proper way to loose weight through training, as each and every method they discussed seemed more dangerous then the next.
All of them probably have the result of them loosing weight, but whattafuck, from what I understand, these crappy methods and weird-ass meal replacements work through expelling fluids and/or will result in their bodies going into red alert, meaning that the body will extract energy by breaking down muscle mass while at the same time stocking up on fat! Geeze-louise, what a crock! Sure, that will cause a significant weight loss, but at what cost? Increasing body fat and/or loosing muscle mass, that's what!
Apparently my little lecture caused quite a bit of surprise, as nobody present believed that I knew anything at all about shit like this. Surprised me as well, to tell the truth. When I got back home, I started to think about my former glory and the good old days when my body was in tip-top shape.
While I do work a lot now, it's nowhere near how it was ten years ago, with my 7-8 to 21-22 days, five to six days a week. While I often complain about how little spare time I have, these days I actually have some spare time, even if it's not quite as much as I would like.
So I had a look at myself in the mirror and compared to an old photograph of myself and realized that this wasn't what I imagined myself looking like at 28, so I decided to do something about it to change things before I turn 30 still looking like this.
Decision made, I started spending more attention to what and when I eat, increased my meals from three to four a day and got some new excersise equipment, after deciding what I wanted to acomplish with my training.
After some consideration, I decided that unlike the girls at work, I wasn't really interested in loosing weight. I'm quite happy with my current weight, but really displeased with the current distribution of weight. Too much fat, too little muscle.
So, I drew up a training program consisting mainly of shit designed to build muscle mass, with the odd session of swimming or a session on the exercise bike for variety. But 85-90% of my workouts, are still geared more towards building muscle, rather then loosing fat.
I'm a bit rusty at all of this and my know-how is nearly ten years out of date, but I figure that I've gone onto a program that will have me in great shape just about in time for Beach 2009, while still maintaining nearly all of my current weight. I estimate that a ten to fifteen kilogram drop or so is unavoidable, seeing how much unnecessary weight I'm currently waddling around with, but I can deal with that.
When I stopped training last time, I hovered near the magical 100 kg limit and there wasn't much of that weight that was unnecessary fat. These days, I weigh in at 120,3 kilograms and most of it is unnecessary fat. Or well, I did when I started training again, at any rate.
Stepped onto a scale for the first time in two weeks yesterday and I was at 116,4 kilograms, which kinda soured things up for me. My estimations had me at a predicted 118,5, so I'm loosing more weight then expected. Not really a problem yet and I guess I can deal with a bit of weight loss to begin with, but if it keeps on, I'll have to increase my food intake a bit as it's easier to drop the wrong kind of weight then it is to build the right kind.
Anyways, my tip of the unspecified time period when it comes to training is:
If you're aiming to loose weight, make sure that you choose a method that will cause you to loose the right kind of weight! What the fuck good is it if you drop five K's, if that is because you've dropped seven K's in muscle mass and gained two K's of fat!
Anyways, back to the working out bit.
I was quite avidly into bodybuilding in my mid to late teens, but toned it down a bit when I started getting more work when I was around seventeen. Then around eighteen or so, I stopped completely as work started taking up more and more of my former spare time.
I didn't stop with my training diet for quite a bit however, as I kept telling myself that I'd get started with training again, like next week. And when next week came, I was going to start next week instead, and so on.
So I kept on eating a hearty breakfast, sandwhiches for my morning coffee break, a hearty lunch, sandwhiches for my afternoon coffee break, a hearty supper and then something to snack on later in the evening.
While doing nothing more physical then walking to my car, driving to work and walking from the car to the office in the morning and doing the same in revese in the evenings.
Meaning I bulked up in fat and lost the muscles I previously had.
Then about one and a half month ago, we got into a discussion about diets, training'n shit at work, as a bunch of the girls started going on various funky diets or weird-ass training methods to prepare for the summer and this years bikini season. As they were discussing starting eating some crappy freeze-dried meal supplimentaries, Atkins diets, GI methods and whatnot, I got all upset and started giving them a lecture on the proper way to loose weight through training, as each and every method they discussed seemed more dangerous then the next.
All of them probably have the result of them loosing weight, but whattafuck, from what I understand, these crappy methods and weird-ass meal replacements work through expelling fluids and/or will result in their bodies going into red alert, meaning that the body will extract energy by breaking down muscle mass while at the same time stocking up on fat! Geeze-louise, what a crock! Sure, that will cause a significant weight loss, but at what cost? Increasing body fat and/or loosing muscle mass, that's what!
Apparently my little lecture caused quite a bit of surprise, as nobody present believed that I knew anything at all about shit like this. Surprised me as well, to tell the truth. When I got back home, I started to think about my former glory and the good old days when my body was in tip-top shape.
While I do work a lot now, it's nowhere near how it was ten years ago, with my 7-8 to 21-22 days, five to six days a week. While I often complain about how little spare time I have, these days I actually have some spare time, even if it's not quite as much as I would like.
So I had a look at myself in the mirror and compared to an old photograph of myself and realized that this wasn't what I imagined myself looking like at 28, so I decided to do something about it to change things before I turn 30 still looking like this.
Decision made, I started spending more attention to what and when I eat, increased my meals from three to four a day and got some new excersise equipment, after deciding what I wanted to acomplish with my training.
After some consideration, I decided that unlike the girls at work, I wasn't really interested in loosing weight. I'm quite happy with my current weight, but really displeased with the current distribution of weight. Too much fat, too little muscle.
So, I drew up a training program consisting mainly of shit designed to build muscle mass, with the odd session of swimming or a session on the exercise bike for variety. But 85-90% of my workouts, are still geared more towards building muscle, rather then loosing fat.
I'm a bit rusty at all of this and my know-how is nearly ten years out of date, but I figure that I've gone onto a program that will have me in great shape just about in time for Beach 2009, while still maintaining nearly all of my current weight. I estimate that a ten to fifteen kilogram drop or so is unavoidable, seeing how much unnecessary weight I'm currently waddling around with, but I can deal with that.
When I stopped training last time, I hovered near the magical 100 kg limit and there wasn't much of that weight that was unnecessary fat. These days, I weigh in at 120,3 kilograms and most of it is unnecessary fat.
Or well, I did when I started training again, at any rate.Stepped onto a scale for the first time in two weeks yesterday and I was at 116,4 kilograms, which kinda soured things up for me. My estimations had me at a predicted 118,5, so I'm loosing more weight then expected. Not really a problem yet and I guess I can deal with a bit of weight loss to begin with, but if it keeps on, I'll have to increase my food intake a bit as it's easier to drop the wrong kind of weight then it is to build the right kind.
Anyways, my tip of the unspecified time period when it comes to training is:
If you're aiming to loose weight, make sure that you choose a method that will cause you to loose the right kind of weight! What the fuck good is it if you drop five K's, if that is because you've dropped seven K's in muscle mass and gained two K's of fat!
