/fit/ - Fitness, Health, Exercise, Dieting, etc

My goal is to reach 175 lbs at ~8% body fat. Currently sitting at 162lbs 8%. Going to start another bulk in August and push myself up to near 190lbs, then cut myself down to 8% for next summer.

>Goal

I'd like to be productive every minute I'm awake, and sleep for a mere 5 hours a night.

In terms of fitness… My goal is to be ready for MMA and Boxing, to become a champion. I am looking towards a perfect record. I'll need to go through hell 24/7, tormented every moment, in order to achieve this.

Get good at basketball, soccer, baseball and juggling.

I have other goals but this is first in the sequence.

>This Year, by the Chinese New Year

Reach 200 lbs, 6-8% bf. Currently 165 lbs 10% bf estimated.

Get my calisthenic numbers into the hundreds, breach the 1000 rep milestone on squats. About 20% there.

Martial Arts ready flexibility and elasticity.

Gymnastics progressions to a high level

Grip strength to competition level (not too difficult since it's a niche sport); iron fucking fists and grapple-throw mania

Sleep on the ground (near) naked, no bedding; get down to 6 hours a night

Some training on long dry fasts

Fight an amateur MMA match

11.5s 100m, 5:20 mi, 60:00 10mi

I know some friends who played soccer in college and high school, first division for all of them I think, so becoming a good challenge for them is my goal. I don't know any college level bballers or sluggers, but I'll keep practicing anywho.

>non-fitness, this year

Read 100 books this year. 4/100 so far…

Begin studying EE and CS with some intensity

Begin writing and journaling regularly

Begin practicing music formally; beginning with the basics and continuing my improvising, but more regularly.

Will probably take two years but this is my goal.

>>140265

>I'd like to be productive every minute I'm awake

That's a good aspiration, but actually doing that will kill you. Everyone needs some leisure, whatever it is, be it games, joking with friends, or reading a light book. You don't have to read Cosmo, but you should lower your performance and give your mind and body time to readjust. Being productive 24/7 is like keeping a bowstring under tension, it will eventually break. That's just how humans work.

By all means, try to be more productive, almost everyone is at risk of being too unproductive and not of breaking from lack of game and leisure, but I'm telling you this so you allow yourself some rest when you really need it and don't feel bad about it.

>sleep for a mere 5 hours a night.

Very likely won't work. Really, don't cut down on sleep, it's insanely important. It's where your body burns fat, builds muscle, replenishes neurotransmitters and hormones, and where your brain actually learns. Without proper sleep, your productivity is lowered throughout the day. If you want to sleep less, focus on having better sleep. You may also be able to cut out an hour or two out of your sleep but that's very unlikely when you had a productive day.

>Read 100 books this year. 4/100 so far…

The guys that brag about reading a book or two every day usually read YA-shit all day long, or they have a shitty retention. But 100 books a year is still doable, I did that too.

But damn anon, those are some high goals! Best of luck with them.

Going for 230lbs @ 12% bf

>>140265

>This Year, by the Chinese New Year

>Reach 200 lbs, 6-8% bf. Currently 165 lbs 10% bf estimated.

Better get on gear.

Trying to drop 30 lbs and loose the beer gut while making gains overall

Im just trying to chase reps on pullups til i can do 20 in a row it'd probably help if i cut some fat too

>>140487

>Physical labor. What replenishes your nerves and hormones is kick-ass, victory, and gasoline steel burning grit. Today I feel more replenished in my nerves and hormones than I have in the past 3 fucking years KRAUT. I feel dynamic… got that fire again. GOT THAT WIND AND FIRE.

Which contradicts nothing at all that I said, which in turn makes it pretty cringy that you make this a take-that. Seven hours is an insane amount but it leaves time for other things. I talked about getting zero rest and play.

Congrats on the victory, though.

>I was reading about an old sailor who for the tougher months out on sea has to work 20 hours a day and sleep 4, for the entire month.

Yeah, I call bullshit on that, anon. He's probably on duty that long but he isn't at peak performance when he's got four hours of sleep a day. My mother worked similar hours and she felt like shit after a while. It's an impressive feat, but in the long run, it isn't healthy.

>As long as we worry more about not going far enough, rather than going too far, we will all make it.

Agreed.

>>140505

My example wasn't the foolproof example of no rest and play. I didn't even feel sore the next day, and I have no intense workout routine that I can use to explain it. I sit around most the day, do some isometrics and tensing to keep shit circulating and maintain my strength, and do some workouts that are all over the place each day but not much. Can you call 25 squats, push ups sit ups and bridges 4x a day (with an hour+ between) an intense workout? Or how about striking a soccer ball for 45m - 1h at a somewhat casual pace? Yesterday, a day after the sit ups, I did 480 push ups in an hour to set a personal record. I feel fine. I felt pretty great yesterday. I don't even feel sore today.

I have a friend whose parents worked in Alaska 16 hours a day, and walked around on dates together another 4 hours, every day for 3-4 months (I forget specifically). They both gutted fish. They say it was hard hard work, but the money was great. They're not big strong people. Normal fuckin' people.

Being productive every minute doesn't mean hard physical work every minute of every day. Reading a book can be productive. Writing. Playing music. Art. Programming. There are plenty of people who wake up at noon, program/hack/academic shit, then go to sleep at 4 -5 AM.

To stop wanting to lay around and die. Been out of the gym for six months. Nothing but trouble all year. Family, health, financial, social, emotional. Only upside is that I'm barely eating and have dropped 25lbs of fat without so much as taking a walk.

I don't feel like I'm gonna make it, bros.

>>140537

Turn up the heat and get moving. Raise a maelstrom. Fill every beat. Move every second. Get your mind into gear. When you feel the weight, the heavy wet vampiric blanket, go tumo and turn the heat up to the boiling point every fucking time. Wear your grit and character like a sheath, wield your power like a sword.

>Pointy end goes in the bad guy's guts.

Crisis moments when becoming more fiery and action-packed are actually good things, like an initiation into a higher level. They're thresholds you cross.

Keep up the fight.

>>140524

>Yesterday, a day after the sit ups, I did 480 push ups in an hour to set a personal record. I feel fine. I felt pretty great yesterday. I don't even feel sore today.

Which, by the way, is pretty impressive.

>Being productive every minute doesn't mean hard physical work every minute of every day. Reading a book can be productive. Writing. Playing music. Art. Programming. There are plenty of people who wake up at noon, program/hack/academic shit, then go to sleep at 4 -5 AM.

Yeah, switching up your routine helps a lot. You can add three hours of productivity to a day just by reading for three hours, that won't make you burn out if the rest of what you do is physically demanding. Right now, I am reading so much that I have to take times of rest just to process everything, but a workout in the middle of the day can still be added to that, because that's a different kind of stress.

So, I don't think our attitudes are that different at all. Our respective wordings just exaggerated the differences.

>>140551

I TOOK A DAY OFF LIKE A WEAK NIGERIAN PRINCE OF GAINS POVERTY – but I did 400 squats in 30 minutes so we're all good. I find I'm gaining more mental clarity from all this though, so that's great.

– wait you're OP with a 125 lb 5x5 squat? The fuck man. Granted, if I added our difference in weight it would be 185 lbs which is about my strength level (haven't been in the gym for a while) for 5x5 but you wear that weight all the time man.

Get those gains fast. When you're a big guy, just rep it out. Easiest strength gains. Skinny lads need all the weight they can lift and 10 lbs of food a day, but you got the training weight built in + free gains fuel. Me doing this calisthenic shit is equal to you doing half the reps in the same time, and you'd get more muscle more gains.

>>140562

>I find I'm gaining more mental clarity from all this though, so that's great.

I found that some intermediate level of physical stress helps the most with my mental gains. Something that doesn't run my metabolism dry, like a day of heavy deadlifts does, but also is more than a short walk. A longer walk, I think, works the best for me, but so does weightlifting.

>– wait you're OP with a 125 lb 5x5 squat? The fuck man. Granted, if I added our difference in weight it would be 185 lbs which is about my strength level (haven't been in the gym for a while) for 5x5 but you wear that weight all the time man.

My squat is cursed, I'm telling you. My all time record was 260lbs for two reps. Also not very high, especially for my bodyweight, but far stronger than 125lbs.

I once reached 160lbs for seven reps, that was my all time record, then my squat form broke down after two weeks of abstinence. Took me weeks to fix that and get back on track. After I reached the 260lbs, my form again broke down, and I stopped doing anything heavier than 176lbs for fear of hurting myself. It was that bad.

With deadlift and bench press, it's similar, but never that bad. My form breaks down on all lifts very easily, guess that's just terrible muscle memory. Which is why I should stick to it this time, because I am deeply convinced my muscles are objectively very powerful, and I'd rather not waste that potential if I can help it.

>Get those gains fast. When you're a big guy, just rep it out. Easiest strength gains. Skinny lads need all the weight they can lift and 10 lbs of food a day, but you got the training weight built in + free gains fuel. Me doing this calisthenic shit is equal to you doing half the reps in the same time, and you'd get more muscle more gains.

Thanks, my man. It is reassuring for me to know I can run on a deficit, lose fat and still make muscle in one day. That, along with the massive calves, are the two things I'm gonna miss when I lose weight.

>>140503

I started out with dying at the 25 cal intervals on the elliptical machine about 1-2 weeks ago.

Now I can do 75 cal intervals. Shooting for a goal of 250 cal intervals.

I want to reach 160 pounds. Im skinny and hate it, can barely eat 2 eggs in the morning without throwing up.

Lose enough weight and get in good enough shape to join the army before I hit the age limit in 2.5 years

OP reporting in.

Not much to say on my lifts. I am significantly weaker than I used to be in my prime, but I think I am making progress on that front.

My weight stalled for a week on 225 and above, but I brought it to 223 by now. That's a plateau broken. Guys, don't expect linear weight loss. If you stall for a week and feel like jelly, and develop strong cravings, don't give in. It's your body suffering a panic attack. Google "whoosh effect". Sounds gay, but the science seems solid.

For some reason, my rest heart rate ranges anywhere from 40 to 60 BPM. I am no endurance athlete and in fact hate running, but I never faint and seldom get dizzy for no good reason, and last time my heart was screened, it was 100% healthy. So no idea what's up with that.

Gotta get my systolic blood pressure in line, though. Way too high.