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Bailey25
January 30th, 2006, 09:51 PM
I was hopeing that someone could give me a little help, I am an ex college athlete (baseball and hockey) who since graduating has put on some size. Two years ago I was 6'1 195, great shape, that summer after I graduated I took a job with Budweiser doing promotions at bars, I was out 5 nights a week drinking and in six months gained over 40lbs, then six month after that I quit.

So its been a year, I've always gone to the gym, 5 days a week but for the past three months I have been kicking my ass in the gym, an hour and a half a cardio and weights, 5 times a week, about 3+ hours a day. I have knee trouble so I can't run anymore, so the elliptical and the bike is about all I can do. I don't eat right, I don't eat bad, I just don't eat right. I am pretty broke so I mostly eat carbs because they are cheaper, oatmeal at breakfast, I am usually at the gym for lunch, a protien shake, and then dinner, nothing huge, I'm living at my moms.

So far I have lost nothing, yeah I am pretty strong and I know my muscles and my strength are way up, I do 15 reps of all of my weight, but I am still about 240. I lift mostly my upper body and due some legs, not a lot, very high reps (30) I have huge hockey legs and want to keep them as small as I can.

So now I have a new job at Bud starting in Feb, so I'll have money, and I will not be out at the bars, its more in the tours and giftshop aspect.

My question is this, you've read my background, what can you suggest, supliments, fat burners, meal plan, anything! I need to loose this weight, it will better for me, and also help out my knee.

dinoiii
February 2nd, 2006, 09:49 AM
One comment now: your avoidance of legs (i.e. - the beach body workout) despite your apparent "large" size is a LARGE mistake. Your body adapts to changes in a universal mode (i.e. - maintenance of homeostasis, etc... is a uniform response of hormones, metabolic processing etc... repair modes too work on this same scale).

Big legs does not equate with defined either.


You may think - phew this guy is blowing a lot of hot air - he cannot suggest I lift for legs when mine are already H-U-G-E but that is in fact what I am doing. You wouldn't be asking if you were completely content with your method so try mine for a bit. And opt out of the high rep range as well. this is just a start to your solution.