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Kampframmer wrote:

Kmar wrote:

Trying to lose weight? Put your scale in your kitchen, take a picture of yourself and tape it to the fridge.

the picture thing might get a bit creepy when you have people coming over

I was half laughing when I wrote it
lol
The scale was absolutely serious though.

Kampframmer wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

Yeah, you keep doing it and your body has no choice but to adjust.

I've noticed over the past few weeks I'm slowly getting off track here. Haven't done a 3x workouts in a week for 4-5 weeks now, and I've been drinking more and eating a bit more shit food, eg. I had subway for lunch yesterday and a pizza for dinner, but I was at a LAN and had no access to a supermarket to buy anything healthy. I did make an effort the other night not to get takeaway and instead find a late night supermarket to buy a chicken breast and a couple tomatoes to put with some salad I had at home so I'm not completely off track.

Anyone have any good methods for getting their motivation back? I did buy some new jeans a size smaller which was great (down from a 34" waist to a 32), except it now accentuates the fat I still have to lose

All you have to do is have one great day. Good eating and a hard workout, maybe even with some very intense cardio. Afterwards, your body will feel destroyed, but your mindset will improve drastically. The soreness the next day will remind you that its actually working. That and seeing progress (not on a scale but in a mirror) are the best motivators.

Everybody is different, especially when talking about what motivates people. What is best for you might not be best for someone else. Some people, such as myself, like to set very specific goals. A weight goal, a number reached, or an extra rep.. those are excellent motivators for me. For example, if I get back to hitting my old bench numbers (before I hurt my back) I know what the results will be. The feeling I get from making those goals is way more encouraging than staring at myself in the mirror (also a bit creepy). If I stay on track with those immediate and very tangible goals, the rest will fall in place.

Kmar wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

Yeah, you keep doing it and your body has no choice but to adjust.

I've noticed over the past few weeks I'm slowly getting off track here. Haven't done a 3x workouts in a week for 4-5 weeks now, and I've been drinking more and eating a bit more shit food, eg. I had subway for lunch yesterday and a pizza for dinner, but I was at a LAN and had no access to a supermarket to buy anything healthy. I did make an effort the other night not to get takeaway and instead find a late night supermarket to buy a chicken breast and a couple tomatoes to put with some salad I had at home so I'm not completely off track.

Anyone have any good methods for getting their motivation back? I did buy some new jeans a size smaller which was great (down from a 34" waist to a 32), except it now accentuates the fat I still have to lose

All you have to do is have one great day. Good eating and a hard workout, maybe even with some very intense cardio. Afterwards, your body will feel destroyed, but your mindset will improve drastically. The soreness the next day will remind you that its actually working. That and seeing progress (not on a scale but in a mirror) are the best motivators.

Everybody is different, especially when talking about what motivates people. What is best for you might not be best for someone else. Some people, such as myself, like to set very specific goals. A weight goal, a number reached, or an extra rep.. those are excellent motivators for me. For example, if I get back to hitting my old bench numbers (before I hurt my back) I know what the results will be. The feeling I get from making those goals is way more encouraging than staring at myself in the mirror (also a bit creepy). If I stay on track with those immediate and very tangible goals, the rest will fall in place.

I always set a more or less final goal that marks to end of a stage (in this case, the weight gaining) so it'll be long time before i reach that and that might make me lose motivation rather than gaining it.

I'm  not saying that you should stare at yourself like a pedo watching children. Everybody looks at themselves in mirrors because everybody is pretty self conscious in their own way when it comes to looks.
So just take a quick glance at how youre looking, nothing weird or creepy

Kampframmer wrote:

Kmar wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

All you have to do is have one great day. Good eating and a hard workout, maybe even with some very intense cardio. Afterwards, your body will feel destroyed, but your mindset will improve drastically. The soreness the next day will remind you that its actually working. That and seeing progress (not on a scale but in a mirror) are the best motivators.

Everybody is different, especially when talking about what motivates people. What is best for you might not be best for someone else. Some people, such as myself, like to set very specific goals. A weight goal, a number reached, or an extra rep.. those are excellent motivators for me. For example, if I get back to hitting my old bench numbers (before I hurt my back) I know what the results will be. The feeling I get from making those goals is way more encouraging than staring at myself in the mirror (also a bit creepy). If I stay on track with those immediate and very tangible goals, the rest will fall in place.

I always set a more or less final goal that marks to end of a stage (in this case, the weight gaining) so it'll be long time before i reach that and that might make me lose motivation rather than gaining it.

I'm  not saying that you should stare at yourself like a pedo watching children. Everybody looks at themselves in mirrors because everybody is pretty self conscious in their own way when it comes to looks.
So just take a quick glance at how youre looking, nothing weird or creepy

lol.. and I cant glance at an old photo on my fridge?

Kmar wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

Kmar wrote:

Everybody is different, especially when talking about what motivates people. What is best for you might not be best for someone else. Some people, such as myself, like to set very specific goals. A weight goal, a number reached, or an extra rep.. those are excellent motivators for me. For example, if I get back to hitting my old bench numbers (before I hurt my back) I know what the results will be. The feeling I get from making those goals is way more encouraging than staring at myself in the mirror (also a bit creepy). If I stay on track with those immediate and very tangible goals, the rest will fall in place.

I always set a more or less final goal that marks to end of a stage (in this case, the weight gaining) so it'll be long time before i reach that and that might make me lose motivation rather than gaining it.

I'm  not saying that you should stare at yourself like a pedo watching children. Everybody looks at themselves in mirrors because everybody is pretty self conscious in their own way when it comes to looks.
So just take a quick glance at how youre looking, nothing weird or creepy

lol.. and I cant glance at an old photo on my fridge?

cool space shuttle bro

Kmar wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

Kmar wrote:

lol.. and I cant glance at an old photo on my fridge?

cool space shuttle bro

O.. I can give you shots of the shuttle. Plenty

lol

Kmar wrote:

Kampframmer wrote:

I still regret not having 'before' pic. You dont see the changes as clear when you look in a mirror ever once in a while because it goes slow. But with a picture i could see how much as really changed.
But than again, im not one for taking pictures of myself so i dont blame myself.

After I hurt my back I put on like 30 lbs (over a year).. felt miserable, I couldn't exercise like I used to. I've lost almost all of it. I would have liked to do one of those time lapse things ..lol.

How did you hurt your back?

ouch

And Kmar, that would fucking hurt like a bitch!

I'm lazy waking up and getting into the gym but once I'm there I'm motivated. Been putting in negative reps in my workouts especially with biceps I can never get any soreness in them.

What are negative and drop sets?

Kmar wrote:

What types of curls do you guys prefer for your bi's? I've heard in the past that hammer curls are good for building your peak. I'm not a fan of preacher curls myself. I used to try to isolate the muscles I was working on. Now I like to get other muscles involved. Preacher curls take a lot of the stress off of the shoulders.

Because I'm on a 5 day split now, I can do hammer curls, preacher curls and barbell curls. Not sure where you got "hammer curls are good for building peak", they're the opposite of that because you're not tensing the peak when doing hammer curls. Hammer curls are great for bulking up the biceps and toning it from top to bottom (specifically missing out the peak) and also toning your forearms.

I love preacher curls, but they have to be done right to get the proper workout from them. You must tense like nobodys business at the peak and then a controlled movement back down, feeling the biceps work all the way through. If you put no tension it usually feels like a wasted exercise.

However, the barbell curl is still the greatest method for building bis.

Barbell rows are also very very good for building bicep muscle.

@ Jaekus: Negative sets are when you concentrate on the lowering of the exercise, not the elevating. They are good exercises, but should not be done frequently.

Drop sets are when you lower the weight for the next set after muscle failure has been achieved.