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JC Callender

JC Callender

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What do you do throughout the week to contribute to good physical health? Here's what try to do:

Weights 4 days
Cardio 4 days
Long walks when I can
I have an active job
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Emergen C when I feel I need it
Juicer (spinach, carrots, an apple)
Protein shakes
A very low sugar diet
 
Walk Sinjin The Wonder Pup
Supplements and vitamins
 
JC Callender said:
What do you do throughout the week to contribute to good physical health? Here's what try to do:

Weights 4 days
Cardio 4 days
Long walks when I can
I have an active job
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Emergen C when I feel I need it
Juicer (spinach, carrots, an apple)
Protein shakes
A very low sugar diet
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My weekly regime:

Twelve pack of beer (IPAs and stouts)
Nightly hot toddies
Heavy fatty foods
One salad
Chips and Salsa
Waffles and syrup
Ribeyes every other day

..............J/K I don’t eat salads
 
I've been trying to gain weight (up to almost 160 up from 140 a few months ago), I lift weights 3 days a week and for another three days I research, learn and practice martial arts (Judo, Karatedo, Taiji, Xing Yi and Bagua). I drink a lot of protein shakes and am on a regular med/supplement regimen. Stuff like this and the above are more important than people give them credit for (Westerners, anyway). It is shockingly easy to let yourself go and slip into a vortex of unhealthy dysfunction.

(Also; meditation, meditation, meditation, and more meditation).
 
JC Callender said:
What do you do throughout the week to contribute to good physical health? Here's what try to do:

Weights 4 days
Cardio 4 days
Long walks when I can
I have an active job
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Emergen C when I feel I need it
Juicer (spinach, carrots, an apple)
Protein shakes
A very low sugar diet
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No car, I cycle.
Fresh vegetables
Fish and lean meat
Lots of fruit
Low, low sugar.
 
Praxas said:
My weekly regime:

Twelve pack of beer (IPAs and stouts)
Nightly hot toddies
Heavy fatty foods
One salad
Chips and Salsa
Waffles and syrup
Ribeyes every other day

..............J/K I don’t eat salads
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And Bourbon!
 
Weights 5 days a week. Each day focusing on a different ,uncle group to failure. Cardio 6 days a week. I drink a large smooth full of veggies, whole fruit and protein powder every morning after my workout. When I break from this routine for more than 2 days I start feeling crappy.

I generally try to keep my calories around 2000 calories a day. I couldn’t care less about keeping my diet gluten-free, GMO-free, and organic but I DO avoid refined carbs other than the occasional birthday cake or pizza party.

I am in my 40s and I don’t care about turning heads at the beach anymore. I just want to be healthy, feel healthy, and look good enough to keep my wife interested.
 
Eat right, exercise, keep my teeth healthy, get routine physicals and other checkups.
 
JC Callender said:
What do you do throughout the week to contribute to good physical health? Here's what try to do:

Weights 4 days
Cardio 4 days
Long walks when I can
I have an active job
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Emergen C when I feel I need it
Juicer (spinach, carrots, an apple)
Protein shakes
A very low sugar diet
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Mine is almost identical.
 
I lift 5 days a week and do the Paleo thing right now. I've noticed a pretty good increase in energy lately so I'm liking it.
 
I strength train: the 3 powerlifts (squat, bench press, deadlift) + presses, powercleans and chins in various combinations 3x a week for sets of 5-8.

For conditioning I do HIIT training on a stationary bike 2-3x weekly.

Eating wise my diet is very protein heavy. I eat about 2000 calories a day and look to get about 40% of that from protein so I drink lots of milk with protein powder. I should probably just buy a cow.

Otherwise we're skiers, though we haven't had time to ski in a couple of years.
 
Well, at most, alternating: full weights workout one day, run the next, repeat.

Though for the last couple of years, I find my body needs a bit more recovery, so it's more: lift, run, run, lift, run, run, etc.

Runs are usually either 2.7 or 5.4 miles (there's a reason for the specificity) though sometimes I go 8.1 or 10.8+. Can't do the latter too often or old injuries start bugging me again. Lift usually takes ~45m if I'm pretty much not resting between sets, up to 1:15 if I rest a bit and then add extra stuff into the circuits. Circuits @ post 16: https://www.debatepolitics.com/fitn...ng-advice-move-more-weight-longer-help-2.html

Though I've added a few things and changed some (ie, no longer bracing against bench for rows but rather squatting around it and bracing in middle. Takes strain off groin area, but you have to watch back posture).

Then there are uncounted miles doing hikes and walks around our area.




Diet: protein-heavy, pay no attention to calories, just avoid useless non-food pretending to be food (ie, non-restaurant prepared meals, highly processed anything, soda, fruit juices, junk food). Only real exception is making a huge bowl of melted chedder & salsa, and downing as many chips as required to finish it.
 
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I usually just eat one meal on the weekdays, and its either vegetarian or low fat (plus multivitamin every day). My workout is daily yoga, pushups and crunches, with a 30 minute, 3 mile run on the treadmill MWF. My problem is that I normally go out with my friends on the weekends, and we bar hop- so its sort of like one step forward, two steps back thing.
 
JC Callender said:
What do you do throughout the week to contribute to good physical health? Here's what try to do:

Weights 4 days
Cardio 4 days
Long walks when I can
I have an active job
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Emergen C when I feel I need it
Juicer (spinach, carrots, an apple)
Protein shakes
A very low sugar diet
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Walking exercise - indoor or outdoor (weather-permitting); dancercise (free-style).
Low-carb diet (Atkins/Keto) - usually, maintenance. But now, I'm aiming for a new target weight.
Debates in forums (brain exercise)
Strategy video gaming (brain exercise)
 
PoS said:
I usually just eat one meal on the weekdays, and its either vegetarian or low fat (plus multivitamin every day). My workout is daily yoga, pushups and crunches, with a 30 minute, 3 mile run on the treadmill MWF. My problem is that I normally go out with my friends on the weekends, and we bar hop- so its sort of like one step forward, two steps back thing.
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I'm down to about 2 meals a day, and it wasn't even intentional. I'm just not hungry in the mornings.

One meal in a day would not really work for me. I cannot eat enough at once to get the required calories, at least if it's proper food.
 
I'm trying to get back the body fat percentage, cardiovascular health and muscle tone I had when I was younger. It's a long road back when you're older, obviously, but I am making progress. I tried a 42% caloric deficit per day, but in light of all the nutrients I need in order to pull off the workouts I have to do, that simply hasn't turned out to be practical, so I've had to scale it back to a 30% deficit.

I never appreciated how much protein I needed to pull this off. In order to lose weight and build muscle, I need to consume 1.3g protein/body pound, which results in a daily protein consumption that looks like science fiction compared to what I was doing. And yet, there is no doubting that once I got up to that number, my workouts became infinitely more efficient.

I work on various non-impact machines until I burn off ~450 calories (and will presumably increase this number as I get stronger), and then burn another 200 doing weight lifting. I do this every day if I can, though I sometimes I have to take a day off because my body gets completely worn out by a certain point.

Oh, I also got a personal trainer for the first time in my life. Man, that's a kick. These people don't **** around. After a full session I can't believe I'm still alive.
 
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Been doing meal prep for a while now, I find it to be almost impossible to eat well without it. I make massive vats of really healthy meals and then put them in tv dinner type containers to freeze. I put 3 or 4 in the fridge and freeze the rest, rotate it around so I have different food every day and have 6-8 things going at one time. Who the hell wants to cook every day? And if you don't cook, it's really hard not to eat processed crap. You'd be surprised what all you can freeze and it's still good besides normal meals. I make oatmeal protein pancakes, overnight oats, etc. The secret is to let stuff thaw in the fridge for a day or two before you zap it in the microwave and it's 90% the same as fresh.

This is the basics of how it's done. Oh My Reddit… | MY MEAL PREP SUNDAY

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Take fish oil, vitamin D, Zinc, Curcumin supplements.

I try to weight train 5 days / week, high intensity interval training 3x, and regular cardio 3x. I end up missing a lot of these so my rest periods naturally fill it out so I'm not overtraining.
 
My health regimen? All things in moderation. That's the ancient wisdom in the matter, and 2500 years of "progress" hasn't added one jot or tittle to it.
 
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