I think metabolism is definetly an important factor in weight loss, but not the most important. I think your best bet in increasing metabolism is exercising and eating consistently healty balanced meals.

Cardio is important to burn calories and lose weight, but aslo because poor diet and lack of exercise is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Cardiovascular fitness has so many health benefits its not even funny. Exercise lowers your risk for every kind of disease and death.

Diet is an extreamly important factor in weight loss. You dont actually have to eat less to lose weight you just need to change what you eat and how often. For example I would bet that I eat way more food that a 300lb person. This is because I eat healthy food and I exercise. Healthy food has less calories than junk food. A bananna is larger than the average candy bar yet the candy bar has 3 times the calories. So by eating healthy you can eat a larger volume of food and feel full but be consuming less calories. Exercise and increases in muscle from exercising are going to increase your calorie demads creating the deficit in calories resulting in weight loss.

You don't want to try to lose weight by just altering your diet alone, and you don't want to just try to do it by exercising. Changes in diet and exercise independently will result in weight loss, but together they are much more effective and have a greater cumulative affect.

Which brings me to my next point, dont take diet pills:lol:

Week ??

Last weight 216
new weight 214.5

until next time

Week ??

Last weight 214.5
New weight 210.5

c ya guys
P.S seems i`am the only one here :P

Great work Yogy, you are making great progress. Four pounds in a week is really good, what is your goal?

I'd like to chirp in I started at 130 in february and now in June I'm up to 140. :yipi: I'm still at 5'7" though.... :oops: But I turned 16. :yipi:

Great work!

You're lucky, I'm only 5' 5" now...

i started at 253.5 lb and i am to get to 185 lb , slowly but surely i am getting their. i`ll try to keep this thread update as much as u i can :)

Oh my god. It's 106f in the sun. I ran for only about 30 minutes for about the 4th time this year. Less then 4 miles. When I started running after lifting I was 147 pounds. When I got done running I was 142 pounds. Everything I touch gets a puddle on it. wow.. Holy crap.... I'm tired..

I did 6 reaps at 155 hang clean today!

Week ??

Last Weight 210.5
New Weight 207.5

getting closer :)

That's impressive, I suck at hangcleans...

And I'd join you all in this project but I'm in a similar boat as Metallover and MetalMan, I'm looking to maintain my 170lb weight (maybe add 5 lbs) but get down from 12.7% body fat to the 7-8% range. Supposedly it's 80% diet, 20% exercise, we'll see!

Also, good job Yogy, you're getting there! ..but I wonder where everyone else is? :P

As I started this thread I'll confess I went completly the wrong direction and ended up at 218...

Last 4 weeks I've been cutting back and excercising - scales said 211 today - target is still 182... I have a long way to go...

You should post your weight every week for some extra motivation. We can tease you if you don't do enough! :tongue:

Hey! E-Traxxer and Arct1k! I wanna see you guys posting up weights and what you did. We need some life on this thread!

Alright, well today was a cardio day for me so I ran 2 miles, biked 5 miles, rowed 2 miles, and climbed 100 flights of stairs. Also worked on my legs on the machines and some lunges/squats. Tomorrow is tricep/core/back.

Current Weight: 168.9lbs

im trying to get to about 230, im 218, 5' 10" now with 18" arms 50" chest and i dunno anything else, i need to do abs more, but i got a good core workout yesterday dead lifting 495 for 2

i am still here but i didnt weigh in this week coz i went on an eating spree for 5 days haha so i`m too scared to get on the scale when i get everything under control i`ll report back :P

c ya guys

After a week vacation in Canada I'm up to 172 pounds but I lowered my body fat to 10.7% :yipi:
Almost passed out at the gym today too, oops! :oops: Jetlag and heat will do that to you, I guess :neutral:

This whole week it's going to be chicken, broccoli, and rice 6 times a day along with a bunch of time at the gym.

How's everyone elses progress?!

I'm pissed. Gay-ass football has the weightroom closed and I'm not sure when It'll be opened again. :diablo: I've tried to lift 8 times in the past month and 5 times it was closed. :diablo:

You should do what I did and get a membership to a gym, I'm at 24hour fitness and it costs $30 a month. I find it's a better atmosphere than a school gym, too, not to mention you'll have more equipment and space. Also if I'm ever bored at 3am, I can go to the gym! :yes:

I would have to pay for it, and I can't afford $30 a month. I had a membership at tryon awhile ago for a month and right after I joined basketball started up and I had to lift all by myself. The thing is, since my dad was paying for it, he made me go every day. That wasn't fun because I wanted to do other things. He was my ride too, so I couldn't just go home.

I've been hitting a 24 hour fitness for the last month with a buddy of mine, using his dad's membership card :whistle: Been noticing results, but my weight has only increased a couple pounds despite lifting about 4-5 times a week. Our routine calls for different muscles each day, split up like this: 1. chest/triceps 2. back/biceps 3. shoulders/calves 4. rest of the legs Then we throw abs into about 3 of those days. Day 5 is rest, then the cycle starts over.

2lbs isn't much, but I'm also burning the little fat that's left on my body and replacing it.

Yeah, unfortunately building muscle is harder than it appears to be, and 2 lbs a month in muscle gain is actually a LOT, that equates to 24 lbs in a year, assuming you don't plateau.

What I do, don't know of it's good or not, I do pullups to warm up every day and at home. Then I go onto a major lift. A major lift would be hang cleans, power cleans, push press, bench press, etc. Then I got into a lower body lift such as dead lift, back squat, front squat, calf raises, etc. After that I do things such as bicep curls, french press, abs, chest, forearms, more pullups etc.

The things I can't go without doing are pullups and tricep pull-downs on the cable machine. Gotta love those huge triceps!

I hope to join the powerlifting team we're supposed to get this year with the new weightroom and $80k of new weights. That's pretty much only bench, squat, and dead lift. I'm bad at all those. It'll be fun though...

I need to start running too for cross country now. I'll loose a little weight and unfortunately, I'll get those cross country legs. I need to start running though because I need to be in shape enough for practice starting in a couple weeks. Anyone have some motivation?

weight today is 140.

I eat mahi-mahi from wholefoods 5-6 times ($8 for 2) a week with a veggie and or rice for dinner. Usually a sandwich no mayo for lunch. Watermelon or some melon type crap for brekky. non fat 1/2 &1/2 for my morning coffees plural. Me and the old lady ride at least 5 miles a day on our bikes (still cant bring myself to jog or run) then 20 push ups and 3x 12 reps arms curls. I lost all the beer gut and am almost developing a bicept on my non masturbation arm. I call that progress

hey guys been a while, well i`m at the same weight didnt go down any further, i guess i`m balancing out food and excercise :P i hope i`ll report some progress soon and get lower than 207.5 lb

Yogy

Weight is 140

I maxxed out today. Hang clean was 3 reps at 175, which the coach says rounds up to 180. I got under 185, but I couldn't bring it up. I never really bench that often due to fear of hurting my shoulders for baseball, but I benched 140. I've only benched 2-3 times this summer, so I should've gotten more if I had worked on that lift before.

The two lifts bring my partial total to 320. I'll do back squat later this week. That will make up the big three. I hope to finish with 550+, which should be pretty dang good for weighing 140.

I need to start running for cross country. I'm expected to be in shape ready to practice in 2 weeks. Yeah right. :lol:

How are all you other guys doing?

Update: just ran 3 miles. new weight: 138

:yipi: :party: :lol:

My weight is up to 176lbs consistently, which is about another 2lbs from almost a month ago. Results are apparent but it would be nice if they could be achieved faster :whistle:

At the gym today they offered a complimentary body fat test which turned out to be pretty rudimentary, but I went for it anyways. Measurements were taken on biceps, triceps, bottom of should blades, and hip. The guy mentioned ~75% accuracy, but who knows because the should blade and hip measurements were taken through my shirt. Anyways, he said I'm at ~12%, which I'm pretty satisfied with considering hardly any cardio over the past months.

well i'm only 88 pounds (40kg's) and i'm 17 so i'm pretty happy/skinny :P
must be all the running to and from the pit's to the drivers stand!

I did the 300 workout today. Grueling. Completed it in just under 25 minutes. Good thing is that I completed it. It won't be fun to do it again.

well i gained some weight my system came crashing down, BUT no rest for the wicked i am back on my feet and starting again current weight after gain is 217LB thats 10lb more than last time.

Let the Games Begin!!

Wooooahhh... how tall are you?

I just finished up cross country season....dropped 10 pounds:yipi:

225 now, im wanting to hit 250 dead lifted 500 for 4 reps last week, benched 315 for 2, my goal is to bench 365 by the end of winter which im close to now!

Omg :surprised: You're a beast. Those are the two lifts I need to work on too... :angel:

lol thanks! im moving up fast weekly, i deadlifted 500 for 6 last week, benched 315 for 3 and 335 for 1 after repping 275 for 6, im weighing in at around 228 now, no suppliments just lots of food! lol

hey guys i am back , got my system back on track last time when i messed up i was up to 217lb now i am at 203lb :yipi: my target is 195lb then i am done dieting FOR LIFE !!

c ya soon guys

Holy Crap. I gained 20 pounds in 2 months!! I was 130 back at the end of the cross country season and now I'm 150. Haven't gained much fat, so I'm guessing it's muscle. I'm getting a lot stronger, that's for sure.