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The Official Health and Fitness Thread

Hey Bender,

Make sure every meal contains 25 to 40 grams of protien. Eat every 3 hours. Don't skip meals.

Chicken breasts, egg whites, tuna, fresh fish, shrimp, scallops, lean red meat sparingly are good protien sources.  Have you tried Greek yogurt? The fat free plain by presidents choice has a whopping 18 grams of protien and it's really creamy. Fantastic for a snack or as part of your meal.

Add vegetables every where you can. Use spinach in sandwiches and wraps instead of regular lettuce. Roasted sweet peppers go great in a Sammy too or as part of a morning omelette. The more colorful the better. Experiment.

Always have your post workout protein shake( the sooner the better), don't eat 4 hours before going to bed but right before bed have a protein shake.

Don't be scared about bulking up.  It just won't happen overnight or accidentally. If you feel that a certain body part is as big as you want it to be then you simply don't increase the weights or repetitions for that body part. I have large arms and I didn't want them to get any bigger, so for the last three years my bicep and tricep routine has remained almost completely unchanged. I'm not pushing more weight, or doing more reps or challenging my arms so there's no need for my body to grow bigger arms. All I'm doing is maintaining what I've got.

Train hard.

Try to get 8 hous of sleep per night.
 
TheMightyOdin said:
Hey Bender,

Make sure every meal contains 25 to 40 grams of protien. Eat every 3 hours. Don't skip meals.

Chicken breasts, egg whites, tuna, fresh fish, shrimp, scallops, lean red meat sparingly are good protien sources.  Have you tried Greek yogurt? The fat free plain by presidents choice has a whopping 18 grams of protien and it's really creamy. Fantastic for a snack or as part of your meal.

Add vegetables every where you can. Use spinach in sandwiches and wraps instead of regular lettuce. Roasted sweet peppers go great in a Sammy too or as part of a morning omelette. The more colorful the better. Experiment.

Always have your post workout protein shake( the sooner the better), don't eat 4 hours before going to bed but right before bed have a protein shake.

Don't be scared about bulking up.  It just won't happen overnight or accidentally. If you feel that a certain body part is as big as you want it to be then you simply don't increase the weights or repetitions for that body part. I have large arms and I didn't want them to get any bigger, so for the last three years my bicep and tricep routine has remained almost completely unchanged. I'm not pushing more weight, or doing more reps or challenging my arms so there's no need for my body to grow bigger arms. All I'm doing is maintaining what I've got.

Train hard.

Try to get 8 hous of sleep per night.

Ok, great, thanks. Basically you're saying eat about 5 small meals a day and include a ton of protein, try to stay low on calories and fat. I usually stay away from lettuce unless it's Romaine. I also like Arugula. Spinach can be a bit rough to down raw sometimes. I'm a fan of all the lean meats, pork loin is pretty good AFAIK as well. Is there anything I should be aware of when purchasing a protein supplement, other than it needs to be high in protein, low in calories/sugars? There's just so many options out there it can get really confusing.

I'm also on this training schedule: started it earlier this week. How does it look? Would it make sense to switch it after about 4 weeks?

http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/daves-upper-lower-split.html

I read that doing an upper/lower split makes sense because that way you dont overtrain (compound exercises can push it over) and also allows you to work the same muscle group more than once a week.

I'm following it up with 10mins of mid intensity cardio and 10mins of HIITS.

Thoughts?
 
Almost at week 3 of my new diet plan, been hitting the treadmill every day. Week 1 I lost 4 pounds week 2 I lost 2.6 pounds, really anxious about weighing myself tomorrow for the results of week 3.  Hopefully they are good. My goal is to get under 210 tomorrow right now I'm 212.4
 
McLeaf said:
Almost at week 3 of my new diet plan, been hitting the treadmill every day. Week 1 I lost 4 pounds week 2 I lost 2.6 pounds, really anxious about weighing myself tomorrow for the results of week 3.  Hopefully they are good. My goal is to get under 210 tomorrow right now I'm 212.4

How did it go?  I'm starting back at it tomorrow - Tuesday morning.
 
I forgot to mention that I ran my 2nd ever race - the Goodlife Toronto Marathon (the 5K race, not the marathon!) back on May 6th.

I wasn't particularly happy with my time - 25:13 (24:53 chip time). I've been much faster in training. But once again I was hurt by having my sciatic problems return.

Anyway, my time was still good enough for 97th out of 2,538 runners and 3rd in my age group out of 52 - so I guess I can still be proud of that.

I have one more race to go this year - the 5k at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October.
 
4th Liner said:
I forgot to mention that I ran my 2nd ever race - the Goodlife Toronto Marathon (the 5K race, not the marathon!) back on May 6th.

I wasn't particularly happy with my time - 25:13 (24:53 chip time). I've been much faster in training. But once again I was hurt by having my sciatic problems return.

Anyway, my time was still good enough for 97th out of 2,538 runners and 3rd in my age group out of 52 - so I guess I can still be proud of that.

I have one more race to go this year - the 5k at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October.

25 minutes man? Sounds like you killed it..you should be proud..the best I ever did at 5k was 34 minutes. It's lousy about the Plantar though.
 
In January the largest set of push-ups I could do was like 3, now I can do 20+ in a row.

I'm down a couple belt notches, I'm comfortably fitting into suits I bought 10 years ago and I feel expotentially stronger. I'm looking forward to seeing how this helps my hockey playing this fall.
 
Rick said:
McLeaf said:
Almost at week 3 of my new diet plan, been hitting the treadmill every day. Week 1 I lost 4 pounds week 2 I lost 2.6 pounds, really anxious about weighing myself tomorrow for the results of week 3.  Hopefully they are good. My goal is to get under 210 tomorrow right now I'm 212.4

Went down to 211.2 but then went back up to 212.2 :(

How did it go?  I'm starting back at it tomorrow - Tuesday morning.
 
Deebo said:
In January the largest set of push-ups I could do was like 3, now I can do 20+ in a row.

I'm down a couple belt notches, I'm comfortably fitting into suits I bought 10 years ago and I feel expotentially stronger. I'm looking forward to seeing how this helps my hockey playing this fall.

Excellent non scale victories Deebo!
 
Anyone planning to run the fall marathon in Toronto?  I did my first ever half marathon at the Goodlife one a month ago (didn't train properly, so I was pretty happy after pulling off a 1:41) and I've kept up my longer distance running since.

I'm also looking at doing this one - http://www.amidsummernightsrun.ca/.  It's shorter distance and in the middle of the night, so it should be fun.
 
Sarge said:
Nope, and good for you, man. - I'm still trying to work up to the half.  :-\

Thanks.  Yeah it's a process.  I'd been running regularly for well over a year beforehand, but my problem was that I was used to doing 5k sprints (sometimes going as far as 10k but never more than that).  Jumping up to 21k was a huge shock to my system and I hit a pretty hard wall about two-thirds of the way through before forcing myself on.
 
Deebo said:
In January the largest set of push-ups I could do was like 3, now I can do 20+ in a row.

I'm down a couple belt notches, I'm comfortably fitting into suits I bought 10 years ago and I feel expotentially stronger. I'm looking forward to seeing how this helps my hockey playing this fall.

Yeah, I'd have to say I'm on a similar path. Man I was so out of shape I could only do the girl style push ups LOL. I haven't done pushups at all since I started working out so I didn't know what I could do. Just for fun I rolled off 10 in a row without really sweating it. I was actually very surprised!

I don't feel like I'm making super fact progress in the weight room, I've been stuck at the same weight for a while, but testing against pushups it goes to show that something has definitely been shaping up!
 
Bender said:
Deebo said:
In January the largest set of push-ups I could do was like 3, now I can do 20+ in a row.

I'm down a couple belt notches, I'm comfortably fitting into suits I bought 10 years ago and I feel expotentially stronger. I'm looking forward to seeing how this helps my hockey playing this fall.

Yeah, I'd have to say I'm on a similar path. Man I was so out of shape I could only do the girl style push ups LOL. I haven't done pushups at all since I started working out so I didn't know what I could do. Just for fun I rolled off 10 in a row without really sweating it. I was actually very surprised!

I don't feel like I'm making super fact progress in the weight room, I've been stuck at the same weight for a while, but testing against pushups it goes to show that something has definitely been shaping up!

About 6 or 7 years ago when I first started trying to get back into shape I remembering doing 2 pushups as a super set... Then on the next super set I did 1 push up. That was with a trainer guy from the gym doing a physical assessment on me since I was a new member at the gym. 3 whole push ups in 2 sets...

Today, on chest day, I super set 6 sets of 20 push ups. 3 to 120 is a slight improvement.
 
I've blown out my shoulder since Tuesday. Really pissed off. My buddy was showing me some new types of push ups I wasn't too keen on. One was basically an over the head style with your hands close together. I gave it a shot, but it was an akward movement. I woke up Tuesday morning with a blown shoulder and its still in pain, without much help.

It feels like there's a constant needle in the top part of my shoulder, and it extending it over 90 degrees becomes painful, same with sleeping on that side. Super annoying because I've put my weight training on hold since then.

Thats the last time I do a stupid weird move that doesn't align with my body.
 
Actually, the funny thing is it felt absolutely terrible up until Sunday. I noticed it got a bit better on Monday and Tuesday the pain is practically gone. I really can't explain it, but its like it cleared up overnight somehow.

On another note, I'm looking into taking a martial arts/self defense class. Another aspect of my life I feel like I want to get a handle on. I had a drop in Wing Chun class the afternoon and damn, I didn't know how interesting the concepts actually are! Everything is based on physics, geometry and economy of movement. Some of the ideas and reasons behind the different movements make a lot of sense and have already got me looking into the human body in ways I didn't think of before.
 

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