I'm not knocking Deisel's Bulking and Cutting guide, they are great. But I found that in my own struggle to achieve a healthy body and mind has left me with some insights I think are worth sharing.
Many people talk about losing weight. They talk about it in the same way they talk about upholding a New Year's resolution. I know you all have heard people talk in this matter, your BS detector just flips off the chart because its so obivious that they'll never go through with it. You'll see them later gorging themselves on some junk food, claiming "Oh this is my "Fat Tuesday," where I have one last blow out and begin my weight loss resolution." Only their "Fat Tuesday" just seems to strech into the longest day, spanning weeks and months until they forget what they were going to do in this first place. Everyone claims that want to do it to "Look Good" or be "Healthy" or any other hunderds of reasons. The only way you can stick to a Weight Loss program is doing for yourself. You have to want it, sure you'll have reasons for wanting to do it but there has to be a fundamental desire on your part to change. For me I thought I was doing it to: Look Good, Be Healthy, Meet Job Requirements, Revenge on woman who left me in my AFC days. But, the more I looked at it, the more I realised this was something I wanted for myself not for 4 reasons as listed above. The force for changing yourself has to come from within and from external forces, you have to want to do it.
So before I get into my program I want to dispell some myths that I have seen.
1. It has to hurt in order to be an effective work out. (What a load of junk! One of the reasons people bow out of working out is because they hurt themselves and they don't like and can't handle the stress of a ridiculous grueling workout they create for themselves.)
2. Diets help you lose weight and keep it off. (I'm just waiting for the day a delivery truck from Hostess Cupcakes breaks down in front of Jared's lawn(the subway guy).
Okay with that in mind here is my program:
Phase 1:
Walking 2 miles a day and doing 3 sets of sit-ups at twenty reps.
Increase vegetable intake and decrease unnessary junk food and fried food.(The food will be a constant throughout the program, so no need to repeat it. Oh and each phase lasted a 2 weeks.)
Phase 2:
Walking 3 miles a day and 4 sets of sit-ups at twenty reps.
Phase 3:
Walking 4 miles a day and 5 sets of sit-ups at twenty reps.
Phase 4:
5 and 6 sets.
Phase 5:
6 miles 8 sets.
Phase 6:
6 miles 9 sets.
Then I went back to college and maintained for about half the year, and the laxed. I had orginally been 255 pounds, over the summer was down to 204 and gained about only 8 pounds while at college. But I'm back this summer and have begun finishing what I started. I'm now back to 204. Running 7 miles a day doing 180 situps and 90 push ups and some lifting and maintaining proper diet.(Which is why I didn't get huge again in college despite the drinking. For my work out I increase my difficulty by adding more weight, resistance and reps to continue my success.) By the end of the summer I hope to be somewhere around 195-to 193 pounds and hopefully sporting a six pack.
I hope this helps someone who was like me, earnestly to seeking to improve themselves for their own sake and reasons. Good Luck.
-Grey Fox
Many people talk about losing weight. They talk about it in the same way they talk about upholding a New Year's resolution. I know you all have heard people talk in this matter, your BS detector just flips off the chart because its so obivious that they'll never go through with it. You'll see them later gorging themselves on some junk food, claiming "Oh this is my "Fat Tuesday," where I have one last blow out and begin my weight loss resolution." Only their "Fat Tuesday" just seems to strech into the longest day, spanning weeks and months until they forget what they were going to do in this first place. Everyone claims that want to do it to "Look Good" or be "Healthy" or any other hunderds of reasons. The only way you can stick to a Weight Loss program is doing for yourself. You have to want it, sure you'll have reasons for wanting to do it but there has to be a fundamental desire on your part to change. For me I thought I was doing it to: Look Good, Be Healthy, Meet Job Requirements, Revenge on woman who left me in my AFC days. But, the more I looked at it, the more I realised this was something I wanted for myself not for 4 reasons as listed above. The force for changing yourself has to come from within and from external forces, you have to want to do it.
So before I get into my program I want to dispell some myths that I have seen.
1. It has to hurt in order to be an effective work out. (What a load of junk! One of the reasons people bow out of working out is because they hurt themselves and they don't like and can't handle the stress of a ridiculous grueling workout they create for themselves.)
2. Diets help you lose weight and keep it off. (I'm just waiting for the day a delivery truck from Hostess Cupcakes breaks down in front of Jared's lawn(the subway guy).
Okay with that in mind here is my program:
Phase 1:
Walking 2 miles a day and doing 3 sets of sit-ups at twenty reps.
Increase vegetable intake and decrease unnessary junk food and fried food.(The food will be a constant throughout the program, so no need to repeat it. Oh and each phase lasted a 2 weeks.)
Phase 2:
Walking 3 miles a day and 4 sets of sit-ups at twenty reps.
Phase 3:
Walking 4 miles a day and 5 sets of sit-ups at twenty reps.
Phase 4:
5 and 6 sets.
Phase 5:
6 miles 8 sets.
Phase 6:
6 miles 9 sets.
Then I went back to college and maintained for about half the year, and the laxed. I had orginally been 255 pounds, over the summer was down to 204 and gained about only 8 pounds while at college. But I'm back this summer and have begun finishing what I started. I'm now back to 204. Running 7 miles a day doing 180 situps and 90 push ups and some lifting and maintaining proper diet.(Which is why I didn't get huge again in college despite the drinking. For my work out I increase my difficulty by adding more weight, resistance and reps to continue my success.) By the end of the summer I hope to be somewhere around 195-to 193 pounds and hopefully sporting a six pack.
I hope this helps someone who was like me, earnestly to seeking to improve themselves for their own sake and reasons. Good Luck.
-Grey Fox