How are you staying or getting in shape this summer?

[Anonymous]

Curious to see what other people are doing to get in shape tho summer.

-For exercise everyday I do Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred DVD.

-For breakfast I have vanilla greek yogurt with raw sliced almonds.

-For a snack I have a nutrigrain bar.

-For lunch I have vegetarian lunch meat with veggie chips or vegetarian lunch meat wrapped in lettuce with a slice of cheese and veggie chips.

-If I'm hungry still, I snack on veggie sticks.

-For dinner I have vegetarian tuna salad on triscuits or a whole grain rice with egg whites for a stir fry or a diet protein shake.

-If I'm craving something sweet, I'll have some cottage cheese with mandarin orange slices.

[kheserthorpe]

I'm currently bulking (as much as my sad genetics/age allow me too). My wife keeps whining she wants to lose weight, if she decides she actually wants to push I'll cut when she diets.

Trying to not eat much junk, but a fair bit of healthy food, heavy on lean protein.

I hadn't been doing much lifting recently, so eased back in with a three day a week full body, but I found when I missed most of a week - I'd have a great workout. So I can't handle that frequency. Based on that I'm trying a 2 day split three times a week, so each workout is done every 4-5 days. Well see how that goes. Squats went pretty well today.

Oh, I'm also bumping up vitamin C on top of being diligent with omega 3's. I've traditionally gained fat easily but not muscle, so I don't have a 'high' metabolism, its more of a 'stressed' metabolism. Hopefully upping antioxidants/anti inflammatories helps. TBH, I feel like some lifts are moving better then in the past.

If I get organized enough I'll try to up meditation as well.

If I move to cut I'll do maintenance on strength and maybe spend the time on cardio trying to drive resting heart rate down.

At some point I'll try to get into a new boxing gym. Yay.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

This summer it's mostly lifting and cycling for me. Monster milk for my post workout mix. And N.O. explode for my preworkout matrix. I run occasionally on my lunch breaks.. but I only have 30 min lunch breaks :/ so it's mostly just a short run + plyos then back to machining. I commute to work with my bicycle. And I'm doing smolov jr for bench, since smolov squats went well earlier in the year.

I eat tons of greek yogurt, meat (all kinds) and junk food ;p Drink mostly gatorade, and water.

I'm always looking to get better, strength wise. Aesthetically.. I just don't have the motivation to try and get the perfect body. My workouts are driven by quantitative data (cyclometer-- speed/distance/time, weights-- sets/reps/heaviness). I also don't have the time or energy for a bodybuilding routine. Honestly, I would like to have the perfect beach body.. but eh.. I rather be more athletic than have bigger muscles.

How are your results coming?

[Asker]

Feeling good now that I've cleaned up my diet. So, going good so far. :) I'm working on getting bigger muscles.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Yeah? Squat girl, squat. >:) Girls with big glutes and refined legs are the epitome of sexiness.

[Asker]

There's a whole circuit of squats in Shred.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Self-weight squats? ewww... Good job, Jillian, way to take the #1 exercise and turn it mediocre.

Squats are meant to be done with weights, and for girls ATG ;)

[Asker]

It is done with weights... lol.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

With a barbell ? or baby dumbbells ?

I'm not trying to diss your workout.. just.. if you want muscle, heavy weight squat are a must for nice quads, hams and glutes.

[Asker]

Baby dumbbells. No worries!

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

You should switch over to heavy weight barbell back squats and just substitute that one part of the video with a serious squat regime :P Then between that, and Jillian's cardio, you'll be looking your best in no time. ;) Personal opinion, but I like girls with legs like this:

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[tohrment]

Good ol' gym going. I work out 5-6 times a week (provided I don't get destroyed on the weekend and am therefore unable to crawl outta bed). 2-3 days I'll do weight training, and the others I'll do intense cardio workouts.

Diet wise, I'm terrible. I have little to no self control. It's not that it's unhealthy, I just don't have any semblance of a diet going :P

[peace-love-couture]

-Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred everyday

-Yoga 2x a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Typically oatmeal with bananas and dried cherries with ground flaxseed mixed in there, then a TV dinner for lunch(under 300 calories) OR greek yogurt mixed with ground flaxseed and a side of 8 almonds and a TV dinner(under 300 calories) for dinner

[Brando]

Pounding out the weights in the gym. I've recently started making my workouts not only more intense, but faster paced as well.

And then after that, I just eat whatever I want within reason (in regards to if it actually isn't destructive and will help me stack on the weight).

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

>:) glory food.

[Brando]

And oh boy how I do love my glory food :)

I think we're both fortunate to be in the situation we're in: eating practically whatever we want :D

[Operations]

Cariovascular-based excercises everyday for an undetermined amount of time. Sadly, that's about all right now. I haven't willed myself enough to get back into the weight room and finish what I started. At least not yet.

[palek]

I make my own smoothies with blueberry preserves and lard, and I've been knockin back up to 15 glasses a day along with 20 to 25 donuts for about a year now. I recently cut back to 12 glasses a day and only 18 donuts, and I'm feeling pretty ripped.

[naima17]

Comcast workout videos. it;s to hot to drag myself outside or to the gym

[front2back]

-Get in da weight room

-Train for this upcoming football season