jessb
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Anyway, I'm off to have dinner now with my daughter; organic beef, tomato and basil sausages, cobs of fresh sweetcorn, steamed broccoli and new potatoes with homemade onion gravy! Yum!
Oh my god spilota you are a machine!!! That's bloody impressive! Is it good for you running every day tho? Is it back for your knees with the shock?
As someone else said here, pushups are quite good, but there's no use if you can't get out the required repetitions. The movement is right though. Anything with a pushing motion is serratus anterior work, or the muscles on the front side of your chest. Have you ever done fly of any sort? dumbell fly? cable fly? If you lie on your back on a bench or swissball, and bring your arms out to the side like you're being crucified, but not all the way, cause you still want a bit of an angle in that elbow, then bring them back up in front of you, over the centre of your chest. Do it with weights or a cable machine. That will target pec major and pec minor more than pushing exercises will. http://www.exrx.net/AnimatedEx/PectoralSternal/DBFly.gif is what it looks like, but try to have a little more of an angle through the elbow at the bottom of the rep than this guy does. I find it not only puts less stress on the elbow joint, but you can get more range with the humerus.Serpentor, u sound like u really know your stuff! Why don't u live in Melbourne?! I need someone to sit me down and work out a healthy eating plan and an exercise regime.
The only exercise I do is walking to work and while at work I usually take te stairs down the floors. I do between 100 and 200 situps every other day. I'm getting quite a good 6 pack coming along. I really wannna work my chest but unsure wot I can do at home for this? Also my biceps have shrunk they used to be alot bigger. I'm 25. Any suggestion?
Sounds like a great household regime you have there! staying away from the processed foods is one of the best things you can do to stave off diabetes. I would change the amount of butter you use though. Obviously there are a lot of recipes that require butter for it to work, but for general frying, use something with a high smoke point that has a large proportion of mono and polyunsaturates.I'm really enjoying reading your responses serpentor - nice to hear a sensible, knowledgeable approach to health and fitness.
I am an ex-chef married to a chef so we eat pretty damn well in our house! We use a fair amount of butter and olive oil in our cooking, but avoid trans-fats as much as possible. We balance out the fat in our diet by eating almost all unprocessed foods; our grocery shop consists mostly of seasonal fruit and vegetables, legumes and meat. We both work fulltime and don't have lots of spare time, but food is a priority in our house - I bake all our cakes and biscuits using real butter and we cook pretty much all our meals from scratch (we sometimes cheat and buy sausages, pasta and pasta sauces premade - although we often make our own!) My 4yo daughter and I eat vego 2 or 3 nights a week, but my husband is a meat eater!
We definitely eat more than we should, but its hard not to when the food we cook tastes so good! I also love to cook puddings and desserts like fruit crumbles and pies, and I make possibly the best chocolate brownies known to man!
I go to the gym 2-3 times a week and run 5-8km 2-3 times per week (I am training for a 14km fun run in a couple of weeks!) Because I don't really limit what I eat, I use my exercise to keep my weight down. I still weigh a bit more than I should (I'm at the upper end of the 'healthy' BMI) but I far prefer that to watching every mouthful I eat and denying myself the pleasure of cooking and enjoying food with my family and friends.
yum! sounds great.Anyway, I'm off to have dinner now with my daughter; organic beef, tomato and basil sausages, cobs of fresh sweetcorn, steamed broccoli and new potatoes with homemade onion gravy! Yum!
I'm not actually familiar with the diet. would you care to explain it? Sounds very interesting, as the blokes at CSIRO are usually on the money.Jess - I want to have dinner at your house!
Our family is currently in a CSIRO study where they have made the "Total Wellbeing Diet" book content available online. I decided to give it a go for hubby and I when we returned from holidays 2 weeks ago because the fridge was bare. Even more compelling was the full length mirror in the holiday unit which showed me that I was starting to get a fat ***! (Hubby only admitted to the belly when it started shrinking.) Hubby and I have been following the diet for 2 weeks and the kids eat the CSIRO family dinners, but normal otherwise. I've lost 3 cm around my waist and hips, plus 2 cm around the thighs. I think I've lost 2 kg, but didn't own a scale for the first week. I definitely lost 1 kg this week and only want to lose 1 more at most. (I'm 5 foot 7 inches and 57.8 kg.) He has dropped 4 kg in 2 weeks with plenty of exercise. The diet is low fat, limited wholegrain carbs, lots of lean meat and LOTS of veg. The kids have commented that they enjoy the new meals we are trying and are learning to like different vegetables. For this alone, it's been worth it.
Serpentor - you are probably familiar with the diet. I'm not following the exercise regime due to hip problems that have been treated by two physios, a chiro and an orthopaedic surgeon, all with very mediocre results. Got a steroid injection on Tuesday when I could barely walk, so I'm good for walking again, but little else. I do a lot of stair-climbing at work, which keeps me surprisingly fit. Weights for upper body would be a good idea, but I count the heavy loads I carry at school as my resistance training. On weekends I go walking with son and dogs. Husband trains weights with some cardo 3x/week, 2x boxercise (he loves hitting things) and 1-2x cross-trainer at home.
not gaining any weight though... so I must be doing something right?
Don't fall into the trap that a lot of gym-goers do though, where they dawdle on the treadmill with their eyes fixated on the TVs.Pump up the music on your iPod or get a TV in front of the treadmill. Makes the time go quicker!
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