fitness
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Resources
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide: https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Databases for lifts/muscles:
Flexibility:
The R*ddit Wiki:
TDEE Calculator:
Please be aware that this calculator will ask if you're male or female
Other cool shit:
How to make your own foam roller
Athletes guide to foam rolling
WIP Schedule
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Saturday: Declaration of goals+community focus. What tangible, numerical goals are you going for? Don't know? We have ideas!
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Monday: Meme Monday
Tuesday: Toot Your Horn Tuesday. Brag about what you've done, how good your progress is, who's making googly eyes at you, etc.
Wednesday: Wing Chun Wednesday. All about martial arts
Thursday: Nutrition. What's been bothering you about nutrition? Maybe we get some comrades from c/food to see if we can't get you where you're trying to go.
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I would try a full body workout, with something like 3x bench press, 3x squats, 3x deadlifts and 3x barbell rows. It works most of your body, though to be honest you need to keep your expectations right. You’re not gonna make very significant gains with this little time at the gym. It’s not that you won’t make any gains but what gains you make will come slowly so you can’t get frustrated over lack of progress. Keep at it though.
Losing weight is more of a diet thing than an exercise thing so you could try fasting, cutting out snacks and changing sodas with sugar free sodas to start. Then you could slowly transition into a Whole Foods diet or a temporary keto diet (Keto should never be a permanent thing imo, humans are built to eat a little bit of everything not just fat and meat and there are real health concerns associated with that) while counting calories and fasting too if you want, but I would start with the easy stuff like snacks, sodas and juices (yes juices are bad, they often have more sugar than soda, eat the fruit instead)