"stryped" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I am a male and 34. I weight 175 6 feet tall with around 16% bodyfat.
I
try to eat low carb because my family has diabetes. (And I dont want
it.)
Everyone says I am skinny. My wife says I look like I am just straight
up and down when she looks at me. I have no butt.
I need help with a diet and exercise program. I really dont weant to
gain alot of weight. I have to exercise myself and have limited time.
I
have a weight bench at home and a treadmill. Admittantly I like to run
when I can but I find it hard to muster the energy to lift weights but
I would like to at home to transform my physique.
During the week I eat a low carb breakfast bar and bannanna for
breakfast. Lunch usually turkey and peas and diet coke. Snacks during
the day are turkey jerky. At night and evening I eat a regular supper
and snacks within reason. Weekends I eat more. Again within reason.
I am not a wimp but may look like one. I was into martial arts for
three years and loved sparing but had to give it up because of kids
and
time constraints.
Any advice is apprecited!
If you want to put some meat on your bones, start working on compound
movements with weights. These include deadlift, squat, bench press (the
three lifts that comprise the sport of powerlifting) plus others like
pullups, military presses, etc. A good beginner's book on weight
lifting is Pavel's "Power To The People!" which I highly recommend. It
explains the difference between getting bigger and getting stronger and
tells you how to do both if that's your wish as well. See
http://www.kbnj.com/ptp.htm for a more thorough description from the
publisher's web site.
You will also find good information on lifting weights at
http://www.stumptuous.com, http://www.exrx.net, and many other places on
the Internet. But if you "find it hard to muster the energy to lift
weights" then I doubt you'll accomplish much. Do some reading and set
yourself a goal, e.g., to perform a squat or deadlift with 1.5 times
your bodyweight within the first year of lifting, and work hard until
you achieve it. If you can't figure out how to deadlift or squat at
home, load up a couple of suitcases nice and heavy (50-100 lbs. each)
then walk around alot with them - there are lots of ways to get strong,
but you need to support some weight in order to do so.
As to food, I'd go for more normal, healthy food - lose the diet soda
and the breakfast bar, substitute something closer to real, e.g., if you
have to have a bar, get one that's made with natural ingredients and
isn't 'low' anything. I like the ones I get here:
http://www.warriordiet.com Maybe a little less turkey and have a steak
or a burger - won't kill you, you know. 🙂
-S-
http://www.kbnj.com
