Good point. I'm wondering how much protein comes in a glass of milk (off to Google for me!). Had a friend in college who played football; beast of a guy and he had two breakfast-sized bowls (12oz plus) of yogurt with every meal for protein.
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Good point. I'm wondering how much protein comes in a glass of milk (off to Google for me!). Had a friend in college who played football; beast of a guy and he had two breakfast-sized bowls (12oz plus) of yogurt with every meal for protein.
I've read tons of great stuff about a tall glass of chocolate milk being great for your body post work out. That's actually what I started with before trying all these different shake concoctions.
For me I prefer milk to water or fruit juice because of one, the taste, and two I'm trying to gain weight, so the extra calories and goodies are helpful.
Also, I just got some Ultimate Nutrition Muscle Juice 2544 Weight Gain Drink Mix, Vanilla and holy poop is it sweet. Man, almost too sweet to drink. It tastes like cake batter. I need to pick up some unsweetened frozen fruit to cut this stuff with or I'm not going to be able to drink it.
Progess report for me - I weighed 164 yesterday and have been making some nice gains with this new lifting program I'm trying.
I'm on my second week of lifting five days and doing the fighting stuff 3-6 days and while I've been tired a bit more than normal, overall my body is adapting.
164?! Holy shit, you're creeping up to my weight, and I thought I had a good 25+lbs on you at one point.
Some cool exercises I have been doing to increase punching speed, simulate punching while fatigued, etc., include shadowboxing with 2.5lb wrist weights strapped on while I'm also holding 5 lb dumbells in each hand. I start out with no weight shadowboxing for a warm-up, put on the wrist weights and shadowbox, then add the dumbells and prolong this portion of the workout. After a point, I'll pyramid back down. It really starts to simulate how fatigued you may feel a few rounds into a sparring match, mainly the effect of how heavy your own arms feel. My hand speed and the power behind my lead jab has noticably improved as a result of these exercises.
Also great, but I only do this on occassion, is to shadowbox while submerged in a pool. This is awesome stuff but it's not always easy for me to get pool time at my gym.
I just pooped and I'm back down to 160.5. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooch
Also re: doing striking with weights - that can be hell on the joints/ligaments/etc, so be very careful.
I weighed about 204 the other day. I'm in pretty good shape currently, body-fat wise. Ideally, I think I need to weigh about 195 or so to be really lean, but there's just something about tipping the scales at 200 that appeals to me. Still, it's not the scale, it's what you see in the mirror that counts.
I've been hitting the cardio pretty heavily lately...after lifting weights, I usually do 20-30 minutes at about 80% of my maximum heart rate.
Milk is usually 1 gram of protein per ounce. So, an 8 ounce glass will give you 8 grams (plus about 12 grams of sugar).Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Meach
A few days ago a guy at the gym told me that vertical bench pressing is less likely to cause shoulder impingement (something I've had problems with in the past) than traditional horizontal bench pressing. Anyone know if that's true or not?
Vertical bench? Like a military press or lying on your back?
I assume he means this:
http://www.myfit.ca/exercisedatabase...ticalpress.gif
I guess it's safer (assuming you normally use shit form when lifting), but nothing beats working out with free weights when it comes to gaining strength and size.
Not a medical opinion but intuitively it makes some sense. When bench pressing, you have the impact of gravity in addition to the actual weight stressing your shoulders. When doing seated chest presses, gravity isn't involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpoDaddy
Absolutely. I try to be very careful because of this. To be honest with you, my right elbow still hasn't fully recovered from that armbar I was put in back in July. I still can't throw a right cross as hard as I used to nor without lingering pain afterwards. I probably have a mild tear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kid
So Monday I start my fifth week of this new work out cycle.
Before this I' had been doing bjj 4-6 times a week for two hours at a time and lifting weights three times a week. All days were complex lifts.
For the last four weeks I've been doing jiu-jitsu 4-6 times per week, but now I've been lifting five days week with each day I isolate two body parts.
The first week and change was pretty hellacious, considering I was working out a combined total of about 15 hours a week. But after the first week everything "greased" up nicely and I've been going along smooth.
I've seen some nice gains and some pretty drastic changes in my body which a lot of people have recognized.
Also found a new mass gainer shake mix/recipe which tastes absolutely rad. Which is great because for the last six months I've been trying different mixes and recipes and they all tasted like crap.
Woo.