Bodybuilding/Workout/Diet thread

[Tomahawk]

Stretch your hamstrings daily and it will alleviate a lot of your back issues. The two are related. Watch your posture, especially when you're relaxing. Most importantly, don't test your lower back. I was always in the idiotic mindset that I could work through pain, with your lower back that doesn't work, it only makes things much worse.

yeah, i'm constantly touching my toes throughout the day because it does feel better. 

i've thought about the chiropractor route but i was thinking it was muscle soreness and i wasn't sure what a chiro would do for me

In my case, the lower back pain, which includes muscle soreness, is caused by the muscles moving from where they're supposed to be and wrapping around the bone or some shtein which sometimes puts pressure on the nerves, causing intense pain. This usually only happens when I neglect stretching after helping a buddy move or some similar activity. I'll stretch but if it doesn't feel better in a couple days, I go to the chiro.

But like FF said, going to a chiro can become "addictive". And some of the sheistier ones will insist you come back every month until you die. If I were you, I'd see one for the an adjustment and to ask for some good stretches.

[PhillyPhreak54]

All good suggestions. I was dealing with lower back soreness a few weeks ago when I tweaked it doing an ab workout. It still stiffense up from time to time but I do a lot of stretching. The on-the-knees with your arms out in front on the floor works well as does laying flat on your back and rotating your hips so your leg rests on the floor. I do that quite a bit before I do my boot camp class.

I have never used a chiropractor but a guy I work with swears by them.

I'll just go get a massage from the little mamacita joint down the road.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I have never used a chiropractor but a guy I work with swears by them.

I'll just go get a massage from the little mamacita joint down the road.

Well, congratulations to that guy for never getting the hand release bonus.

[Zanshin]

Did that watermelon thing again, and felt great again. I figure I'll do it every six weeks or so until I stop feeling great, or don't feel like doing it anymore. I'm not selling it, but I did work out an easy, great frozen drink while doing it. Made one today for kicks.

Super easy-- just take some cut watermelon and fill a blender halfway or so with it. Cut a lemon and squeeze the juice into the blender. I added the lemon pulp and a good bit of rind, too. I also added a lime in the same fashion. Fill the rest of the blender with ice, and blend to oblivion.

Pretty healthy and it tastes great. I'd even serve it to guests at a BBQ. Excellent use of two minutes and a blender.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You're a farging weirdo.

[Zanshin]

Oh,  certainly. But I am telling you, that drink is somehow even more refreshing than rjs's miserable attitude.

[hbionic]

That's hard to believe.

But...I'm three watermelons away from trying your watermelon cleanse.

I'll let you know how it goes. Can't be any worse than what I'm doing to my body now.

[Tomahawk]

Have any of you guys heard of yoga? My back locked up causing such an intense pain it probably would have killed a lesser man. The chiropractor suggested taking some yoga classes so let me know how it's worked out for you.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

A portion of P90X is yoga. farg all the kidding about it for women. Yoga is no joke. After P90X, I started going to a couple of classes a week with my wife. It'll help all other aspects of any kind of fitness you do. It's good shtein.

[Diomedes]

In the yoga birth class we did for our first child, I found the actual physical practice to be sound and reasonable and effective.  It's tough work but I generally felt better afterwards.  The trick of combining intentional relaxation and meditation with simple, strenuous physical exertion works.  Yay humans, figured out something good.

But the goddamn people you have to tolerate in order to attend a class, nope.  Walking talking neo-hallmark phonies.  They say the most incredible stuff to one another without shame, it's awful.  The instructor in that class, an openly pro-natural birth partisan, preaching about how the woman's body is created to give birth and that medical intervention is rare, blithely told the class of 20 couples as proof of this fact, that one in ten births occur without any troubles.  I hear this crap and I look around, and I'm taking internal bets on which two women are going to have "troubles," when I see that everyone else is buying this shtein hook line and sinker.  As if the yoga lady had just settled the case on why natural child birth is best.   Now I'm looking around the room thinking, this is a farging yuppie cult.  All this talk of voodoo spiritual centers in the body and people saying "How are yoooooou?"  "I'm a great space right now, how are yoooouuu?"

DIE DIE DIE

[Tomahawk]

I haven't been to a class yet, but when looking up the limited available offerings in my town, I got to read a bunch of stuff like this:

Tammy breathes in passion for life & releases the creative vision of Heading OM Yoga. Tapping into her roots, Tamo's path is realized as being an educator & community activator infused with love of movement, nature, travel, art & music

These people sound insufferable enough that I'll probably attend a couple classes a week for a month or two, after which I'll hopefully be well-versed enough to do the shtein at home.

[Eagaholic]

it sounds like you need to release the limitations of your perception energetics into the unconditionality of Universal awareness

[General_Failure]

Or you could try some yoga that's douchey in the opposite direction.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

So, I've been running quite a bit and am now on a training plan for a 10-miler at the end of September and potentially the Philly 1/2 the Sunday before Thanksgiving. But my weight really isn't coming off - partially expected due to being a non-muscled POS prior to working out but still continuing after the muscle gains are likely leveled off.

After watching the aforementioned documentary in the movie thread ("Forks Over Knives"), I'm considering shifting toward more of a vegetable/fruit/grain-based diet - basically cutting out all dairy except yogurt, all red meat, all shellfish, and fried foods. Will keep eating chicken, fish, and eggs; but in moderation.

So... I'm looking for all kinds of feedback, especially the hurtful hippo kind.

[Tomahawk]

After getting a cholestoral check, I switched to the pink milk and cut it down to only 2 gallons a week. I quit eating beef (except for an occasional steak) and chicken, and started eating a shtein ton of fish but only the cold water variety such as halibut, cod, and salmon. I also started eating more vegetables with meals and eat them as snacks. Nonsensically, I didn't/haven't lost too much weight but am noticeably leaner.

In synopsis, you're going to die no matter what you eat.