eat a ton of carbs and do a ton of cardio=ripped

[Crox]

maybe an easier idea for those who wanna try something like this is to add a game of basketball. An hour or two of b ball fly's, its anaeorbic, and you burn more cals than most cardio.

Playing sport for 1-2 hours is far more enjoyable than a treadmill. I much prefer playing soccer, or at worst kicking a ball against a wall, plus ur game improves as well.

 

[zero%bodyfat]

Playing sport for 1-2 hours is far more enjoyable than a treadmill. I much prefer playing soccer, or at worst kicking a ball against a wall, plus ur game improves as well.

yeah kinda sucks i dont have anyone to play sports with. or you could hit the heavy bad for for about an hour and you will be sore as fuck and coverd in sweat from head to toe.

but the tredmill can be enjoyable. just bring something to read. or read the crappy magazines they have at the gym. some of those magazines may have something actually interesting now and then

dont do all of your cardio at once. break that shit up throughout the day

 

[zero%bodyfat]

zero, how long have you been doing this,and how much weight have you lost, this seems very extreme with all the cardio but you look great.

well ive been doing cardio for a good while. but cardio was never a priority before.

i would say for about 6 weeks ive been doing this kind of cardio.


i used to yo yo back and forth in weight when strictly dieting on bland ass foods. i would go from 230-250 back and forth back and forth.

but doing alot of cardio and eating alot of good tastey food.(for me that means eating cookies and cream icecream) has proven successful.

i dont get in very much protien. i mean why should i eat much protien if im getting in tons of carbs and alot of fats.

if im not mistaken even on some keto diets where they get about 150 fats, they only take in about 30 grams of protien

 

[Judah Bauer]

I would never, ever go below 1g/lb protein. But your right, when your getting that many carbs your protein requirements go down dramatically.

I like your recommendation about breaking up the cardio...helps improve partitioning more than just one big session.

also for bag work, instead of just banging away, it can be more fun to do "rounds" just like in an actual match...go 3 minutes as hard as you can, 1 minute off....1 round.

 

[zero%bodyfat]

I would never, ever go below 1g/lb protein. But your right, when your getting that many carbs your protein requirements go down dramatically.

I like your recommendation about breaking up the cardio...helps improve partitioning more than just one big session.

also for bag work, instead of just banging away, it can be more fun to do "rounds" just like in an actual match...go 3 minutes as hard as you can, 1 minute off....1 round.

im tried something new that i like even better today.

i actually increased the intensity on the stair climber by 2 points. but im only doing them in 10 minite intervals. so basically im going alot harder for shorter periods of time. then after the 10 minites is done ill do about 2 sets of weights drink some water chill out just for a bit then get back on. its very fun doing like this and you can burn more calories at a higher intensity

 

[Euphanasia]

how do you read while you are on the treadmill? My head keeps swaggering when i run and its impossible for me to effecitively read anything at all.

 

[zero%bodyfat]

how do you read while you are on the treadmill? My head keeps swaggering when i run and its impossible for me to effecitively read anything at all.

i dont use the treadmill. i meant to say the stair climber.....it looks like an escalater. it would be impossible to read while running on the treadmill

but when i run..i just run outside

 

[ZKaudio]

icecream is low glycemic according to the charts but high on insulin levels. weird.

high on insulin levels? Food doesn't contain insulin persay... It contains a carbohydrate bonded by carbon that, depending on the number of bonds, is more or less "complex" The less complex a carb... like sugar, the more quickly it converts to blood sugar and elicits an insulin response from the pancreas to store the sugar in your muscles/liver. Inversely, when there is not enough sugar in the blood, glucagon is secreted to pull sugar out of the muscles to regulate blood sugar levels.

Here's the ingredients in Dreyer's Grand Chocolate flavor:
INGREDIENTS: milk, cream, skim milk, sugar, cocoa processed with alkali, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, carrageenan, dextrose. Seeing as it's not necessarily sweetened with h.f. corn syrup or any of the like, I'd assume it's high gi. There is some lactose in it as well though that does not score quite as high on the G.I.

 

[Vageta]

You are missing one important point. You may be able to keep off the fat, and even lose some of it by doing extreme amounts of cardio or other forms of energy expendature. However the damage to your body by all of that processed junk food isn't lessened all that much. You may be burning it off but you're still setting yourself up for a possible diabetic future, high blood pressure, clogged arteries, etc... Staying active helps but it doesn't solve everything. Unless you are one of those lucky breed of people that can eat anything and never seem to have cholestoral problems, or high blood sugar, fat gain, etc.. then this will catch up to you if you continue on this route. And because you've said in the past that you put on weight easily and fight to keep it off I'd have to guess you aren't one of these lucky few.

I love bad foods as well and eat them in moderation, but eating them all the time and just using exercise to stay in shape is a bad path. Don't confuse being healthy and being in shape as they can be entirely different. Once can look average but have an extremely healthy heart, low cholesterol, excellent blood glucose readings, etc.. Or one can be 6% bodyfat at 250 pounds, but be a walking time bomb. Our goal should be both but many of us on this board worry so much about the latter that we forget the former.

 

[Judah Bauer]

I can understand the health worries, but I'm guessing this isn't a lifestyle choice. At least I hope not. So I say, hey, if you can do this for awhile and enjoy yourself, go for it. Soon enough he won't want to do that much cardio and settle into a more conventional routine, and maybe save this for when he wants ice cream.

For the diabetic stuff..it may be a bit overstated. If he's doing that much cardio...it'll be lowering his blood glucose levels like crazy...so its not like he's just some guy that eats a bunch of ice cream and has elevated glucose levels all day. The exercise will also be helping his insulin sensitivy and combating any risks of type II.

As for the low glycemic index of ice cream, thats just because it has alot of fat and sugar. But remember...there's something about lactose that elevates your insulin for longer time periods than other similar sugars. Something to remember. Pizza also does it.