Starting My Cutting diet

[jkmom]

Thanks for the advice on the wine mb! Love my treat!
Figureskater - great job on the 27 minutes! What do you do for intervals? Change the hill or up the speed? Did you ever try carrying dumbells? I know people say not to but when I run with dumbells it is and awesome workout!! When you do legs this afternoon try this exercise...if your gym has a gravitron machine for pull ups and dips - use it as a stair master by placing one foot on the ground or the bottom step and the other foot where your knees would be if you were to do a pull up. Press down with your foot and you will feel your quads and glutes beg for mercy!!

 

[torabirgitte]

My trainer gave me my cutting diet oh my It is mostly protein no carbs....
no fruit either and I love my fruit oh well if I want to win my competition in
November i better do what she tells me.. One day i get carbs though.....

Joe's Girl
Keep Pumping

Hi! i'm also doing a competition in end Sept- curious to see your diet plan.... mine is splitting carbs and protein in different meals.. works fine but boring. Oh well.. gotta keep focusing on the journey and the fact that everything counts!

 

[jkmom]

Love your philosophy! I am printing it out and taping it in my journal! Where is your competition?

 

[torabirgitte]

I'm doing an athletic fitness competition in Norway- basically comprises dips and chins to failure, an obstacle course and symmetry.. I'm also doing a half marathon and a MTB competition in August/September for fun... I need to do some "real" sports too- otherwise it gets to "boring" just training in the gym! Just did an arms workout but no fun doing dips with little carbs in the system... pumped out a few though!

 

[FigureSkater]

Thanks for the advice on the wine mb! Love my treat!
Figureskater - great job on the 27 minutes! What do you do for intervals? Change the hill or up the speed?

Kind of an HIIT but a little different--I worked up to these speeds, and plan to continue gradually increasing the speed by .10/mi every few days or week as I get in shape.

2 minutes--warmup (5.0 mph)

Then 5 times through the following 4-minute cycle:
minute 1: 5.5 mph
minute 2: 6.0 mph
minute 3: 6.5 mph
minute 4: 7.0 mph
After the 5th cycle, I add another minute of 7.5 mph.
Then I cool down the last 4 min or so--anywhere between 3.0-5mph

I prefer this over normal intense/recover HIIT using two speeds because the way that these intervals are longer and build (especially with the last one being longer) not only burns fat, but also helps me train for my 4 1/2 minute skating program...it really helps me not run out of gas 2/3 of the way through it. Especially mid-season when we're doing back-to-back run thrus at practice.

 

[semi1979]

Hi everyone, I also have a show in november I give myself 16 weeks on the diet. With no cheat days. Fruit and bread is cut out at 10-12 weeks. The best way to fat for me and many females I know is to cycle the carbs. 3-5 days low 1-2 days high. This prevents your metabolism from slowing down e-mail me for questions

 

[jkmom]

Figureskater - great job on the cardio!! Sounds very intense. Keep up the great work - How was leg day? I have been working with a trainer who has showed me some intersting exercises for legs - I'll be glad to describe them if you are interested!
Semi - I have tons of questions as I would love to compete. What does your diet look like? I went to a "guru" for diet info and he gave me an Apex diet - very dissapointing as I could have done that! Look forward to hearing from you!

 

[FigureSkater]

jkmom--daaaaaamn I read somewhere else that your bf% is like 16.5%...how long has that taken you? Nice work. You below-20 people always make me so jealous

I'm starting to see how wonderful muscle memory is...I haven't seriously, consistently done any weight training in about two years, and although I'm just lifting for muscle maintenance so I don't lose too much in cardio, after only 3 1/2 weeks in the gym I'm lifting at or pretty darn close to (depending on the exercise/muscle group) what I was able to at my peak back then. (And back then it took me months to work up to those amounts!)

 

[jkmom]

Hey Figureskater! Just the message that I needed this mornign as I am stressing out over EVERYTHING!! Well it depends who takes my bf%. I had one personal trainer who has his own studio take it. He has every certification in the book from ACSM on down so I like his estimate best(!) He used digital calipers and weighed me and I came in at 12%. I had it taken a few weeks later by another trainer at a gym - he did not weigh me but used the calipers and said I was17%? So naturally I like the first one better! I train pretty hard and used to have a meticulous diet. I began having cheat days while I was taking an "anti anxiety" med and let me tell you - wrong combo!!! I was on these for about 3 months and was fine but I guess they build up in your system and really decrease any emotions or feelings in general. Well that combined with cheat food allowed me to PACK on weight because I just did not care - due to lack of emotions I guess! They were useful because I was close to 90 pounds and still going strong on working out! They helped bring my weight up to 103. That was the weight I had my testing done at. However, I really have a great life and know for sure that I do not need this medication so I flushed them a week ago and have never felt better! My discipline is coming back, my house is clean again (!) and I am running my own and everyone elses life again!!! So I have discovered that emotions and anxiety are really useful tools in life and really help to keep behaviors in line. I try not to eat junk food I eat mainly fresh foods. My downfall is airpopped popcorn so my diet is not perfect! I am much better than before though! These chest days turned into binge festivals and it was ugly! My husband does a ckd and had a "carb up"-I call a crap up because that is what it is and he does this 2x a week. It WAS fun to join him but NO more!
Sorry this is soooo long!
I am in CT - Isee you are in NY - are you close to the city!

 

[FigureSkater]

Nope, I'm upstate in grad school at Syracuse (where the weather is shit). From Ohio originally.

I'm just trying to get myself back down to around 20% right now, and then I'll reassess what I'm doing and where I'm going. The problem is that I was blessed with really nice, high cheekbones, and if I go any lower than about 18% my face starts to get really bony and angular and I don't like the way that looks, so that's usually where I stop.