SW Ohio boy

My name is Chris. I've pretty much played amateur sports my entire life(Soocer, then Hockey, now tennis). 21 years old soon to be 22. Starting last year I finally became sick of my downward progression in health and physical appeal. I started modifing my intake and increasing my output last winter and had great results within 3 months with the method I did. Working two jobs limits what I have available between working out and a social life(Hah.). Basically I went from a 210-220 weight range at 5'10" down to 180-190(Goal). Well I fell out of my habit due to a female(doh) and well I've been slowly reverting back to my old self and decided this year I will achieve full indepedence of that and get myself to stunning condition. I'm looking to be like 160-170 currently sitting at Approx 200. In all honesty my weight isn't really a thing for me, I NEVER weigh my look(I hold about 10-20 lbs in density and no one ever gets within 10 lb quotes by sight.) I just want to feel good. For me this means looking in the mirror with a smile. I don't want mass muscle, just to be really toned with the ability to handle. If you can't figure it out my sports of choice are a lot of running, I love running more than anything and that's how I achieved a lot of my performance last year. I achieved 10 miles every other day in 100 minute runs before I fell off the path. I wish to achieve that and then drop my time down to 1hr15min, then move that to a daily running regime. What I am hoping to gain from here is toning tips and dietary/nutrition tips. I will be doing plenty of reading before I post next more than likely but this is who I am. And yes, I talk this much regularly. :) To the next stage of my life, 07 will be a success for me.

No more pop(If I do consume, stick to diet and avoid the sugars.)
Fast food is now restricted if not entirely banned.
Daily conditioning is a MUST for this to succeed.

Current plans for work out (Feel free to throw out ideas but I really like the success I had last year.):

Daily Running Goal: 10 mile in 1hr15min.
Sprinting Goal: 3 mile in 18min every other day.
Upper Body Benching: 200lbs, 4 sets, 10 reps.
Upper Body Toning: Total Gym 100, highest level on max conditioning. Problem is I can't find my book on it so we'll see. :/ Too many moves this year.
Crunches: 5 sets 200 reps daily. (I HATE my stomach more than ANYTHING else on my body. I am going to shoot incredibly high here.)
Push Ups: 100 daily(50 morning, 50 evening) (Subject to change)

We'll see how this goes. My diet is primarily focused on high protein, low fat, moderate carb. This area is the most likely to change here than anything else since I feel this is partially my weakest part. Anyways peace I'm done.
 
Glad to see another fellow Buckeye. You came to the right place for information to help you obtain your fitness goals. Best of luck to you on 2007.
 
Welcome. I would keep the diet moderate fat, high protein and carbs. Not saying overdo any of them, but you cant cut fat AND carbs.
 
Carbs/Fats

Well I guess I should clarify moreso. Fat is desired cut, with the understanding that some fat is ok and certain types are. I'm still trying to LIMIT that as much as possible. The carbs are moderate based on activity levels really. If I'm not doing much that day I don't need to carb load. If I'm doing multi-mile running and all then more carbs(noteably good vs bad here as well) would be taken in. But I get what you're saying, thank you.
 
Warning, INCREDIBLY long.

Ok here we go. I've went into reading more and more the last few days and I've taken the first step to figuring out my BMR. I consider myself an active individual so I went with a 1.4 level. My kcal/day is 2675.75. Right now I am going to focus on losing my body fat. Restate of my stats:

Age 21
Male
5'10"
198 Lbs (Averaged for 4 days, variation only by 1 lb daily)
Body Fat Unknown(I really need to figure this out)

Question 1: If I increase my workout levels to say a higher output level should I upgrade my 1.4 to a 1.5? If I do increase this level would I want to add in more calories to fit the new equation or would I be ok staying with the 2175 I am running at a 1.4?

Question 2: Last year I ran a hell of a lot and did my upperbody work out a lot. Everything I have read on here is telling me that well, this really shouldn't work. Now given my upperbody workout wasn't building a lot of muscle(Though I gained some) I was running LONG stints of time which I have read will mean your body will store fat to be prepared for repetitve training like this. Now since I am guessing I'm somewhere near 18-24% Body fat I may not be noticing this storage yet. Can someone explain how I had such strong results doing this? (I dropped 210-200 weight range to 180-190 comfortably in like 3-3.5 months and never felt sick or weak, infact the exact opposite)

Question 3: Body fat, I tried to figure this out reading the information on it, I'm not sure if I entirely get it. I can get a 2nd person to help me do this weekly so I'm not truly worried but I just wanna make sure I am doing it right. When you say pinch an inch I assume this means fingers 1 inch apart and pinch correct? And now the measurement, do you measure from your fingers to the top of the fold or the amount of distance between your fingers that the fat is taking up? (I feel retarded as hell but I've never had this done before in my life.)

Ok there may be more to this but I think this will be a start for now. After this I will be probably filtering everything else to SPECIFIC forums. Thank you guys!
 
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