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lokki:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on May 06, 2007, 09:07:19 pm ---Switch yourself to green tea. Half the caffeine as coffee and far better for you. I've done very little to get in shape other than switch from soda to green tea and I used to be a bigger fatass than I am now (about 25-30 lbs lost now since late October/November). I probably took in twice as much caffeine as you did each day and the change to tea has not been difficult at all.
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Kind of unlrelated but what green tea do you drink? Do you brew it? Instant?
I've been drinking Instant green tea for the last couple of months. (XtraGreen) and have been feeling great.
(No Weight loss, and I did not drink Coffee before, Used to drink diet Coke)
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: lokki on May 07, 2007, 04:52:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on May 06, 2007, 09:07:19 pm ---Switch yourself to green tea. Half the caffeine as coffee and far better for you. I've done very little to get in shape other than switch from soda to green tea and I used to be a bigger fatass than I am now (about 25-30 lbs lost now since late October/November). I probably took in twice as much caffeine as you did each day and the change to tea has not been difficult at all.
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Kind of unlrelated but what green tea do you drink? Do you brew it? Instant?
I've been drinking Instant green tea for the last couple of months. (XtraGreen) and have been feeling great.
(No Weight loss, and I did not drink Coffee before, Used to drink diet Coke)
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Check your "instant" green tea. I've seen several that are simply "green tea flavoring" and similar phrases. I brew mine. Sam's Club has a H-U-G-E box of Bigelow green tea for like $5-6. It's got 180 bags. The equivalent if I bought it at the grocery store would cost me $18-25.
I fill up a tea pot with water, throw it on the burner until it whistles (nice reminder). I just barely cover the bottom of a gallon pitcher with honey (it's about an eighth of a cup), dump the hot water in to dissolve the honey, add the tea bags and steep for 2-3 minutes. Remove the bags (squeeze all the tea goodness out of the bags), fill up the rest of the pitcher with cold water, and refrigerate. Next day, I fill up a container with tea and take it off to work with me. I drink at least half a gallon a day.
The wife was drinking the tea for a while, but hated doing the teapot thing, so she went to Goodwill and bought an iced-tea brewer and threw the bags in the brew chamber. Worked okay, but seemed to make a weaker tea to me. At least I only threw $4 at that experiment ;D
shorthair:
Buddabing: actually, there is. Except for yoga, which descends from elements of the royal court (Indian wrestlers and Tibetan monks have been doing hindu push-ups and hindu squats and bridging, amongst other things, for millenia), there are no other exercises as comprehensive and effective as the Royal Court.
Why? Two things: multi-tissue activation (connective as well as muscular), and dynamic stretching. Even with low-impact, low weight weight-training, the muscles are still largely the tissues addressed, the motion involved is linear ( = not very functional), and there is required stretching afterwards. Equally, cardio isn't very functional cos it doesn't address strength, degrades the connective tissues, and requires a lot of time.
Spending 15 minutes doing, say, two sets of the royal court, without doing it quickly, will do all of those things: strength (and muscle, if vanity is your thing), endurance and stamina, and flexibility. However, as I mentioned above, you could do one exercise - that being bear crawls - for a few to several minutes, at a medium-slow pace, if you can handle it, and satisfy these criteria, anyway.
Lastly, on diet, I disagree. Partly, as my post above confirms, diet is all important. But to add to this, I give the following: the second time I was lifting, I got to a point where I had a bunch of muscle - but I also was getting a little full-looking. I hadn't been doing cardio, but was doing about an hour of lifting, three times a week. I added a half-hour of cardio. No change in weight or look after a month. What was the problem? I was eatin too much ---goshdarn--- baked goods. Oh, sure, they were whole grains an all. Don't make no difference. Then, some time later, I reduced my training. I also reduced my grain intake. I lost weight.
The other thing is that if you don't nutrify your tissues - and the most important here are your internal organs - you'll run your body down. And, like I mentioned, diet determines your mental state. Give your body what it genetically is predisposed to metabolise, and it normalises. You don't even have to make an effort at this point, cos your body is satisfied.
PS: you might be interested in what my intake is.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on May 07, 2007, 09:01:45 pm ---
Sam's Club has a H-U-G-E box of Bigelow green tea for like $5-6.
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I haven't had Bigelow green tea, but their Earl Grey tastes like ass. Check out Celestial Seasonings, if you have the chance. I rarely come across an Earl Grey that even comes close to Celestial Seasonings.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 07, 2007, 09:04:43 pm ---PS: you might be interested in what my intake is.
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Might I? Might I really?
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