Main > Everything Else
Question for fitness types
ChadTower:
Half the caffeine? I'd end up drinking 5 times as much and ODing on Vitamin C.
shorthair:
--- Quote from: Buddabing on May 08, 2007, 09:39:19 am ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 07, 2007, 09:04:43 pm ---
PS: you might be interested in what my intake is.
--- End quote ---
Not really. You are from California, right, so you probably eat a lot of tofu and bean sprouts. We Texans eat steak! :)
You are a single man and from your pictures you appear to be in your twenties. That is quite different from my circumstances. You basically are free to pursue whatever diet and exercise regime you want, and from your posts I think you enjoy exercising. I am married with two teenagers and am over 40. We have to provide food that the children will actually eat, and there are a lot of demands on my time. If I do not make specific appointments with the trainer, I won't go to the gym. Exercise is not in my genes or in my list of things I enjoy doing.
--- End quote ---
Always assuming. No questions. I'm a few days short of 36, man. I am single. However, I don't eat any soybean products, and discourage their use, particularly for females. All of my meals are animal protein, the majority of them beef. When I'm traning heavy, I eat at least 3/4 lb of beef/other kind of meat, sometimes more. I eat a fair amount of green vegetables. I eat chocolate and ice cream whenever I wish; but I don't buy from the regular store, and I only buy good treats; check out Trader Joe's, Wild Oats, Sunflower markets, Sprouts, and Whole Foods - though I mostly shop at TJ's. I don't eat grains (this includes rice) or potatoes very often. The family excuse is just that. Kids don't need chips and candy and soda and cookies and bread and juice. If you feed them according to their metabolic type, and likely they'll be similar to yours, they'll not want that ---Cleveland steamer---. Same for you. (So, no Chad, it's not that simple...but simpler than people think.)
I enjoy using my body. Do you have rampant sexual energy? Do you remember what it was like as a kid being able to pretty much do anything physically you wanted?...and want to, again? Pretty simple, conditioning. Which you can do at home...and with the kids...even with the wife. No gear. No gym necessary. I train right out front of my place in the grass. Or inside during inclement weather, but all I need is a 6'x6' space.
Go to Matt Furey's site and look at many of the people over 40 - in one case a Marine Colonel, which he couldn't get away with if he was lying - who are in the Furey Inner Circle. Oh, and no (heheheh) I ain't from or live in Cali.
Also, check out this link:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mahler19.htm (Mahler is HEAVY into kettlebells, now, particularly as he's a certified instructor taught by Pavel Tatsouline, but he still does some conditioning.)
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 08, 2007, 11:01:38 am ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on May 08, 2007, 05:49:05 am ---
Celestial Seasonings also doesn't use that annoying paper tag and string ::)
--- End quote ---
That's hilarious. That's actually the only thing I hate about CS. I make tea one cup at a time and I like the string. I order teas directly from them by the case (six boxes), just so I can get the food service version which has the strings :)
--- End quote ---
;D I make it by the gallon, and the strings are pretty much useless. Either there's not enough hot water, so I have to dump the bag, string and all, in the pitcher, or I have to add some hot water from the faucet. Enough of those stupid strings break on me that I just stopped adding hot water and just dumped the whole mess in the pitcher.
Do you order from them on their website? I'd be interested in ordering from 'em if I can get a better deal than what they sell it for in the stores.
--- Quote from: lokki on May 08, 2007, 01:03:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on May 07, 2007, 09:01:45 pm ---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.
--- End quote ---
this is the Tea I drink, I was asking what type you drink because most of the brewed ones I tried taste pretty bad. I have tried the Earl Gray and did not like it.
--- End quote ---
I gotcha. I only mentioned the info above because my wife brought some "instant" crap home, and not only did it have "flavorings" instead of tea, but sugar was the first ingredient listed, which is what I was trying to avoid. Brewing tea needs some testing. Some tastes like ass if you follow the directions, and it also makes a difference of where it came from. My local grocery store has their own version of green tea, and I found out it's got a bunch of other crap in it and it ends up tasting burnt no matter how I make it, so I ended up ditching 3/4 of a box.
Green tea happens to have all that good stuff yours mentions and has a crapload of benefits that other types may or may not have, and usually in equal/larger quantities. I hate hot tea. Can't stand it. Cold, no worries. A mix of black/orange, iced and with some sugar....jeez, I'd slug down a gallon right now if it were here! I used to drop 4-5 packets of Splenda in the gallon to sweeten it up a touch for me, but I slowly cut that out, and now it's just the tea and the little bit of honey, and I'm good to go.
As for the caffeine, I guess it depends on who you listen to. For instance, I've heard that a cup of coffee contains anywhere between 60-80 mg of caffeine, but it's widely said that green tea contains half the caffeine of coffee, and I indeed have noticed that I don't feel the same as when I drink an equal amount of soda (or coffee). I'm fairly sensitive to caffeine, and can't have any after 3 p.m. or I'm easily awake until 2-4 in the morning - not so with the green tea now that my schedule is getting back to normal again.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 08, 2007, 09:42:39 am ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on May 07, 2007, 09:01:45 pm ---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.
--- End quote ---
If the man loves anything, it's a giant mass of teabags.
--- End quote ---
There's nothing good coming out of this thread for me, is there? ;D
ChadTower:
What's coming out of this thread sure beats what's cuming out of those teabags.
Chris G:
What a nut. You're just having a ball today, aren't you? It's like you have a whole sack of jokes...
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version