Food/Diet and training hobbies
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@dan-mackinnon Yea very similar but sometimes difficult for me to tell as I sleep badly anyway.
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@matt-wood going to sleep is fine. It’s just that I wake up earlier and have a lot of energy. I never feel like my sleep has suffered. I just wondered if you had similar experiences
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@dan-mackinnon Morning Dan,
I generally have poor sleep as a standard, so its a little difficult to tell changes.
Having said that I do think that on balance I sleep a bit less when I am fasting. If you are drinking a lot of water during your fast, maybe try getting some quality electrolytes (various options in powdered form) and just include a tiny amount.
Over hydration is a thing and it can mess with your electrolyte balance.
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@matt-wood how do you find your sleep when you’re fasting? I’m on day 2 of a 3 day fast and woke up at 3.30am. I noticed the same thing last time. I’m not tired but just suddenly wide awake a couple of hours earlier than I wanted
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Ok so the second 3 day fast is finished now and a few sensible meals eaten. Bodyweight down to 167lbs and a waist of a sliver over 30 inches.
Scales say body fat % is 14.8%. Now I think I said previously that I dont find them to be accurate, just a consistent measure of direction. I know myself pretty well and would say the scales over estimate by something like 3-4%.Have not lost too much strength in the gym either which is good. Incline dumbell press is always my measure of strength as for me it is the exercise that varies most. Managed 2 working sets, 16 and 12, with 40kg dumbells yesterday. So pretty happy that my strength is still ok.
Its always good to know yourself and have a measuring exercise that you can assess your strength levels as you lose weight. Also important to track strength gains as you increase weight. If you weight goes up but your performance in the gym does not increase then it probably is a strong indicator that you are gaining the wrong kind of weight.Bit of a sensible eating period now as in laws visiting for a celebration of their ruby anniversary in a couple of weeks. Sure to be some crap food and alcohol consumed.
Following this a dedicated bulking routine now until I am 45. Fairly sure I am going to get fed up with eating
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I use Melio for the blood tests. All I had to do was go to the local Superdrug and they posted it off for me and I think I had the results in about 2 days!
The main reason I went with them was because I wanted to upload the data to Inside Tracker and they were the only company that did close to the full set of 42 biomarkers Inside Tracker wanted.
I also got my DNA done by SelfDecode, which was super interesting.
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood yaive found you can go with one then switch to another if needed as like you say always sales.
Yep and although I have no real idea about it, I bet they all go to the same flippin lab and have the same people perform the same tests anyway
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@matt-wood yaive found you can go with one then switch to another if needed as like you say always sales.
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There are lots of these companies popping up now as it is getting more popular.
Medichecks is an older one with some decent reputation behind it. As always though pick your time. Sales abound on these companies now as they are all fighting for market share.
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone tried the '23 and Me' ancestry and health checks? Is it worth it?
She used Ancestry not 23 and me.
She got it on a 50% off deal and said its probably not worth paying full price but what she got from it was good.
It only looked at her ancestry though nothing to do with health.
Cheers!! Just want to find out what percentage of an Ashkenazi Jew I am!! Also want to look at the health benefits!
Don't mind paying seperate for each.
You will almost certainly find a company that does a combined test. Hold out for a sale thoug as they have them quite often.
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@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone tried the '23 and Me' ancestry and health checks? Is it worth it?
She used Ancestry not 23 and me.
She got it on a 50% off deal and said its probably not worth paying full price but what she got from it was good.
It only looked at her ancestry though nothing to do with health.
Cheers!! Just want to find out what percentage of an Ashkenazi Jew I am!! Also want to look at the health benefits!
Don't mind paying seperate for each.
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone tried the '23 and Me' ancestry and health checks? Is it worth it?
She used Ancestry not 23 and me.
She got it on a 50% off deal and said its probably not worth paying full price but what she got from it was good.
It only looked at her ancestry though nothing to do with health.
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone tried the '23 and Me' ancestry and health checks? Is it worth it?
My good lady is out at the moment but I think she may have used that. I will ask her the second she steps back in the door
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Anyone tried the '23 and Me' ancestry and health checks? Is it worth it?
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Am Yisrael Chai
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@ryan It works wonders for some people, is ok for others and I have met some people that it just is plain wrong for. Everyone is unique though
For me I find it helpful to boost weight loss, or diet clean up, such like I am doing now.
The other time I found it really good was in the final few weeks of a serious cut, but my carbs were so low by the time I got there that I was basically on keto anyway. -
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@lee-woodman said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Afternoon all.
One for the weightlifters this.
I helped out a young lady in the gym today who was finding it difficult to get the most from hamstring exercises. Briefly explained the mind muscle connection to her and advised how she could try adjusting the exercises to help.
For myself I have a poor connection to my biceps and a REALLY shocking time with rear delts.
Those of you who lift, do you focus on weak areas specifically and what personal tricks do you use to help connect with your weak or troublesome areas?
If I feel I have a weak area then I will up the volume marginally, maybe a couple of extra sets or maybe add it nearer the start of the workout. If im struggling with a connection then I’ll try different rep ranges and different exercises until I feel that connection. I always struggled with biceps but feel I’ve found a very strict cable curl helps. For rear delts I’ve never done anything direct but I do heavy BB rows and seated cable row with quite a wide neutral grip….does absolute wonders for rear delts!
Curious that, I found cable curls helped my connection too, probably something to do with a consistent resistance curve. I tend to strict curl on the concentric and slow drag curl the eccentric. Combine this with some high rep low weight dumbell work and I kinda get something out of it.
honestly though my biceps and rear delts are shocking.I have found similar to you as well that at the start of the session try a few reps on different exercises and see what hits best for that day.
I used to love BB rows, used to be one of my fav exercises. Sadly that is one of the exercises resigned to the bin since my back surgery.
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@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Afternoon all.
One for the weightlifters this.
I helped out a young lady in the gym today who was finding it difficult to get the most from hamstring exercises. Briefly explained the mind muscle connection to her and advised how she could try adjusting the exercises to help.
For myself I have a poor connection to my biceps and a REALLY shocking time with rear delts.
Those of you who lift, do you focus on weak areas specifically and what personal tricks do you use to help connect with your weak or troublesome areas?
If I feel I have a weak area then I will up the volume marginally, maybe a couple of extra sets or maybe add it nearer the start of the workout. If im struggling with a connection then I’ll try different rep ranges and different exercises until I feel that connection. I always struggled with biceps but feel I’ve found a very strict cable curl helps. For rear delts I’ve never done anything direct but I do heavy BB rows and seated cable row with quite a wide neutral grip….does absolute wonders for rear delts!
