Check this one out gents. 6’5 and going to be 53 in July. Haven’t lifted since 2019 and in Jan decided to get my shite together. Through a little trial and error think I fell bassackwards into some magical combo of exercise, lifting and diet.

Discovered my gym had inbody from an earlier thread and get scanned at the beginning of each month starting in March. Definition of newbie gains?

I’ve got the beach in two weeks and looking forward to the break as fatigue has started to set in the last couple of weeks. I probably need to up my carbs. Calorie target now is @2800 per day.

Diet is the key. My previous diet was black coffee for breakfast, junk for lunch and dinner - and then alcohol for dessert. Since I WFH I switched it up and had to force myself to eat more…which is weird. Also, keep carbs relatively low throughout the day but don’t sweat dinner.

Advice to keep it going but not burn myself out?

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Posted by lsu777

Lake Charles

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 5/13/24 at 10:00 am to SquatchDawg

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Discovered my gym had inbody from an earlier thread and get scanned at the beginning of each month starting in March. Definition of newbie gains?

awesome progress and some of that is newbie gains and then also muscle memory. once the nuclie fuse....takes over a decade to unfuse so some of that is prolly gaining what you had before.

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I’ve got the beach in two weeks and looking forward to the break as fatigue has started to set in the last couple of weeks. I probably need to up my carbs. Calorie target now is @2800 per day.

Diet is the key. My previous diet was black coffee for breakfast, junk for lunch and dinner - and then alcohol for dessert. Since I WFH I switched it up and had to force myself to eat more…which is weird. Also, keep carbs relatively low throughout the day but don’t sweat dinner.

Advice to keep it going but not burn myself out?

advice is just dont over due it. you have yourself in a great place and set your self up big time for health for your 50s and into your retirement years.

find foods you enjoy and also take a break every once in a while. we are not making money from our bodies and you have to enjoy life too.

vacations are great to get away and take a break and deload the muscles and enjoy some foods you normally wouldnt, just dont go ape shite

another thing, i find posting in the daily threads and joininig the program party threads and doing the program with poeple really helps me stay consistant.

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Posted by Homey the Clown

Member since Feb 2009

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Posted on 5/13/24 at 10:05 am to SquatchDawg

Seems to me you have got it figured out! Your numbers are trending in the right direction. That vacation break will feel nice, I'm sure. But if you're anything like me, you'll be ready to get back to it once you get home.

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