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Originally Posted by punksterz626
i would recommend 16 calories per pound, but for you maybe even 20 calories bc you're only 17years of age and your body metabolism should be high. Your protein should be from food consist of chicken breast, lean beef, etc. And your carbs should be from whole wheat, brown rice, yam, potatoes etc. Basically all your healthy stuff. PPL dont eat enough nuts! Its good for you.
I would recommend you do alot of body weight workout i.e. dips, deadlifts, pullups...im working out for years and realize the most important thing is your core muscle. U clean that up and you'll see results like you wont believe.
check out these sites for more info
www.crossfit.com
www.bodybuilding.com
Good luck and most important have fun working out! It shouldnt be a chore. |
What the poster above said is pretty much what I'd have said.
To it, however, I'd add that you should focus less on any particular weight number and focus more on (1) how you feel (strong, energetic, flexible), (2) your ability to do the physical things you need to do (assuming your interest is to enable something in particular), and (3) how you look, that is, do you look fit and sexy.
I say this because it sounds, based on what you describe as your pre-op height/weight, you may naturally have an ectomorphic body type, and if that's the case, putting on size/weight specifically will be considerably more challenging than for either of the other two general body types. On the other hand, if over time your endurance and strength are increasing and you feel good and the folks you want to "get freaky wit' " are showing you enough attention, you should not worry about being over/under any specific weight.
Though I'm not quite as tall as you, I am of the ectomorphic type. My lifting routine (I do it 5 days a week with a trainer) is the "body parts" approach, which basically amounts to intensively working out one or two body parts + core each day for about an hour (give or take). Seven days a week, I run/jog 3 miles, and on two of those days I run/jog 6 miles.
Diet certainly plays a large role. My regular diet consists of pretty much the same thing every day, except for the two monthly "excesses" I allow myself.
Daily morning pre-workout meal (45-60 minutes prior to working out):
Oatmeal, dried fruit (2-4 oz of any one of the following: cherries, raisins, blueberries, currants), brown sugar. On "leg day," I will also have 4 oz of microwaved salmon. (Season with S&P and fresh lemon slice/juice and microwave at 50% power for 2 -3 minutes (longer if the portion is larger. The best time varies by microwave, but once you find the right duration, you'll be amazed. This technique works for any fresh fish, but is best with salmon, halibut, haddock, catfish and swordfish.) Watered down protein shake to drink. I water it down mainly to make it more watery and thus more drinkable than "eatable," as would be so for a thick shake.
Protein shake - I prefer MetRx Double Chocolate. Sometimes I use 1/2 water and 1/2 Chocolate Silk soy milk to make it, and this is most often what I do on the two heavy aerobics days.
Daily post workout food and meal:
Immediately at the end -- even before showering -- of every workout, I eat a piece of fruit. After I've showered, I do one of the following:
- Chipotle burrito bowl: black beans, no rice, double chicken, lots of corn salsa, lots of tomato salsa, (when I say "lots," I mean it...like three of those huge spoons full of each), (season by squirting fresh lemon juice over it if desired) nothing else. Water to drink.
- Microwaved fish
- Protein shake. I prefer the MetRx Double Chocolate flavor. Water, crushed ice and a blender are all you need to do this.
Daily snacks (every couple of hours or so) - no more than 4-6 oz per snack: There's some variety here, but the thing I focus on most is having a small amount to eat every few hours. Partly because I'm always hungry and partly because I don't want my body to think there's a famine and start storing the calories I'm giving it as fat. There are many choices in this area, and as long as the portion size is kept small and the food itself clean and healthy, it doesn't much matter what I choose.
- fresh fruit
- PB&J sandwich
- cliff bar
- nitrotech double chocolate sports bar
- fresh nuts
- ear of corn
- baby spinach salad
2nd Large meal of the day:
Usually I just eat microwaved fish or chicken breast, mainly because it allows me to have gourmet style meals that don't need lots of preparation and I don't like washing dishes and cleaning up the in the kitchen. Occasionally I'll microwave shrimp, but that takes some skills (more than I feel like explaining here) and generally calls for using some butter or olive oil.
I rarely eat beef or pork. Not because I can't/shouldn't, but because I like my food to taste really, really good. So I don't often cook beef or pork because:
- the leanest beef is also the toughest beef, so they take more cooking skill, need to be slow cooked to get the best flavor, and require me to cook in an oven/grill which is just something else to clean afterward. That said, a nice 6-8 oz filet does work its way into my "excess" days from time to time.
- pork dries out very easily when cooked if, prior to cooking, it has not soaked in a brine for a few days. Again, it also requires cooking in an over/grill to get the best flavor and again, that's something to clean.
After the large meal, I just continue the snacks until I go to sleep.
Things I never eat:- White Rice
- White Potatoes
- White Bread
- White Sugar