How to get fit? NEW

schoolboy082

hi,
I am writing this because my old thread did'nt get much advise.
Perhaps I did'nt give enough info.
So here goes.

I play gaelic football U/16
I've been playing since I was 9
I want to be the best on the tea be afraid of nothing Be the best!

My day today (what i Ate and drank)

I woke up at 7.45 for school. Went into school ate no snacks.At lunchtime I went up town and went to a fast food restaurant and i bought a chip butty with curry and cheese(butty sandwich) and drank a pint of milk.After I went to a shop and bought a large ice-cream cone with sprinkles. I arrived home and ate a salad sandwich (white bread,butter,salad cream,scallion onion,1 slice of ham,some cheese and lettuce) then I went to a challenge match(won 3 points). After the challenge match We went to this place where I Ate 2 ham sandwiches,1 biscuit,a can of coke, 2 bags of walkers cheese and onion, a cup of tea,refresher bar and 3 toffee sweets. When I came home I ate a salad sandwhich(same as above) and drank a can of coke. Btw the match was in roscommon i live in longford.

So thats my day tell me what i can do to improve my diet and basically get fit,fastand slim.

Thanks,
Chris

cardio,shoot me

dude your diet is awful.

its just a heap of carbs.

get some lean chicken into you. oh and stop making threads.

schoolboy082

just trying to get some decent advice!!

cardio,shoot me

you could have just been more precise in the other one.

schoolboy082

Yeah W.E anybody got any decent advise?

Sangre

Here's some advice: It's spelt with a C.

FearDark

schoolboy082 wrote: »

hi,
I am writing this because my old thread did'nt get much advise.
Perhaps I did'nt give enough info.
So here goes.

I play gaelic football U/16
I've been playing since I was 9
I want to be the best on the tea be afraid of nothing Be the best!

My day today (what i Ate and drank)

I woke up at 7.45 for school. Went into school ate no snacks.At lunchtime I went up town and went to a fast food restaurant and i bought a chip butty with curry and cheese(butty sandwich) and drank a pint of milk.After I went to a shop and bought a large ice-cream cone with sprinkles. I arrived home and ate a salad sandwich (white bread,butter,salad cream,scallion onion,1 slice of ham,some cheese and lettuce) then I went to a challenge match(won 3 points). After the challenge match We went to this place where I Ate 2 ham sandwiches,1 biscuit,a can of coke, 2 bags of walkers cheese and onion, a cup of tea,refresher bar and 3 toffee sweets. When I came home I ate a salad sandwhich(same as above) and drank a can of coke. Btw the match was in roscommon i live in longford.

So thats my day tell me what i can do to improve my diet and basically get fit,fastand slim.

Thanks,
Chris

You surely dont need anyone to tell you how bad all that crap is, do you?

Agent J

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Yeah W.E anybody got any decent advise?

Yeah. Read the stickies at the top of this forum and the Nutrition & Diet forum.

There better people to do this but your sample diet is terrible.(Although its better then some days of mine...)

1)You skipped breakfast - Bad idea
2)Fast food resturant - Problem there
3) Chip buttys? -Another problem.

Ok. Im out.

Drop the white bread and sweets/crisps now. If you have to buy from a fast food place then something is going wrong. Make your own.

5-6 small meals a day each with a lean protein.

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

This will tell you about how many calories a days you should be eating for your weight/height.

Sangre

schoolboy082 wrote: »

hi,
I am writing this because my old thread did'nt get much advise.
Perhaps I did'nt give enough info.
So here goes.

I play gaelic football U/16
I've been playing since I was 9
I want to be the best on the tea be afraid of nothing Be the best!

My day today (what i Ate and drank)

I woke up at 7.45 for school. Went into school ate no snacks.At lunchtime I went up town and went to a fast food restaurant and i bought a chip butty with curry and cheese(butty sandwich) and drank a pint of milk.After I went to a shop and bought a large ice-cream cone with sprinkles. I arrived home and ate a salad sandwich (white bread,butter,salad cream,scallion onion,1 slice of ham,some cheese and lettuce) then I went to a challenge match(won 3 points). After the challenge match We went to this place where I Ate 2 ham sandwiches,1 biscuit,a can of coke, 2 bags of walkers cheese and onion, a cup of tea,refresher bar and 3 toffee sweets. When I came home I ate a salad sandwhich(same as above) and drank a can of coke. Btw the match was in roscommon i live in longford.

So thats my day tell me what i can do to improve my diet and basically get fit,fastand slim.

Thanks,
Chris

Commonly known as a ham and cheese sandwhich!

Seriously, calm down. Read all the threads at the top of the page on fitness and nutrition. Your transformation isn't going to happen over night.

G86

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Yeah W.E anybody got any decent advise?

You're not going to get any with the attitude in all fairness. Best way to go about it might be to just give the stickies a read through, they're well worth it, and then put up a post with any questions you might have.

floggg

C'mon, lay off the kid. He's only 16 and making an effort.

That said though, you should be able to see yourself that big changes are needed. A good diet is based on a good healthy balance of foods, eaten regularly and avoiding junk.

If you check through the stickies you will see a lot about diet. Basically avoid most of what you seem to be eating - chips, white bread, refined carbs, crisps etc. Poor nutritional value and not gonna help you perform well in sports. Replace it with whole carbs like brown bread, brown pasta, rice etc before matches, training etc. Start the day with a good breakfast like porridge. For lunch, your probably going to have to bring in your own rather than eating all that junk.

If you are looking for some help here, you will have to give people something more to work with. That diet you posted was appalling, so you've big changes to make there.

Otherwise its hard to know what more to say without knowing your current stats, training routine, level of fitness and some more specific and maybe realistic goals.

As for being the best on the team, that will take a lot more than diet. Thats hard work on the training pitch. It won't be an overnight thing, and will take a lot of dedication. To be honest, it may not happen at all.

Set some more realistic goals. What position are you? What are the biggest weaknesses in your game? What are your strengths. Once you have identified your weaknesses or areas you need to work on, you can set goals based on that and work towards it.

schoolboy082

floggg wrote: »

C'mon, lay off the kid. He's only 16 and making an effort.

That said though, you should be able to see yourself that big changes are needed. A good diet is based on a good healthy balance of foods, eaten regularly and avoiding junk.

If you check through the stickies you will see a lot about diet. Basically avoid most of what you seem to be eating - chips, white bread, refined carbs, crisps etc. Poor nutritional value and not gonna help you perform well in sports. Replace it with whole carbs like brown bread, brown pasta, rice etc before matches, training etc. Start the day with a good breakfast like porridge. For lunch, your probably going to have to bring in your own rather than eating all that junk.

If you are looking for some help here, you will have to give people something more to work with. That diet you posted was appalling, so you've big changes to make there.

Otherwise its hard to know what more to say without knowing your current stats, training routine, level of fitness and some more specific and maybe realistic goals.

As for being the best on the team, that will take a lot more than diet. Thats hard work on the training pitch. It won't be an overnight thing, and will take a lot of dedication. To be honest, it may not happen at all.

Set some more realistic goals. What position are you? What are the biggest weaknesses in your game? What are your strengths. Once you have identified your weaknesses or areas you need to work on, you can set goals based on that and work towards it.

Lol, can I just say I eat fast food aybe once a month that was just for today any other day it's usually a chicken fillet roll!!

I play corner forward, my weaknesses is probably tackling/blocking, Strengths-strong not too slow for a 13 stone!

schoolboy082

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Lol, can I just say I eat fast food aybe once a month that was just for today any other day it's usually a chicken fillet roll!!

I play corner forward, my weaknesses is probably tackling/blocking, timing my runs,Strengths-strong not too slow for a 13 stone! good accuracy and length in shots left foot aint bad and great at passing

.

Ciaran500

schoolboy082 wrote: »

any other day it's usually a chicken fillet roll!!

Still fast food and shouldn't be part of any decent diet.

discus

floggg wrote: »

C'mon, lay off the kid. He's only 16 and making an effort.

Exactly. Jesus, everyones dropping down on the guy. Practically 13 replies, and barely 3 of them aren't putting him down.

schoolkid, do check out that link that I sent you (check your messages), you'll get far more helpdul answers.

Zamboni

To be fair to Schoolboy082, he lives in Longford and probably has the exact same diet as everyone else his age.

Dude, in a nutshell everything you thought was ok to eat probably isn't.

Don't skip breakfast - eat porridge and/or eggs. Young active lads like yourself can get away with eating a reasonable amount of carbs.
Coke, crisps, cakes, ice cream should be a rare treat. That means once a month. Not one a week.
A chicken fillet baguette is about as healthy as a pizza or a snack box.
Don't think otherwise.
Bring your own lunch to school. I'm guessing like many crap schools in this country you don't have canteen facilities so bring some wholegrain bread with lean meat and salad. Only use a light spread of salad cream/mayo if you really need to.

You say you are 13 stone and 15/16yo. In your other thread you said you are 5'9''. That sounds like you could be overweight to me to be honest unless you are carrying some decent muscle.
Do you know what your bodyfat percentage is?
Do you do any weight training?

You might think all this is drastic but you said you wanted to be the best on your team. Then that will require you to eat and train differently than everyone else.

Smellyirishman

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Still fast food and shouldn't be part of any decent diet.

Unless it's the €2 weekly madness deal in Londis. Then you get 3/day.

schoolboy082

Yep I lift weights and there is a belly there!!

Breakfast is a serious problem for me as I only get 20 mins to get ready in the morning!

pajero12

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Yep I lift weights and there is a belly there!!

Breakfast is a serious problem for me as I only get 20 mins to get ready in the morning!

What kind of weights...you wouldnt wanna be doing too much..

Carl Sagan

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Yep I lift weights and there is a belly there!!

Breakfast is a serious problem for me as I only get 20 mins to get ready in the morning!

Wake up twenty minutes earlier then.

You know, for any of this to work you actually have to do something.

Wake up twenty minutes early and boil a few eggs and have some wholemeal bread or oats with it. That'll set you up for the day.

sean0

If you only have 20 mins to get ready obviously you need to get up earlier.
check out bodybuilding.com everything you need to know about your diet/training can be found here.

Hanley

Hands up here anyone who remembers being 16?

Lets just establish a baseline for what's REALISTIC.

curly from cork

microwave porridge might be an option. 2 mins and its done.

schoolboy082

EXACTLY realistic

Carl Sagan

Hanley wrote: »

Hands up here anyone who remembers being 16?

Lets just establish a baseline for what's REALISTIC.

I do!

That's fair enough, but I'm getting the impression that he just likes the idea of getting fitter/better at gaa but doesn't want to put the effort in.

schoolboy082 wrote: »

EXACTLY realistic

Waking up 20 minutes earlier is definitely realistic.

You just need to learn the basics of diet and make gradual changes by implementing healthy foods that compliment your training.

That along with regular training of course.

schoolboy082

20 mins earlier no bother!
only problem is dont eat porridge its horrible and eggs before school nah i'd be backfiring all day what about crunchy nut or something?

cc87

Man i know your only 16 and like but you said yourself you want to get fitter and stronger yet you dismiss advice your given because of little things like not having time or because you might fart???. Getting fit isnt easy, it wont happen by intention alone.

I know lads who are on intercounty hurling teams, that got up to go training on their own at 7 before school when they were your age. Most people know someone who put in the effort others didnt and became better than average because of that fact.

Maybe you might be better off waiting a year or two until you actually want to make some changes because right now your looking for some miracle that doesnt exist i think.

But, i found the more i tried to train, the more i wanted to train. You just gotta find the right motivation!! Find someone or something that want to be like or accomplish. By someone i dont mean something like "i wanna be rooney!" i mean someone you play sports with day in day out, who you will openly acknowledge is better than you. Then put them up as someone to measure yourself against. Make it so everytime you train, your training to be able to beat them to the ball or knock them back on their ass!

You said in another thread you used be one of the best on your team. If i was you, id be pissed off that lads i used beat easily are now bigger stronger and faster than me, and id do all i could to change that fact.

Also, outside of you GAA training, what do you do? You said you do weights whats the program like?

Magic Eight Ball

chip butty with curry and cheese

Nice. When I was your age it was monster munch on a baguette. (with optional red sauce)

Barry.Oglesby

Boy get off your lazy hoop and take some personal responsibility. If you want to be the best then you have to train, act and eat like the best. Don't want to fart because of eggs? So what? Have you got someone in your school who you want to impress more by farting less? Or do you want to impress your manager by running faster, jumping higher and being the first to every ball.

Don't want to have a decent breakfast? I train two 16 year olds who do their own shopping so they can be sure they get the right foods in for the week. The lads you'll see walking out at the business end of the Championship this summer worked hard and took responsibility for their own training, diet and fitness at a very young age to get to the level they're at. You need to do the same if you really want what you claim you want.

Now not all the advice on here is golden, in fact some of it is awful, but change your attitude, try everything and see what works and above all do something positive instead of dumping on what others are suggesting.

Khannie

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Yeah W.E anybody got any decent advise?

Don't keep starting new threads.

Keep that attitude out of them.

People on here don't have to help you.

cardio,shoot me

Hanley wrote: »

Hands up here anyone who remembers being 16?

Lets just establish a baseline for what's REALISTIC.

i do....

corkcomp

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

i do....

its more of a distant memory for some of us:(

schoolboy082

Okay can anyone maybe suggest a good breakfast for me apart from porridge or eggs?
Also what should i drink in the mornin orange juice,tea,water?

corkcomp

schoolboy082 wrote: »

Okay can anyone maybe suggest a good breakfast for me apart from porridge or eggs?
Also what should i drink in the mornin orange juice,tea,water?

fruit would be fine. drink either or all of the above. surely you can have porridge or eggs? you gotta put in some effort:rolleyes:

Rebrabuk

Forget this guy he's a troll look at the rest of his threads in the fitness forum he just copy/pastes the same cack.

cat_dog

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

dude your diet is awful.

its just a heap of FAT.

get some lean chicken into you. oh and stop making threads.

fixed :L

corkcomp

Rebrabuk wrote: »

Forget this guy he's a troll look at the rest of his threads in the fitness forum he just copy/pastes the same cack.

i was giving him the benefit of the doubt, he might be just a young guy starting off and unsure about what to do .. but yeah your probably right

schoolboy082

I ain't a troll.

So i was rooting in the presses and i've found this porridge with fruit bits in it. Would this be good? and also what about cereals?

Magic Eight Ball

Troll or no troll, he's been given a wealth of information from the regulars here and doesn't seem the least bit appreciative of any of it.

You'd get more thanks if you offered to sell him 'magic fitness beans' because that's all he seems to be interested in finding.

corkcomp

schoolboy082 wrote: »

I ain't a troll.

So i was rooting in the presses and i've found this porridge with fruit bits in it. Would this be good? and also what about cereals?

FFS will ya read the stickies and just make a start .. do something, anything! and yep the porridge with fruit would be fine. if you spend this much time planning and asking Q's you will have grey hair before you achieve anything:D

schoolboy082

Ok im starting a fitness log tomorrow,
thanks for all the help peeps,
really appreciate it,