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2 dinners a day?

  • 30-03-2011 12:33pm
    #1
    SuprSi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,951 ✭✭✭


    I'm getting back into the gym after two months out and wanted to review my diet before I started. I have always gone to the gym in the morning before work, and have had a shake and a mid-morning snack afterwards. Lunch has almost always consisted of the left-overs from last nights dinner, such as stew, spag bol, indian - all home cooked, and I wanted to find out if this was perhaps too much food?

    I've put on a bit of weight over the last 2 months thanks to no training and want to shift it, so will be combining 3 cardio sessions with 2 weights sessions during the week, plus my usual squash or soccer on 3 evenings.


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  • #2
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    You will have to give more info, it is all very vague, it is like going into the motoring forum and saying "I put a fair bit of petrol in my vehicle twice a day, is it enough, I drive to work 3 times a week and to the shops twice".

    We have no idea of your size, how long or how intense you workout, portion size intake, goals etc. If you are putting on fat you probably are eating more than enough at the moment, you don't need complex formulas to figure that out though.


  • #3
    SuprSi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,951 ✭✭✭SuprSi


    You're right, sorry about that. I'm 6'4", 16 stone. I generally do 3 weights sessions a week. The sessions are all around 45 - 50 minutes, very intense, lifting as heavy as I can - 4 sets, as close to 10 as possible in each.

    My goal has always been to get bigger and more defined - the bigger part has worked quite well but the defined part is where I'm struggling, and I can't figure out if it's my double-dinners during the week, which are quite large portions (as you can imagine for someone my size), or the fact that my diet takes a hit at the weekend with more snacky food than anything else.

    As mentioned below I'll be switching to a more cardio-orientated work out for the next while to see if that helps, rather than focusing on the heavy weights.


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