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The Amazing 12 - My experience

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  • #32
    Nervous Wreck
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    caviardreams wrote: »
    Thanks for shring! Was there a mix of male / female or was it mainly male?

    Probably about 80% male, I'd say but there was no difference in the programming. Everyone was on equal footing.


  • #33
    zweton
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    impressive, any before pic?


  • #34
    Nervous Wreck
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    zweton wrote: »
    impressive, any before pic?

    Just got it today but boards won't let me attach the file type. I'll figure it out and post it tomorrow!


  • #35
    Nervous Wreck
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    Sorry about the size.

    Before/After
    18222667_10154604329225875_8226975672970271880_n.jpg?oh=c82b0528c3607b79d0c463d45d6f878f&oe=59BAC6A3


  • #36
    Dtp1979
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Sorry about the size.

    Before/After
    18222667_10154604329225875_8226975672970271880_n.jpg?oh=c82b0528c3607b79d0c463d45d6f878f&oe=59BAC6A3

    great work. I'd say the waxing was the hardest part :)


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  • #37
    Nervous Wreck
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    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    great work. I'd say the waxing was the hardest part :)

    Veet For Men - hair removal cream. Thank fcuk!


  • #38
    zweton
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    fair play dude


  • #39
    RockSalto
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    Presumably you ate a lot more grub than before?

    Edit: changed 'are' to 'ate'.

    Stupid fat fingers. :)


  • #40
    Nervous Wreck
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    I don't know what that means...


  • #41
    Mellor
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    I don't know what that means...
    I think it's asking about what your intake was


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  • #42
    dashoonage
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    He wants to know are you on all the foods!!!!


  • #43
    RockSalto
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    I don't know what that means...

    Ate. Not are. :)


  • #44
    Nervous Wreck
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    Oh, ha! In general, I eat more now since the A12 than I ever did before. 5 meals a day (3 solid, 2 liquid). Some days are less but, overall, more food!


  • #45
    Zillah
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    That's a great result. It still pisses me off that they use such deceptive photo techniques though.

    Before:
    - Flat lighting, washed out colour, glasses, hairy, look miserable.
    After:
    - Highly angular lighting, strong colour, no glasses, waxed, smile.


  • #46
    DylanJM
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Oh, ha! In general, I eat more now since the A12 than I ever did before. 5 meals a day (3 solid, 2 liquid). Some days are less but, overall, more food!

    How did you manage to lose 10kg of body weight while increasing your calorie intake? Your overall intake must have decreased somewhat in order for you to loose weight. Surely?


  • #47
    Nervous Wreck
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    DylanJM wrote: »
    How did you manage to lose 10kg of body weight while increasing your calorie intake? Your overall intake must have decreased somewhat in order for you to loose weight. Surely?

    Increased my food intake, not calories. Cleaner foods, fewer calories. I used to eat less but crap foods etc.

    Part of this is assumption on my part cos, as I said, there was no calorie counting. But for 3-4 days out of the week, I was absolutely stuffed!


  • #48
    caviardreams
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Increased my food intake, not calories. Cleaner foods, fewer calories. I used to eat less but crap foods etc.

    Part of this is assumption on my part cos, as I said, there was no calorie counting. But for 3-4 days out of the week, I was absolutely stuffed!

    Did you not get macro guides or anything (and counting macros is the same as calorie counting really).?


  • #49
    Nervous Wreck
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    caviardreams wrote: »
    Did you not get macro guides or anything (and counting macros is the same as calorie counting really).?

    Yep, macro guides. I wouldn't say it's the same thing, though the result sure works out the same when applied correctly.


  • #50
    caviardreams
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Yep, macro guides. I wouldn't say it's the same thing, though the result sure works out the same when applied correctly.

    Oh great - good to know, thanks!

    (and not to go off topic but I would see them as the same really, except with macros you only count every 4th calorie or every 9th calorie :P:D)


  • #51
    RockSalto
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    Did you bring your own lunch to work each day? I'd imagine it's difficult to keep that up everyday for 3 months?? Or had you always done it?

    I usually bring mine in but Only 3 or 4 times a week.


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  • #52
    Nervous Wreck
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    RockSalto wrote: »
    Did you bring your own lunch to work each day? I'd imagine it's difficult to keep that up everyday for 3 months?? Or had you always done it?

    I usually bring mine in but Only 3 or 4 times a week.

    I did. I generally bring my lunch most of the time but 12 straight weeks was tough enough. It was just one of those things that felt like a drain. But I only had to cook once a day. In the evenings, I'd cook my dinner and the following day's breakfast and lunch. Food prep was about an hour a day, which isn't so bad. Usually just stuck my headphones on and listened to a podcast so I learned some cool stuff while I cooked!


  • #53
    RockSalto
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    Good man.

    It's tough sometimes after work to be motivated to cook.


  • #54
    conzy
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    Well done great results!

    This is not a loaded question.

    Do you think you learned anything you didnt already know? e.g train like a svage and eat your vegetables.

    Do you think the buy in, training as a group and knowing you had to take a topless photo after 12 weeks helped.

    Do you think you could have had similar results alone if you somehow found the motivation


  • #55
    Zillah
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    Lunch doesn't have to be cooked food, though, keep in mind. I frequently just throw a bunch of raw ingredients into tupperware and call it lunch. Bread, cheese, chopped veg, fruit, nuts; easy.


  • #56
    Nervous Wreck
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    conzy wrote: »
    Well done great results!

    This is not a loaded question.

    Do you think you learned anything you didnt already know? e.g train like a svage and eat your vegetables.

    Do you think the buy in, training as a group and knowing you had to take a topless photo after 12 weeks helped.

    Do you think you could have had similar results alone if you somehow found the motivation

    I don't think I'd have known how, nutritionally, to structure my eating to get these results, particularly without starving myself. I also don't think, even knowing what I knew about training, I could have done it myself. My focus would be too changeable etc and I'd have been trying a million different things to get abs etc (incidentally, there wasn't a single ab-isolated workout in the whole thing).

    Tbh, I've a loose enough relationship with money so the €cost didn't mean much to me. I'm by no means rolling in it but I'm able to pay my rent every month so anything after that, I figure whatever.

    The group training was HUGE to me. I hit every rep cos I wanted to be the one who hit every rep. Ditto for going to every session. I didn't want to just get the best results for myself, I wanted to get the best results out of anyone on the program (no idea if I did or didn't btw, but aiming for it was the important part). So yeah for me, the competitive thing pushed me farther than I otherwise would have gone; that'll differ person to person.

    Every day, I wrote down exactly what I did at that mornings session (and my weight that morning) so I have the program now. If I want to run it again in my own time, I can do that. But I'll probably be more likely to pay to do it again. Accountability is the motivator for me!


  • #57
    Nervous Wreck
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    Zillah wrote: »
    Lunch doesn't have to be cooked food, though, keep in mind. I frequently just throw a bunch of raw ingredients into tupperware and call it lunch. Bread, cheese, chopped veg, fruit, nuts; easy.

    When you're not allowed eat half those things on a given day, it's not quite that easy.


  • #58
    Zillah
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    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    When you're not allowed eat half those things on a given day, it's not quite that easy.

    Stuff a bag with lettuce if you need to! The point being: there are plenty of foods that are healthy and delicious raw.
    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    I'd have been trying a million different things to get abs etc (incidentally, there wasn't a single ab-isolated workout in the whole thing).

    Fascinating. So all the ab development was from, say, squats and deadlifts? You didn't do any crunches, leg raises, etc?


  • #59
    Nervous Wreck
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    None of that. Essentially everything we did came with the command "squeeze your abs ", whether it was squats or inverted rows, curls or incline Bench. After a while, using abs for *everything* became the norm, but there was nothing that was *just* for abs.


  • #60
    RockSalto
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    They need to update their website and FB page.


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  • #61
    Mellor
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    I'm not surprised there was no ab work. The results are down to getting lean. I'd imagine all big liftsburn a lot more energy than ab work.

    Ab work is for strong ab. I don't think there's as much scope for putting mass on them though.


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