Comments on: Not-So-Little Wyvern

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:22:35 +0000

hahaha do you still go to 24 hour fitness?

By: wyvern

wyvern — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:40:25 +0000

reason #one-million to get an iphone: to snap covert pics of all the narbs at my gym who work out in jeans/cargo shorts/converses. I could make an entire website devoted to Douchebag Exercise.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:35:44 +0000

Good luck. I’m making Jim be my personal trainer/handler right now so hopefully you don’t pass me up on looking super studly.

By: wyvern

wyvern — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:30:06 +0000

My lifting log now comes with actual weight and reps! See for yourself how pathetically weak I really am!!

(courtesy of Jim and the iFitness application)

By: Zurek

Zurek — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:52:36 +0000

One word… BOWFLEX

By: wyvern

wyvern — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:46:30 +0000

Yeah, I totally get that which is why I didn’t do the whole weight loss for cash thing. I was originally thinking about something like $5 for every pound I was over, but that was when I was only going to be doing cardio. Once I decided to do a bunch of lifting I abandoned that idea. I won’t be going the protein shakes + Ed Hardy route, but I hope to gain enough muscle that “weight loss” is an iffy proposition.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:04:42 +0000

Jason, sorry I wasn’t able to get back to you earlier about this but I did get your texts. Unfortunately I wasn’t at my computer literally all weekend. I do however, have a lot of thoughts / advice / suggestions regarding this subject. About a six months ago I also got to the point where I was just uncomfortable with my exercise / eating habits. And I remember having the same conversation with myself that you probably had that got you to the point of creating a workout routine and creating this post. Since then I’ve gone through a bunch of different routines, tweaking it all the time and learning enough to a point that I’m very confident I can help you out here. Clearly I’m not going to explain stuff through commenting on your site, so we should talk online (or on the phone(!)).

I will say this, though. Because your goal is fat-loss + muscle-gain, I would caution you against using a specific weight as your goal. For instance, in the past six months, I’ve reduced my waist-size to the point where I am moving belt holes, but I’ve actually gained weight. Muscle weighs more than fat. So if you’re gaining muscle and losing fat it’s pretty easy to stay the same weight or even gain weight. Like what happened with me. This seems very obvious, but the reason I’m explaining it is because when you step on the scale and see you’re not getting lighter it’s easy to become disappointed. If you were only doing cardio that would be one thing. But because you are concentrating a lot on muscle-gain (which you should be) you just have to keep in mind that your actual “weight-loss” may not be as obvious. Hopefully that makes sense.