Two Very Newbie Regimes

[Luke Paskins]

Ok this first one is from about 2002-2004 when I was co-opted as the college superheavy boxing guy (they really needed someone!). This is when I moved toward a strongman-type approach...I maxxed out at around 118kg

Every Monday, Wednesday,Friday and Saturday afternoon:

90mins Tae-Kwon-Do
90mins Weights in gym
90mins Kenpo Karate
90mins Boxing training
45mins warm down with Weights

Every Sunday,Tuesday and Thursday:

Resting and some light walking/jogging as well as knocking back the Creatine...

Never really noticed what I doing weights-wise...just kept on adding bars and rings, but combined with the fitness work: passable strength,great body shape, bad mentality (Creatine...)

From about March 2004 to present:

Every weekday:

5 mile cycle
5 mile jog

Every Sunday: 12 mile cross country run.

No weights training,no martial arts and no supplements: normal strength, great fitness,very trim 98kg bodyweight and good general health.

Two different approaches to two different goals. I'm no strength athlete but I have a lot of experience healthwise and fitness wise and I'd be glad to post some more about food & fitness issues and maybe some funny tales about my martial arts days.

Peace


;-)

[Mike Westerling]

bad mentality (Creatine...)

Are you saying creatine gave you a bad mentality? If so, how? Please explain. I've never heard of this before.
-Mike

[Cassidy Drake]

Hence the way that supplement rumors start :mag:

[Luke Paskins]

Well, I guess strength athletes might find this a contentious point, but I found that long use of Creatine was causing me skin problems as well as kidney problems...plus I definitely found it was tweaking my agression levels.

But I also think everyone's metabolism and tolerance for stuff is different, so I don't have a general issue with Creatine

Anyway, a good little anecdote is that I was really putting on the muscle all through that year or so in college, I took Tyson's stats out of the paper one day and I was bigger around the thighs,waist,bicep and chest but smaller around the forearm. There was never anyone I could safely spar with in the boxing club so I pretty much just used practice pads...there was one guy who really took his macho image seriously and he was egging me on to 'Hit harder,Hit harder!' so I did, and he made a point of not letting his hand reflex when my glove impacted the pad...broke his wrist.

Kind of funny, but also why boxing is an ambiguous 'sport'.

With strength as well as fitness, the green tea and organic meat approach has a lot going for it.

[Jesse Marunde]

With strength as well as fitness, the green tea and organic meat approach has a lot going for it.

you got that right!

how did you find this forum? Have you an interest in strongman or just fitness in general?

Jesse

[Luke Paskins]

Yo Mr. Marunde,

You yourself invited me to join the forum :I:

As for background, I used to hit the weights hard at the gym as above in my routine from a while back. But these days fitness and health are my main interests. I'll always love the strongman events though, the positive attitude and physical strength aspects are really inspiring!

Loved the repartee with Marius btw: weak shoulders :-)


LP.

[Luke Paskins]

Well, I've been supplementing with Supergest enzymes and Solgar pancreatic acids tabs for about five weeks now. The aim is to get more nutrients and energy from starches,fats and proteins etc...They really do their job: you can actually eat more food,have longer less bloated digestion times plus less waste.

Reccommended: no messed up chemicals or whatever.

Plus despite my regime being anarobic I've still gone up to from 98kg to 102kg in about a month, and it seems to be muscle and organs, not carbs etc.