Here’s a different post…
School is almost done for the year and I am rediculously low on fund’s…
What im trying to say is i cant afford to lift pretty much
because of how much food and shiti buy
I figured I would at least do a ton of cardio BUT
im not trying to loose all my muscle gains
I have 2 months until il be able to get back
into it
What do you all think about this and has
it happened to anyone else?
[quote]Wildman90 wrote:
Here’s a different post…
School is almost done for the year and I am rediculously low on fund’s…
What im trying to say is i cant afford to lift pretty much
because of how much food and shiti buy
I figured I would at least do a ton of cardio BUT
im not trying to loose all my muscle gains
I have 2 months until il be able to get back
into it
What do you all think about this and has
it happened to anyone else?[/quote]
Look on something like craigslist.org for a used bench and set of dumbbells…that should help you to maintain for the summer. Plenty of exercices you can do with just dumbbells and a flat bench
Look for body weight exercises.
Find heavy stuff that is lying around. Old tires are useful…concrete blocks…cows
You could get a job in construction, garden center moving 40 lb bags of compost, maybe a job digging ditches. You would make money for food this way.
Get a job cleaning a gym…maybe they will let you workout there for free…plus money for food.
Oh yeah, pull-ups on jungle gyms is an option. If you have a buddy or two, you could use them for squats, floor press, donkey calf raises.
Imagination, use it.
Im good for summer its NOW im talkin about
i cant put a dumbbell set in my dorm il get booted out and i understand the body
weight stuff and such but if i cant
afford proper nutrition il just
wear down
see what i sayin?
If you’re a college student, then your school should have a gym there that you, as part of their student body, can use for free. As far as eating goes, go buy peanut butter, jelly, and bread and a gallon of milk. That should cost you like $5.
i want to be helpful here, but i just can’t.
do you really want to (insert goal here)?
i want to gain alot of muscle while staying on a clean diet, im byno means skinny
Quality muscle with minimal amount of fat gain so that peanut butter and jelly suggeston isn’t what i have in mind
[quote]Wildman90 wrote:
i want to gain alot of muscle while staying on a clean diet, im byno means skinny
Quality muscle with minimal amount of fat gain so that peanut butter and jelly suggeston isn’t what i have in mind[/quote]
someone else correct me if i’m wrong, but won’t it be pretty difficult to gain a lot of muscle without being able to lift?
craigslist is pretty good though for cheap sets of stuff, if that comes out to less than whatever your membership was by all means go for it dude
pb&j’s are a godsend
I’m talkin about food not a gym membership
I take around 5000 kcal a day
Good Gawd. I was always broke growing up. that was why I started working as a personal trainer, so I could workout for free. Before that, it was the YMCA. If you want to bad enough, you will find a way.
Some of you clearly don’t want it bad enough.
Judge for your self, but when your a full time college students shit like that is harder then you make it sound
[quote]Wildman90 wrote:
Judge for your self, but when your a full time college students shit like that is harder then you make it sound[/quote]
I think it would be pretty ridiculous to stop working out because your nutrition is shitty. Do you have any money at all. If so I’d go to costco and use it wisely on chicken breat or lean ground beef, last you for a little while and then go back for more. If you’re really low on money buy tuna in bulk pretty damn cheap. However if you can’t buy anything, eat what you have and don’t stop lifting you’d do more damage.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Good Gawd. I was always broke growing up. that was why I started working as a personal trainer, so I could workout for free. Before that, it was the YMCA. If you want to bad enough, you will find a way.
Some of you clearly don’t want it bad enough.[/quote]
Ya beat me to it again. If you can afford to live at all, you can figure out a way to do SOMETHING. If people added up the money they absolutely waste they’d be astonished what could be afforded. Just by bringing my own food to work I figured I saved at least 1500 clams in a year over what my workmates were spending eating out every day. Just as a fer instance.
Good food is expensive but calories are cheap. Go eat some mac & cheese and lift a big fucking rock.
I’d take a gym membership over eating perfectly any day. Cut down on the quality of your food and pinch some coin that way, a Y membership cost next to nothing anyway. Also were I live volunteering at the Y for 2hours a week will get you a free membership so go check it out.
[quote]Wildman90 wrote:
Judge for your self, but when your a full time college students shit like that is harder then you make it sound[/quote]
Uhm, I was a full time college student. Biology major, played football. I worked every single summer (and Christmas break) I was off so please explain to me why you can’t.
Tuna and pasta is pretty cheap…
I don’t understand how you can’t afford food. Get a job man, I guarantee, one way or another you can find a job and find the time to work it. It may not be fun, it may not be easy, but it’s possible.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Good Gawd. I was always broke growing up. that was why I started working as a personal trainer, so I could workout for free. Before that, it was the YMCA. If you want to bad enough, you will find a way.
Some of you clearly don’t want it bad enough.[/quote]
I wouldn’t say that if I was you. Sometimes, like in his situation, it’s just plain hard to find stuff to workout with.
Your college doesn’t offer a gym for you to use?
You do not have a food plan with your dorm stay?
There’s always heavy stuff to lift. Grab the bottom of your dresser and lift like a deadlift. Lay on your back under the edge of your bed and use it to do bench press. Throw your room mate on top to make it heavier.
Tuna is very cheap. Peanut butter is cheap. Look a the reduced food section of grocery stores - you can usually find whole frozen chickens for $5.
You aren’t in a position where you can be picky about food. Just eat, and workout as hard as you can with what you have - again, your college doesn’t have a gym?
The fat is easy enough to lose come summer - this semester is almost over.
I don’t see what’s so hard.