Actually my diet was dialed in really well. High protein, moderate carbs, moderate fat…And manipulated these numbers to no end (by keeping a journal)and could still not get below 9% bf with approximately 5 HIIT cardio sessions per week. The only thing I could really manipulate was protein and I wasn’t about to drop that for fear of losing muscle. So I decided to do two shorter HIIT sessions per day (10-12 mins for ea.) for at least 3-4 days/week to get 2 daily spikes in my fat-burning furnace. So without getting into the excruciating detail, I found what worked for me. So Thunder, I think you have a lot of insight that you share on this board but I’m far from a newbie on this board and was meticulous in every detail about approaching low bf% and found the formula that finally worked. Twice daily HIIT sessions. So my opinion is not nullified or whatever you said. I’m glad you have the all-knowing diet approach that will definitely get every single person on the planet to low single digit bf% with less than 6 HIIT cardio sessions per week. Maybe you should wrtie a book with all of your knowledge.
I know a lot of professional bodybuilding men/women who have done a lot of cardio sessions (at least 6 per week) to get down to a ripped state. So obviously you don’t have the corner market on how to get ripped…
KRISTIN: You sure know how to answer back in a good way. Good delivery. Kudos!
i agree with Thunder. if you have to do that much hiit not to mention gym time, your diet is inadequate. unless you have a medical condition such as hypo-thyroid or diabetes.
also you cant compare you trying to get to 9% to pro bb’ers trying to get to 3 or 4.
some of my attempts to get ripped in the past failed as well. i thought my diet was “dialed in,” obviously it wasnt.
p-dog,
obviously you didn’t read my post closely. i couldn’t get off of 9% bf for a long time until I started incorporating double HIIT sessions/day. After that I got to 6% bf and could’ve gone lower but was satisfied. I love people arguing with me when I’ve actually have been there, done that. Listen, people. There are many, many professional full-time fitness competitors/bodybuilders/etc. that do 6 cardio sessions per week pre-contest. Some of you guys think you know it all, especially when someone has a different approach than you do.
I love this thread.
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And manipulated these numbers to no end (by keeping a journal)and could still not get below 9% bf with approximately 5 HIIT cardio sessions per week.
No wonder.
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I’m glad you have the all-knowing diet approach that will definitely get every single person on the planet to low single digit bf% with less than 6 HIIT cardio sessions per week. Maybe you should wrtie a book with all of your knowledge. [/quote]
Hey, thanks very much! LOL
Randman, did you do this drug free?
Yes, I did this drug free.
“This one article was based toward a woman wanting to shed BF% down to competition levels, and laid out an approach that has been successfull for her and many of her clients”
Phil,
I understand this approach to training and the desired results. However, the author failed to open the article by stating this for her readers. Thus many new or inexperienced readers may take this out of context not realizing the results they will get from this type of workout may not be what they had expected.
I would have to admit that had she written an article on how to build muscle mass she would have most likely received a response far worse from those on this forum.
Damn I still can’t get the white letters Dan.
Kristin:
Nice article. I think that any site that can balance bodybuilding with Westside should be able to accomodate this idea, subject to the normal fisking and debate. I actually see some good potential for it as a segue plan for some women of my acquaintence who are a little apprehensive about the more “hard core” plans I’ve shown them. It may not suit everyone, but I think it has a place in the cupboard.
Oh yeah, and seeing as how no one else has weighed in with the traditional compliment: I’d hit it!
I guess my original thread on this article never got posted…however i won’t rehash what has already been debated on here (and quite well i might add), although i agree with most on here when they say that the recomendations in the article are a little incorrect. However one point that hasn’t been discussed is the fact the the author is recomending a heavy compound movement followed imediately by a plyo movement for more “fat burning”. This is a form of complex training, a very advanced form of training that is designed to increase explosiveness. It should be done by highly trained individuals who have a solid strength base. When will people stop thinking plyo’s are some type of toy??? Depending on what intensity is being used, they can be very hard on the body, and if not properly trained for and not progressed correctly they can cause serious injury.
You know what I regret?
A guest came to Our House…brought ideas to Our Table that they wanted to share with us…
…and we spit in their face…
Is that a little “dramatic”?
Ask Kristen how she feels…
Peace
Mufasa
You know, there is an awful lot of gunk on this thread and I didn’t think I would bother sullying an otherwise beautiful winter day by participating but then Johnny B went and mentioned Midgets, 'an you know how that gets me going…
Obviously Sweaterfish (cool name for a band…) is loopy.
Insane.
Mentally incapacitated.
Defective on an intellectual level.
…and entirely setting women’s training back to the dark ages (“But Gronk, Me want to go hunt Mammoth too” “No way Gronk-ella, you stay here with Pebbles and clean cave”)
Just WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS to suggest that there is another way to approach things? How dare she make a statement that does not in and of itself agree with and satisfy the demands of every goal and type of women?
The nerve…
In the future, all articles that do not regurgitate known/approved/accepted information shall be limited too:
“Lift stuff”
Nutrition articles will be allowed the flexibility to modify to:
“Eat stuff”
But under NO CIRCUMSTANCES shall the two be combined, 'cause next thing you know some crazy bastard puts the “Eat stuff” IN FRONT of the “Lift stuff” and the consequential Armageddon would just be, well it would be awful.
Really.
Maybe “Dangerously Feisty” is more apropos?
Now lets all hug and head back to Timmy P’s for naked Clue and Snapple.
Unless his Mom’s still up, then we gotta be really, really quiet (the “skritchy” sound of P-Dogs dry humping wakes her up every time)
“The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next”
~ William Faulkner
Cupcake… you rock!
Here’s another thought in Kristin’s defense…
Don’t we as fitness freaks always try and find things to do to make us better… (at dry humping… ha! lol!)
Seriously, don’t we get better at things because we, ourselves or someone else before us found another way… So really all Kristin has done is suggest another way, a way that worked for her… (Crap… I’ve said way… way too much!!) It’s her method not ours… if we chose to adopt it then good for us, if we don’t and find another, better way… then please pass it on to the rest of us!!
You know what I regret?
A guest came to Our House…brought ideas to Our Table that they wanted to share with us…
…and we spit in their face…
Is that a little “dramatic”?
Ask Kristen how she feels…
Harry Truman said it best:
“If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”
How she feels? Geez, sounds like shes a defenseless victim. I dont think so. She`s a grown-up. Worst thing it can give her is a learning experience.
Whatd one expect writing in T-Mag? Richard Simmons and potpourri-girls cheers? Were the counterweight to all the media-inspired madnesses.
And, quite frankly, to only way to see what arguments are worth here is to post them and see if they survive the shooting. But you won`t get that in ass-kissing forums.
T-Forums. Keeping it REAL.
I have NO idea how and when extending someone common courtesy and respect became the same as ass-kissing…
By the way…“Give 'Em Hell Harry” was tough on hypocritical Politicians…not guest into his Missouri home…
Mufasa
Poor reasoning. Not all of us want to help others by writing an article, and some of us know that it’s not our given talent and have the good sense not to write one. That doesn’t mean we can’t point out when someone else doesn’t have that same good sense.
Perhaps some of us are spending our time learning, training, and helping. Maybe that’s why we see something like this that is so misleading that we feel the need to speak out on it.
i dont think she was personally attacked. im more than sure she knew that this was going to be controversial on a site named Testosterone.
some people didnt like her artcile and they made valid points as to why that is.
others called her on her physique for not having much muscularity, this was also warranted.
if you write an article for this or any other publication you have to know going in, that you arent going to please everyone. you should also be prepared to deal with such a situation.
if i wrote an article for t-mag in regards to proper dry-humping technique, im more than sure that some people would say no, their method is better.
thats life!
P-dog, I’d like to see that article. I feel my technique is getting a little stale, and I’d like to see what you have to offer to liven up my sex, er, dry-hump life.
My ladies are getting bored,
Ryan