I wish Allentown Atheletix had the same stomach twist machine that they had at the BAC downtown. I am determined to have a ripped stomach for summer. If only I had some more danicnig opportunities I could make it happen faster.
I want to gain 10 more pounds so bad. It feels liek I am always saying that. I am hoping the addition of free weights and more food will help. This morning I made my protein smoothy with left over heavy whipping cream from last nights dessert (e:paul,47360) instead of milk for extra calories. It tasted so freakin good but then I was in a food coma for like an hour.
Update: I found someone with exactly the body I want, one that I think is attainable for my body type.
ahh...only if...
eat peanut butter.
Peanut butter on wheat toast with apricot jam is a good start.
In theory you should be able to lift more weight on a machine then with free weights. With a machine you are just using your muscles to push the weight and then let it back down. but if it comes down a bit to fast it just makes a big loud bang and people know you are using to much weight. But see with free weights you use more muscles. The term used to be stabalisers . There are muscles that say keep the bar bells in a bench press for example as opposed to a one using a bar from falling over. I wish I was better at explaining it
It was a whey protein and banana smoothy, lol. Normally I use almost milk as the base to mix into, but this time I did half almost milk, half heavy whipping cream. I just added the cream and peanut butter for extra calories.
I need to gain some more fat too. I have no fat reserves and all the olive oil and fish fat I eat does nothing to give me an body fat it seems. I just want some body fat to be warmer. The year before I had a little more fat on my body and was warmer in winter. Since working out I lost like all the of the minimal fat I had and I hate that.
There are a few dozen exercises that work the same muscles that twisty machine does without the injury that machine usually causes. I could show you a couple next time.
And with calories, quality needs to be balanced with quantity. That extra saturated fat isn't as useful to building muscle as lean protein. Is whey protein a problem? If so :::link::: protein factory has pretty cheap egg white protein and rice protein. And I know how much you love rice. yum, yum.
"If only I had some more danicnig opportunities I could make it happen faster."
Ditto. But I am lazy and have poor time management. :(