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2003/08/03, 12:04 PM
Hi, I'm a newbie here. I am on a Low Carb journey and wanted to combine exercise with it.
Are there any fellow low carbers here who would like to share our journey?
I have msn messenger if you would like to IM: snowbirdNJP@hotmail.com Handle is SnowbirdNJP
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I can do this . . . I really, really can.
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2003/08/03, 04:23 PM
What type of low carb diet are you on? Anything special, Atkins, CKD, TKD, or just trying to low carb it? My word of caution here, if this is due to media now pushing the low carb diet as the way to go, be careful with it. You will of course lose quickly with a low carb diet, but most of it will be water weight. Low carb diets are usually "tools" of the trade we use as bodybuilders for competition reasons, and for short periods of time. Long term can have some disastrous health effects, one of the milder forms is carb intolerance, many more serious ones also, so be careful.
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Great people never want it easier, they just want to be better!
Ron
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2003/08/05, 11:38 AM
I was on Atkins for 2 yrs with very good results. I didn't exercise and I still lost plenty of weight. After being on the zone I've now switched back to the low carb way.
However, I've incorporated what I learned w/ the zone over to the low carber. I more or less equally divide the carbs so that I have some at each meal.
Doing cardio after waking up is very tough if low carbing. What's worked for me is that I save about half my grms of carbs to be equally eaten during my final hours b4 going to bed. This aids immensely in giving me enough "juice" to go through my cardio w/o feeling like I'm 80. For cardio, I either do 45 min on an elliptical or jog on a treadmill.
Though I read some people report that they have a tough time lifting, so far, I haven't seen that for me.
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2003/08/05, 06:43 PM
The atkins diet is great for losing weight, but it is in no way a bodybuilding diet, or even a workout in general diet. Leaves you very fatigued, no energy. You are smart to add some carbs to your diet, you do need them. You are doing some glycogen storage by having some before bed. Just be careful of this. If you are sure that low carb is the way you want to go, you may try the TKD. This is in a nutshell better for working out, due to you get carbs before and after training, but then only, no refeed. So it fuels your workouts and helps with recovery a bit more than a CKD,or even Atkins. I still believe a more balanced aproach is better, for overall health reasons, but I guess if it works for you.....Make sure you get plenty of vitamins and minerals.
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Great people never want it easier, they just want to be better!
Ron
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2003/08/07, 10:06 AM
I am one the atkins now and so far I lost a few pounds. I don't have any problems working out and as a matter of fact find that I have more energy. Then again it's only been 3 weeks. Question for the body builders. I'm heavier on the bottom and everyone tells me to do lounges. Problem is my knees hurt way too much to do them. Maybe it's my weight. But is there any other form of exercise that I can do which will have the same result.
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2003/08/07, 03:48 PM
There are dozens of different kinds of squats out there. I have trouble with lunges too. I get a cramp in my quad.
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