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Originally Posted by CBorders
You read and heard wrong; you gain weight by eating. You can do sit ups and push ups til you collapse and you won't gain any weight because you aren't giving your body any nutrients to grow.
What do you mean there isn't much to eat? They have rice, buy some rice. They have milk, buy a gallon of milk every day and drink it instead of water. Milk is essentially a natural growth hormone for animals and because it's water-based you can just drink it exclusively. A gallon is likely more than your current caloric intake, plus protein, BCAA's, etc. for $4; you'd need to eat like $25 worth of food to get the same benefit! If $4 is too expensive for you then you need to make an honest assessment of your goals.
What do you mean you can't count calories? You're saying you think you can beat 50NL+ but you don't know how to use a preset calculator like FitDay or just search Google for caloric estimates?
For the sit ups and pushups, no I understood it that way, I just thought that it would take up less energy then going to the gym instead. To be honest I'm so beyond confused right now. I've gotten so many different answers and I don't even know which one is correct.
Well, I just meant as in the long run as in by the end of the month if I followed goal by goal I would have to spend much more on food. It wasn't just because of the milk, its more of like should I start now and spend more vs start later and just catch up. I really don't know who I'm suppose to listen to.
There is no calorie estimates when I go eat rice I can make assumption I can't ask them, there is NO point of me buying rice at home and eating it at home since it's just as cheap eating out and I would save time etc. For what its worth ALL I eat is rice I eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner, and now am planning to eat other things on the side such as bananas peanut butter sandwiches and milk (that was the initial plan). NOW I don't know what to do exactly. I think I'm going to stick to that.
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Originally Posted by ThinkItThrough
Yep, imo you should go to the gym as well. (maybe you misunderstood me?!)
Doing sit-ups is obv a fine idea, but keep in midn that situps is not the type of exercise that will gain you a lot of muscle. It's burning some tummy fat and gaining a bit of AB muscle.
In Cambodia there is PLENTY of rice. So that's something that can make you gain wait easily. The old school body-builders eat Rice and Chicken. You can get that pretty much anywhere. Eat a lot of rice.
No reason to wait until mexico.
No I understood you for 20-30 minutes of gym, but then I keep getting different information of what to do!! So at the time I thought if I ended up walking to the gym and doing 20-30 minutes it may be better if I just do sit ups and push ups at home.
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Originally Posted by TDTheTruth
Erm no. You cannot spot reduce fat, hence you cannot "burn tummy fat" by just doing sit ups. Fat gain/loss is an overall process. Also, they are a pure endurance exercise, you can't build any sort of measurable muscle mass. All in all, sit ups are completely useless & your post is crap.
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Originally Posted by actionreaction
Sit ups are actually not useless, but for the most people are, I agree with that. I have some friends that make 1000-3000 push ups + 500-1000 sit ups, etc / everyday
and they look shredded and big, probably more than most of the guys you can see in your fitness.
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This is what I mean, I appreciate all of the help guys I really do in terms of fitness EVERYONE is trying to help me I've gotten like 5-6x the response about health related things over poker. Everyone disagrees with each other, and I just don't know who I'm suppose to listen to that is why I was so confused about whether or not I should go to the gym or not and what I should do in general. But from now on (just how most humans learn, I'm going to be listening ONLY to the people who actually has shown results over a time frame and be following there footsteps).