Calling all Gym-Rat Skiers

14587177:Willgum said:
Woah dude I didn't realize the first ingredient on this stuff is Maltodextrin... thats insane. I used to chug this shit in college.

Yeah the world of nutrition is hazy AF and lots of differing opinions, but I will always choose real food (the stuff we were evolved to digest) over shortcut stuff like this.

Maltodextrin is higher on the glycemic index than TABLE SUGAR. Research also shows that it can fuck up gut bacteria, amongst a bunch of other things.

Load up on grass fed beef and skip that shit.
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Are you diabetic or something?
 
14587206:Granby_killdozer said:
Are you diabetic or something?
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Nah, but I did an elimination diet last year to experiment and just kinda fuck around. I felt 100% healthy prior but I had a suspicion that I, like most, was actually experiencing diet-related inflammation.

I started with just beef, fish, mussels, and eggs for a couple weeks to set a baseline (side note I felt amazing here but energy for my long endurance was lacking).

And then added various fruit, followed by veggies (didn’t realize how much veggies caused gas). Still no inflammation. Added in carbs via rice and potatoes - all good.

Up to this point all my food was whole, organic, pasture raised eggs, grass fed beef, local produce. But once I reintroduced processed food with things like:

Maltodextrin, palm oil, seed oils, preservatives, dyes… and started buying stuff that could sit on a shelf for longer than a week? Bro I felt like shit compared to how clean I’d felt earlier.

Call me a hippy but I really don’t think anybody operates well when we’re eating stuff that can sit on a shelf like that. Yeah it fits our macros, we can gain mass, but our guts evolved for 10’s of thousands of years eating real food and now we’re gonna make chocolate gainer shakes with that stuff? I’m good haha
 
14587238:Willgum said:
Nah, but I did an elimination diet last year to experiment and just kinda fuck around. I felt 100% healthy prior but I had a suspicion that I, like most, was actually experiencing diet-related inflammation.

I started with just beef, fish, mussels, and eggs for a couple weeks to set a baseline (side note I felt amazing here but energy for my long endurance was lacking).

And then added various fruit, followed by veggies (didn’t realize how much veggies caused gas). Still no inflammation. Added in carbs via rice and potatoes - all good.

Up to this point all my food was whole, organic, pasture raised eggs, grass fed beef, local produce. But once I reintroduced processed food with things like:

Maltodextrin, palm oil, seed oils, preservatives, dyes… and started buying stuff that could sit on a shelf for longer than a week? Bro I felt like shit compared to how clean I’d felt earlier.

Call me a hippy but I really don’t think anybody operates well when we’re eating stuff that can sit on a shelf like that. Yeah it fits our macros, we can gain mass, but our guts evolved for 10’s of thousands of years eating real food and now we’re gonna make chocolate gainer shakes with that stuff? I’m good haha
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Yeah I feel that, I personally need to get in around 3300 calories a day if I want to see any meaningful weight gain before spring though. It's pretty hard to do that when you're only eating the healthy organic stuff. Those mass gainer shakes make it a whole lot easier.
 
What is different from core training and ab training, like I want a functional core but still want abs but I guess I jus gotta be lean asf
 
14621624:skalbanan said:
What is different from core training and ab training, like I want a functional core but still want abs but I guess I jus gotta be lean asf
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Core means all the muscles around your middle. Mainly abs, obliques, and spinal erectors. To work all of those, you need to do a variety of exercises. Anything like a situp works your abs. Anything twisting works your obliques. Exercises like deadlifts, bent rows, and barbell squats all work your spinal erectors.

If you just want nice abs, get lean and do something like weighted situps. Your abs can grow just like any other muscle, but bodyfat % is still most important.
 
14621624:skalbanan said:
What is different from core training and ab training, like I want a functional core but still want abs but I guess I jus gotta be lean asf
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Some people refer to the core as a muscle group that includes the Abs (6 pack), Obliques and Adonis belt.

Whereas ab training might just focus on the "6 pack"
 
14621624:skalbanan said:
What is different from core training and ab training, like I want a functional core but still want abs but I guess I jus gotta be lean asf
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Core strength comes from practicing heavy compound lifts, like squat, over head press, and deadlift.

IMO ab training isn’t that helpful to build core strength unless you’re using added resistance
 
14621716:armchair_skier said:
Core strength comes from practicing heavy compound lifts, like squat, over head press, and deadlift.

IMO ab training isn’t that helpful to build core strength unless you’re using added resistance
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Alr so like weighted situps or cable crunches
 
If you have one of those situp benches where you can hook your feet and recline way back, that's the best option. More range of motion = more muscle growth.

14621725:skalbanan said:
Alr so like weighted situps or cable crunches
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Have any of y'all ever tried those adjustable dumbells that just click into the weights? I kinda want a set to workout at home, but I'm worried they'll feel too flimsy or rattle around
 
14621769:SlushSeason said:
Have any of y'all ever tried those adjustable dumbells that just click into the weights? I kinda want a set to workout at home, but I'm worried they'll feel too flimsy or rattle around
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They are clunky, oddly shaped, and too big. But I think most people like them however.

Also when you have a heavier dumbell it's nice to just let it drop instead of carefully aligning it into placement back into it's special rack.
 
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