Losing the stomach fat

[amare32]

I'm in my mid 30s now and I'm finding it so easy to stay in shape and ripped. It's all about balanced nutrition, allowing a bit of what I want eat, limit alcohol intake and lift heavy iron especially compounds, play a sport that I love (tennis). Simple.

A lot of people make it sound like a misery to try and get in shape. Change your mindset and find things to do that you enjoy. There's nothing worse than pounding the treadmill clock watching hoping the calories will burn off. Also don't diet like a women, you need to fuel yourself with sufficient calories to train too. I face palm reading people here counting every calorie like a bleeding hawk. I don't do any measuring at all.

[Eleven]

amare32 said:

I'm in my mid 30s now and I'm finding it so easy to stay in shape and ripped. It's all about balanced nutrition, allowing a bit of what I want eat, limit alcohol intake and lift heavy iron especially compounds, play a sport that I love (tennis). Simple.

A lot of people make it sound like a misery to try and get in shape. Change your mindset and find things to do that you enjoy. There's nothing worse than pounding the treadmill clock watching hoping the calories will burn off. Also don't diet like a women, you need to fuel yourself with sufficient calories to train too. I face palm reading people here counting every calorie like a bleeding hawk. I don't do any measuring at all.

Wait till you're in your mid 40s, have kids, possibly a niggling long-term injury, slowing metabolism, high-powered job to hold down and business lunches to attend. Then come back and tell us how easy it is to remain in your current godlike state, you smug skinny bd.

[chevy-stu]

Eleven said:

amare32 said:

I'm in my mid 30s now and I'm finding it so easy to stay in shape and ripped. It's all about balanced nutrition, allowing a bit of what I want eat, limit alcohol intake and lift heavy iron especially compounds, play a sport that I love (tennis). Simple.

A lot of people make it sound like a misery to try and get in shape. Change your mindset and find things to do that you enjoy. There's nothing worse than pounding the treadmill clock watching hoping the calories will burn off. Also don't diet like a women, you need to fuel yourself with sufficient calories to train too. I face palm reading people here counting every calorie like a bleeding hawk. I don't do any measuring at all.

Wait till you're in your mid 40s, have kids, possibly a niggling long-term injury, slowing metabolism, high-powered job to hold down and business lunches to attend. Then come back and tell us how easy it is to remain in your current godlike state, you smug skinny bd.

EXACTLY !!!!!!! (except insert weird job hours/routine and ageing parents for high powered job and kids)

[goldblum]

chevy-stu said:

Eleven said:

amare32 said:

I'm in my mid 30s now and I'm finding it so easy to stay in shape and ripped. It's all about balanced nutrition, allowing a bit of what I want eat, limit alcohol intake and lift heavy iron especially compounds, play a sport that I love (tennis). Simple.

A lot of people make it sound like a misery to try and get in shape. Change your mindset and find things to do that you enjoy. There's nothing worse than pounding the treadmill clock watching hoping the calories will burn off. Also don't diet like a women, you need to fuel yourself with sufficient calories to train too. I face palm reading people here counting every calorie like a bleeding hawk. I don't do any measuring at all.

Wait till you're in your mid 40s, have kids, possibly a niggling long-term injury, slowing metabolism, high-powered job to hold down and business lunches to attend. Then come back and tell us how easy it is to remain in your current godlike state, you smug skinny bd.

EXACTLY !!!!!!! (except insert weird job hours/routine and ageing parents for high powered job and kids)

You don't start losing muscle as a natural process much in your forties so the metabolism shouldn't slow. If you're getting fat eat less rubbish food. I know it's not easy at work and sometimes you have to go out of your way to find the healthy meal option - but that's what it takes. No point moaning about it. amare32 is quite right.

[Eleven]

goldblum said:

chevy-stu said:

Eleven said:

amare32 said:

I'm in my mid 30s now and I'm finding it so easy to stay in shape and ripped. It's all about balanced nutrition, allowing a bit of what I want eat, limit alcohol intake and lift heavy iron especially compounds, play a sport that I love (tennis). Simple.

A lot of people make it sound like a misery to try and get in shape. Change your mindset and find things to do that you enjoy. There's nothing worse than pounding the treadmill clock watching hoping the calories will burn off. Also don't diet like a women, you need to fuel yourself with sufficient calories to train too. I face palm reading people here counting every calorie like a bleeding hawk. I don't do any measuring at all.

Wait till you're in your mid 40s, have kids, possibly a niggling long-term injury, slowing metabolism, high-powered job to hold down and business lunches to attend. Then come back and tell us how easy it is to remain in your current godlike state, you smug skinny bd.

EXACTLY !!!!!!! (except insert weird job hours/routine and ageing parents for high powered job and kids)

You don't start losing muscle as a natural process much in your forties so the metabolism shouldn't slow. If you're getting fat eat less rubbish food. I know it's not easy at work and sometimes you have to go out of your way to find the healthy meal option - but that's what it takes. No point moaning about it. amare32 is quite right.

No he isn't. You clearly aren't in your forties with the challenges I mention above. Come back to us when you are.

I would add that I am in the very fortunate position of having only a couple of factors in that list working against me and I expend a vast amount of time and effort remaining relatively slim and fit. If I'd worked as hard when I was in my twenties I would have been truly awe-inspiring.

[goldblum]

Eleven said:

No he isn't. You clearly aren't in your forties with the challenges I mention above. Come back to us when you are.

I'm older than you, sonny.

[amare32]

Eleven said:

Wait till you're in your mid 40s, have kids, possibly a niggling long-term injury, slowing metabolism, high-powered job to hold down and business lunches to attend. Then come back and tell us how easy it is to remain in your current godlike state, you smug skinny bd.

Utter drivel, my dad was in the same boat when we were growing up raising the family with a business to run and yet he had no problems juggling everything you've mentioned and at 56, he is still active with a build that would put most people in their 20s to shame. Injury/disability/illness excepted, playing the 'slow-metalabolism' card ain't going to cut it.

I'm managing a design studio in an advertising firm so am not exactly twiddling my thumbs doing nothing, I lead a busy life just as you are but still find the time to keep active. As I've said before, if you find something you enjoy that allows you to get in shape, it doesn't feel like a chore.

If people have kids, it gives you an even better incentive to get out there and involve your children in doing active things to stay healthy.

[Hoofy]

I run two businesses and am in my 40s. No problems keeping in decent shape. It is definitely about finding something you enjoy so it's not a chore. Had a great tennis session in the sun today. Bit windy but I'm knackered now! And I'm one of those morons who counts calories. (I really still do it just to see the effect differing protein and calorie levels have on the body. Helps me to understand what's what and cut through the BS spouted in the fitness world.)

[H22observer]

In defence of some of the larger chaps on here, not every person is genetically identical. Different heights, races etc.

A 5ft 6in white man in his 40's may find it harder to stay in shape than a 6ft 3in black man in his 20's.

The rate of burn will always be different. Some people will get away with salad dodging and being a lazy xbox-addicted oaf. Some people won't.

[mcelliott]

Eleven said:

Wait till you're in your mid 40s, have kids, possibly a niggling long-term injury, slowing metabolism, high-powered job to hold down and business lunches to attend. Then come back and tell us how easy it is to remain in your current godlike state, you smug skinny bd.

Poppy cock. I'm well into my 40s and I have single digit body fat, and just got back from a week in France beasting the Alpes on my bike. I doubt whether I was any fitter or stronger in my 20s and 30s. I really can't see how age, kids and outside factors come into it. As has been mentioned, self discipline and motivation are the only ingredients you need. To be perfectly frank, turning 40 was the best thing that ever happened to me.

[Hoofy]

H22observer said:

The rate of burn will always be different. Some people will get away with salad dodging and being a lazy xbox-addicted oaf. Some people won't.

I thought the same. I thought I could get away with salad dodging and just playing Battlefield all evening. But I was climbing less and less and eating 150g of Kettle's Crisps and McCoy's. And it was starting to show through my late 30s.

I used to be a skinny git in my twenties and thought I got lucky with genetics but when I look back, I realise it was down to me clubbing every Friday and Saturday, martial arts twice a week and skating the rest of the nights for 2-3 hours a night. I had a perfectly flat tum but no abs as I didn't do any strength stuff. (Took up climbing in my early 30s and that began to change my physique.)

[Eleven]

goldblum said:

Eleven said:

No he isn't. You clearly aren't in your forties with the challenges I mention above. Come back to us when you are.

I'm older than you, sonny.

I'd always assumed you were a teenager, based upon your posts. Now I know you're a crumbly I'll treat you with more deference.

[H22observer]

mcelliott said:

Poppy cock. I'm well into my 40s and I have single digit body fat, and just got back from a week in France beasting the Alpes on my bike. I doubt whether I was any fitter or stronger in my 20s and 30s. I really can't see how age, kids and outside factors come into it.

For a start, having the spare time and income available to afford a one-week biking holiday in the Alpes is a factor in itself.

[Eleven]

H22observer said:

mcelliott said:

Poppy cock. I'm well into my 40s and I have single digit body fat, and just got back from a week in France beasting the Alpes on my bike. I doubt whether I was any fitter or stronger in my 20s and 30s. I really can't see how age, kids and outside factors come into it.

For a start, having the spare time and income available to afford a one-week biking holiday in the Alpes is a factor in itself.

Indeed. As I said earlier, my life is such that I can commit to a great deal of time to the gym plus other exercise. I am comfortably off sufficient to eat pretty much whatever diet I like. I am still having to work far harder now to stay trim than I was twenty years ago.

I have every sympathy for someone my age, probably in the most economically productive stage of life, struggling to reconcile work and family commitments with being slim and fit. For some it is possible, for others I can see why it would be virtually impossible - long commute into the city plus a demanding, long-hours desk job for example.

[mcelliott]

H22observer said:

spare time

Well the last time I looked, there are a whole 24 hours in one day.

H22observer said:

income available.

Erm, you've completely lost me.

[Legacywr]

Don't forget, we all have different bodies, some people will be lucky enough not to put on any weight while living a normal life, and, some of us will!

How old are we all?

[Hoofy]

Legacywr said:

Don't forget, we all have different bodies, some people will be lucky enough not to put on any weight while living a normal life, and, some of us will!

How old are we all?

42 years old (yes, I don't say "young" as I really don't care what my age is; I am only 8 years until 50 yet I feel like I'm in my late 20s).

"Normal life" will mean different things to different people. I suspect a normal life to a lean person at 42 means regular weekends of cycling or something equally active (for me, today was two hours of tennis followed by strength training, both of which are enjoying and interesting to me; tomorrow, I'll practice tai chi or take a break to go for a walk) whereas a normal life to someone who wishes they were thinner could mean sitting in a pub on a Saturday afternoon watching Spurs cock things up yet again.

FWIW, I'm just taking a break from doing some work and I work 7 days a week (just as well I don't have a family!).

Before you say it, I'm not acting holier than thou. It is about being more active irrespective of your age or life. It is a lifestyle. It's actually what my second business is about (making healthier lifestyles more accessible to busy dads and mums) and why I'm indoors on a Saturday night.

[Eleven]

I'm younger than Goldblum (apparently).

[H22observer]

mcelliott said:

well the last time I looked, there are a whole 24 hours in one day.

obvious statement.

The last time i looked, most of those hours were consumed by Working, commuting and sleeping.

If you are fortunate enough to have no family life & a cushy 9 hours/day job with a short commute that requires small amounts of sleep, then congratulations.

[H22observer]

Hoofy said:

(for me, today was two hours of tennis .

How much does decent equipment and tennis court hire for 2 hours cost these days ?

I'm assuming that it must be dirt cheap because most pro tennis players come from council estates. /sarcasm