KenjiOgiwara

The Roots - The Seed

If he turns out to be any better than bang awful, he will automatically be an upgrade for us. Not sure what the problem is.

To be fair I don't think working out in the morning is for everyone. It was decent for me, but I am very much a morning person. I think to have decent effect of your workout you have to go to the gym when your body is ready, and while for some people that is 6 AM, for others it may be 8 pm. People are just different in that sense. Why work out 6 AM if you are gymming at 70% of capacity when you can hit the gym 8 AM at 100 % of capacity. Do what feels natural, but either way even if you are a morning person, the first few times you workout early it will be painful. Especially cardio. I normally did it before breakfast - guess that made it even worse.

Ok. Will check it out !

Hahaha I knew you would be negative

I am considering Go at the moment. Anyone got one? Opinions?

Very much this. As long as I can remember we've been trying to do quicky, expensive, short term fixes to fundamental problems. We should be thinking differently, and I honestly don't think we will get back to where we need to be until we do this right. Our typical approach has been to sign players from other clubs simply because they performed well there, not because they will suit our tactic and style of play. Hogan is probably the best example I can think of. Signing him to fit into our hoofball with Steve Bruce. Absolutely bonkers. I also think there's a solid chance some of our youth players would have turned out differently for us if they got more senior football at an earlier time. We just need a more sustainable approach and that includes giving young professionals like Davis a lot of pitch time. Suddenly it clicks and we got one very good player in the right age bracket with a lot of resale value. And it's not like he isn't already very good. In a 451 tactic you need hold up play and Davis is on another level compared to Kodjia.

Gonna drop Paracelsus here, but it really is the dose that's the key word here. You have no idea how much stuff can give you an increase risk of cancer, but it's largely unimportant if you focus on dosage and variation. Big difference between smoking 3 fags a month and smoking 30 daily.

I did it a while back. Was a lovely feeling when you went to work. Everyone you met looked like zombies while you feel like you've got a headstart. Pretty hard the first days mind. Especially my cardio was brutal. I had to be at my gym 0600 to make it work, but it's rather nice cause you got the place for yourself.

Hope he gets the players he wants. That's all I can say.

Pigeons

I love the country, but I hate the touristy stuff. I liked Capitoline Museums though. Especially the wall paintings

Plants definately have responses to being hurt. Thought they were hormonal based or something, but they would need to be able to react to toxins, fungus and outer "trauma". But I thought for feelings to be produced it required neurons. And I also thought plants didn't have neurons.

So weird you're saying this. I wasn't at 700 kcal a day, but I reckon I was probably around 1000-1200 (probably most closer to 1200 though. But my experience was exactly as you put it. The first 2 weeks was awful, but after that I also felt adjusted to it. And for some weird reason the longer I did the diet the less food it felt like I needed. Almost like my stomach shrunk or something haha. When I started up lifting weights again after 6 months'ish, it was hell though. While I lost a lot of fat, I clearly lost a lot of muscle as well. I'm back around where I used to be now in terms of lifts, but I still way 20+ kg less, which is pretty cool. If I have one regret in terms of dropping weight it was not doing accurate measurements of my waist, arms, chest, neck etc. so I could have seen how my body actually changed. All I can do now is look at old pictures and laugh of a double chin and bulging shirts and jackets looking too small.

V nice. That's radical calories each day though. A rough oatmeal breakfast estimate is 300 (possibly 450 kcals with raisins and CC) a portion. Each rye is about 50 cals, so with tuna it's max 100 cals each slice. Dinner at 750, that means you probably had 1500 cals a day. Jogging 10 k is around 800 kcals I guess. So running at 700 cals each day. That's brutal.

But back to complaining. I've had some really really bad nausea lately. I keep thinking it's because of my workout regime and lack of calories, but I'm not sure. Anyone experienced this? I feel really weird about it. I've never been car sick in my life. Twice the last week I've been car sick. And I took a flight the other day and got airsick as well. Never ever experienced before. Went home from the gym today and got really nauseous again. Had to go off the metro cause I thought I was gonna throw up. Weird as ****.

People are different so I won't claim there's a set of rules everyone has to follow, but I think you're making it really hard for yourself if you are working your arse off in the gym, while trying to eat less than you normally do. It's really shit to live on calori deficit as it is. Doing it when your body wants to recharge and rebuild is even worse. Dieting and a workout routine seems to be for people who are already quite far along. If you are only trying to get some proper weight loss going, I'd say 100% diet focus. But as I said, I guess everyone are different.

People normally don't want advice so I rarely bother telling them, but coming from someone who dropped 20 kg in 12 months and 12 kg in less than two months (IIRC), it's a bad idea to do a new workout regime and a diet at the same time. I've done sports my entire life, and after starting with weights in 2009/2010, I transformed. I went from 62 kg pre military to 89 kg in Uni. Needless to say I wanted to shed some fat. I tried keeping my gym routine while eating healthy, but I didn't drop more than to 85'ish kg. Then I decided to go hard diet and while doing it I hardly had energy to go to work. I cut the gym for 6 months while eating protein shake for breakfast. 130 kcal. Salad for lunch 500 kcal. Then I ate some Skandinavian thing I don't know what's called in English. Ryvita is something similar I guess? Normally had 4-6 of these with cheese for dinner (roughly estimater 100 kcal a piece. And that was my daily intake. And right now I've maintained the habit of eating little while going back to the gym. My point is just that losing weight is far easier done with a hardcore diet than gym and a diet. I would never have gotten slim again if I didn't drop working out until I felt I had the right mass. By all means, working out is healthy, so I am not dissing that. I am just saddened by so many people I know that would have much better results with discipline in the kitchen intake than trying to become a perfect healthy human in the gym AND in nutrition.

So many poor players. Feels like we always try and make it more complicated than it should be as well. Who was the ball watching moron on the third goal (I think)? Someone let his man just walk off and he scored.

Agreed. Though one could argue Hogan could play well next to Davis. But we don't seem to do that.

Wow that defending. **** hell. Do these clowns literally not know what man marking means?

Adomah annoys me

Yup. If that was Nyland he's be crucified on here.

I've said this for a long time. It's not only that people seem to think we have such a great squad, but it's also a case where people underrate a lot of very solid championship footballers in other teams.

How are we playing? O'Hare ok?