Strength / Weight Training

hanging leg raises
jack knives (V sit ups)

You may find Sweet Potatoes (warning still rich in energy) may help with the sweet cravings, they taste pretty sweet.

Some protein snacks (lots online with dales and other sweet things) can also help.

protein bars work wonders with me. heavy, but made up of protein rather than loads of crap.

PHD Synergy ISO 7 i think it is...

It has some creatine in it so if youre not into that sort of thing, then try another.

Im eating these at work to replace snacking

I'm not a fan of the synergy bars but the phd whey-ht bars taste ok. I'm big into Reflex R bars atm for my mid-afternoon snack - like a softer quest bar, stevia sweetened but no palm oil.

Havent done ATG squats since I took up cycling 4 years ago - just returned from the gym - motherofgod those hamstrings are weak/short/something :0

What they taste like?

I like the Mint Choc PHDs as they actually taste of something id buy at an offlicence

But they also have reduced sugars if i remember correctly.

Word. Having cycled a lot from a very young age, my hamstrings are almost a problem now. A lot of time is spent putting them right.

Yeah can imagine imbalance for some leads to knee problems. Used to do 140kg ATG squats, now 30kg is killing me :]

Its mostly the strain they put on my lower back combined with sitting all day. People don't stretch as much as they should, just in general. I'm guilty of that.

you are me and i claim my £5!

I've joined a gym again, I found some pics of me in 2010 (I'd lost 3 ish stone up to that point) and I can just make out the tops of my abs, not skinny by any means but to cut a story short I've put all my weight back on pre-gym/cycling/boxing.

I've cycled ~30 miles a day (mon to fri) for the past two years but my eating and drinking has clearly negated any effect this has had. I've got chubrub and and saggy man tits again and I'm sorely un-impressed with myself.

Going to start on a 5x5 again as it was the only method that worked for me.

Won't bother with powders until I get set in a routine.

5x5 worked wonders for me. I'm now back on something similar as I didn't go for a good couple of months and ate way to much.

You might wanna do a couple of weeks with light 20 reps to get joints and muscles up to pace.

Oh I'll be starting them light. My bench was never over 60. Squats were about 170 and deads 185. I worked out on my own so no spotter, I reckon I would be lucky to just lift the bar now.

I may have o check those weights thy sound high

Personally i think it should be supersets of 30 to all major muscle groups.

Yeah that's good squatting and deadlifting (unless you are 180 kg :p

Still couldn't do more than three pull ups.

jack knives (V sit ups)

Don't do these currently - legs and abs day (erryday) tomorrow so will give them a try

Lost 10kg this year and built significant muscle mass - maybe I should do body fat % check..
I've been cycling a lot less but playing more football (4 times a week) - I'm playing so much better, agility and strength especially, which is really good. I just need to get back on the bike more often

I'm not great at them...lower body dominant.

Stalling out at 4...think I need to lower reps but use some weight one day & do band work another day.

My plans are going to shit. As always life is getting in the way. I was always quite happy to take things as they come but I now get really irritated/annoyed if things get in the way of my gym schedule. I think it is down to a hatred of losing if I have genuinely set my mind on something, and given I have clear goals, I keep having them fucked by general life - the type of thing it is incredibly churlish to get annoyed about - late nights in work, girlfriend tired and needing looked after, a mate's band playing, a weekend of stuff to do with family and friends - I know how pathetic this is, and what's more important etc but i get this nagging sense of annoyance and it bugs me.

This week's example is tonight my girlfriend was tired and asked me to stay home, tomorrow we have a gig, then fri/sat/sun is a camping and 1 day mountain biking trip up north. Monday is football. I know something will come up next tuesday and I'll be sitting raging I've not been to the gym in a week and a half and my aim was to be in my best form for the end of the month. Ffffuuuu.

^Aware of the total #FWP, try having some real problems, bullshit of all of the above but it's just this nasty little rage I get^

Solution must be to get up in the morning and go before work. And HTFU and DWI.

All of that is why I joined a gym near my work so I could go at lunchtime.

This time it's 6 miles away but it's 24 hour and 12 quid a month so I couldn't pass it up.

Got a £5 discount code for bulkpowders here: DH5Z30

Just got some more whey and some of that green shit.