Weight / Fat loss

What are peoples opinions on cod liver oil?

My knee's make a ton of noise and ache quite a lot, I'm only 21 too which is worrying. Not really the right thread but I guess most of you are supplementing...

It will not really do anything specific to your knee to prevent clicking & noise. If the ache is coming from inflammation it may help.

The particular sorts of omega-3 fatty acids will help reduce soreness/inflammation.
I have reoccuring tendonitis on my hamstring, I take cod liver oil and it helps loads. It is comparable to taking ibuprofen, but has additional benefits of course. It contains essential fats that you may not be getting elsewhere, and because it will help rebalance your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. You may feel some general improvement to "vitality" and health because of various numerous functions.

The connective tissues & cartilage in your body is made of a lot of collagen. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and Calcium are both needed to create the collagen. Some people believe taking large quantites helps with joint health. Before Soperiva starts yelling at me, Im not going to claim this as proven fact. Just look it up. Glucosamine may also help, if it is a cartilage type problem you are having.

The best thing you could do for your knee would be to strengthen the muscles & connective tissues involved with a nice anatomically correct strength exercise like deadlifts or the back squat. Both of these will not only strengthen muscle, bone, tendons, ligaments and such. But also improve flexibility, posture, patella tracking and more.

Cycling and such activities cause imbalances in your muscles and do little to keep your flexible or strengthen the joints & connective tissues. You can try running if you are scared of strength training, but your pain would get worse before it got better, if at all. Because you may have poor pattellar tracking, ITBS, shallow throchlear grooves, and worn out/thin cushioning. If you are not a skilled experienced runner, your technique will be terrible giving you more pain such as what happens with shin splints.

Loading the area with something like a deadlift, is fine to do even if you have severe athritis. It will strengthen & improve things in many ways without the jolts, impacts and pain.

Like Soperiva already said, stretching is a good idea. Especially some form of massage or foam rolling.

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Thanks, very helpful. I used to do a 5x5 routine for quite a while until I fell off the wagon, I never knew if it was helping or hurting the issue though so that's good to know. Focusing on the big three seems to work best for me for putting on weight and gaining strength so I think I'll do something similar to before now I'm back in the gym too.

I'm 6'5" too, I'm under the impression quite a lot of taller people get joint issues and the like?

If you find that squats cause you problems, just stick to deadlifts. Deadlifts are fool proof.
Some people need to experiment a lot with technique and shoes to get the squat to work for them, if they have knee issues. But deadlifts will give you more bang for your buck. The heavier loading & high tension created in the muscles & joints will stimulate all sorts of goodness.

I'm a in a similar boat to you, Mac. I'm 6'8" and paranoid about trying to avoid long-term back (and knee to a lesser extent) problems. My dad's about the same height as me and his back is fucked. I had quite a few problems with mine when I was younger and I have come to believe quite strongly that the best way to avoid these problems is to strengthen the muscles that surround and support the areas you're worried about. For me that means squats and deadlifts specifically and I also press and do bent-over rows.

If you've done 5x5 in the past I'm sure you're all over this but I think us taller lads in particular need to be absolutely strict with our technique and bracing when we lift. I tweaked my back a couple of times doing squats before I figured out the breathing and how to stabilise my core properly.

That being said, our technique might also vary a little from 'normal'. For instance, I find it extraordinarily difficult to do Olympic-style squats but powerlifting-style (wide stance, feet angled out, bar low on my traps) work much better with my frame and I can get much more depth this way. Similarly I do sumo deadlifts rather than traditional ones.

Thanks, very helpful. I used to do a 5x5 routine for quite a while until I fell off the wagon, I never knew if it was helping or hurting the issue though so that's good to know. Focusing on the big three seems to work best for me for putting on weight and gaining strength so I think I'll do something similar to before now I'm back in the gym too.

I'm 6'5" too, I'm under the impression quite a lot of taller people get joint issues and the like?

@unharmed. 6ft 8????????? Please never stand next to me.

Sidles towards Shoosh

@unharmed. 6ft 8????????? Please never stand next to me.

You scoundrel!
I don't have high heels that high.

Sidles towards Shoosh

Stilts are the only answer.

You scoundrel!
I don't have high heels that high.

17.9% blubber by volume yesterday, we have a downward trend ladies and gentlemen.

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stretch update:
tuesdays?
8pm?
clapham north?

(scoping somewhere out at the moment)

I thought Tuesdays were sacrosanct? Maybe not once winter's on the way…

Harrumph.
Giving up.
Will have to remain round. 2 months for nearly nothing.

Or realise that you probably look great as you are?

^ reported for grooming

was down to 8 or 9 percent lard a couple of months ago, new girlfriend and lots of indulgent meals pushed it up to 11-12 percent, now down to below 10 again

wtf nhat

we were agreeing you looked more slender this morning

so what happened since then?

so what happened since then?

Body dysmorphia?

Well...to be fair, I was only planning on doing this until about now anyways.

I wanted to loose weight before I went to NYC, which I think I've dont a little bit of, but when I come back it will be hard for me to afford anything but really cheap portable foods, which means PB&J for the rest of the year, which isn't easy to loose weight on.

So, I've possibly lost a few pounds, but calorie counting didn't really help that much.
In other news, I have stopped pouring olive oil and margerine all over everything, and I've stopped having ice cream and baked goods full stop.
I think this is a habit I can keep up.

I thought Tuesdays were sacrosanct? Maybe not once winter's on the way…

i have personal one to one lessons with the teacher.....
('er indoors)

Nhatt
when we lived in Nashville, we had one salary (scientist post doc wages, so not really a salary at all...) between the two of us. i've never been so poor or so skinny. it's not something i'd like to go back to. we cooked everything, tupperware is your friend, recipes that called for a chicken breast each (for example) became a recipe with one chicken breast between 2.

PB&J became PB&banana, honey, and a bit of muesli in a tortilla (cheaper).
erm. that's a bit of a ramble. bt it's possible not to have to eat JUST PB&J when broke. just.

It is when you're vegan.

Trust me.

I used to be a courier.

cous cous?

yeck.

But the real problem is, that most days my classes are out of house. So if i have to haul around something, it's easiest for that thing to be a sandwich. I'll probably mix it up with leftovers a few times a week, but I survived on pbj sandwiches for lunch for two years in a row, once.

it was kinda ok.

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PB&J

Peanut butter and jelly?