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From India - Please share your experiences

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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Nilan666 » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:37 am


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Hi vajra. Welcome to stronglifts. I'd just like to ask 1 question (for starters hehe), is it you in your display pic? It looks massively ripped! :D
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Anand » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:52 pm

vajra,
two workouts a day, 6 days a week, does sound like a bit too much. but i cant be judgmental at this point. i guess after spending years in weight training, one finds out what works best for ones body, and experimenting/exploring with different workouts becomes part of the process. whats your take on stronglifts?

96kg to 64kg, that's quite a leap in weight loss. congratulations on that. when u said you eat when you are hungry, does that mean eat a little every 2-4hrs?
boiled eggs with rajma. hmmm sounds good, i can imagine munching it away with some hot wheat chapatis.

Rockfella,

'sattu' (ground chickpea) has a good amount of carbohydrate, but is also a good source of protein too. here is a link to the nutrition data of chichpea flour (basan), maybe not the same as sattu, but should be close. Like any other product with higher amounts carbohydrate, consuming too much of it or not working out enough, can lead to gaining unwanted weight. but otherwise i would think it is a good source of energy and protein. I'm thinking of trying out some too.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby vajra » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:33 pm

Hey there nilan.
No no. I am not that ripped, (body fat around 14%, impedance testing so not too sure). I just love back exercises. so am glad it shows at least :). photo's taken in my room/gym/study. you can see my bed in front of me. i can flop down and sleep anytime i want to during a workout. talk about recovery :). My weakest body part is my chest. I plan to start hitting chest exclusively with floor presses as soon as I can get two sturdy stools made to keep the barbell on.what sort of program are you on?

Anand
checked out your meal plan earlier in the thread. looked really well thought out to me. you will be making some fast progress man.
you are right. I eat small meals throughout the day. It might be only a handful of nuts/ a glass of sattu/a big bowl of dal and some rajma 'n eggs (and yeah they taste really great :)) but I consider it a meal. total 7-8 meals. Haven’t tried bajra sattu yet Rockfella.

any further news on the albumen powder? anyone tried it yet? know anyone who's tried it? if its value for money i'll run out and buy some.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Rockfella » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:04 am

Did anyone find any fat calipers????
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby guru » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:56 am

I couldn't find any here. So I asked my brother to bring them when he came home from UK a couple of months back.

BTW, I couldn't find chalk too. But this site sells good stuff (5 chalk balls for 10 pounds). They ship free to India too. Mine arrived a few days back - cost me only Rs. 792/-.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Anand » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:19 am

rockfella, fat calipers can be bought from the website u mentioned lbnutrition.com, here is the link to the product. It costs about Rs.990. i dont know the ratings of the instrument, but it seems to be a resonable product for the price
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Rockfella » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:18 am

Man don't tell me u could not find chalk in India.... :shock:
guru wrote:I couldn't find any here. So I asked my brother to bring them when he came home from UK a couple of months back.

BTW, I couldn't find chalk too. But this site sells good stuff (5 chalk balls for 10 pounds). They ship free to India too. Mine arrived a few days back - cost me only Rs. 792/-.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Rockfella » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:18 am

Yup.. it is the same one Mehdi recommends.. i found out later... thanks. :D
Anand wrote:rockfella, fat calipers can be bought from the website u mentioned lbnutrition.com, here is the link to the product. It costs about Rs.990. i dont know the ratings of the instrument, but it seems to be a resonable product for the price
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby rrnsss » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:29 pm

Hi,


I am Ram from Chennai. Doing exercises because I am fat. I am a vegetarian, no eggs. I am in a negative calorific balance and I consume milk and paneer every day to take care of my protein needs. I drink 500 ml milk and eat about 100 g raw paneer.

I am not looking for any muscle gains, but just to drop weight with out becoming weak. I have just begun and therefore have more to learn than to say.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby nihalf » Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:28 am

Hi Guys,
I'm a mallu guy in dubai, been doing stronglifts for five weeks now, and enjoying it. last week two seperate incidents of people asking me if i've been going to the gym, always a great feeling :-)

Hope this thread hasn't dies yet, no activity for a few days now. I've read through the whole thread, and its great having the benefit of other desi's perspectives on strength training. The diet ideas are the best - i don't cook, living with family and all, and my mum makes GREAT food :-). But i've already cut back on rice, and trying to find other carbs i can drop. My main staple are 'atta' chapati's, and the occasional 'maida' parathas. Anybody know what the nutritional stats on these are? What about the typcial 'ghar ka' chicken/mutton curry? Usually fairly oily and therefore high fat - i'm trying (and mostly failing) to avoid these, but is it ok to have them if they are low carb? They must be low carb, right?
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Nilan666 » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:57 am

Welcome nihalf. The nutritional content of the paranthas/rotis were there on some site i don't remember now unfortunately. I'd go to guru. He gave me the link, so it's possible he might be having it still.

Carbs...oh what to say of them. Our Indian diet is so FULL of carbs it makes me cringe! And it's ingrained in our psyche as well. Avoid/reduce carbs.
I only take rice in the weekends. Avoid it totally during the weekdays.

And yes, in breakfast I have 3 rotis. And a couple of bananas thrown in the evening.

By all means gorge on those mutton and chickens. More than the fat they might contain i'm interested only in their protein content.
Yummy proteins! :lol:
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby mpetry » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:04 am

sorry to intrude here as I'm not from india, but you guys all discussing your food options is making me very hungry. good south asian (indian, thai, etc) food is something that's hard to come by in most of america. I'm lucky that my girlfriend is pakistani and that her mom cooks really well :D
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby mjh » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:14 am

@mpetry: you're not the only one who lurks in this thread, don't worry. I too enjoy reading about the food and learning about the culture. A lot of Indians live in New Zealand, so I'm lucky that some of these foods are available to me.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby Rockfella » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:29 am

hahaha :D
mjh wrote:@mpetry: you're not the only one who lurks in this thread, don't worry. I too enjoy reading about the food and learning about the culture. A lot of Indians live in New Zealand, so I'm lucky that some of these foods are available to me.
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Re: From India - Please share your experiences

Postby zainy » Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:56 am

Question: are the carbs in roti good or bad? It is wheat flour but it seems to be bleached. Is that something I should avoid?
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