From India - Please share your experiences

[Nath]

Those of you having trouble finding low-fat cottage cheese: have you considered making your own? Warm some low-fat milk, throw in a couple of tablespoonfuls of vinegar or lime juice, let it sit for a while, and drain. This gives you a simple, rather bland cottage cheese, but it'll probably have the nutritional benefits you're looking for.

Or you could squeeze out the whey, and you've got an easy, low-fat paneer.

[guru]

To expand on this - if you really want it low fat, you could just boil the milk & skim the fat off it. Then use the skimmed milk for making cheese.

Of course all this is just theory for me still - need to put it to practice someday.

[Nath]

I've tried it (the cheese-making, not the skimming) and it's as easy as it sounds. I'm pretty sure I've seen low-fat milk in supermarkets in India, but that's probably not very cost-effective.

[ArshNZ]

Nice thread.. yeah, its been a struggle for me to keep up with my diet while eating Indian food all day long. You just don't know how much protein, calories are in your mum's cooking, do you?? That made life real hard for me so I started searching the net to see if there was some nutritional info available on common Indian dishes. Surprisingly, there is a lot of info available. I had to start eating daals that I just don't like

Anyway, I now have a decent balance between traditional, home-cooked Indian food with additional healthy food.

[Anand]

Hey Guys, ( I guess that means Nilan & Guru as almost all the other guys have vanished )

BTW, just yesterday I was thinking about this thread & it's premature death.

hey guys, just dropin' in to say that am still alive (and plan to start kickin' again). Its been a while since i did steady workout. had to spend a good amount of time on job and other things, also a bit of lack of motivation i guess. but havent let go completely, been working out once or twice a week.

[guru]

but havent let go completely, been working out once or twice a week.

Glad to hear that Anand.

[Glutenbob]

Sup guys, I am from Chembur, Mumbai. I live in the US now. I left India when I was 15 and now I am 20. I am finally going back to visit India next year, after 5 years. I started doing SL 5 x 5 in Feb 2009, and Ill be gone for 2 weeks next summer. Does anyone know any places in Chembur where I can do powercleans and squats? I don't want to just slouch off for two weeks.

I could go to Chembur YMCA, where I used to play basketball, but I don't know if they still have weights, and if the weights are heavy enough. Im sure they are light weights, but I can do some stuff with them, I think.

[Rockfella]

I am also from India, just saw this thread. I try to eat 3 chicken breasts, 1 morning 1 lunch, 1 @ work (i carry tiffen with eggs and chicken breats and milk)

http://www.lbnutrition.com is a good site to order suppliments from (I have any affiliation with them but since its a good one so thought of sharing it) though whole food is best always and i don't have whey at this time myself.

[Anand]

Hey Rockfella, thanks for sharing the website link. looks like there are a lot of options there.
Did u buy any products from these guys before, how was the experience, product pricing, shipment speed, quick response to queries etc etc??

[Rockfella]

Not me but a friend has bought numerous products from this guy. Seller is genuine as per my friend, has proper TIN number etc, will let u know the details later... (have to ask lol)

Hey Rockfella, thanks for sharing the website link. looks like there are a lot of options there.
Did u buy any products from these guys before, how was the experience, product pricing, shipment speed, quick response to queries etc etc??

[vajra]

Hi all.

arka this side from kolkata. have been training on and off for quite some time. it's great to find a thread that deals exclusively with the innovations/compromises/solutions in nutrition and training that we deal with on a daily basis as fitness enthusiasts in our country.

i train at home. my setup is basically a pull up bar, 240 kilos in 10 kg plates, a few 2, 4.5 and 1 kg weights, 16 5 kg plates, a barbell rod, 4 adjustable dumbbells(two extra long made to order for dumbbell rows and shrugs that accomodate upto 8 plates each side.) . i dont have olympic weight plates but i had ensured correct weights by weighing the plates at the time of purchase a few years back. i also have a parallel bar and a dipping belt (from which you can suspend weights while dipping or pull-ups). thinking of getting two sturdy stools made which i can use for doing floor presses (since i train alone and dont have a good bench)

my best deadlift has been 189 kilos for a 1 rep max. with dips, it has been bodywt and 75 kilos for 8 good reps, for chin up 45 plus bodywt for 6.

i stumbled upon this site while searching for pendalay rows.

[Rockfella]

You did good stumbling today! this site is great! Stick here.. i am from delhi/ncr/gurgaon

Hi all.

arka this side from kolkata. have been training on and off for quite some time. it's great to find a thread that deals exclusively with the innovations/compromises/solutions in nutrition and training that we deal with on a daily basis as fitness enthusiasts in our country.

i train at home. my setup is basically a pull up bar, 240 kilos in 10 kg plates, a few 2, 4.5 and 1 kg weights, 16 5 kg plates, a barbell rod, 4 adjustable dumbbells(two extra long made to order for dumbbell rows and shrugs that accomodate upto 8 plates each side.) . i dont have olympic weight plates but i had ensured correct weights by weighing the plates at the time of purchase a few years back. i also have a parallel bar and a dipping belt (from which you can suspend weights while dipping or pull-ups). thinking of getting two sturdy stools made which i can use for doing floor presses (since i train alone and dont have a good bench)

my best deadlift has been 189 kilos for a 1 rep max. with dips, it has been bodywt and 75 kilos for 8 good reps, for chin up 45 plus bodywt for 6.

i stumbled upon this site while searching for pendalay rows.

[Anand]

hi vajra,

welcome to stronglifts. you have some seriously good numbers and stats there. please do tell a little more, like
- what kind of a program/workout do you follow
- what motivates you ('cos those numbers you mention take good amount of time and dedication to achieve)
- what are some of the challenges/roadblocks you faced in your path so far

regarding pendalay rows, i guess you already found out this one, other than that, search forum for 'pendlay rows' and i'm sure it'll give you a bunch of hits

[vajra]

Thanks Anand.
got the info on pendalays. btw i am not very good at lifting just very enthusiastic about it. As of now i am following a loosely-structured split routine. basically twice-a-day 20 min workouts. while this may sound like overkill i keep volume fairly low since number of exercises is fairly low(eg only front squats for quadriceps. i use my parallel bars to keep my barbell for front squats ) . also lately i have started combining body parts not usually combined (e.g.morning back and shoulders where the back training consists exclusively of weighted pullups and clean and presses supersetted with one arm presses for shoulders; then in the evening pendlay rows/bent rows, romanian deadlifts.) i move at a fairly quick pace taking rest periods around 30 sec to a min except for deads of course.
Another day it might be chest/ bis-tri.
i work out six days a week and while this is construed overtraining it works for me. the splits are not etched in stone and change continuously to aid recovery of particular areas and . i concentrate on poundage progression for two or three movements in a month not everything at once. of course i take care not to let the weights go down.
for building strength quickly, rest-pause training has worked wonders for me.any exercise you want progress on you can't go wrong with that.

three years back i had ballooned up to 96 kilos. i was eating healthy food, but too much of it. now i have food only when i am hungry and haven't touched a sweet in a year. i am 64 kilos with some definition and quite a lot of vascularity now. i am not big at all though. i dont have too many fruits, have a lot of green tea, and have a lot of boiled vegetables. havent touched rice in quite some time but have whole wheat chapatis three at lunch three at dinner (i dont cut carbs at night after all i train then)

i was reading about the low fat cottage cheese in the thread. i also depend very heavily on milk products for my protein intake (a lot of dahi made from skimmed milk; a lot)also eggs-boiled rajma combined (i have 6 egg whites and 2 yolks at breakfast), sattu (ground chickpea ie),a bit of fish on a daily basis, and boiled chicken two or three times a week depending on "rokra". i used to take optimum nutrition gold standard whey (was surprised to see it again in this thread) four scoops a day during my college days but now that i have left my job for further studies (in an unrelated field) i have to go without it.

[Rockfella]

Whey is not top most priority, take if u can afford it or else natural food is always best!
Very important point here...... "SATTU" Does it have extra carbohydrates? My gym coach (Mr. Delhi second runner up numerous times) says it will make me fat along with giving me energy!!!!! His “broscience” kinda influenced me though i never take anyones advices except this forum, I still got influenced and stopped having it. I got access to both chana and bajra sattu. What’s your take on that? I’ve always heard good things about it.

Thanks Anand.
got the info on pendalays. btw i am not very good at lifting just very enthusiastic about it. As of now i am following a loosely-structured split routine. basically twice-a-day 20 min workouts. while this may sound like overkill i keep volume fairly low since number of exercises is fairly low(eg only front squats for quadriceps. i use my parallel bars to keep my barbell for front squats ) . also lately i have started combining body parts not usually combined (e.g.morning back and shoulders where the back training consists exclusively of weighted pullups and clean and presses supersetted with one arm presses for shoulders; then in the evening pendlay rows/bent rows, romanian deadlifts.) i move at a fairly quick pace taking rest periods around 30 sec to a min except for deads of course.
Another day it might be chest/ bis-tri.
i work out six days a week and while this is construed overtraining it works for me. the splits are not etched in stone and change continuously to aid recovery of particular areas and . i concentrate on poundage progression for two or three movements in a month not everything at once. of course i take care not to let the weights go down.
for building strength quickly, rest-pause training has worked wonders for me.any exercise you want progress on you can't go wrong with that.

three years back i had ballooned up to 96 kilos. i was eating healthy food, but too much of it. now i have food only when i am hungry and haven't touched a sweet in a year. i am 64 kilos with some definition and quite a lot of vascularity now. i am not big at all though. i dont have too many fruits, have a lot of green tea, and have a lot of boiled vegetables. havent touched rice in quite some time but have whole wheat chapatis three at lunch three at dinner (i dont cut carbs at night after all i train then)

i was reading about the low fat cottage cheese in the thread. i also depend very heavily on milk products for my protein intake (a lot of dahi made from skimmed milk; a lot)also eggs-boiled rajma combined (i have 6 egg whites and 2 yolks at breakfast), sattu (ground chickpea ie),a bit of fish on a daily basis, and boiled chicken two or three times a week depending on "rokra". i used to take optimum nutrition gold standard whey (was surprised to see it again in this thread) four scoops a day during my college days but now that i have left my job for further studies (in an unrelated field) i have to go without it.