Thanks Chimura, I appreciate it! As far as foods go it' s best to go with several small meals a day. I break this rule quite often. I have a huge appetite. Eating two foot long subs is a breeze for me. I' m a bottomless pit when it comes to food. The thing you need to focus on is when you feel satisfied rather than when you feel full. It takes a lot for me to get full but as soon as I get to the point where I don' t feel hungry anymore I know it' s time to stop.
As far as the meals I eat... like I said I' m not a health nut, I really don' t watch what I eat all that much. Breakfast is usually 2 eggs and two slices of sausage or bacon. Then between breakfast and lunch I' ll eat a hand full of almonds. I may have some yogurt or fruit as well. For lunch it varies. Salad, sandwiches, chicken, shrimp, or whatever. I try to keep the carb intake low but I don' t restrict it since I have my workout right before or a couple hours after that meal and carbs are the primary source of energy. I snack on more almonds a while after that. Then for dinner I try to eat something with a decent amount of protein and as few carbs as possible. It' s hard though since that meal is with the family and I eat whatever my mom cooks.
Something I try not to do is eat any carbs after 6 or 7pm. Doing that causes them to store overnight while you are sleeping since you aren' t doing any physical activity to burn them off.
In terms of the workouts don' t rely entirely on cardio. That' s something I used to do and it really doesn' t get you the greatest of results in terms of figure. You really have to balance strength training with the cardio.
Since you don' t have access to weights bulking up will be a little tough but body weight workouts will help. Something that you should try are tabatas. I' m going to warn you right now this type of workout is one of the single most painful things you can do. The first time I did tabata squats my legs felt like they were in a train wreck. They were so messed up the muscles were misfiring and just jerking around on their own. That being said the workout only takes 4 minutes (per exercise... 4 minutes if you are just doing one section of your body that day). All you do it take an exercise, we' ll say bodyweight squats for this example (you are just squating and then standing up straight, no weights), and you do 20 seconds of that exercise doing as many reps as you can do as quickly as possible. Then you take a ten second break. Repeat another 7 times making 8 sets in 4 minutes (well 3:50 since that last 10 seconds is rest anyway). You can do this with squats, push-ups, pull-ups, dips, sit-ups, etc...
Aside from that you can take two or three exercises and set them up like:
5x Pull-up +
10x Push-up +
15x Sit-up
As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes.
When you do these workouts just make sure you are mixing up the body parts you are using. You don' t want to overwork one piece. Like the workout I just described, notice how the exercises are complimentary.
Pull-up (back, biceps, forearms) +
Push-up (chest, triceps) +
Sit-up (abs)
This gives the different muscle groups time to rest but your body is still active because you have moved onto another muscle group.
If you want me to help you start up a regiment I' d be more than happy to help. I can also give you some tutorials on how to make some home gym equipment for really really cheap so you don' t have to go out and buy weights.
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