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Anonymous
Hey /fit/, I'm doing an hour of cardio three times a week (hour long karate basics, it's harder than you'd think if you know what you're doing), and haphazard weight lifting -- more for endurance (20 reps, 3 interspersed sets?) than bulking.

My current diet goes along the lines of -- OATZ for breakfast, yogurt or a protein/fiber bar, 'health' frozen dinner (lunch, university, no time, but we have a microwave, eh), peapods, and then...usually, salad, whole wheat-turkey-cheese sandwich, and some kind of chicken and rice all told in a day.

Thoughts/criticism/ideas? I'm focusing on losing fat, not bulking. Given my weight (300+) and that I'm doing the karate without limb destroying muscle pain, I'm wild guessing that bulking isn't that necessary here.

On a similar note know of a species of apple that's of the softer variety? Such as Ambrosia or Pacific Rose, my whole mouth doesn't like hard crisp apples for whatever reason.
>> Anonymous
GRANNY SMITH APPLES FUCK YEAH!
>> Anonymous
20 reps, 3 interspersed sets does LOL WUT?
>> Anonymous
Lower reps, more weight. You need to build up some muscles to fill in the folds of loose skin you're gonna have.

Golden Delicious are soft apples.
>> Anonymous
>>338259
I go through rotations -- 20 each of about 4 different exercises. Go through it x3.
>> Anonymous
shamelessly self-bumping
>> RAAAAAA
if you're training karate then when you lift you should be doing heavy fives or less with little time between. This will make you strong with minimal size gains (especially if you work threes or less). Another good thing to do for fighting training of any kind is speed sets.

Take a weight 50%-75% of your 1RM and do five reps with it but move each as fast as you can. This will increase your ability to recruit more muscle fibers into your strikes/lifts.

Also, do not think that increasing your upper body strength is what's going to make your punches stronger, most of your power comes from hip rotation(regardless of your art, boxing, sword arts, it doesn't matter.). Your ability to increase pewer through this rotation mostly come from your legs.

And i just read your weight is 300+ So i wouldn't worry about what i said or weights at all at your weight(depending on your height, i'm amusing you're under 5'11). I would get down to something much less then focus on weights and such.

And find time to cook for yourself, make the time, it's worth it.

all i've got, good luck.
>> Anonymous
>>338802
6'ish, actually.

Yeah, I know about hip rotation, connection to the floor, and internal vibration from such being the source of striking power, we emphasize it a lot in our style (Shotokan Ryu/JKA). Karate was a home venture as a kid, dad's a nidan, had a mini-dojo built in our basement, trained enough that I still know everything as far as basics, and probably a lot more than someone at my rank should.

The weight lifting was really something just to throw in extra during the evenings, because while my muscles could probably take a second hour long workout in a day, my ankles, knees, and tendons probably can't.

This'll probably sound like typical BS, but from what I've seen on /fit/, I probably have more muscle weight involved in that 300 than is normally expected, particularly in my legs. Thus, why an hour of karate doesn't kill me.

Anyway, thanks!