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Not too long ago I quit weights (mostly) all together and took up triathlons, did a whole season of racing (4 races) plus one 10k running race. Lost a lot of weight, but had a blast in the process, the open water swim start is awesome.
Im currently back in the BB game, trying to get big and lean again for the summer, but once August 30th hits, I might consider switching again. I feel one day I might make the switch fully and never return to the iron game.
Anyone that serious about "dem gainz" all year round or do any of you have a love for other disciplines? I know there's a few MMA fighters here like Donny "The Skull Crusher".
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you are kidding yourself if you think you can leave bb behind
it's a mental disease
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We don't call it "bodybuilding" around these parts. It's called "liftin' weights".
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Most pro bodybuilders actually have world-class athleticism. Phil Heath could easily be a reserve in the NBA. A few of the 1990s pros had legit NFL talent and ran sub 4.19 times in high school. Most had undiagnosed knee injuries and were overtaken by the love of the iron. And of course, the pro BBing paydays make it worth it also.
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The other sport after quitting bodybuilding is having your own Youtube channel ....
Bodybuilders always have something important to say on their phone cam after done competing .
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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You mean - thinking about changing the mental dissease?
I'm not sure I'd be able to...unless some serious health consequences or other life circumstances that'd force me to quit..
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The other sport after quitting bodybuilding is having your own Youtube channel ....
Bodybuilders always have something important to say on their phone cam after done competing .
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I am not a bodybuilder, I "train". ::)
When I am done with the weights, I will take up again my one true love: long distance rifle. I still dabble in it, but I want to be one of those old grey fucks at the range that spends all day pressing rounds and shooting them into a single hole at 600m.
Barrel lathe FTW!
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We don't call it "bodybuilding" around these parts. It's called "liftin' weights".
This^^^Bodybuilding is for the fruitcakes...
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Not too long ago I quit weights (mostly) all together and took up triathlons, did a whole season of racing (4 races) plus one 10k running race. Lost a lot of weight, but had a blast in the process, the open water swim start is awesome.
Im currently back in the BB game, trying to get big and lean again for the summer, but once August 30th hits, I might consider switching again. I feel one day I might make the switch fully and never return to the iron game.
Anyone that serious about "dem gainz" all year round or do any of you have a love for other disciplines? I know there's a few MMA fighters here like Donny "The Skull Crusher".
I do mma every now and then when the vibe hits me, the funny thing is when I go into the class and they are doing their long 45 min warm ups I dont participate I tell the instructor I did my hardcore workout already I am only here for the techniques.
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Most pro bodybuilders actually have world-class athleticism. Phil Heath could easily be a reserve in the NBA. A few of the 1990s pros had legit NFL talent and ran sub 4.19 times in high school. Most had undiagnosed knee injuries and were overtaken by the love of the iron. And of course, the pro BBing paydays make it worth it also.
Are you delusional? Sub 4.19 times? Phil would have never been drafted in the NBA. Now if you're talking bout Mike Katz he played for the Jets. Most pro bodybuilders couldn't run a slow mile without gassing. The pro paydays are very short lived.
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Are you delusional? Sub 4.19 times? Phil would have never been drafted in the NBA. Now if you're talking bout Mike Katz he played for the Jets. Most pro bodybuilders couldn't run a slow mile without gassing. The pro paydays are very short lived.
I think 240 was tongue in cheek with his reply.
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I played rugby and football to a decent standard
and boxed for a couple of years
I started weight training when I was boxing and just carried it on
you can bodybuild at any age
as you get into your thirties especially mid thirties you lose a yard in the other sports
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Bodybuilding is a lifestyle bro, I'm living it 24/7.
Except for the weekends, you'll catch me doing a spot of cagefighting or perhaps some light yoga.
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No, I like being healthy. Lifting weights does supplement other sports though.
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flinstones could have played in the MLB or the World Cup track circuit but elected to be a bodybuilder.
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No. I like individual sports. (Read narcissistic, offbeat, self absorbed)
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Every contest prep I consider quitting competitive bodybuilding after the show.
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You mean - thinking about changing the mental dissease?
I'm not sure I'd be able to...unless some serious health consequences or other life circumstances that'd force me to quit..
this is what nasser said pretty much
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Not too long ago I quit weights (mostly) all together and took up triathlons, did a whole season of racing (4 races) plus one 10k running race. Lost a lot of weight, but had a blast in the process, the open water swim start is awesome.
Im currently back in the BB game, trying to get big and lean again for the summer, but once August 30th hits, I might consider switching again. I feel one day I might make the switch fully and never return to the iron game.
Anyone that serious about "dem gainz" all year round or do any of you have a love for other disciplines? I know there's a few MMA fighters here like Donny "The Skull Crusher".
Just remember that one is a sport and the other isn't.
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Not too long ago I quit weights (mostly) all together and took up triathlons, did a whole season of racing (4 races) plus one 10k running race. Lost a lot of weight, but had a blast in the process, the open water swim start is awesome.
Im currently back in the BB game, trying to get big and lean again for the summer, but once August 30th hits, I might consider switching again. I feel one day I might make the switch fully and never return to the iron game.
Anyone that serious about "dem gainz" all year round or do any of you have a love for other disciplines? I know there's a few MMA fighters here like Donny "The Skull Crusher".
Get back into triathlon, do a few more years and then sign up for a half ironman and then a full.
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When I was younger, I lifted for baseball.
Then I found football, and I lifted for football.
Then I found wrestling, and I lifted for wrestling (and football) in high school and college.
Then when my high level sporting days were gone after college, and all I had left was old man softball and jiu jitsu, I still enjoyed lifting to help me do as well as I could at these two sports.
As I get older still (my jiu jitsu days are numbered due to elbow and shoulder injuries) I find all I have left are two things:
1. archery
2. lifting
Lifting isn't making me a better archer. I guess I can just throw myself headlong into archery. Go all "green arrow" and shit.
Which leaves just lifting, for lifting's sake.
Problem is, as sports have come and gone in my life, the one constant has bene lifting. I'm not sure what I'd do if I couldn't do it.
Have I contemplated life without lifing? Yes. Am I looking forward to it? Absolutely not...it scares the bejesus out of me. So much of how I project myself to the world is tied up in my physical stature. Take it away, and I'm down to just brains and personality (the latter not exactly being my strong suit). And I'm pretty tired of using my brain, too.
What scares me most is that my joints will eventually wear out, and I'll no longer be able to lift.
Life is cruel as we age...we just get shit taken away from us. I certainly appreciate what I'm able to do now in the gym, and am thankful for every day I get to go there and lift.
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Have stopped bodybuilding over the years. Played pickup basketball on the weekends and started riding my bike 10-20 miles or so. Also played organized men's and mixed Softball.
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Got bored to death w BB and doing BB routines over the years and now lift more for the GR and other related events.
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I never admit to being a bodybuilder with the general public.
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I never admit to being a bodybuilder with the general public.
"i just try to keep in shape when i get the chance"
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I never admit to being a bodybuilder with the general public.
Too true. I like to "get exercise occasionally"
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Too true. I like to "get exercise occasionally"
"I just go to keep fit" ;D
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Most pro bodybuilders actually have world-class athleticism. Phil Heath could easily be a reserve in the NBA. A few of the 1990s pros had legit NFL talent and ran sub 4.19 times in high school. Most had undiagnosed knee injuries and were overtaken by the love of the iron. And of course, the pro BBing paydays make it worth it also.
LOL.. Most bodybuilding paychecks are not unlike the checks received each week by McDonalds "athletes." ;D
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I am not a bodybuilder, I "train". ::)
When I am done with the weights, I will take up again my one true love: long distance rifle. I still dabble in it, but I want to be one of those old grey fucks at the range that spends all day pressing rounds and shooting them into a single hole at 600m.
Barrel lathe FTW!
only 600?! BAH! shouldn't even need optics for that! lol
the one thing I miss about the Midwest is heading out to the farm (or country) and going through a couple boxes of ammo.
fuck shooting paper though... I liked to take old plates and coffee mugs and $.20 cans of cola, spray'em 'safety orange' and put them on fence posts or hang'em from tree's. much more enjoyable to see a 'poof' of powdered coffeemug or spray from a soda can from 500+yards than hitting a paper target. ;D
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only 600?! BAH! shouldn't even need optics for that! lol
the one thing I miss about the Midwest is heading out to the farm (or country) liquor store and going through a couple boxes of ammo.
fuck shooting paper though... I liked to take old plates and coffee mugs and $.20 cans of cola, spray'em 'safety orange' and put them on fence posts or hang'em from tree's. much more enjoyable to see a 'poof' of powdered coffeemug or spray from a soda can from 500+yards than hitting a paper target. ;D
fixed
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"I just go to keep fit" ;D
I don't like to bother myself in the gym.
(please, someone get this old getbig meme).
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I've completely given it away.
I do running now. Half marathons, cross country events etc.
I wish I'd given it away years ago.
With running I can still get drunk a couple days before a big event and do well. A couple days before a bodybuilding event I would be doing sodium deplete, eating the right carbs, schmoe squatting in room 7 and getting a bikini wax.
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Another "Sport" ???
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I've completely given it away.
I do running now. Half marathons, cross country events etc.
I wish I'd given it away years ago.
With running I can still get drunk a couple days before a big event and do well. A couple days before a bodybuilding event I would be doing sodium deplete, eating the right carbs, schmoe squatting in room 7 and getting a bikini wax.
good on you, so bigorexia can be cured ;D
there's something very satisfying about finishing a long distance race which lasts for many days after
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I never admit to being a bodybuilder with the general public.
Same here. But secretly and behind closed doors I live by the thong and will die by the thong. Just never in public.
I've been running way more because the wife got a crazy running stroller. Good excuse to take of my shirt and flex my shit in front on people for the ego boost and my baby loves runs.
I might take up boxing again or kick boxing if I can find a decent club. Having a half decent physique again feels great, but it's even greater now that I have actual health and fitness to go with it. Not always sweating, shitting or feeling winded.
Bodybuilding is great but it's too isolated. Working out a few times a week balls to the wall feels rewarding but you don't have to eat around the clock or drag your ass around all the time. There can be balance too.
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I've completely given it away.
I do running now. Half marathons, cross country events etc.
I wish I'd given it away years ago.
With running I can still get drunk a couple days before a big event and do well. A couple days before a bodybuilding event I would be doing sodium deplete, eating the right carbs, schmoe squatting in room 7 and getting a bikini wax.
Training for Hvar '14 , :D
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Not too long ago I quit weights (mostly) all together and took up triathlons, did a whole season of racing (4 races) plus one 10k running race. Lost a lot of weight, but had a blast in the process, the open water swim start is awesome.
Im currently back in the BB game, trying to get big and lean again for the summer, but once August 30th hits, I might consider switching again. I feel one day I might make the switch fully and never return to the iron game.
Anyone that serious about "dem gainz" all year round or do any of you have a love for other disciplines? I know there's a few MMA fighters here like Donny "The Skull Crusher".
sadly bro i quit sports to take up lifting weights.
biggest mistake of my life.
i wish i had have stayed an athlete who added in weight lifting into my regimne instead of dumping athletics all together.
luckily ive had a re awakening as to the importance of athletics in my life and am finding an appreciable balance.
i realised that you can be a jacked dude who can cycle 100km in a day or play 5 on 5 full court run and gun all afternoon.
the ultimate human machine as it were.
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The weights never leave you. It infests you. More than running, swimming, bike riding. If you quit for some time and see a dude walking by who is "built" you remember your old self. If you are watching a football game and you see a player throw up a double biceps after a play, you remember. When you walk by the weight benches at a dept store, you remember.
When you do push ups, and get that pump in your triceps and chest, you remember. When you look down at that spare tire, you remember that "6 pack". Hell, when you are changing a tire, you remember how light it used be back when you were lifting, and how it didn't take that much torque to get the wheel off.
Weight training is not so much the action, but the lifestyle and the physical growth that you can see with your own eyes. Damn near anybody can run, or ride a bike, and this is not taking away from those sports, but not too many people have the discipline to take years of developing themselves, much like a martial arts.
The true key to balance is utilizing weight training with other forms of athletics...
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sadly bro i quit sports to take up lifting weights.
biggest mistake of my life.
i wish i had have stayed an athlete who added in weight lifting into my regimne instead of dumping athletics all together.
luckily ive had a re awakening as to the importance of athletics in my life and am finding an appreciable balance.
i realised that you can be a jacked dude who can cycle 100km in a day or play 5 on 5 full court run and gun all afternoon.
the ultimate human machine as it were.
I love cycling, something about the fresh air and pushing your body through the element.
This guy is a power lifter and a an Ironman Triathlon racer Alex Viada.
His biggest emphasis is on recovery, you can do a two hour cycle or run, but you must take next day off for example and eat accordingly. A mistake I made when prepping for my tri's I was swimming mornings and running/cycling evenings 5 times a week, never gave my body any rest and my muscles withered away.
If he can do it, I think we can too.
(http://www.completehumanperformance.com/uploads/3/5/2/3/3523174/9660347_orig.jpg)
(http://www.jtsstrength.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Alex-Viada-Running.jpg)
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should never have started the steronz :'(
should have just carried on with sports to keep lean and added a bit of weight training for a few extra llbs of muscle.
want to change things up after this summer. bodybuilding is not healthy
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should never have started the steronz :'(
should have just carried on with sports to keep lean and added a bit of weight training for a few extra llbs of muscle.
want to change things up after this summer. bodybuilding is not healthy
the serious posters are out.
I might try and do what Alex Viada does, a combo between the two is a good way.
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i only train chest biceps abs and quads nowadays, to look good in bed and in summer, probably for three hours max a week, definitely lost interest /got bored with always doing the same shit over and over again. Play pick up bball on the week ends once or twice a month.
I like the feeling of having bigger biceps and chest than other men tho, i would feel too bad to lose that. Most of the time i force myself these days, it s often a chore more than anything. Doesnt do as much good as it did initially in terms of well being.
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the serious posters are out.
I might try and do what Alex Viada does, a combo between the two is a good way.
Or you can do like Myseone and take up art. He had one of best physiques on here. And great artwork.
http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/photos/view-user-photo/144631 (http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/photos/view-user-photo/144631)
http://iconosquare.com/tag/myseone (http://iconosquare.com/tag/myseone)
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i only train chest biceps abs and quads nowadays, to look good in bed and in summer, probably for three hours max a week, definitely lost interest /got bored with always doing the same shit over and over again.
no back??????
back is the one bodypart I'm sure to train every week.
if I miss a chest day... eh who cares
if I miss a bicep day.. or a month of biceps? who cares
if I miss a tricep day? well... this takes a 2nd place to back. lol
delts? round as hell anywyas, I can afford to take a year off
quads? I'm feeling old as fuck... working 12hr days.. haven't trained legs in 6+ months. lol
but back??? missing back???? NOOOOOOOO!
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no back??????
back is the one bodypart I'm sure to train every week.
if I miss a chest day... eh who cares
if I miss a bicep day.. or a month of biceps? who cares
if I miss a tricep day? well... this takes a 2nd place to back. lol
delts? round as hell anywyas, I can afford to take a year off
quads? I'm feeling old as fuck... working 12hr days.. haven't trained legs in 6+ months. lol
but back??? missing back???? NOOOOOOOO!
this explains why your arms look like shit
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this explains why your arms look like shit
well, unlike you, I was an athlete most my life and have injuries to show for it... including a degenerated c5, compressed c7, impingements, nerve damage, and scar tissue in each shoulder.. left is much worse, oddly enough since I'm righty and pitched for 14 years... nerve damage in chest from broken sternum and shattered clavicle. nerves that control your upper arms/upper back originate from the c5/c6 genius.
btw... they're still 18.5 cold.. just shy of 20 with a pump with a couple liters of water in me with a full day of meals, a couple doses of ghrp and 40mcg igf1 in each bicep and tricep.
you still humping the dream of 18inch arms? with zero back? judging by your pics, if your arms are 17.5inches, your forarmes must be 18inches because they're as big or bigger than your upper arms.
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More from myseone
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I regret dropping other sports at the expense of lifting weights. That whole bullshit peddled by the industry that every workout is sacred and you are a fragile petal that needs to be static to recover made me start skipping 5-a-side football games and stop doing tennis in case I got injured or because I had DOMS.
I was able to balance lifting with work, study and social life throughout university, it never occurred to me to balance lifting with other activities.
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only 600?! BAH! shouldn't even need optics for that! lol
the one thing I miss about the Midwest is heading out to the farm (or country) and going through a couple boxes of ammo.
fuck shooting paper though... I liked to take old plates and coffee mugs and $.20 cans of cola, spray'em 'safety orange' and put them on fence posts or hang'em from tree's. much more enjoyable to see a 'poof' of powdered coffeemug or spray from a soda can from 500+yards than hitting a paper target. ;D
I tricked out my son's 10/22 with a decent scope and a suppressor, so he likes to shoot water filled soda cans in the backyard.
500 or 600m is a great shot with a medium round like a .308. Even at 1MOA (which is about the best I am gong to get) we are still talking about 6". I miss a lot of cans with that accuracy.
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I'm certainly not a bodybuilder but I'm a total gym rat and dont ever see that stopping. So you can pack up that quitter talk and take it up to bb.com sweetie
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This guy is a Getbig member
Maybe incorporating some of his workouts might spice things up
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I'm running a lot lately. I just feel fantastic after coming back from a good run. After lifting I just feel tired. Something about biking, swimming or running that makes it a super anti depressant.
I found that it's really hard to lift heavy when you're doing a lot of cardio. Also split routines are usually a mistake for me when I run a lot. It always seems I am putting off a part of the split because of exhaustion. I find I can keep muscular doing a whole body routine twice a week. That leaves 5 days for running and other exercise outside of bodybuilding. I feel really healthy and full of energy.
I do something like this twice a week. I will do 6 weight workouts in three weeks. I will predict what my goal is on the 6th workout and back off 5 to 10lbs per exercise for each of the 6 workouts. Every workout is an increase in weight. In the beginning an exercise could be easy but doing the reps strict it's still beneficial. After 6 workouts I change the exercises completely.
Power clean and jerk 3 x 3
squats 2 x 8
Lunges 1 x 8
standing leg curl 2 x 10
Dumbbell flat bench 2 x 8
chins 2 x max
close grip cable row 2 x 12
military press 2 x 8
dumbbell lateral raise 2 x 10
weighted dips 2 x 10
barbell curls 2 x 10
Hanging leg raises 2 x max
machine crunches 2 x 20
standing calf raise 2 x 15
weighted back extensions 2 x 15
gripper work 2 x max
neck work 1 set per side
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I tricked out my son's 10/22 with a decent scope and a suppressor, so he likes to shoot water filled soda cans in the backyard.
500 or 600m is a great shot with a medium round like a .308. Even at 1MOA (which is about the best I am gong to get) we are still talking about 6". I miss a lot of cans with that accuracy.
back then not many guys shot .308, most everybody had .30-06. would've loved to had a .338 back then.
didn't have the mechanical/engineering experience back then to machine up a suppressor that wouldn't completely fuck the accuracy.lol.. luckily didn't need one shooting out in the country. I could fill up coffee-cans with gunpowder and bury them with a backhoe 3ft deep with a 30ft fuse and blow them all day without anybody noticing. (and we did. lol)... but hell, if I'd shoot a cow in the ass with a pellet gun I'd hear about it within an hour. lol
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I came off for about 6 months, from September to March, and just ate whatever in reasonable quantities and stuck to cardio/stretching mostly. Lifted 2-3x a week, just some bullshit.
Yeah I got soft, but my weight went down and I looked the same in clothes... Just needed a mental break.
Now after being on again, I feel like a new man.... going to the gym is exciting again, and my motivation to diet is high again. I feel like I did the first time i started juice, eager to see where my body will end up.
Once being on the juice becomes the "new normal", It's a good idea to take some time off imo