Ways to help Cousins keep weight down

[mac]

As the great philosopher said, bull hookie.

At best doing it right -- whatever that means given that you poll 1000 trainers and you get 1000 different answers -- makes it a little easier, might increase your results by 25% or something. Shocking as it may seem to a modern trainer, people have been successfully engaging in diets for thousands of years before anybody ever wrote the first book on whatever their version of the truth was. There was probably some caveman who dropped 25 lbs to impress a cavegirl by cutting back on his portions of wooly mammoth. When I decided my football days were over and wanted to move on to tennis I once lost 50 lbs on two bowls of cereal a day and a reasonable dinner combined with 2-3 hours of exercise a day. Took me a little over 4 months. I got to the lowest body fat of my life on a Whopper jr., canned green beans, baked potatoes, and hot chocolate diet, combined with an hour of weights and 2-3 hours of basketball every night (I miss the leisure of college). For a girl of course. Every once in a while I would treat myself to these delcicious little carrot cake squares made by a local company back there, and sucked on some hard chocolate candies that alas gave me cavities to satisfy my chocolate addiction. A housemate my senior year was a completely ripped wrestler who went on to win his weihgt class in the Mr. Penn bodybuilding contest, and during the season he would survive on basically nothing but pasta with marinara sauce dumped in cold. Were any of the above examples the absolute most efficient way to go about it? I sincerely doubt it. But they were all done, all imminently doable. Having to drop 20 lbs as a millionaire professional athlete simply does not require all this fussing and fighting. Its a simple where there's a will there's a way proposition. He can hire a chef, has all the professional trainers he could ask for, free access to a gym and state of the art weightlifiting equipment (just stay away from the exercise balls). Its 20 lbs, and he's a 20 year old professional athlete with infinite money and free time to take care of it. If he wants to lose it, its gone.

Yeah. Losing weight is one of those things where you can do it in many ways... There are of course, a range of results, effectiveness and impact on one's health. I'm sure the stuff brought up by Hammer would be one of the best and healthiest ways, but at the same time one of the hardest in terms of planning your meals and stuff like that.

Anyway, I don't think we should make a big 'fuss' out of this when we haven't even seen Cousins on the floor. I for one have enough faith in him to believe that he will take the necessary steps to make him a better player.

On a side note, does anyone else hate it when you put on or lose a bit of muscle/strength and it totally messes up your jumpshot for the first couple of times you play ball?

 

[Bricklayer]

On a side note, does anyone else hate it when you put on or lose a bit of muscle/strength and it totally messes up your jumpshot for the first couple of times you play ball?

My approach to that problem was simple -- have such a crappy j that you didn't even notice the difference.

 

[The Hammer]

As the great philosopher said, bull hookie.

At best doing it right -- whatever that means given that you poll 1000 trainers and you get 1000 different answers -- makes it a little easier, might increase your results by 25% or something. And that's great and why you pay peeps to help you out. But shocking as it may seem to a modern trainer, people have been successfully engaging in diets for thousands of years before anybody ever wrote the first book on whatever their version of the truth was. There was probably some caveman who dropped 25 lbs to impress a cavegirl by cutting back on his portions of wooly mammoth. When I decided my football days were over and wanted to move on to tennis I once lost 50 lbs on two bowls of cereal a day and a reasonable dinner combined with 2-3 hours of exercise a day. Took me a little over 4 months. I got to the lowest body fat of my life on a Whopper jr., canned green beans, baked potatoes, and hot chocolate diet, combined with an hour of weights and 2-3 hours of basketball every night (I miss the leisure of college). For a girl of course. Every once in a while I would treat myself to these delcicious little carrot cake squares made by a local company back there, and sucked on some hard chocolate candies that alas gave me cavities to satisfy my chocolate addiction. A housemate my senior year was a completely ripped wrestler who went on to win his weihgt class in the Mr. Penn bodybuilding contest, and during the season he would survive on basically nothing but pasta with marinara sauce dumped in cold. Were any of the above examples the absolute most efficient way to go about it? I sincerely doubt it. But they were all done, all imminently doable. Having to drop 20 lbs as a millionaire professional athlete simply does not require all this fussing and fighting. Its a simple where there's a will there's a way proposition. He can hire a chef, has all the professional trainers he could ask for, free access to a gym and state of the art weightlifiting equipment (just stay away from the exercise balls). Its 20 lbs, and he's a 20 year old professional athlete with infinite money and free time to take care of it. If he wants to lose it, its gone.

P.S. I am not in any way attempting to say that I know the absolute best way for DMC to lose his weight. I am saying its ridiculous to say that there is only one way for a young athlete needing to shed 20 lbs to go about it. That is done all the time by all kinds of people who have no knowledge, or the wrong knowledge, or whatever. Its just not that impossible a feat. He could probably lose it eating pizza if he was serious about it.

I never said there was only one way to do it. But there certainly ARE better ways than others. The kinds of diets that you are citing are by far the most common ones that cause people to go into a yo-yo situation, they are simply not sustainable, and often, but not always, end up creating an endocrine situation that primes people to put it back on even faster. Malnourishment starvation diets I would not recommend to anyone. It may satisfy your need to exert your massive willpower, you may lose weight faster, you may feel "strong" for denying your natural, important urges for fat and protein, but it's never the long-term solution, and it's never the healthiest approach, for anyone, no matter if they are an elite athlete or average person.

 

[NME]

uh o.

Who's the genius sending him platters of sliders?

 

[Rookie]

This thread is making me hungry.

My diet strategy: Put out more than what you take in.

 

[The Hammer]

This thread is making me hungry.

My diet strategy: Put out more than what you take in.

Exactly. That approach is a diet strategy, which implies short term. It's not a long term solution for a way of eating. It's a temporary way to lose weight that can work for some people, and not all. Many people, especially women, try very hard starving themselves, but don't lose weight. And if it does work in the short term, it often comes back on. You can never reach optimum health by putting out more than what you take in. Cousins does not need a diet strategy, especially to support competing at the highest level.

 

[ReinadelosReys]

He can join John Brockman (and Brad Miller ) working out with MMA fighters

[video]http://urijahfaber.ning.com/video/video/showFullScreen?id=3097931%3AVideo%3A75444[/video]

 

[Rookie]

Exactly. That approach is a diet strategy, which implies short term. It's not a long term solution for a way of eating. It's a temporary way to lose weight that can work for some people, and not all. Many people, especially women, try very hard starving themselves, but don't lose weight. And if it does work in the short term, it often comes back on. You can never reach optimum health by putting out more than what you take in. Cousins does not need a diet strategy, especially to support competing at the highest level.

Depend on how you see it. You think of eating less, I was thinking of being more active. Why starve yourself? Food is good.

If you plan to have a big dinner, make sure you take a good walk to use some of it up before you sleep.

List of things people can do: (of course each person should do what they need to do to be happy plus using up those calories)
Walk with their dogs/kids/spouce.........nothing better than family bonding.
Clean the house...........wipe on...wipe off
Dance.......hey it's your house, you can do whatever you like.
Chase your pets, kids or significant others...........always good to build fun moment for memories.
Yard work........nothing beat looking at your beautiful home.
House hold chores...keep the germs away
Stop looking for parking close to the store...........better parking space.
Sex......