Ok, let's face it, looks DO matter.

First of all, chicks dig fit guys, so fitness is like another part of grooming and fashion in terms of improving your appearance.

Second, it is a way of expressing your personality. What inspires a guy to beef up into a mass monster shows a different personality than what inspires a guy to cut up into an acrobat or kung fu guy.

So, anyway, I thought it might be interesting to start a thread where we can all answer the following basic questions about ourselves:

1. Are you actively working out?
2. Who is your inspiration / who embodies or represents your goal physique?
3. What are the basics of your workout?
4. What are the basics of your meal plan?

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I'll go first

1. Yes, I'm working out. Today is the Monday of the tenth week of consistently working out and dieting after massively letting myself go during my last LTR.

2. My short term goal is to get very ripped, so my current goal would be like a Rain from Ninja Assassin (the ripped and symetrical part, I am already more muscular than he was) or Mark Dascascos.

3. Mon-Wed-Fri:
--5 min rope jumping (warmup)
--2 x 1 min of free-standing handstands (as long as I can, as often as I can in the minute) with one minute rest between sets
--four supersets of ten reps each of: plyo-pushups, tuck jumps, plyo-pushups, donkey kicks, plyo-pushups, front-back barrier jumps, plyo-pushups, side-side barrier jumps (I rest 30 sec between exercises and am always increasing the difficulty by using more advanced plyo-pushups)
--12 sets of 10 burpees with a full pushup at the bottom and a full jump at the top and 30 sec rest between sets

Tue & Thurs:
--5 min rope jumping (warmup)
--2 x 1 min of free-standing handstands with one minute rest between sets
--5 x 2 min rope jumping intervals with 30 sec rest between sets
--10 x 1 min rope jumping intervals with 15 sec rest between sets

4. 0600 hrs--300ml multi vitimin juice, 300ml skim milk, one bananna, one scoop whey protein, three tablespoons SPAM in a blender
0900 hrs--whey protein with water and a small handfull of almonds
1200 hrs--grilled chicken with rice
1500 hrs--whey protein with water and a small handfull of almonds
1800 hrs--two scoops whey protein in a liter of multi vitamin juice (post-workout meal)
2100 hrs--fat free cottage cheese

In the first eight weeks of this routine I already went from 97,4kg to 86,9kg (lost 23 lbs) and I'm feeling better than ever before!

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Why so much whey?
I only use whey before breakfast and after work out. I have holiday and I go everyday to the gym. I'm not fat, actually I need to eat more.

My goal is to be a some larger. My length is not so much.

Breakfast : milk with SPAM, whey with milk, bread, chicken breast or peanutbutter
12.00 hrs : tuna salat or tuna with bread, or greek yogurt
15.00 hrs : Around this time I eat something with carbohydrates before hitting the gym
18.00 hrs : After gym I eat rice, vegetables and fish or chicken
30 minutes before sleeping I eat something with a lot of protein like quark

Depending on how much whey you're using each time, I'm not sure about using it four times a day and pretty much keeping your body topped up with it. I always used to have some about an hour before a work out and then some directly after and that was about it.

Good luck with the routine etc though man. I have done similar routines for quite a few months at a time, but I always get fed up of how strict it is. I've just not got the willpower, and I enjoy my food and booze too much. And I'm a lazy bugger as well! Nowadays, I do enough cardio to stay fit and weights when I can be bothered, but that's about it. Kudos to you for sticking with this 10 weeks though and I hope you achieve your goals!

Well, the reason for so much whey is really just convienience.

In the morning and after the workouts, I want my body to get nutrients fast, so that's when I want to get some sugar and protien fast, therefore the fruit juice and whey protein.

Mid-morning and mid-afternoon, I usually don't have much time or desire to sit down and eat "again" so I just mix some powder with water and grab some almonds and I'm done.

The important thing is protein. I have also eaten low-fat cottage cheese and almonds or low-fat quark and almonds at those times, but, as anyone who has tried such a diet knows, one can eat so much of one thing for so long and at this time I'm going through a "whey-for-quick-protein-phase"

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Prepared Natural Game
Bridging the gap between routine game and just saying hi . . .

www.PreparedNaturalGame.com

That's nice Bob!
Do you guys also eat cashewnuts, peanuts and other good nuts?

1) I am actively working out
2) Ryan Reynolds or Terrell Owens
3) 5 day split -- mostly heavy compounds... focus on form more so than weight
4) Pretty strict. High protein, moderate carbs, lots of water... one or two cheat meals a week

@Dieko--I heard some bad things about peanuts a while ago and lots of good things about almonds lately, so that's one reason for the almonds.

Another is that I live in Germany and they don't have much healthy food here.

Peanuts are either still in the shell, which is simply too inconvienient for me or they are always salted, which is just junk.

The only reason that I can find almonds in their pure form is because they are sold in the backing section for use in cakes.

@Getwit--Owens is much too big for my taste, but that's just me. RR was awesome in "Just Friends" (at least in the beginning, while he was still alpha) and his body type is one that seems to be very attractive to every girl.

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dude eat some fruit and veg, low gi fruit not shit loads of bannans, veg will help you get ripped, you can eat loads of it as it has little calories and it will make you feel full, also you will be healthy.

Stick to whey protein for post- workout, if you must go for pre-workout and breakfast. Whey causes an insulin spike which will help shuttle nutrients to hungry muscles like after your workout but at other times it will help shuttle nutrients to fat stores. As a general rule high insulin makes you fat.

Good diet elsewhere.

1) Actively working out for the past year and a half with a few sport's scientists

2) only till recently have i Found this guy hes well known and hated across bodybuilding forum's but Zyzz has started to inspire me. Before that it was usually my friends and team mates that inspired me to get bigger and better.
I aim to gain a slow but lean 12.7 kg over two years to become my prefered wait of 95.25kg as i play outside centre in rugby

3) 6 weeks of strength training then 6-8 weeks of hypertrophy 5 x sessions a week , with the ocasional strength training camp and mediocre strength competition's.

4) Meal plan differs I try to stick to 6-8 meals a day ( each one with protien and i classify 3 of my protien shakes as meals)
I sup with Creatine, L-argamine, Mutant mass from time to time, Vitamin b5 for oily skin and vitamin c tablets for immune system

But i'm also a student so it's not cheap to be buying ton's of food so its hard to stick to this regime

I'm also looking into buying some T-bullets ( a barely leagl pro hormone) as getting gains au natural is becoming quite hard for me and i don't want to mess with anything stronger if you get me