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You Are Your Own Gym by Mark Lauren
I tried a couple and settled on this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leafcutterstudios.yayog - but I'm also going to bookmark this page and try some others when/if I progress all the way on this.
The problem I found recently is there are no deload weeks or option to deload.
One time fee of 5 or 6 bucks. Definitely better than a subscription plan; you should be able to use it for at least half a year. The final workouts are one-armed pushups and pistol squats, etc.
The main app is "You are your own gym", https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leafcutterstudios.yayog&hl=en&gl=US, is the main app. The programs, the exercises etc. But to keep size down they only have ~3 frame gifs of each exercise. If you also install "Yayog video pack" you get full videos instead. You only use the main yayog app, never the other two. They just provide video files :)
Bodyweight exercises (where you work against the weight of your own body) were tremendously helpful to me, and you can do them pretty much anywhere. The You Are Your Own Gym app and book were great. It allowed a nice ramp-up of intensity.
I didn't lose weight, but I added a LOT of muscle. I've gone up 4 inches in chest size (with no change in waist size). Had to buy new suits and jackets... Off-the-shelf suits fit now!
I guess it works both ways. I remember in my last attempt at gymming, it used to really pump me up when I saw I could lift even slightly heavier than last week. That was a huge source of motivation. But at the end of the day, when I went home I felt disappointed with my body, saw no gains (just some on my arms, since there's not much fat over there) and slowly lost motivation.
Plus I was a bit tight on cash at that point so maintaining a good bulk diet was slightly tough. And similarly it was tough for me to maintain a healthy cutting diet when I changed priorities. End result, I'm in the same place I was in July.
>You can really pack on some noob gains even while cutting if you're on a good starter program and dieting properly.
Hmm. Okay I have a follow up question here. I can start my gym routine from June. What can I do till June? Until I'm in college, I have a) No money for gym, b) No money for maintaining a good diet. I started YAYOG last week, and maintain a rough ~1800kcal (or less) diet a day. I guess this rough 'routine' can give me decent fat loss till June. Or maybe I should drop YAYOG and start running (C25K or something). Side by side, I'm also reducing my cigarettes slowly (down to 1 a day from 7 a day!).
From June onwards, since you're suggesting cutting, what kind of diet and routine would you suggest? Starting Strength + 500kcal deficit?
I highly recommend the app "you are your own gym" or yayog by Mark Lauren
It's basically got a year's worth of workouts starting from absolute beginner all the way through advanced and just walks you through it.
It lets you do his pre-planned daily workouts, customize your workouts, or have it make a workout for you based on how long you have to work out etc.
He has another app out there for body weight exercises but I would suggest with starting with the first one rather than his newer subscription one. I've had excellent progress with his first one.
You don't need a barbell to progressively overload and focus on time under tension
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leafcutterstudios.yayog
Hey that's awesome that you made this post! Me being the one who didn't have access to a gym at the time a year ago I was in the same situation as you are I sought out something or anything to help me maintain a daily workout routine or something along the lines of keeping active.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leafcutterstudios.yayog
That app is what I came across on nofap a while ago. While I don't use it to much anymore unless for some reason I can't make it to the gym it really does incorporate many forms and techniques for you to workout mostly anywhere at anytime!
You Are Your Own Gym is one I've used before, I thought it was quite good.
I've done some of those: Cooking / Eating healthy - two birds with one stone:
Every Sunday morning my Wife and I sit down after breakfast with our laptops /cookbooks and make a list of 5 dinners we want to try during the week. We us open office and note the recipe name, the book name , page number and maybe a comment - like Needs fresh corriander, buy the day before.
Then we check what ingredients we have and add anything we need to the a shopping list under the list of recipes. Save the file with a date or something.
Then print it out snip of the recipe list and stick it to the fridge, then go shopping only for the things we need for those dinners.
We buy enough so we have lunch for the following morning too. Along with this we buy things like fruit for the week, milk and other weekly stables.
You'd be surprised how much money you save shopping like this. You pretty much have what you need, but you also will build us stocks of herbs and dry pastas and such along the way.
Then, after a while, if you're feeling lazy one week you can just randomly pick on of the lists you've saved from before.
Make cooking an event, not a chore. We both work a 40 hour week, quite often I work 45. Cooking used to be something we dreaded, wished was over so we could watch bullshit on TV or browse the same crappy posts on Facebook for hours. Once you frame cooking as an event rather than a chore it makes a massive difference to your day. Eventually you get competent enough that you cook good food quickly. But chat with your significant other, have a friend over, listen to music or talk radio.
Uninstall facebook from your phone. Seriously. My phone broke, I had a shitty phone for a few months, you know what I missed?? absolutely NOTHING.
15 minutes a day is all you need for social media like facebook. I like instagram too, because I can share photos quickly and easily with my family without actually going on 'real' social media. Install StayFocused or some other plugin for chrome/firefox and use that to limit your daily access to social media, don't go cold turkey, but recognise when your allotted daily allowance is over it's time to do something else.
I know what you do when you don't go on those sites - actual stuff!! :-D
Buy this, but maybe not the academic one, and follow it's instructions.
It took me about 3 or 4 months (and constant vigilance) to get into my new routine.
For exercise, check this out, best few $$$ I've ever spent! Make sure to check your furniture can take your weight though, there's a reason he's training in an old building! :-D
Have fun!
Found it: The name is You Are Your On Gym, YAYOG. Android app here.
Add https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leafcutterstudios.yayog
It's a good app, with great programs. Many here worked with the book.
Ah, indeed.
It seems you can build your own exercises with that app too.