Dr Gloom

Do you honestly not think they're a big club?

Why train in the first place? It's good for the body and mind, makes you feel good and is good for your heart. Ultimately though, most people get into it because they want to improve their body image. Why wear nice designer clothes? Why get a good hair cut? Why wear expensive after shave? It's the same thing; it's trying to project the best image of yourself that you can. That doesn't necessarily mean looking like one of the spray tan steroid chumps from Geordie shore.

Everyone has a different take on what makes a club "big". We are a big club; so are they.

Fuck off back to the cooking thread then. I'm sure CT will be happy to share his latest pie recipe with you there.

Super sets are when you perform two or more sets of different excercises without resting. Great way to build muscle while burning fat. BCAA is Branch Chain Amino Acids. Those are 3 or 4 of the 12 amino acids that make up a protein. Those specific ones are responsible for muscle generation. Awesome supplement. Helps with recovery and getting lean.

Everton are a big club with a proud history. No doubt about that.

Petis pois. Always frozen

tabby mctat is a good one. not a massive fan of zog. jack and the flum flum tree is good, if a bit bizarre.

not her best work. i'm more of a fan of the snail and the whale and tiddler myself.

the peckham one's no oil painting either, being situated right on the peckham high street. nice frsh bread, meats and cheese though. though it is quite small - 4 or 5 stalls at most. usually go there after i've taken the bairn swimming or to the soft play

you've supported newcastle since you were 6-7. really? how come?

there's a small but nice one by peckham pulse worth checking out. i don't think that's far from you...

BCCA is the only thing i'd recommend on top of whey. Gains and recovery time have improved massively since I started to use it. Agree about training being addictive. Easy to fall out of the habit though. The hardest bit is getting back into it. Once I'm in the zone though I love the way it makes me feel. Improves my mood, my energy levels increase and sex life gets way better. I honestly couldn't recommend regular excercise enough if things are stalling in the bedroom. Not only do you look better to each other if you're in good shape, but I swear it makes you more horny too. The wife agrees so it must work for men and women. Honestly, I never shag less than when I'm in a boozy, over eating bloated phase.

Well he talks a good game about his guns

Make sure you don't cut your protein though mate or you'll burn muscle as well as or instead of fat

Proof if you ever need it that stats can be meaningless

Monkeyfist - the abseiling king of smut. Funny lad and family man. Monroe transfer/tecato - used to be overly pessimistic about the toon. Now has. Go at others when they do the same LBT - athlete like physique but funny shape head. Annoying views on football. Possible sex offender Aeris - LBT's alter ego unless she posts a pic of her tits with I'm not LBT written on them

Here man, where's mine?

Soz like. I just used the old lot of names and added who was online at the time to the mix. For the record I'd say you're a good young poster from the north west who happens to be a bit of a computer whizz. I'm sure you're thrilled to have my verdict.

Doesn't he play wide a bit too? Stats can always mislead. Anyway, he'd have to be a fucking cart horse to be worse than our current options, shola and ranger. French internationals generally are good players

I doubt I'll stick to it religiously. Probably going to have one cheat day per week at the weekend. I find it quite easy to stay disciplined during the week unless I'm away with work - then diet and training tends to go out of the window. It helps I have a mrs that's into training and nutrition too. But to be honest, you don't get real results unless you're dedicated. Even then it's hard.

didn't do this first time around so here's my effort now. i've added a few that were logged on that didn't make the cut last time and left off a few old names i can't remember @yourservice - photoshop legend. one of TT's most valuable posters. aimaad - doesn't post very often but when he does, it's mainly in the football forum. seems canny enough alex - prickly character. not always the most welcoming chap but a dry sense of humour and has good taste in whisky. still living in the 90s when it comes to music though Ally - good lad. doesn't seem to post as much these days. Ant - good lad. Irish tech guru that doesn't take shit. respect for handling of leazesmag situation alreetlike - one of the few lasses kicking about on here. don't see her much on the football board these days. enjoy her contributions to the fitness thread. Ayatollah Hermione - Good poster, with a dry sense of humour - young lad i think but he's made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion. Baggio - used to enjoy his baiting of leazesmag. don't see him around too much these days. Barney - irish toon fan. good poster; one of the old school TT crew stick kicking about. enjoy his contributuions bobbyshinton - old school TT legend and teller of crap jokes Bombadil - Not sure if this kid used to be Swissmag - could have got that totally wrong. not sure he even posts these days tbh. Bridget - Old school poster, now an MP. Brock Manson - Reading fan and without doubt one of the best chefs on the board canofbeans - nice lad catmag - Another one of our lasses. Nurse by night, Mother by day. Canny lass ChezGiven - Good on numbers and the economy. Less so with his views on how the football club should be run Craig - Old School TT crew. Doesn't post much anymore. Wears glasses. Christmas Tree - I'm genuinely fond of him, even though he talks more nonsense than most. Worst taste in music on the board. Worst dieter. Biggest flip-flopper and without a doubt the worst cook. Credit to him for coming back despite the constant piss taking. David Kelly - knows his football ewerk - Old School TT crew. Solid poster, though always used to get him confused with khay for some reason Fancy Dan lecturer - Legend Gejon - Boxer. Leazes-baiter. That makes him a good lad in my eyes. Gemmill - Makes me laugh more than anyone else on here. TT legend Happy Face - Loves a stat. Good poster Howmanheyman - good poster. knows his football and enjoy his sense of humour too, especially his cockney impressions. Holden McGroin - Not sure if he posts that much anymore but I've always enjoyed his username Howaythelads - Total dick Howaythetoon - ditto Isegrim - resident Kraut. Tends to lurk and post very rarely these days. J69/The Rollingstones/Kid dynamite - likes a pinball machine and motorbike. doesn't like a drink. definitely has a high opinion of himself and seems to wind a lot of people up but I've never found him that bad really. JawD - Old school TT legend. Had the patience of a saint when it came to dealing with Leazesmag. Good poster. Jimbo - old school legend. Shame he fucked off really Jonny2J/Tooj - I'm sure we actually agree about a lot of stuff and share the same tastes but never really got on with him that well. Kevin Carr's Gloves - I know the name well but can't remember if he still posts much or not khay - got him confused with ewerk for ages. not sure why or whether if he still posts much. LeazesMag - genuinely worried for the man's mental health. The day he was banned was a breakthrough moment for TT Li3nZ - Lurker. Old school poster. Think he's from ponteland, my hometown. Used to enjoy seeing him wind up Blaydon back in the day. luckyluke - Think he lives in Leeds though might be mistaken. Been kickign around a while. manc-mag - old school TT legend, the grey man seems to have fucked off these days, which is a shame. He was a legend when it came to baiting LM. MattM4 - used to always kick off with me for never writing in upper case, which made me think he was a bit of a bellend. don't see him post much anymore Meenzer - top lad and old school TT legend. enjoy his posts and dry sense of humour. Noelie - grumpy old man exiled in the states. hope he gets laid one last time before he kicks the bucket. Optimistic Nut - can't remember if he's still here under a different name. one of the old school TT crew. Papa Lazaru - old school TT legend. absolutely hates the 3-5-2 formation. knows his football Parky - TT legend. exiled in hamburg. good lad but a bit of a nutter with his conspiracy theories. Boderline anti-semite but i let him off for the all-round quality of his posts. Peasepud - owns this place i think along with a few others. doesn't post so much anymore. i share his pessimism about the the club's direction under ashley Renton - likes a stained glass window. guardian reading, namby pamby do gooder. probably seen his share of fancy dan lecturers. Rob_W - is he still alive? hates f1 with a passion Shearergol - haven't seen him post for years. was he from scunthorpe or something? Smooth Operator - used to enjoy his posts. bit of an old perv. snakehips - another old school TT legend that doesn't seem to be with us much these days. stevieintoon - frustrates and entertains in equal measure - bit like laurent robert. has a bit of an inflated view of our standing in the game currently. some of his posts about rival clubs and the size of nufc make me cringe. but to be honest, this place would be far poorer without him. definitely needs to shift a few pounds though. sweetleftpeg - old school TT legend and all round good poster. T-Keith/Tom - i think this is tom these days? not sure. but if so, he's got long hair, plays guitar and is an all round good poster. Taylor27 - absolute bell end from back in the day The Fish - got an even dodgier geordie accent than me. good lad and poster, if a bit verbose. fellow adopted londoner Toonpack - don't agree with him about much whether it's football or gun control. articulate chap though. every message board needs its anti-consensus posters. Ugly Mackems - think he organises coach trips to the match Wacky Jnr - Old School legend. Vertically challenged. Used to crack me up so shame he doesn't post anymore really. wellsy - not sure. was he an aussie? wykikitoon - used to always get him confused with luckyluke. pretty sure he's a good lad. Zathras - yank poster that needs silly pictures to stop him feeling down

i used to absolutely love knightmare like. what a dork i was.

so what is everyone's new diet or training plan looking like? CT - what is it this year? weightwatchers or slimming world? i had my bodyfat measured this morning. came in at 14.4 per cent. easily the fattest i've been in a while. my new trainer's got me on a pretty savage training and nutrition plan, designed to have me down at 10 per cent body fat in 12 weeks. the hardest bit, as always, will be maintaining after adopting a less disciplined diet. just recovering now from a savage kettlebell class. 1 circuit, 5 sets of 1 minute swing, 45 second kettle bell press up, 45 second clean and press, 45 second squat to press and 45 second burpee. with no break inbetween followed by a one minute rest inbetween each set, using a 20kg bell. nutrition-wise, i'm eating pretty clean; low carb on non-training days. some complex carbs pre and post workout on training days. also aiming to stay off the booze for 6 weeks, other than my one cheat day per week where i'm allowed a couple of glasses of red wine. the training is the easy bit. not cheating on the nutrition side is the real challenge. especially after a christmas holiday where i drank my bodyweight in booze and ate countless junk meals.