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Weight loss/training Questions
- Thread starter Hughes412
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I have made an interesting correlation between body fat and alcohol / beer consumption. While people who drink a lot of beer get beer-bellies, alcoholics are VERY skinny! What this means is ... I need to up the ante a bit on drinking! Bottoms up!!
J/K ... 'tis the season for getting in shape though. This time of year, doctors' offices are filling with people over-doing it on exercising. I always felt the best way to make progress was to just stick to it ... not how much you are doing, but making sure you consistently get to the gym and get exercise.
J/K ... 'tis the season for getting in shape though. This time of year, doctors' offices are filling with people over-doing it on exercising. I always felt the best way to make progress was to just stick to it ... not how much you are doing, but making sure you consistently get to the gym and get exercise.
osu1steve said:I have made an interesting correlation between body fat and alcohol / beer consumption. While people who drink a lot of beer get beer-bellies, alcoholics are VERY skinny! What this means is ... I need to up the ante a bit on drinking! Bottoms up!!
J/K ... 'tis the season for getting in shape though. This time of year, doctors' offices are filling with people over-doing it on exercising. I always felt the best way to make progress was to just stick to it ... not how much you are doing, but making sure you consistently get to the gym and get exercise.
LoL...yea wtf? When I turned 21 I started drinking all kinds of different beers just to try them...now I have a small beer gut. Thats my primary reason for going to the gym now and trying to work it off.
i agree. I have set myself a long term goal of losing 25lbs by the end April and also be able to run 10km.
I plan on running 5 or 6 days a week for about 2 to 3 miles at a time; hopefully that will increase as i get better.
see my thread here: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2953730#post2953730
I plan on running 5 or 6 days a week for about 2 to 3 miles at a time; hopefully that will increase as i get better.
see my thread here: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2953730#post2953730
Well I can't find the link any more. But the thing was like this,
Monday
Warm up, cardio for 15min, then work on arms, then abs the finnish with 30 min cardio. The whole workout shouldn't last more then 90 mins
Off tuesday
Wendsday cardio, chest and back, abs then cario
off thursday
Friday cardio, legs, cardio
then off Sat and sunday.
This is pretty much the routin I'm doing but I do it the whole week. I'm using light weights because I don't want to gain any weight right now but I don't want to lose any muscle either. I'm also doing a low carb diet, staying under 2000 cals a day. As White said you need to burn more calories then you take in. The elipical I use tells you how many cals you burn, distance, and so one. I do 400-500 cals a day and then workout for 15 mins. So far for only 3 weeks I'm REALLY happy with the results. I don't have my inital reading but I've dropped about 6% of my body fat and have gained a little mass. I actually look forward to Mondays, thats when I weigh in.
Monday
Warm up, cardio for 15min, then work on arms, then abs the finnish with 30 min cardio. The whole workout shouldn't last more then 90 mins
Off tuesday
Wendsday cardio, chest and back, abs then cario
off thursday
Friday cardio, legs, cardio
then off Sat and sunday.
This is pretty much the routin I'm doing but I do it the whole week. I'm using light weights because I don't want to gain any weight right now but I don't want to lose any muscle either. I'm also doing a low carb diet, staying under 2000 cals a day. As White said you need to burn more calories then you take in. The elipical I use tells you how many cals you burn, distance, and so one. I do 400-500 cals a day and then workout for 15 mins. So far for only 3 weeks I'm REALLY happy with the results. I don't have my inital reading but I've dropped about 6% of my body fat and have gained a little mass. I actually look forward to Mondays, thats when I weigh in.
Hughes412 said:Well I can't find the link any more. But the thing was like this,
Monday
Warm up, cardio for 15min, then work on arms, then abs the finnish with 30 min cardio. The whole workout shouldn't last more then 90 mins
Off tuesday
Wendsday cardio, chest and back, abs then cario
off thursday
Friday cardio, legs, cardio
then off Sat and sunday.
This is pretty much the routin I'm doing but I do it the whole week. I'm using light weights because I don't want to gain any weight right now but I don't want to lose any muscle either. I'm also doing a low carb diet, staying under 2000 cals a day. As White said you need to burn more calories then you take in. The elipical I use tells you how many cals you burn, distance, and so one. I do 400-500 cals a day and then workout for 15 mins. So far for only 3 weeks I'm REALLY happy with the results. I don't have my inital reading but I've dropped about 6% of my body fat and have gained a little mass. I actually look forward to Mondays, thats when I weigh in.
wow man, thats pretty good.
about 3 years ago i did a plan called boy for life and it was a great experience; the diet part was a real b**** but the fitness part was actually pretty good.
It went something like:
Monday: Cardio for 20 mins
Tuesday: Upper body and abs.
Wednesday: Cardio
Thursday: Lower Body and abs
Friday: Cardio
Saturday: Upper body and abs again
Sunday off.... and so on so forth with the next monday starting with lower body.
The cool part is that the cardio was only 20 mins; but believe me it kicked my ass. It was like this: Rate your ability to run in a scale 1 to 10, 1 being the slowest possible (barely walking), 5 being a walk/trot pace where your start to increase heart rate. and 9 being the fastest you could possibly run. This way for a over weight person or really out of shape person a 5 would be a fast walking or even just walking. with a 9 being a light trot.
Every run goes like this:
Minute 1: level 5
Minute 2: level 6
Minute 3: level 7
Minute 4: level 8
Minute 5: level 9
Minute 6: level 6
Minute 7: level 7
Minute 8: level 8
Minute 9: level 9
Minute 10: level 6
Minute 11: level 7
Minute 12: level 8
Minute 13: level 9
Minute 14: level 6
Minute 15: level 7
Minute 16: level 8
Minute 17: level 9
Minute 18: level 10
Minute 19: level 5
If you paid attention you will notice that level 9 is "the fastest you can possibly run, full pace no hold barred, frenzy, crazy, cant breath, legs cant move pace" so what is level 10? Well level 10 is defined as crossing the abyss. Is the point where your brain must be shutdown, dont think of how tired you are or how much pain you are or how you cant breath, just run like you never have before for 1 minute. It is not easy and you wont do it the first few times, but little by little you will get to the point where you can close your eyes and suck it up. After that you will see a huge increase in your capacity.
Anyway, the program rusn for 12 weeks. Did it once, and if it wasnt for the bad food i'll be doing it again. I plan on doing a few of this runs a week to complement my endurance running as i also want to pick up pace and quickness.
Well I couldn't do that one. I've got a bad foot from a motorcycle wreck. That and if you ever get the chance to get on an elipticle you'll see that you burn way more calories on it then running. I ran a mile on the treadmill last week and it said I only burned alittle over 100 cals, but on the elipicle I burn 400 cals in 3 miles. That and it's soooo much better for you. You don't beat your knees and ancles to dealth.
yeah i know the elliptical is better for your body. You probably burn more calories because your upper body is also exercising a lot more than on a treadmill.
I am not a big fan of the elliptical though; the movement feels unnatural to me and i have a hard time actually doing it. I may give it a shot because it burns a lot of calories.
I am not a big fan of the elliptical though; the movement feels unnatural to me and i have a hard time actually doing it. I may give it a shot because it burns a lot of calories.
That was EXACTALLY how I felt the first 2 times I got on one. But it's like riding a horse. It only takes a few times to get the rythem down and then you don't bob up and down like a dork lol.
On a nother note. I got my fist weigh in. Heres the numbers. Lost 12LBS of FAT!
1/8/2007 1/15/2007 1/22/2007 1/29/2007
Tanita
Body Composition
Analyzer
TBF-410
Body Type Standard
Gender Male
Age 35
Height 6ft
Weight 231.2, 225, 223.4, 221 Down 10lbs
BMI 31.4, 30.5, 30.3, 30 Down 1.4
BMR 9169 kl, 9007 kj, 8965 kj, 8903 kj
2192cal, 2153kcal, 2143kcal, 2128kcal
Impedance 496, 503, 499, 479
Fat% 32.60%, 31.30%, 30.60%, 28.5% Down 4.1%
Fat Mass 75.4lb, 70.4lb, 68.4lb, 63.0lb Down 12.4 lbs!!!!
FFM 155.8lb 154.64lb, 155.0lb, 158.0lb Up 3lbs !!!
TBW 114lb, 113.2lb, 113.4lb, 115.6lb Up 1
Desirable Range
Fat% 17-23%
Fat Mass 31.6-46.2lb
BMI (Body Mass Index): ratio of weight and height
BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate): the amount of energy your body would use in a resting state
impedance is the measure of the speed of an electrical current through your body
FFM (Fat Free Mass
TBW (Total Body Water
On a nother note. I got my fist weigh in. Heres the numbers. Lost 12LBS of FAT!
1/8/2007 1/15/2007 1/22/2007 1/29/2007
Tanita
Body Composition
Analyzer
TBF-410
Body Type Standard
Gender Male
Age 35
Height 6ft
Weight 231.2, 225, 223.4, 221 Down 10lbs
BMI 31.4, 30.5, 30.3, 30 Down 1.4
BMR 9169 kl, 9007 kj, 8965 kj, 8903 kj
2192cal, 2153kcal, 2143kcal, 2128kcal
Impedance 496, 503, 499, 479
Fat% 32.60%, 31.30%, 30.60%, 28.5% Down 4.1%
Fat Mass 75.4lb, 70.4lb, 68.4lb, 63.0lb Down 12.4 lbs!!!!
FFM 155.8lb 154.64lb, 155.0lb, 158.0lb Up 3lbs !!!
TBW 114lb, 113.2lb, 113.4lb, 115.6lb Up 1
Desirable Range
Fat% 17-23%
Fat Mass 31.6-46.2lb
BMI (Body Mass Index): ratio of weight and height
BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate): the amount of energy your body would use in a resting state
impedance is the measure of the speed of an electrical current through your body
FFM (Fat Free Mass
TBW (Total Body Water
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wow good job Hughes! pretty soon you'll be looking like my avatar lol (well, I dunno if your gym workouts will turn you asian (rofl2))
your workout schedule looks pretty good to me for starters. nothing too crazy there, just make sure you have good form when you lift the weights. Good form prevents injuries as well as increases the efficiency of your workout.
One thing I would add to your workout is a 10 minute stretch after each workout (and even on days where you're not working out). Running on a treadmill or elliptical will eventually tighten up all your leg muscles if you don't stretch afterwards. Stretch your hamstrings, quads, and calves (with a straight leg and with a bent leg to get both calf muscles) every day. It'll probably hurt a little at first, but you'll get used to it! (Again though, don't overdo it and tear your hamstring or anything trying to stretch lol)
your workout schedule looks pretty good to me for starters. nothing too crazy there, just make sure you have good form when you lift the weights. Good form prevents injuries as well as increases the efficiency of your workout.
One thing I would add to your workout is a 10 minute stretch after each workout (and even on days where you're not working out). Running on a treadmill or elliptical will eventually tighten up all your leg muscles if you don't stretch afterwards. Stretch your hamstrings, quads, and calves (with a straight leg and with a bent leg to get both calf muscles) every day. It'll probably hurt a little at first, but you'll get used to it! (Again though, don't overdo it and tear your hamstring or anything trying to stretch lol)
I doubt I'll ever get anywhere close to your avatar! If that's you all I have to say is if I was gay you'd be mine! LMAO!(thumb)
But really, if I could just get to were I can walk around with out a shirt and not feel funny I'd be in heaven.
Thanks for the encouragement. It helps a lot. I'll post next mondays numbers, see how I do this week. Nite all.
But really, if I could just get to were I can walk around with out a shirt and not feel funny I'd be in heaven.
Thanks for the encouragement. It helps a lot. I'll post next mondays numbers, see how I do this week. Nite all.
wow man thats awesome. is that just 1 week? if thats the case man you are doing something right. I doubt i'll see something like that on my side but thats just because i have horrible eating habits. I cannot do rabbit food or bland low calorie garbage. i rather workout twice as much and eat well. lol
but i am trying to cut down on really bad food and a little of portion control.
but i am trying to cut down on really bad food and a little of portion control.
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