Workout routine
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If you want to lose weight, you have to change the way you eat. Working out will help, but portioning your food intake, combined with eating healthy food will make the difference. You can gain muscle weight just by lifting and what not, but if you want to lose weight, diet is the key. I lost 35 pounds in 5 weeks when I put myself on a strict diet, and I didnt barely step foot in the gym. Also, you may want to thing about either running outside or taking your bike out and actually riding. Its way more of a work out, and its a lot more enjoyable to be outside IMO.
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Exercise: cardio workout to shed pounds. Weights to define/tone.
Diet: More protein less carbs. LOTS of water, minimal soft drinks. -
SHAKEWEIGHT /thread! lol
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Not much new to contribute but you definitely wanna eat up to 8 smaller healthy meals a day and that will really get your metabolism rollin so you'll constantly burn fat. Stay away from anything carbonated or fried lol. As for the lifting part, everyone has to find their groove, you just need to do what feels comfortable for you and you'll eventually start trying different things. Like I have an intense upper body workout that works perfect for me but I'm currently helping train a buddy of mine and he finds a lot of the lifts awkward and hard to do... It all boils down to your commitment to it.
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^^^^obviously thats not working out to well for you?^^^^
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Thanks for the replies, I try to limit carbs, and drink alot of water already. Tonight im going back to the gym and hit the cyle and maybe some of the weight machines. I would run on the treadmill but the only shoes I have are skate shoes and flip flops. I really dont want to buy another set of shoes being I am moving back to South Dakota in 4 weeks, just one more thing to pack. I will try the eating more smaller meals thing. In the last month or 2 I have lost a few pounds by just eating in and healthier a bit more.
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What most guys have been saying...yes eat healthy. The best way would be to eat smaller portioned meals to keep your metabolism up.
Sure you can lose a lot of weight by portioning and eating correctly, but you should also supplement with working out. Lifting weights increases your metabolism and thus causes you to burn more calories and makes you stronger.
Im assuming your main goal is to lose weight, so supplementing some cardio in there helps to burn more calories. For me i hate cardio (even though i used to be a long distance swimmer haha) but i do it to maintain a strong cardiovascular system (it also helps me keep sharp and fresh).
The key is however to find the happy median between the three (eating, cardio and weight lifting). Doing alot of cardio may mean you burn more calories, but it can start to make you hungrier, if you are hungrier, you tend to break from your diet and eat shitty food. So aim for something like 500-700 calorie deficits from your daily requirements.
Anyways im more of a powerlifter so if you have questions regarding workouts and such you can pm me.
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also watch salt intake...salt tends to make you hold water in your subcutaneous tissue and make you bloated and watery looking.
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surprisingly.... this thread doesnt suck yet. good info guys
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I think you will also want to watch how you distribute your carbs. You wanna be taking in more carbs in the morning for breakfast then you would at supper since you have all day to burn them off as oppposed to just going to sleep and letting them sit there. It's also good to take note though that when dealing with this simple carbs must be used quite fast or they will all go to fat as opposed to complex carbs which will be stored and then slowly burned, or go to fat, over time.
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Almost everything that has been offered is pretty good, but I've got a couple suggestions that may make for a very easy fix. While it may not be as practical for you, I have started walking to work (about 2 miles each way), and I've shrunken by about 6lbs in the month that I've been consistent. I don't have much fat to spare, so I was quite surprised when the scale showed ~174 instead of the ~180 that I have been hovering around for about 10 years. As an added bonus, winter is a good time to put ankle weights in boots!
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Meth
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Well im sure my "fargostreet rep" isnt that great anymore but I can get in on this.
I use to weigh 100lbs december of 09 (getting out of chemotherapy) and started lifting and working out and by the end of the school year my bench went up from 135lbs to 230lbs and I weigh 160 (without prosthesis). I started eating alot more, working out with light weights, and would increase my weight by 5lbs every week, benching twice a week helps alot and after bench always burnout with a set of pushups (45lbs+ on your back helps alot) eating alot of protein will help alot as well. need that to build muscle, dont get into any protein shakes or any "muscle milk" kinda stuff...yea it will help put on muscle now but later on in life when you cant upkeep it, it all turns into fat and will make you look like you have man boobs. cardio and situps will shape up your core, need to keep your back strong though to pull your chest back and support the muscle being added to your pecs for a strong stance, so Lat pull downs are great. So its pretty simple, eat alot of protein and workout, maybe 4 times a week and do cardio the rest and you should be good.
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need to keep your back strong though to pull your chest back and support the muscle being added to your pecs for a strong stance
If he's going for size, this is good advice. At every place I've ever gone to lift weights, there's always at least one really big guy with shoulders that are pulled so far forward... Don't they know anything about how much of an advantage it is to build the opposing muscles? -
I'd also disagree with the protein concerns. Yeah, sure it can happen, but it can happen just as easily without using it..it's called being lazy. I'd say for him wanting to cut some weight and tone up, protein would be excellent for him. Doesn't sound like he's going to be hitting the weights super hard so the protein will be a nice supplement. It will help melt the fat off...I never felt like I gained much mass/strength from whey, but it certainly cut body fat...even when I was already single digits.
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