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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hi,
I'm no personal trainer, and looking at your photos you look pretty good to me!
Assuming you are like most people and want to lose weight and tone up I would and have done the following:
1. Alter my diet (I follow weightwatchers and attend meetings when I want to lose weight).
2. Run 3 times a week. Running is the best cardio exercise to lose weight, it can be done at the gym or outside.
3. Once close to my target weight I then start to do some resistance (weights) in addition to my cardio.
If it is a big change to your life style do one thing at a time. So:
Week 1
Improve diet, plan meals and try to follow for 16 meals out of 21 for the week.
Week 2
Follow diet (16/21 meals) and run once. If you are starting out running, try running for 4 mins Nd walking 1, do this for 20 or 25 mins.
Week 3
Follow diet as before and go running/gym twice
Week 4 - 8
As above but gym/running 3 times.
You can lengthen your running as you feel the need, after 8 weeks of this you'll probably be bored and able to to something a bit different. If you are at a gym and want to do some other cardio machines do those too, they offer a bit of variation, but try to run each visit.
I find when I start these things I go all guns blazing for a week then the second week comes along I miss one session, then try and make it up, fail to do so, misses another session and then give up totally - back to square one, but with a greater feeling of failure.
Set achievable targets, increase them only a small amount each week. DON'T have an all or nothing, allow a little bit go give and take, make sure even on your bad weeks to do one work out. Remember that nobody is perfect.
Try to plan your week, when you will train and plan your eating for each day the night before!
Sorry for the long post, as I have said I am not a personal trainer, but do have a strong interest and have been through success and failure a few times (I've eaten my body weight in Easter eggs today, so have to get moving again -like I say, nobody's perfect )
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