The Weight Loss Thread

Why won't you just do p90x? It's already been tested by millions of people with great results. It comes with a workout and nutrition guide, couldn't be easier.
 
Hmm... Okay, when the time comes, I will do my bodyweight training with the HIIT method. Sounds like a good plan to me.
 
Ring said:
Why won't you just do p90x? It's already been tested by millions of people with great results. It comes with a workout and nutrition guide, couldn't be easier.
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Just stopping in to commisserate. I was 260 about 2 months ago; I ought to be 160. I'm down to 228 now; and my routine consists of almost purely cardio.

The thing is, you can't target weight loss. Doing crunches doesn't flatten your stomach; fat burns evenly. So while I understand that very little weightlifting will burn muscle as well as fat, I'm sort of going for a reset button, into a scrawny weakling; then building back up.

My diet is mostly vegetarian now, with about 8-10oz of chicken/turkey or fish, and I eat 5 small meals a day to keep my metabolism going. When I get bored, I hop on the bike or go for a walk; and I think that's the key. I've turned my free time into motivation. I burn way more calories than I eat on most days because of that.

An example routine (what I did today):

2 hours walking on the treadmill at a 10 incline at 3.5mph. Then interval running (2 minutes walking, 2 minutes jogging/running) until I can't run anymore. I did one hour of light biking as well. For breakfast I had egg whites and carrots. In between snack I had cuccumbers and carrots. For Lunch I had a small piece of chicken (4oz) on a wheat roll with green peppers, tomato and onions. In between lunch and dinner I had a small handful of almonds and orange juice. For dinner I had another 4oz of chicken with black beans (low sodium) and more cuccumbers. I try not to eat 3 hours before I go to bed if possible, and I drink only water, milk and OJ. I've cut soda and alcohol completely out of my diet for now.

Good luck, all!

-Idle
 
Idle... You're awesome, bro. The process you described of "going for the reset button, into a scrawny weakling; then building back up." is called "cutting". A lot of people do that method. Some think it's a waste ["cutting"] and do both muscle training and cardio, with cardio as a warm up often times. They want to see 'growth' first then worry about 'definition', but both work. I'm doing the prior (same as you). Keep at it, dude.
 
Cutting refers to fat loss only.That's why people bulk and then cut to reveal the muscle definition... it would make no sense if they gained size and then lost it on a cut.

Don't do it Idle. I don't think that becoming a weakling with no muscle is a good idea since building back up takes 10 times longer than losing fat. You will become either the infamous skinny fat or just a skeleton and hate the way you look.
 
Well Ring, at least my legs will be hella strong, haha.
I think once I get down to about 200; I'm going to re-evaluate my routine. This is working for now.

-Idle

Edit: I had heard interval training was more effective than steady state cardio. Can anyone confirm this? Because I find I get alot more out of my walk/run workouts than my uphill walks. I was thinking about trying it out on the bike, low resistance, then high resistance, ect ect.
 
Well after more reading, some fitness gurus mentioned cardio everyday is fine while others said only "5-6 days a week," allowing either a day or 2 to recharge, and that letting the body adjust would be more beneficial. Some even commented that on resting days, during sleep, the body was burning higher amounts of calories than normal. If that's the case, than I'll have to make an adjustment. I guess 5 days a week at an hour plus's enough...
 
God dang it! Well apparently, what's been mentioned earlier is true. The sooner I start resistance training, the better. Cardio does burn a lot of calories but almost 2/3 of that is muscle tissue and a 1/3 fat. Resistance training prevents the loss of muscle and helps with its development. That way you lose the fat but fill out preventing as, Ring's said, becoming "skinny-fat".

Starting next week I'll have to start. I'll tell y'all how it goes...
 
If you got the time to run an hour plus a day then I wouldn't stop you, but I would still recommend putting some resistance days in there. It's like you said, you will be come a skinny type fat if you juts rely on nothing but cardio to lose weight. Quick intense bursts are

There's also calories burned after you workout and resistance beats cardio in that category by a long shot, which is why it's good to throw some resistance days in there.

I've tried both heavy resistance and heavy cardio and I seemed to have more fat burned with the heavy cardio. But overall muscle confusion gave me the best results for losing the weight and getting in a shape.
 
I hate resistance training... I feel like I'm gonna puke everytime I'm finished *sigh* It's gotta be done though.
 
Woke up and weighed myself. My official weighting day is Sunday but I just felt like it. I figured I wouldn't change any but good to say I've lost 2 pounds. I'll weigh myself again Sunday for sure but I'm feeling good. :)
 
Arrogant said:
I hate resistance training... I feel like I'm gonna puke everytime I'm finished *sigh*
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Lol, that means that it's working!

If you are about to throw up after resistance days it's usually because your body, how my brother likes to put it, is trying to push out 'the weakness'. It basically means that your body is trying to push out all impurities and toxins to get ready for another intense train, that's when you mix it up and keep it guessing. If your putting the right foods in your body and this is still happening then you are goin past your limit, and should take longer breaks and do excercises with shorter reps. I still get light headed sometimes when I do my push-ups and when that happens I take a break and keep goin.
 
MrGruntsworthy said:
Lol, this is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. Where did you get this from???
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I'll see if I can find that link again. How it broke it down was, say as an example, I burned 600 calories during one workout, 198 of those calories burned was from fat while the other 400 was muscle.

I'll see if I can find it again. Another one said the same but went into the science of it with all these acids and whatnot... If I find it I'll link it. I had read maybe 4 of them that mentioned that.
 
Tha_Shogun said:
Lol, that means that it's working!

If you are about to throw up after resistance days it's usually because your body, how my brother likes to put it, is trying to push out 'the weakness'. It basically means that your body is trying to push out all impurities and toxins to get ready for another intense train, that's when you mix it up and keep it guessing. If your putting the right foods in your body and this is still happening then you are goin past your limit, and should take longer breaks and do excercises with shorter reps. I still get light headed sometimes when I do my push-ups and when that happens I take a break and keep goin.
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Lol. Cheer up, it will get better eventually. I can't offer much help, but I'll be sitting here with pom-poms.
 
It's officially Saturday. Both today and tomorrow I plan to do no exercise and allow my body to relax; that is unless I over eat at some point. Once we're back to Monday, I'll start exercising once again adding strength training. My 3 days chosen are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Since I can devote at least an hour to exercise, those days will be approx. 20 minutes of cardio, 40 minutes of strength training. On Tuesday and Thursdays it'll be just cardio.... Least that's the plan.
 
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