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Why pay for a gym membership when you can have people pay you to mow their lawn?

Not every single doctor will, but I bet there are alota doctors who know about fitness/weight loss. Its in our culture, how could there not be doctors who know a thing or two about it

Mowing lawns isn't exactly a cardiovascular activity, but it is an exercise and should be considered OP. Good one Lemunde!

It's not, I can't find a source right now but its pretty accepted that both cardio and weight training is best.

Read this:
http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Eating healthy is a huge factor.

cut your pizza into 10 slices instead of 8. if you drink alot of soda then mix in some beers here and there (less sugar) and if you drink lots of beer drink some more soda (less alcohol). if you dont already, take up smoking. the biggest complaint from people who quit smoking is the weight they put on. if you dont want to ruin your lungs you can alternately just start using cocaine. have you ever seen an overweight cocaine user. eat with you off hand, it feels like someone else is feeding you.

if all else fails find the nastiest grossest old person you can find, preferably someone with rotting teeth and horrible breath. have them hack and cough all over your food. i guarantee you that you wont eat that food until you are really really hungry. it pushed back my meals by 30 minutes or more for me.

The most prudent weight loss advice I have ever seen.

An admirable attempt at losing weight with due care.

So.....did you decide on anything MR?

I think he diecided to ignore all our advice and go with what squeekers said.

RIP MR. :violin:

They say that when you die, you lose 21 grams. So at least he achieved his goal! :shrug:

jogging/running is imo one of the most perfect excersises there is.

You wont find a quicker way of losing weight. No gym fees, no equipment, you can do it anywhere and anywhen.

anyone serious about losing weight and getting lean need only to start running. If you dont include running but want to get lean then you wont get very far imo. Doing weights alone will only make you bulky.

Doesn't have to be complicated...

Eat healthy
Exercise often (I recommend running)
Stick with it

There's your basic 3 step program.

So much misinformation!

1) You can very well lose weight without any form of cardio whatsoever. Cardio helps, sure, but it isn't mandatory. A caloric deficit diet is necessary.

2) "Weights alone will make you look bulky" - what? It makes no sense. As opposed to what, lifting weights and not making any muscle gains? You can only gain muscle on a caloric surplus diet. If he's lifting weights and eating less food than maintenance, he won't grow, although newbie gains may allow him to put on just a few lbs of muscle in the first few weeks. An exception not the rule.

Although MR never responded to his own thread so I think I'm wasting my time now...

Ha! I'm not dead, and I definitely haven't ignored what people are saying (especially the both of you).

The reason I haven't been on here much is because I've been down at the gym, and running! Here's what my routine has been:

Monday: Shoulders and Triceps (at the gym), followed by a 30min run in a few fields near my house (can't stand running on a treadmill, and it's meant to be bad for you psychologically?)
Tuesday: Core and Legs, followed by a 30min run
Wednesday: Chest and Biceps, followed by a 30min run
Thursday: Repeat of Monday
Friday: Repeat of Tuesday
Saturday: Repeat of Wednesday
Sunday: Rest day

It's working out pretty well too (excuse the pun!) and I'm finding I'm feeling alot more confident I've only been doing it for the past week, took me a bit of time to decide on a plan, but even after that I'm starting to feel much better about myself, just because I know I exercise So thanks guys

Glad you got things worked out.

My fitness has gone down the swanny as well recently, I've been stressed out with exams and trying to find a work placement so haven't really felt like doing much.

Thanks man

Yeah? I found that when I was doing GCSE's...the last thing I wanted to was exercise...not really escapism, is it?

If you're planning on gaining major muscle, I would suggest not repeating things so quickly. You need time for your muscle to rest in between. However, if you're going for definition and toning, just keep going the way you are. You should definitely add in some back exercises like front-grip pull-ups (or pull-downs) and some lat exercises though. Those are missing.

Remember to do the big muscle groups first. (Example for your chest + biceps day, make sure chest goes first, and for legs + abs, do legs first. In particular, the quads.)

My current schedule as follows:

Monday: Chest, abs.
Tuesday: biceps, triceps.
Wednesday: Shoulders.
Thursday: Back, legs.
Friday: Cardio.
Sat/Sun: Rest.

On weekdays I still go to a martial arts studio though for some training, and I play football (soccer) at school too. I guess those count as cardio. :shrug:

HA is right, you shouldn't keep everything so packed. Muscles grow during the rest period. I suggest following something similar to HA's routine. Once a week per bodypart is enough, 2x per week for lagging muscles would be good too (although since you have just started you wouldn't know which muscles are lagging). Smaller muscles such as the biceps and triceps shouldn't definitely only be directly targeted only once per week, because:

1) They're very small muscles and need time to recover.
2) They are being hit on other days when doing other push/pull exercises, such as benching and rowing.

Good luck. Keep at it!

Run. Forget everything else and just run. Run every day, run every morning, run until you want to die.

I hate it. I detest running. But it is the single most effective thing anybody can do for their overall health, and will help you lose weight like mad if you do it enough. It's also completely free, and requires no equipment whatsoever (well, maybe some decent running shoes).

If you can't run for 12 minutes straight, start out easy. Go out in the morning and run for 1 minute, walk for 3 minutes, run for 1 minute, and walk for 3 minutes until 20 minutes have passed. Do this for a week. Then next week run for 2 minutes, walk for 2 minutes, run for 2, walk for 2. Then the next week run for 3 minutes, walk for 1, run for 3 minutes, walk for 1. Next week run for 4 minutes, walk for 1, run 4, walk 1. Then run 7, walk 3, run 7, walk 3. It'll get to a point where you'll want to stop walking, because it makes it even harder when you stop after like 10 minutes and then try to start again instead of just powering through it.

Eventually you'll get up to where you can run for 20 minutes straight without walking, and that's when you really start to sweat and lose weight.

My dad is 55, but he looks like he's 40 at most. You know why? Because every single day of his life he's run.

By "run for 12 minutes straight" do you mean sprint? Because I consider myself fairly fit, and I seriously doubt I can do that. If you mean jog, at like perhaps a speed of 7 or 8 km/hr then perhaps, but I doubt it.

For some reason my running stamina isn't very high, though I can swim non-stop for more than an hour. :confused:

Yeah I'm talking like an 8 minute mile, so by 12 minutes you should be a mile and a half about. Not super fast, but moderate. Sometimes we'll slow down to a 10 minute mile pace and then run for like 3 miles or more.

Swimming is also good for cardio, but it still can't quite match running. There's more going on when you pull your own weight without floating, and it even helps build bone density over a long period of time where swimming doesn't.

If you do BOTH swimming and running you'll be a beast. Huge chest and arms from the swimming, great legs and heart from the running.

It build bone density because it's an impact exercise, but I heard that a constant stream of that isn't good for you either unless you are running in high-end brand new running shoes every time, which is pretty expensive to manage.

My legs are pretty toned from the treadmill and elliptical machine, but I'm not huge by any standard. Well maybe one, but that doesn't have anything to do with working out.




:P

That's true for any exercise though. If you don't work in scheduled rest days you'll hurt yourself.

Which is one of the reasons I'm so angry about the 5 day PT schedule they've put me on here. :confused: