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After reading this thread this morning, I remembered I had a gift card for Boarders. So I went in and was looking at the fitness section but there were sooo many different books to choose from. Can someone enlighten me as to what I should be looking for. Can anyone suggest a specific book? A little bio: I am looking to loose a little weight and start toning my midsection. I am 6'3" 235lbs, and have even been told by a fitness trainer that I have great potential for a great "bod" but I don't know where to start.  I am not "fat" and have on occation been checked out by "hawt chicks" when I'm in my work getup, (shirt, tie, dress slacks, and occationaly a sport coat). Mabey it is just because I look expensive. 
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Originally posted by Red92784:
After reading this thread this morning, I remembered I had a gift card for Boarders. So I went in and was looking at the fitness section but there were sooo many different books to choose from. Can someone enlighten me as to what I should be looking for. Can anyone suggest a specific book?
A little bio: I am looking to loose a little weight and start toning my midsection. I am 6'3" 235lbs, and have even been told by a fitness trainer that I have great potential for a great "bod" but I don't know where to start. I am not "fat" and have on occation been checked out by "hawt chicks" when I'm in my work getup, (shirt, tie, dress slacks, and occationaly a sport coat). Mabey it is just because I look expensive.
I am in a similar boat as you, I am 6'3", and as of last week, I weighed 226 lbs. I am down today to 217 lbs. Granted, 4 or 5 of those pounds are water weight, but it is progress regardless. Just get to the gym 3-4 times a week, eat 3 balanced, moderate meals a day, and you will drop weight.
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Originally posted by Bike2112:
go get something to eat dummy.
i see you want to start name calling.....agian. i only threw out the qualification to show that my knowledge was as based in experience as yours and to show that measuring members in not evidence that you are correct but is instead absurd. so far most people in this thread agree that you are trying to over complicate the issue when all the poster wanted to know what if and/or how he should alter his workout.
simple question=simple answer
the only time one gives a complicated answer to a simple question is when one feels one has something to prove.
my uncle(a marine incase you want to know his qualifications) always said it this way: master the basics and you will never need fancy s--t.
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Originally posted by jerseycat10:
Just get to the gym 3-4 times a week, eat 3 balanced, moderate meals a day, and you will drop weight.
bingo.
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I cant afford a gym membership at this point in time.
I normally eat a bagle w/ cream cheese for breakfast, usually not much of a lunch (salad), and well, I rarly get a decent dinner. I eat alot of Italian food so I know I'm getting my carbs, I just don't know what to do with them.
I used to weigh 250lbs. Once I saw that on the scale I decided it was time for a change. I stopped eating fatty stuff, iced cream before bead, McDonalds almost every day, snacking every half hour. But I cant seem to get below 235. I get McDonalds like once a week now, I rarly even touch iced cream, and I cut out all the snacking. But I cant seem to get below 235. I was doing crunches, sit ups, and leg ups for like 4 months but I was seeing no results. I could feel my stomach getting tighter and I was able to do more reps but I still had this damn spair tire!
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Man I wish I were some of you guys in the "lose weight" boat.  I'm 5'6", checked in at 126 lbs this morning on the bathroom scale and I've had Type 1 Diabetes for about 2.5 years now. This is the most I've weighed in my entire life. I'm struggling just to maintain my weight in the 120s. And that's by eating morbidly every day. I eat on average 9-10 times between waking up and getting back in bed. Often I wake up in the middle of the night and fix myself a sandwich or a bowl of cereal. I like to think I eat healthy, though I could afford to pass up the teriyaki chicken more often. I never exercise efficiently outside of maybe rollerblading once or twice a month, and most of my calories are burned by walking around at the mall. I checked into the ER after blacking out on the living room floor in the middle of my 16th birthday party. I had dropped 21 lbs in two days, since my one year check up had just been the same week and I weighed 118 lbs. My blood sugar was so high that the glucose meter at the ER recorded an error and I had to get tested via urine; the result was over 1000. It was the most insane day of my life, especially considering normal blood sugar levels for the average human being reside between 75 and 120 with very little fluctuation. Would getting out to the gym a few days a week and building some muscles up result in a weight gain? Because eating almost every hour of the day damn sure ain't helping much!  -SAV
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Originally posted by Red92784:
But I cant seem to get below 235. I get McDonalds like once a week now, I rarly even touch iced cream, and I cut out all the snacking. But I cant seem to get below 235. I was doing crunches, sit ups, and leg ups for like 4 months but I was seeing no results. I could feel my stomach getting tighter and I was able to do more reps but I still had this damn spair tire!
You have a good start towards losing a lot of weight and getting better visual results. You need to start aerobic exercise. If you can't afford a gym membership, invest in a good pair of running shoes and start running first thing in the morning (or another time if more convenient, but make sure it's at least 2-3 hours since you last ate). It's better run fast than it is to run long (when I'm in peak shape/condition, I can run about 5 miles in 30 minutes, and that is better than 10 miles in an hour). The aerobic exercise will melt the fat away and reveal the muscles beneath, on all parts of your body.
As for a good book, Body for Life is the best one-stop exercise/nutrition routine book that I've read. I don't subscribe to the idea that you can make the transformations those people made in 3 months unless you have nothing else to do than the fitness/nutrition program and have bags of money to spend on the protein shakes that help the results come the fastest. Also, I was slightly perturbed by the fact that he pushed his supplement products (Myoplex) throughout the book, but the other advice he gives is excellent. Nonetheless, this book details the how/when/what/where/whys of a healthy lifestyle. Even loosely following his plan and suggestions will result in better health and fitness. This book has been (or was, I haven't checked recently) on the NYT Bestseller list for several years.
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Thanks, I'll check out the book. I wonder if I can order it from Boarders. 
Edit: Just bought it from Amazon, and they even let me use my Borders gift card! $20.16 Should be here by the end of the week.
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Originally posted by acrdklr:
he doesn't need to know about vo2 max, zones, or any other modern hoopla. and he certainly should not pay anyone to perform some test on him when all he wants to do is get in better shape. here is what he needs to know:
-eat right. that means use common sense, so no midnight snacks, overeating or eating and going straight to bed. and for the love of god ignore those fad diets.
-there are alot of ways to do a sit up/crunch/leg lift. pick some and do bunch of those. change it up sometimes.
-a man must breathe. that means aerobics. so run or ride a bike or swim or run up and down alot of stairs or something. maybe even do all of them.
-stretch. you don't need to be a pretzel but you should be flexible.
since you want to talk about qualifications......i have been both in shape and out of shape. i have had a flat stomach, i have had defined abs(not a full six pack) and i have had a gut. furthermore, my family contains two types of physiques: very inshape and fat. i know what it takes to be both. it is not rocket science or quantum theory. it is basic common sense.
You are very ignorant. It's not circus science, its proven fact that he is talking about. His suggestion isn't for everyone, but for someone who knows very little about working out, it could be a worthwhile investment. His car analogy is very on point. We all know how to make our cars go a bit faster right? But would you drop a 3 liter in and turbocharge it but not get it tuned? You could, and your car would be faster than before, but it wouldn't be as fast as it could be. Would you buy MSDS headers then change your stock airbox? It doesn't take a scientist to know that to lose weight you need to exercise. But if you want to get the best results, you need to work smarter, not harder and thats where working with professionals comes in. Yes going to the gym is a good thing, but if you don't know what your doing when you get there you are depriving yourself of results.
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Originally posted by Red92784:
I cant afford a gym membership at this point in time.
I normally eat a bagle w/ cream cheese for breakfast, usually not much of a lunch (salad), and well, I rarly get a decent dinner. I eat alot of Italian food so I know I'm getting my carbs, I just don't know what to do with them.
I used to weigh 250lbs. Once I saw that on the scale I decided it was time for a change. I stopped eating fatty stuff, iced cream before bead, McDonalds almost every day, snacking every half hour. But I cant seem to get below 235. I get McDonalds like once a week now, I rarly even touch iced cream, and I cut out all the snacking. But I cant seem to get below 235. I was doing crunches, sit ups, and leg ups for like 4 months but I was seeing no results. I could feel my stomach getting tighter and I was able to do more reps but I still had this damn spair tire!
You dont even need to start running, start walking. Its all about calories in vs calories out. I'm not gonna get super specific on what to eat and not to eat but i would say the cream chees on the bagel isn't the best. And while i'm not a nutrition guru I can tell you that even that once a week mcdonalds can be sabotaging you. Typical mcdonalds meal probably has about 1500 calories in it which is about 500-750 calories more than a proper meal you can make yourself. HAve that mcdonalds once a week for a year and thats an extra 10 lbs. Remember the basics, lifting weights builds muscle, cardio burns fat. to be inshape you need to do both. I live in NYC where gym memberships are 90 bucks a month and people say it's expensive. I say that it's only 3 bucks a day. When i lived in the suburbs it was only 25 bucks a month. Stop making excuses, cut back something in your life and find the money for the gym membership. It will pay you back in improved health and the increase in energy will allow you to work harder to make the money to pay for it and will allow you to have energy to enjoy your time off
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