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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!
Omitting Bagels with Cream Cheese is a start. There's over 600 calries right there and 200 of those are from fat! Eat cereal instead, lower calries, almost no fat if you stay away from the sugary stuff and use 2% or skim milk, and higher in fiber too.
If you've got a big frame and you're 6'2" / 6'3", you won't be able to go much below 200lbs without cutting serious body fat, and that is "atheltic" territory.
If you aren't doing enough aerobic activity to get your hear-rate up, you'll be struggling to burn fat. Consider running, bike riding or playing team sports like indoor soccer, basketball etc - sports that get your heart rate up and burn fat.
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Originally posted by Red92784:
...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!
Once again, you CANNOT target fat loss, at least not without the help of a plastic surgeon that is doing liposuction on you.
Fat comes off your body in layers. PERIOD.
I'll shout it until I'm blue in the face, so here goes again: PROPER diet is the single, largest, most important factor in tuning your body into what you want. You can lift like crazy and run your legs into oblivion and then you MIGHT get where you want to be, but if you change your diet, you'll only need to do HALF the work you would need to do otherwise.
Cut down on the carbs a bit, absolutely TOTALLY kill fast food from your diet (ESPECIALLY soft drinks) and start eating right. This will help with fat loss more than just about anything else you can do. Couple this with an moderatlely aggressive cardio routine and some weight lifting and you should be shedding noticeable pounds in short order. It does take time and patience, though.
Fruits, yogurt, toast, oatmeal or cereal for breakfast. Grab an apple, beef jerky for a 10:00 snack (or something of the like). Eat a small but balanced lunch (chicken or tuna, salad and a piece of fruit) 3:00PM? Afternoon snack time with another piece of fruit, some nuts or something else. Eat a light dinner, preferrably before you workout. Finally, don't load up on snacks before you go to bed.
Eating smaller meals more frequently helps your metabolism run a little faster. It will also keep you from gorging yourself during main meals.
Unless you're grossly obese, there's no reason to chop all carbs out of your diet. A diet that consists of a large amount of lean protein (fish, lean beef, chicken), lots of veggies and a small amount of carbs (bread, pasta, etc.) and a modest amount of fruit is going to really help you out.
Again, AVOID soft drinks at all costs. Water is your friend, so suck it down like there is no tomorrow.
Splurge a little on the weekends so you don't freak because you are starving your tastebuds of the "finer" foods that are heavy on sauces and butter. Just make sure you don't go overboard and keep meals like that to 1-2 times a week.
Diet is the key. Once you get a solid one in place and get a workout routine built up, the results WILL start showing.
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i see you want to start name calling.....agian
You are right, I should not name call. Sorry about that.
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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.
Again you are right. The poster wants to know if he should alter his workout. I did not say he had to get a test. It was a suggestion, just like running your codes is a suggestion before changing everything in your car trying to fix a cel. It is a quicker way to get the desired results. What if the guy could get into shape in 1/2 the time, 4 weeks instead or 8 weeks. All a VO2 test is give you a baseline on where to start...and again it was a suggestion.
Everyone has posted some great ways to get into shape for this guy. My suggestion is merely a way to get the results the guy wants in a much more efficient way. thats all.
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the only time one gives a complicated answer to a simple question is when one feels one has something to prove.
I did not give a complicated response to his question. I gave a suggestion. I gave some degree of detail in an effort to help the guy out. When we post on here about getting info for something we want to do to our cars, we hope to get some detail about what we are asking because we want to learn. Usually we get the famous "search" comments, but he probably would not find anything on getting into shape by searching this site.
I don't have anything to prove at all. I am just offering a suggestion for the guy. All of my detail has been in response to people telling me that I am full of it, when the very people bashing me really don't know anything about fitness other than no pain/no gain mentality.
Guys- the VO2 test was a suggestion. I never said the other suggestions were bad at all, so lay off. You don't have to agree with me, but just because you do, doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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you know what, take a couple hundred bucks and hire a reputable trainer, get references and ask around a bit. do 5 sessions, enough to get an assesment of your body and a basic plan put together. Every couple of months, invest in a single session just to tweak a few things that way you can get one persons consistent opinion. This post is getting overwhelming
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first, i am not the one who called it circus science.
second, while i am not a personal trainer all four things i told him to do are correct. i understand that my suggestions won't send any business your way but that does not make my info wrong. i offered a free, low tech, easy to implement method for getting in shape.
third, i do not recall saying that measuring your breathing ability was snake oil nor do i recall saying that about trainers. i will review this thread later when i have more time to make sure i am not forgetting something i said. i did, however, say that for his purpose such things are unnecessary.
fourth, if you would like to discuss why/how eating right, exercising the muscles you want to see improved, getting a healthy dose of aerobics and stretching are bad for you then i would love to hear it. for the purpose of this discussion it is assumed that these four things are being completed with common sense.
until then, unless you are an athlete looking for the absolute edge you do not need complicated formulas or fancy measurements to get in shape.
oh yeah, i agree with your most recent post for the person who chooses not to take care of and monitor his own fitness.
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Originally posted by acrdklr:
dj capp
first, i am not the one who called it circus science.
second, while i am not a personal trainer all four things i told him to do are correct. i understand that my suggestions won't send any business your way but that does not make my info wrong. i offered a free, low tech, easy to implement method for getting in shape.
third, i do not recall saying that measuring your breathing ability was snake oil nor do i recall saying that about trainers. i will review this thread later when i have more time to make sure i am not forgetting something i said. i did, however, say that for his purpose such things are unnecessary.
fourth, if you would like to discuss why/how eating right, exercising the muscles you want to see improved, getting a healthy dose of aerobics and stretching are bad for you then i would love to hear it. for the purpose of this discussion it is assumed that these four things are being completed with common sense.
until then, unless you are an athlete looking for the absolute edge you do not need complicated formulas or fancy measurements to get in shape.
oh yeah, i agree with your most recent post for the person who chooses not to take care of and monitor his own fitness.
The things that you told him are correct, but they are very vague and different people will need different things. You scratched the surface which is fine, I was trying to give him a bit more of an in depth approach. You do not have to be an athlete to make use of principles of exercise science. In this country where everyone wants a quick fix I am surprised people wouldn't be more willing to work with a trainer to maximize results in the least amount of time
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