Athletes, what's your favorite effective work out?

[Anonymous]

I want to lose 40 pounds. I've gone on YouTube and watched MANY girls talking about how they did it, but they don't show their actual work out. They just basically brag the whole video that they are skinny now.
I need someone who actually works out and has seen results fast.
I need help on my stomach, hips, and arms.
Yes, I need to need healthy and exercise. Tell me something I haven't heard. I need actually work outs (name of work out, how many times a week, how long, etc.), and how it worked for you.

[Anonymous]

Diet and exercise is key, with diet being the bigger part of it. I do a ton of biking for calorie burn/cardio and some upper body workouts to maintain upper body muscle. This is advice more for getting in shape and losing the weight.

When you say you need help on your stomach hips and arms, I feel like you should know that working out doesn't really work that way. I mean, you can maintain/build muscle on specific parts of your body to help accentuate certain muscles to create a certain look to some degree, but a large part of it is simply genetics. The way you were born. You simply need to burn fat, and the body- not the type of exercise, decides where that fat gets shed and when.

Bike 15 miles in an hour and a half give or take, every other day optimally. Then do some basic upper body exercises like push ups and such. Don't worry about your core as you already have ab muscles, they are simply covered. On the days where you don't bike (and maybe don't do a whole lot at all), I would say focus on eating particularly health and really count those calories to make sure you don't go over your goal for that day, which should be like 250-500 calories under what you need to maintain your weight. On the days you do work out, you should be creating a larger deficit, like 1000-1250 (1 bike ride as mentioned above easily burns that much alone). At the end of the week you should be averaging a pound or two easily.

[WeaponZero]

1. Don't worry so much about speed of results. The most effective workouts take a while longer to show results because fast results aren't sustainable results. Be patient.

2. Weight loss is not a result of exercise but calorie deficit.

3. Regardless of what you think are your trouble spots you should be training your whole body.

4. Circuit training style workouts are the most ideal for people in your position. TRUE circuit training, not that 30 Day Shred crap. For an example of what I mean, look up the Spartacus workout on youtube.

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My favorite work out is running.
I run for an hour and lift everyday. If you don't like running, I recommend the elliptical machine.
Carido will help you lose weight.

[MyNameIsJonas]

A personalized diet and circuit training using compound exercises. Some days use a single activity for long cardio sessions (biking, swimming and running)

The type of work out's would differ depending on the person i was training.

I've never had to lose 40lbs. I helps a client lose 31lbs in 6 weeks using the above method.