Can I lose weight if I always give up after 20 mins in a workout?

[Anonymous]

so I try to work out 5 days a week and I do exercise that are an hour, but I always stop at 20 mins, it's been 5 weeks and I don't see any weight loss. My eating habits are getting better, does being active more efficient than eating better when it comes to losing weight. Any tips how I can go the full length of the exercise would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm a vegetarian, I do cardio and lift weights

[ATPPC]

No pain no gain. Is there a reason you stop? Lactic acid burn is too much? You get bored? You don't have enough base fitness so you don't have a place to start?

Go on a treadmill, set the incline to max, as a fast a pace as you can manage, and just walk for an hour. Listen to music or have your phone in front and watch videos or something. Not texting that may take away too much concentration.

[Asker]

I stop because I think I'm just too lazy. And I walk all the time that's nothing I used to be on the softball and volleyball team in high school. The things is when I ran for like 3 days I lost 4 inches but I'm not losing inches doing cardio and lifting as much.

[ATPPC]

What do you mean you lost 4 inches when running? Like in height?

If running is helping you lose weight then keep doing it. It's when of the best forms of cardio. I don't know what you thought cardio was. Yes weight training burns little calories.

Instead of running on a treadmill go run outside. Set a route that you have to finish every time. Enjoy the scenery. It's personally much more motivating than having the treadmill clock ticking in front of your face.

[Asker]

I'm saying when I was in sports and would run I lost inches within 3 days.

[Asker]

Lost inches in my waist

[BertMacklinFBI]

losing weight is 80% diet and 20% workout, thats what they'll tell you.

you can't out-train a bad diet, that's another thing they'll tell you

bottom line, if you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight, and exercising efficiently, frequently, and intensely, will boost your progress drastically.

[brainy21]

measure ur body, u might be losing in inches. inch loss=fat loss. do weight lifting before cardio. did u started with 20 mins of workout all of a sudden? are u excessively overweight? do u take pre workout snacks? there are a lot of reasons which can make u tired during ur workout

[Asker]

I'm overweight I don't take pre workouts. I just wake up drink cold water than workout sometimes til 30 mins.

[chintita]

diet, you can lose weight without any exercise. don't eat during night time and the weight will fall off.

[AdamThomas]

If you're doing HIIT you only need 15-20 minutes anyway. As for weight sessions, they should last 45 minutes to an hour. Are you doing cardio and lifting every single day? I never do both on the same day. If I'm training 5 days a week 3 of those days will be weightlifting and 2 will be HIIT. There's not much else to say really other than stick with it or quit and stay overweight, it depends how bad you want it.

[kambo_trick3y]

If you're just starting out on your workout routine, 20 minutes of exercise isn't too shabby actually.

Keep at it, breaking into your routine is as mental as it is physical. Go at your own pace and increase the intensity when you are ready.

[Anonymous]

Eating has a portion around %60 in loosing weight, and working out has a portion around %40 in loosing weight.

Follow a nice diet which you eat around 6 times in a day, 3 of them are main dishes and other 3 ones aren't main. And never give up doing work out ;) Focus on especially on cardio.

[cth96190]

To lose weight you need a combination of diet and exercise working together.
The experts say that the benefit of exercise does not begin to happen until after we have been exercising for 20 minutes.
My suggestion would be to go to a gymnasium and have one of the personal trainers create a programme for you.

[WhiteSteve]

What are you doing for exercise and where is your heart rate at? Maintaining the proper heart rate (along with a sensible diet) is absolutely ESSENTIAL to fat loss.

[Asker]

I do HIIT and some weight training

[fiego]

Are you eating something healthy before your workout? A lot of times, I get tired during a workout if I don't eat something healthy (banana, apple etc)

[Dat_Kid]

It's not going to show results right away. You're body will change, but you might not see it. Only later when you are still doing it, you'll be starting to see results.
Music, a partner to train with works

[meatballs21]

What "cardio" are you doing? Don't combine them, use cardio as a ten minute warmup before weights some days and other days you can just do cardio but for an hour or more.

[Prince_teddy4u]

Go for stretching for 20 minutes and 20 minutes for heavy work out and again 20 minutes of relaxing lite walk for better result...

[desidoll]

You really need a strict diet to work on it.

[Mustachekitteh]

How intense are your workouts?

[lovelywiz]

YES JUST CUT THOSE FATORIES