I'm not one for working out unless my coach tells me to, so I do something that's active and fun to me--I'll go outside and do some solo volleyball practicing. It's beneficial to my skills and my body. I do push-ups, curl-ups, straight leg lifts, and I run on the treadmill. I don't run forever on the treadmill...I might sprint (I'm a sprinter as well as a vball player) for maybe 45 seconds, hop off, take a mini breather and repeat for a couple times. It tends to keep me up and ready instead of distance running, which tires me out more and uses up all of my energy. And I'm not too much of a health nut, so I focus on foods like these awesome granola bars I'm in love with, as well as practically every fruit in America. Eat relatively healthy though because once you start exercising, you can't stop or you'll regain all that weight and possibly more, if you don't change your eating habits.
This might help. I weighed 196 lbs in June 2010, I'm currently 143 lbs as of January. You should cut out all soft drinks, keep your diet to 1200 calories a day and exercise. I haven't started cardio yet however I walk 6 miles a day 7 days a week and follow up with squats, lunges and crunches. I have developed real muscle tone and actually get to eat more than I ever have in my entire life, it's really simple you have to make a commitment to yourself that you will eat to live not live to eat. When you exercise for weight loss you mentally look at everything that goes in your mouth and question do you really want to work even harder for it.
Being fit is all about diet, and exercise. You need to get into the habbit of doing physical activities like running, swimming, hiking, dancing, whatever you like as long as it requires physical energy. Second diet. This is usually the harder bit. Rather than eating high calorie food go for diet foods like low fat milk or instead of bread some really low fat high fiber alternatives like these crakers link Basically the more fibre, protein, and nutrient and the lower the sugar, fat and carbohydrates, the better. Hope that helps :) good luck!
Keep active using a combination of cardio and resistance training, and switch up your routine every month. Monitor your calories, don't go under your daily recommended amount (so no starving yourself) and make sure they come from healthy sources (lean meats, whole grains, fruits & veggies)
Opinion
2Opinion
Drink only water for 4 months, and do high intensity cardio.
Don't "eat out". Buy and prepare you own food and make sure it's healthy.
If you do P90X, you'll be in really, really good shape in 90 days.
You can also add your opinion below!
Most Helpful Opinions