What kind of work out do I need?

[Nawaf]

so I'm planning to work out only on week ends, because I'm an engineering student and I really want to focus on studying, lately I gained a little bit of weight, I'm not fat I'm still slim but I think if I keep gaining weight this way I'll be fat..so what kind of work out will just keep me fit if I just keep doing it only on week ends?

[Anonymous]

A common mistake is that people think that if they work out (even a lot) or they're young or they seem to have a good metabolism they can eat whatever they want. The key to maintaining your weight is to ONLY EAT WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY. If you take any diet to an extreme, it may or may not work, but you'll get obsessive about food and weight. This doesn't happen with guys as much as girls, but the key is to never think that there is magical diet plan that you just need to stick to at all costs. You'll have good will power for maybe a few months, but after awhile,you'll feel like you're denying yourself all the time.

Just eat in moderation, and you'll be fine. If you reallyyy want dessert for dinner one night - have it. But don't eat things just because they look good, but because you're hungry. Always leave the table just a little bit hungry. Don't clean your plate just because it's there.

Also, it's better to drink a fair bit of water or have soup before you eat dinner, because the liquids will fill you up easier, and make you feel fuller, so you don't wolf down your dinner too quickly. Also, try to eat slowly, even when you're hungry, because your stomach won't feel full as soon as it becomes full. If you eat slower, you'll probably end up eating less naturally.

The best things to eat for snacks if you're really hungry are grilled chicken or scrambled eggs, because they fill you up, and make you feel good after eating them. Cut out soda, extra sugar, and pasta-based foods if you can, because carbohydrates (complex sugars) are digested straight into basic sugars. Sugar/carbohydrates aren't bad, but if you eat a lot of them at once, it will spike your metabolism. Your body tries to get rid of all that extra sugar in your blood by putting in insulin and storing it as fat. It's easier for your body/pancreas/fat content to have protein and fat instead, because these things do not spike your blood sugar. No blood spike means no 'emergency effort' to turn excess sugar in your blood to fat. Fat is actually easier for your body to digest than straight sugar, and it is more likely to be burned immediately rather than stored like sugar is.

As for exercise, swimming is best for working your whole body (muscles/breathing/heart) and is muchhh easier on your joints than running. Running, boxing, karate, and dance are all great, but you have to be careful of injuries with all those things. You can do swimming for longer, because you don't get hot, and you're working constantly - versus in short rough bursts with the other sports.

Hope that helps!

[Opinion Owner]

PS I'm an engineering student too, and that's what I do :)

[TouchTheSky]

About bodybuilding, whatever this girl says is wrong search diet in google bro.

[Opinion Owner]

Oop haven't checked this in awhile, but TouchTheSky may be right if I offered any advice about bodybuilding, but I was not talking about that... I merely described how to maintain your weight - not lose weight or change muscle mass. If you are body building, you need a different nutrition regimen than I described (more carbs), but for MAINTAINING your body - this is how you do it.

[gillybeanxo3921]

running. Road runs are more effective then on machines, and they're free :)

I jog as long as I can stand without stopping, walk twenty feet, and then start jogging again. I usually do about 1.5 miles, but 2 miles without stopping is my goal.

Most guys are into muscles, so if you do maybe twenty situps, twenty pushups, and twenty lunges (on each leg) every night before bed you will most likely get a bit of a leaner look to you. You can do that before bed, and it takes maybe 5-10 minutes.

Goodluck!

[WoIIie]

If your goal is to just not be fat, then you can get away with purely cardio and a few tweaks to your diet.

Run at least one mile two times each weekend. That shouldn't take you more than 7 minutes without stopping. That's nothing, yet it will give you results.

Next you want to eat less starchy carbs and less sugars. You don't have to cut them out altogether, just make smarter choices before you put food in your mouth.

[martyfellow]

Start with something you can do almost every day, such as small weights and jogging. You can just do more of them on weekends than you have time for during the week.

Plus, jogging can take you to new places, you can meet other joggers, it's fun so long as you don't get too fanatical about it.

[Theguyoverthere]

Just do cardio workouts. Running is good. If running messes up your legs you'll want to find an elliptical.

[Anonymous]

do cardio, running, biking, etc.:)