rhuba
i really don't know life
Hi Justin,
I’ve never posted, but have been lurking quite a bit and reading your posts with great interest. I’ve printed them all off and put them in my food and exercise folder!! Since I started trying to lose weight and re-shape my body, I have become increasingly interested in nutrition (I’m even thinking of starting a distance-learning course in it!) Exercise, which began as a bit of a chore, has become something that I now can’t live without!
I have recently re-jigged my workout after quite a bit of research (as I was spending 45mins-1 hour on a treadclimber, getting addicted to the number of calories it said I was burning-which obviously wasn’t right, as I barely even felt I was getting a work out any more!!)
Your posts have made a lot of sense to me and I guess I just need a bit of reassurance that I’m doing the right things.
If at all possible, I’d like to get a little feedback on what I’m doing at the moment, and if you have and comments or suggestions as to how I can improve it I’d be ever so grateful! My main aim is a combination of fat loss, lean mass gain and improving my overall fitness, although I don’t have a particular time constraint.
Here is an example of a typical week:
Monday: swimming (I generally do about 100 lengths of a 25m pool in 65mins)
Tuesday: 1hr 20mins of yogalates (usually incorporating resistance bands, so lots of core exercises, standing poses etc)
Wednesday: gym: I have started a new cardio regime where I do 5mins warm up on stepper, level 9 then onto the cross trainer, where I’ve been doing interval training at level 9 with 2mins around 7mph then 30 secs at around 13-14mph. I do this for half an hour then drop to level 6 for 10mins, at 6mph and then a warm down through levels 3,2,1 for 5mins. My overall warm down is 5 mins on the wave machine at level 6.
Thursday: A second yoglates session (although I make sure I vary the exercises)
Friday: gym: I have been doing a similar workout to the Wednesday one, although I’m thinking of taking a spinning class or body pump instead.
Saturday: swimming (same as Monday)
Sunday: rest day (although I do sometimes do an hour of yoga for the stretching and relaxingness of it!)
I guess my main question is: do you think I am getting enough resistance exercise in (ie TBT) I would have thought that the yoga would help with this, but I don’t know whether to incorporate some into my gym workouts as well and maybe reduce the cardio slightly?
Sorry to write such an epic message, I know you’re busy! Any comments at all would be fab!
Thanks, rhuba xxx
I’ve never posted, but have been lurking quite a bit and reading your posts with great interest. I’ve printed them all off and put them in my food and exercise folder!! Since I started trying to lose weight and re-shape my body, I have become increasingly interested in nutrition (I’m even thinking of starting a distance-learning course in it!) Exercise, which began as a bit of a chore, has become something that I now can’t live without!
I have recently re-jigged my workout after quite a bit of research (as I was spending 45mins-1 hour on a treadclimber, getting addicted to the number of calories it said I was burning-which obviously wasn’t right, as I barely even felt I was getting a work out any more!!)
Your posts have made a lot of sense to me and I guess I just need a bit of reassurance that I’m doing the right things.
If at all possible, I’d like to get a little feedback on what I’m doing at the moment, and if you have and comments or suggestions as to how I can improve it I’d be ever so grateful! My main aim is a combination of fat loss, lean mass gain and improving my overall fitness, although I don’t have a particular time constraint.
Here is an example of a typical week:
Monday: swimming (I generally do about 100 lengths of a 25m pool in 65mins)
Tuesday: 1hr 20mins of yogalates (usually incorporating resistance bands, so lots of core exercises, standing poses etc)
Wednesday: gym: I have started a new cardio regime where I do 5mins warm up on stepper, level 9 then onto the cross trainer, where I’ve been doing interval training at level 9 with 2mins around 7mph then 30 secs at around 13-14mph. I do this for half an hour then drop to level 6 for 10mins, at 6mph and then a warm down through levels 3,2,1 for 5mins. My overall warm down is 5 mins on the wave machine at level 6.
Thursday: A second yoglates session (although I make sure I vary the exercises)
Friday: gym: I have been doing a similar workout to the Wednesday one, although I’m thinking of taking a spinning class or body pump instead.
Saturday: swimming (same as Monday)
Sunday: rest day (although I do sometimes do an hour of yoga for the stretching and relaxingness of it!)
I guess my main question is: do you think I am getting enough resistance exercise in (ie TBT) I would have thought that the yoga would help with this, but I don’t know whether to incorporate some into my gym workouts as well and maybe reduce the cardio slightly?
Sorry to write such an epic message, I know you’re busy! Any comments at all would be fab!
Thanks, rhuba xxx