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The other two are experts, I can only share my own experience with this. Do compound exercises with high reps and HIIT for cardio. Hiit doesnt take more than 15 min so you can do that before or after lifting weights. After a few months you'll feel that you can eat anything without gaining weight. Diet is important, but if your goal is just to burn fat then there is no reason to follow a really strict diet as it will decrease motivation.
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If i have to cut weight drastically, i would definatly go for HIIT squats and intervalcardio again
SO freaking effective
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If i have to cut weight drastically, i would definatly go for HIIT squats and intervalcardio again
SO freaking effective
When my goal was to decrease weight my programme was something like this:
2min skipping rope
35 pushups
10 pullups
20 lunges
50 ab exercises
With no breaks in between. Then i spent a few minutes trying not to die, then repeat. Do that round 3-4 times andnits a solid workout that will just melt you.
When my goal was to decrease weight my programme was something like this:
2min skipping rope
35 pushups
10 pullups
20 lunges
50 ab exercises
With no breaks in between. Then i spent a few minutes trying not to die, then repeat. Do that round 3-4 times andnits a solid workout that will just melt you.
1) why?
2) can any idiot do it? or do you need to be well trained first?
I'm doing it because whenever I've trained in my life I've been doing it wrong. The result is that I have really strong arms and a strong chest, but my core can't keep up. I found this out when I was doing physical labour where we had to dismantle small bridges that go from the beach and 20m out. Also I'm going to China for three months in 2016 to train kung fu and after that I'm going to do 8 months in the civil defence getting a catastrophe education, so I need my physique to be really good before I go into that.
Any idiot can do it, I'm not that advanced yet. Why do you ask?
Any idiot can do it, I'm not that advanced yet. Why do you ask?
Whats your motivation?
But also having a basic level of strength. Before I started bodyweight I couldn't sit on a chair without back support for more than half an hour without starting to feel back pain.
iirc you started working out (swimming, I think it started with?) 3-4 months ago. By any calculation you've dropped 8kg too fast, so there's no reason to feel like you're 'stuck' anywhere. I took you 7 years of being inactive and having the wrong diet to get where you were, it should take slightly less than that to get back to 80 with a good diet and activity. That's the mindset I had when I had to drop 23kg and it helped me stay focused in the interim period where there were some results (seriously man, 8kg!) but the goal still seemed far away.
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Plus, once your body strenght starts going up you'll start enjoying working out - as the exercises get more fun and you start to feel like you're pushing yourself for the fun of it rather than because you have to in order to drop the kg's.
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Plus, once your body strenght starts going up you'll start enjoying working out - as the exercises get more fun and you start to feel like you're pushing yourself for the fun of it rather than because you have to in order to drop the kg's.
Tbh I would be quite thrilled if by the end of the year I can get close to 85 and then spend the next 6 months trying to reach 75 (my ideal weight).
Thanks for the encouragement though. It's true I've come a long long way already!
How did you experience weight loss? Was it a steady/constant decrease over time? For me it's been something like:
- lose 4-5kg in 6 weeks
- no change for 4 weeks
- lose 2kg in 4 weeks
- no change for 5 weeks
Yeah, I still feel like I'm recovering from a long period of inactivity and I'm a bit fragile to DOMS and injury in the joints. So I can't push myself that much. I hope that will pass.
Thanks for the encouragement though. It's true I've come a long long way already!
How did you experience weight loss? Was it a steady/constant decrease over time? For me it's been something like:
- lose 4-5kg in 6 weeks
- no change for 4 weeks
- lose 2kg in 4 weeks
- no change for 5 weeks
Yeah, I still feel like I'm recovering from a long period of inactivity and I'm a bit fragile to DOMS and injury in the joints. So I can't push myself that much. I hope that will pass.
If you reach 75 by next summer, then you've dropped 20kg in a year. That's a really steep goal to set, but it's ambitious and doable if you really stick to it - so go for it.
I dropped 10kg in the first month, but I took in 1200-1500 calories per day and tried to burn atleast 800. After that I felt like shit, so I dialed it back and dropped 1kg per month or so. Then I had a period of inactivity where I went a few kg up and a few kg down. The last stint has been the past 6 months where I've dropped 6kg fat - I found a routine that works really well for me and most importantly I cut down on booze and beer.
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I've been really lucky though, except for sheen splints and a sore shoulder once I haven't had any injury issues even though I've been pushing hard and doing some stuff wrong in the beginning.
I dropped 10kg in the first month, but I took in 1200-1500 calories per day and tried to burn atleast 800. After that I felt like shit, so I dialed it back and dropped 1kg per month or so. Then I had a period of inactivity where I went a few kg up and a few kg down. The last stint has been the past 6 months where I've dropped 6kg fat - I found a routine that works really well for me and most importantly I cut down on booze and beer.
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I've been really lucky though, except for sheen splints and a sore shoulder once I haven't had any injury issues even though I've been pushing hard and doing some stuff wrong in the beginning.
