With the emergence of different ways of losing weight the method become handy yet there are numbers of people who preferred to lose weight in natural way. Eating with a balance diet along with an active and dynamic lifestyle can help you. You can say that you have a dynamic lifestyle when you also engage yourself with sports and physical fitness activities. They will help you maintain your healthy body and keep you upbeat all the time
Aside from that joining to various sports events can also help you lose your weight and free yourself from stress. Sports event like running, cycling and biking can help you boost your stamina for a better living.
circuit training.
do some press ups. as many as you can in 2mins
do sit ups (2mins)
do some burpees 2mins
do some squat thrusts 2mins
then stretch out for two mins then go on a 1.5mile run
takes 20-30mins and if you do it all without stopping and put 100% effort in you will feel it and after a week or so it will get easier. and you can check you progress by counting on the 2mins and timing the run
easy now put down the fork, nobody needs to get hurt here.
I went for a run on Sunday and I really enjoyed it 😀 I was shockingly slow I think, but don’t care, at least I went, and I ran 3.2 miles without stopping which is more important than speed I think and I am pretty pleased with that tbh. Gym at lunchtime today. Am aiming to do something every other day now to get back in the routine of it.
Watsontony, as many pressups as I can in 2 mins I think will be 0! Upper body strength has never exactly been my strong point. I do like the idea of a few other things thrown in before the run though – but what are burpees?
By coincidence I did 3.2miles on Sunday too.
Routine is good. Rest days are good too - they're an important part of training - so 'something every other day' sounds ideal for now.Am aiming to do something every other day now to get back in the routine of it.
mrsflap in similar weight position and just started running. Big problem for her is in putting herself first, there's always something else to be done. Develop some selfishness !
yy flap, I feel guilty doing something for me, as there is always washing or some other such joy to be done.
Have you considerd kettlebells? Great workout for the time-poor, only takes 5 mins you don't even have to change clothes, but you get great all round toning up, including upper body.
Mrs Flap_jack's forum name should be Flap_jill surely?
LOL at molgrips. would be inappropriate though, as unlike me she is totally focussed and dynamic.
wish I'd met a woman called Jill, it would have been v amusing.
I work 80% time, with a 2 year old to look after the other 20%. I find I get up to a lot of exercise on that day - I have a bike trailer, which we use for general getting around, shopping, going swimming, and also for adventures like trips to the woods, picnics, going paddling in the lake etc. Oh and she has a teeny weeny balance bike, which is probably also improving my fitness - she rides home from the child minders down a hill, and I run behind with running shoes on. Not to mention all the chucking her in the air / 'daddy carry now' moments when you're out, which I reckon have improved my arm strength no end! Oh and the swimming is pretty hard work too.
I also do evening exercise things (triathlon club), bike to work when I'm working in the office, swim in the river at lunchtime, and various other bits and pieces, but I do find it is surprising how much exercise it is possible to get in a day when you are looking after a small kid full time. Thanks to all that, she loves being outside and doing stuff too, even in rubbish weather, which is great.
Burpees are evil-incarnate...
A press-up followed by a star-jump.
Repeat until will to live expires...
My Missus is well into Zumba at the minute and goes 3 times a week.
I've found a quick 5k Jog around the local park, or an hour on the Turbo can be quite effective so long as you keep doing it regularly.
Training with a HRM can help target the intensity of your workouts
And look at your general food intake, 'Diets' don't work long term...
Burpees are evil-incarnate...A press-up followed by a star-jump.
Repeat until will to live expires...
+1
Back when i was very fit going circuit training 2 -3 times a week we had an instructor that filled in for someone that was a cage fighter.
Seeing as there was only 2 of us he decided to beast us. He made us do burpees for the entire class. Taking it in turns opposite each other until 1 gave out.. this went on for 40 minutes!!
evil
Burpees with a press up and a tuck jump are superb. One of the best all round exercises we do and they seriously push you.
Don't do burpees or anything like that if you're trying to lose weight. You'll injure yourself and be back to square one.
My physio (who's day job is with the British Olympic team) says that their rules are you lose weight first before doing any high impact stuff. For them that means running too. Anything over 3kg above competition weight invites injury in their view.
Don't take this the wrong way, but jogging is OK though. Stay safe.
It’s more about fitness than weight, I am still not, by any stretch of the imagination, fat.
I am.
I am still not, by any stretch of the imagination, fat.
apologies, title of thread confused me.
Anyway, that's excellent news because it means you can get fit quickly. Don't run at a steady pace, but after you've warmed up do your run as a set of faster and slower bits. Sprint between lamp-posts, and longer (up to 2 minutes) efforts between road junctions, that sort of thing. Do it again when you've got your breath back. 3 times a week of this sort of thing and you'll be on fire after a month.
Enjoy !
For them that means running too. Anything over 3kg above competition weight invites injury in their view.
By that rule I should give up on running then!
(I've gone from 8m30 to 7m15 per mile over 5km, and not injured myself in the process!)
molgrips, it's worse for women because larger Q-angles increase the load on the knees. You may well be bio-mechanically v suited for running so have got away with it. If so, I'm envious...
You may well be bio-mechanically v suited for running
Lol.. I'm biomechanically very un-suited for distance running!
Good at sprinting though, I guess that makes me strong which might in turn help with the injury prevention. I don't really get injuries as such unless I fall off. I had a persistent knee problem but that was sorted with one foam roller session!
Flap jack. S'nice to run for ages at a steady pace that you can hold. Just flow along, best feeling in the world.
I know it's not making me any 'more' fit, but it is joy.
looks like GF is going to have to do more than just bed teddy once a week at least 😉
Time you both strat to plan some me time where you can go out and ride//run and both enjoy yourselves.
The SO is setting her challenge for next year. A continental enduro, and I know I'll have to help. Tomorrow night she's out for a ride so I'll be managing mini-cynical for the evening. And it looks like this is going to be a regular occurrence for the next month 😉
blimey, emsz, 'enjoying oneself' ? Whatever next ? This is england, we don't do fun here !
One stravaholic I know always asks 'what was your training objective on that ride ?' 'Out for a laugh' just does not compute with him. He is a stereotypical sour roadie, though...
Just flow along, best feeling in the world.
Well I'm glad you enjoy it!
I don't do exersize, I do fun 8)
If I'm not enjoying it, I won't do it.
my mind is boggling! 😆mini-cynical
Juan, Rich does bedtime every night, not once a week, so that is the most sensible time for me to run. He rides his bike on a saturday morning while I take Ted swimming and catch up with friends.
yeah, sorry can see why it would. I am fatter than I would like, but still only a size 10, so not quite fat yet.apologies, title of thread confused me.
mrsflash, the key is in what emsz is saying above...fun beats intervals/burpees/kettleballs etc
What I mean is Rich will have to do more than just bed time. So you can have a whole night for night ride on your own. And you can take turn in taking teddy to the swimming pool.
And you mind can stop boggling, he is very cynical for such a small kid. Trouble i tell you trouble.
Well obv once he is in bed, theoretically I am free then too so could easily do a night ride, but at the moment want to get my fitness back a bit so I am capable of doing a night ride and enjoying it!!
juan, need any tips?
Me tips? What for?
fun beats intervals/burpees/kettleballs
What if you find intervals/burpees/kettleballs fun?
for your mini-cynic-al.
Well no, I'll be fine, plus he'll be bred correctly and wont wear this lycra non-sense 😉
I'm not bred correctly ❓
Just flow along, best feeling in the world.
*Hi-5s zen running buddy*
That's my favourite too.
You wear lycra al, for me this is a massive flaw. Plus you ride road bikes too. The wee one won't do this sort of things 😉
One day you will learn, young one.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha yeah one day, but for now on I'll do real riding with real clothes 😉
same here i just cannot get started with my fitness,my mate lost a stone in 8weeks just swimming
If I'm not enjoying it, I won't do it.
If I'm shite at something it wont' be fun, whereas if I am better it will be. I want to be able to enjoy running, so I work at it. Likewise, biking is more fun for me if I am fitter.
Sometimes I like to do hard things to get something I want. Like tidying the house, for instance.
combine swimming,running and cycling don't think so if the fats will still remains. there will be triathlon this August in NY, try and will see if i'm right.lol
*waves at mrsf* you mentioned the gym in your lunch hour - you could try to do something every lunch hour if you have the time as that way you won't be feeling guilty about chores/other stuff if you wait until the evening.
what about riding to work too?
