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I'm trying to lose 30-40 pounds. Last month I tried swimming an hour 3 days a week but fighting for a lane was too much. So I'm back to the weight room. But I think if I do weight training 45 minutes and elliptical for 20 minutes 3 times a week and Piyo 2 times a week I will have a well rounded routine. I know abs are made in the kitchen but I've found that my diet changes after I've been in the gym a few times. https://youtu.be/Tt8ejc-ikZ4
I would do more cardio and less weights to lose weight, then when I got closer to my ideal weight I'd switch and spend more time on the weights in order to maintain/tone.
Do both cardio and weights. Some days just do one, on others days do both. Make sure you have a rest day. Do not wait to incorporate weights into your training. Too bad about the swimming, it torches calories.
As a general plan that's good, a mix of everything in a week.
I would personally up the elliptical or other steady state cardio minimum to 30-40 minutes. 20 minutes is simply not enough to really get that fat burning going, and if I recall correctly, the minimum recommended daily exercise time is minimum of 30 minutes of vigorous activity daily.
I sometimes have days I go for 50-55 minutes though you don't have to.
For my weight training I really don't have a set time. I have set body parts and instinctively train them to failure using weights and machines. Some days it takes 20 minutes, some days 40 minutes.
Do both cardio and weights. Some days just do one, on others days do both. Make sure you have a rest day. Do not wait to incorporate weights into your training. Too bad about the swimming, it torches calories.
I agree. Rather than waiting until you're doing a lot of cardio before really hitting the weights, do a solid routine with weights from the start, while gradually increasing cardio.
Make sure you work into both gradually, so you start more strenuous workouts only when you're in condition for them. Work on both kinds of exercise from the beginning, though. Weights and cardio together are a gret combination for blasting fat.
Yes the body takes something like 15 minutes or so to burn off the glucose/glycogen from your muscles during steady state cardio. 20 minutes to me is just warming up, and 30-40 minutes is better. Personally I get better results that way. That's why fasted cardio is so effective.
If you need or want to lose 40 lbs the kitchen needs to be where you focus most of your effort
Yep. Weights add weight. Or, you can't do weights. As you need more energy to do weights, so you eat more. Unless you do weights Obama way, then yeah, sure.
So you best bet is this:
I'm trying to lose 30-40 pounds. Last month I tried swimming an hour 3 days a week but fighting for a lane was too much. So I'm back to the weight room. But I think if I do weight training 45 minutes and elliptical for 20 minutes 3 times a week and Piyo 2 times a week I will have a well rounded routine. I know abs are made in the kitchen but I've found that my diet changes after I've been in the gym a few times. https://youtu.be/Tt8ejc-ikZ4
The best plan is the one you enjoy and stick with!
Don in Austin
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