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Originally Posted by Larzmatik
Will this help me slim down and gain some muscle tone?
When exactly are you going to get started? How did you come up with your "plan" and what you "will be" doing? What are you basing your plan on? What is the extent/experience of your knowledge of exercise and nutrition?
"Muscle tone" (i.e. visible definition of the muscles) will come with intense resistance training (and proper nutrition) OR with intense bodyweight training (and proper nutrition). Seems your "Plan" and what you "will be" doing severely lacks in either of these departments so its safe to say that you will NOT be achieving your goals in this area.
As far as the cardio goes, you can run to the moon and back but if your nutritional intake isnt good, then you will not see very many results in this area as well.
Hopefully you have a TV to watch! That's a lot of treadmilling. Why not do some power walking along with the jogging/running? It's really not how fast you go, it's the length of time you spend.
So that's almost a marathon's worth of running/day. Hopefully you won't burn-out. It's really a good idea to build up. I admire your desire to go 3x/day. If you set your goals you should stick to them but don't be too hard on yourself.
How much do you want to lose? Even a half hour a day is good. They say getting your cardio up for 30 minutes is a really effective thing. It will help speed up your metabolism, too.
And of course, the fitter you are the better your muscle tone will be. So yes, you will tone up. If you want to build muscle then that's a different thing but you seem to be on the right track!
Really? Do you honestly have 3+ hours a day to work out? Add in those weights and you are talking 25 hours a week. Minimum.
I don't know you at all but here is the first thoughts that came in to my head. And if I am totally wrong, I apologize. Just the date says a lot. You posted at the beginning of January. Another New Year's Resolution. OK, you want what you want and you want it now is the next thing I take away from your post. Nothing wrong with that but you are most likely sabotaging yourself right out of the gate and making sure you won't ever even come close.
NO ONE just wakes up one day and starts running 3 hours a day and doing weights. Attempting this will lead to injuries that will force you to abandon your program completely. This is called self sabotage. You have to start where you have to start. And for 99% of us it's not doable to run 3 hours a day and do weights. And if you do some research, you will learn most of the experts agree that the body needs time in between workouts to rebuild. That's why they have days when they do cardio, legs, arms, core, etc. They don't do everything every day. And even seasoned marathon runners seldom run 3 hours a day unless they are training for a race that's coming up soon. Look up couch to 5K. It's a sensible plan anyone can use to work up to distance running.
Here's the real deal. You will probably fight your weight for the rest of your life. What you decide to do to get it under control and lose or maintain has to something you can live with. For the rest of your life. Not just today or until you lose X pounds. It's a marathon, not a sprint to the finish line. Doing anything else is just a waste of your time. As soon as you lose X pounds and stop punishing yourself, the weight will come right back plus a few pounds you didn't have before. Lather, rinse, and repeat. And as you age, it will get harder and harder to drop the weight.
I did this for decades. Every January I had some whack plan to punish myself until I lost the weight. It never mattered if I lost or not because I would gain it back as soon as the prison sentence ended. I spent decades in the yoyo cycle. I used to be morbidly obese and now I'm not. But I am old now and I figured this stuff out way to late. I posted this because you sounded just like me. Maybe I can help you to avoid the mistakes I made!
How about you try out 30 minutes running on a treadmill first.....
Can you run outside for 30-60 minutes 3 times a day? No?
Of course you'll loose weight if you start running. But unless you're an Olympic level athlete, what you are proposing is not going to happen. You're talking about ~15 miles PER DAY.
Get your diet under control, start losing some weight, start WALKING and doing some incline work on the treadmill. But exercise to improve your general health. Don't do it to specifically lose weight. You can only lose weight by eating less than you burn. People tend to way overestimate what they burn and way underestimate what they eat (usually eating something terrible caloriewise to "reward" themselves for such a good workout...) and then throw their hands up in the air about how they don't get why they aren't losing weight. Seriously, do not exercise because you think it will make you lose oodles of weight alone and diet being only incidental. Not how it works.
I don't know why this myth persists. Cardio does indeed helps you gain muscle mass. Why? Because cardio exercise gets your heart rate up and burns fat and calories. By burning the fat and calories that strength training alone doesn't, it increases the efficacy of your strength training, making those exercises more effective. Not only that, running can give you crazy muscular legs as long as you run shorter distances and vary the incline. Resistance on the treadmill builds your quads, glutes, abs, and hamstrings.
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