Shed The Fat

[Gypsy1955]

What a better place to go for opinions, suggestions and input. These beautiful ladies no doubt hit the gym and take it seriously.

I've taken a little hiatus from the gym and notice I'm up 6 lbs on the Richter Scale. I'm tired of free weights and want to try rubber band routines. I'm looking at bands from 10 to 100 lb resistance. Believe me, I experimented with 70, 80 and 100 lb bands and they are DEADLY!! Plus my chin-up bar and bow flex adjustable dumbbells. I don't believe in running long distances anymore, burns off too much water and muscle not to mention time consuming. Instead I do 20 min interval training. I'm also 58 years young so my metabolism is slowing down although I've been able to maintain pretty good health and physicality.

I'm always open for something new. Let's hear some of your routines please. Include diet tips...to juice or not to juice. To juice means whole natural foods, not that other kind of juicing!! Lol

[Shyla Wild]

I rollerblade 15km per day from the day the snow melts until the day it snows again. I kite-surf during the summer, snowboard during the winter and have paintball tournments in fall and spring. I also jog or run and have multiple toning workouts to maintain my body. My fitness and activity is tracked using Fitbit. Their workout bracelet as well as their BMI scale "The Aria" allow me to keep track of all my intake and burning of calories. It monitors also everything you eat (if you log it) and can alert you of such things as high sodium or other parts of your diet which might be lacking or having too much of. Before using this I never noticed that my salt intake was much too high. My fitbit also measures my sleep patterns and how effective my sleep is.
www.fitbit.com

For my workouts I use Nike Hypertrainers TR-1. They are bluetooth running shoes that sync's to your Iphone(Nike Fitness) and measures all the reps to my workouts and their effectiveness.

To maintain my mental stability, I use yoga to stay relaxed and focused.

[Rockheart]

Unless you get a grip on your metabolism you will never be successful at permanently losing weight.
Working out and exercising will have little effect on your weight without increasing and understanding your metabolism.

1. Try to make breakfast your biggest meal of the day.
2. Try and eat all your calories before 6pm.
3. Try not to eat after 6pm.
4. Do not eat within 3 hours of bed time.
5. Do not exercise within 3 hours of bed time.
6. When you do exercise do it outside in the cold and at altitude and get your metabolism up. (ie: Skiing and mountain climbing are great because exercising in these conditions will increase your metabolism and endurance at lower altitudes and higher temperatures. This is why many UFC fighters train at mountain resort areas.
7. Build up the largest muscles. The largest muscles are in your legs, if you build your legs up and concentrate on activities that work you legs, as a result you will burn more calories just doing regular daily activities because your major muscles are larger. You can work out you upper body all you want but it will burn much less energy than your leg muscles. Working your arms will not remove much fat from your torso and most people find their unwanted fat issue is on their torso, not their arms.
8. You must eat animal fat to build muscle and be healthy. If you think eating fruit and veggies is the only way to be healthy, this is very misleading. Humans must have animal fats to be healthy and strong mammals, birds and fish can fit the bill here. It is now known that sugar from fruits and vegetables is just as dangerous as any other kind of sugars. You need to balance the fruits and vegetables with your fats and protein to be healthy.
9. Don't keep weeks worth of food on hand. If the food is there you will eat it.
10. Keep less instant food on hand that you will grab to munch, stick to prepared food so you are not binge eating snacks.
11. Use food as a reward for healthy activities. Don't eat out unless you walk or ride your bike to the restaurant.

[Gypsy1955]

I rollerblade 15km per day from the day the snow melts until the day it snows again. I kite-surf during the summer, snowboard during the winter and have paintball tournments in fall and spring. I also jog or run and have multiple toning workouts to maintain my body. My fitness and activity is tracked using Fitbit. Their workout bracelet as well as their BMI scale "The Aria" allow me to keep track of all my intake and burning of calories. It monitors also everything you eat (if you log it) and can alert you of such things as high sodium or other parts of your diet which might be lacking or having too much of. Before using this I never noticed that my salt intake was much too high. My fitbit also measures my sleep patterns and how effective my sleep is.
www.fitbit.com

For my workouts I use Nike Hypertrainers TR-1. They are bluetooth running shoes that sync's to your Iphone(Nike Fitness) and measures all the reps to my workouts and their effectiveness.

To maintain my mental stability, I use yoga to stay relaxed and focused.

Holy Smokes! That's great! I love the paintball. The last 6 times out my son killed me every time, shot me in the ass every time!!! Turkey!!! :-) and I'm the military guy!!

Fitbit sounds like something that will be very useful to me. Its the first I've heard of it. I have an hereditary high bp (blood pressure) condition and often I overlook because I go to the gym. The gym doesn't cure all. I lift 4 or 5 times a week, heavy lift 1 week followed by light lift the following week with increased stretching for toning and flexibility. I also run 4-6 k's twice a week and 2 interval trainings or just interval training 4 times a week. Thank you Shyla, you've given me 3 things to look into, the fitbit, Aria and blue tooth runners. My mental stability...oh oh!! Forgot about that one, wha the...where am I? How'd I get here!!Seriously tho, I'm learning to play guitar and have Rosetta Stone, Russian. Both are fun and relaxing. Gotta keep it fun.

[Anji]

always eat breakfast (big breakfast),
drink lots of water (at least 3L a day)
exercise at least every other day (find something you like doing that burns calories)

for weight loss - high intensive workout > running/jogging
high intensive workout is the only workout i do, give yourself very short breaks.
and keep a consistent workout/eating schedule.
drink a lot of water during and after workout.
and be consistent.

metabolism is everything, get in control of it!
logging helps a lot too. its a self-reminder for consistency and shows invisible progress through numbers

good luck

ps. i'm athletic, have a 29 waist, eat approx 4000 calories daily, 1.5h high-intensive workout every other day + sports/cycling.

[Shyla Wild]

Holy Smokes! That's great! I love the paintball. The last 6 times out my son killed me every time, shot me in the ass every time!!! Turkey!!! :-) and I'm the military guy!!

Fitbit sounds like something that will be very useful to me. Its the first I've heard of it. I have an hereditary high bp (blood pressure) condition and often I overlook because I go to the gym. The gym doesn't cure all. I lift 4 or 5 times a week, heavy lift 1 week followed by light lift the following week with increased stretching for toning and flexibility. I also run 4-6 k's twice a week and 2 interval trainings or just interval training 4 times a week. Thank you Shyla, you've given me 3 things to look into, the fitbit, Aria and blue tooth runners. My mental stability...oh oh!! Forgot about that one, wha the...where am I? How'd I get here!!Seriously tho, I'm learning to play guitar and have Rosetta Stone, Russian. Both are fun and relaxing. Gotta keep it fun.

I'm a serious health nut. So, here is some things to look into. The shoes I have are the ones that use the Nike Sports pack. Any shoe that supports these will work. The hypertrainers I have are the Lunar TR1. They look like this.

Mentioning the hearts condition, I have a device that syncs with my iphone that I use for heart rate monitoring and a device for blood pressure monitoring:


http://store.apple.com/ca/product/HB...AOS-CA-KWG-PLA



http://store.apple.com/ca/product/HC...AOS-CA-KWG-PLA

[jake]

Intensity

[Rockheart]

I've never quite understood why people go to gyms.
Outdoors is free!

[Gypsy1955]

In Tune

Unless you get a grip on your metabolism you will never be successful at permanently losing weight.
Working out and exercising will have little effect on your weight without increasing and understanding your metabolism.

1. Try to make breakfast your biggest meal of the day.
2. Try and eat all your calories before 6pm.
3. Try not to eat after 6pm.
4. Do not eat within 3 hours of bed time.
5. Do not exercise within 3 hours of bed time.
6. When you do exercise do it outside in the cold and at altitude and get your metabolism up. (ie: Skiing and mountain climbing are great because exercising in these conditions will increase your metabolism and endurance at lower altitudes and higher temperatures. This is why many UFC fighters train at mountain resort areas.
7. Build up the largest muscles. The largest muscles are in your legs, if you build your legs up and concentrate on activities that work you legs, as a result you will burn more calories just doing regular daily activities because your major muscles are larger. You can work out you upper body all you want but it will burn much less energy than your leg muscles. Working your arms will not remove much fat from your torso and most people find their unwanted fat issue is on their torso, not their arms.
8. You must eat animal fat to build muscle and be healthy. If you think eating fruit and veggies is the only way to be healthy, this is very misleading. Humans must have animal fats to be healthy and strong mammals, birds and fish can fit the bill here. It is now known that sugar from fruits and vegetables is just as dangerous as any other kind of sugars. You need to balance the fruits and vegetables with your fats and protein to be healthy.
9. Don't keep weeks worth of food on hand. If the food is there you will eat it.
10. Keep less instant food on hand that you will grab to munch, stick to prepared food so you are not binge eating snacks.
11. Use food as a reward for healthy activities. Don't eat out unless you walk or ride your bike to the restaurant.

I'm pretty well in tune with much of this. I love to work my large muscle groups. I did my heaviest lifts at age 55: 315 lb squat, 325 deadlift and 225 bench press. I weigh 180. Now common sense got to me and I lift much lighter as I don't want to injure myself. You'd love the Yukon as the trails are everywhere, thousands of Km's and no flat ground. Mountain biking, hiking, canoeing, are in your backyard....and free! Lots of wild meat to eat even in restaurants.

[Guest]

Dudley Do Right muscles up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoou5ELXTE

[Guest]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08hLYwEBNQA

[Gypsy1955]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoou5ELXTE

Very funny Babe and so truthful lol.

[Gypsy1955]

Thank you Shyla

I ordered the blood pressure and heart rate monitors. Thank you for the information.