Gym Program - the one they make up for you...

LegacyUser

Will be joining westwood there in the coming week or so and I will be looking for a program to lose about 2 stone and basically tone up and not bulk as such.

Im 6'1 and 14 stone so would like to get it down a bit(note: i do not have a belly, i just aint toned.)

So there is the plan, what sort of program am I looking at? And how complicated/difficult will it to be to lost about two stone i.e. what sort of timeframe am I looking at?

Will be totally cutting out chocolate from my diet but I do love the odd can of coke.

LegacyUser

come on, someone must be in a gym and have a program and know how easy/difficult it is to lose 2 stone..surely...

tunney

2 stone? a few months at least. 28 pounds at 2 pounds a week (best case scenario) is 14 weeks.

It will be very hard to lose 2 stone and odds are that unless you make a lifestyle change in 6 months time it will be back on.

D!ve^Bomb!

why do ya wanna loose 2 stone - u seem to be at a good weight.. i think! im a few inches taller and weigh 6 stone more, i couldn't even imagine being 14 stone, i'd just be skin and bones!! do you know your bf%

ruby_s

losing the weight isn't the difficult bit, if you want to keep it off long term, you've gotta realise that whatever progarm you embark on now will have to be maintained practically forever.
if you don't want to spend the rest of your life at the gym, you'll need to do more than cut out chocolate. it's a cliche at this stage but cutting out all bad carbs in general as well as the excersise is probably a good idea until you reach a weight you're happy with. if you can maintain a healthy diet that's low in processed carbs and fat, and keep up you're resistance (this promotes muscle growth, and thus increases metabolism), running and aerobic work (helps burn off what's already there) you should have no trouble losing the weight in three months or so, which isn't long really.

it sound like alot of work, but it's more a lifestyle change than an effort to lose weight, you have to change the way you live to change the way you look in the long term.
i got meningitis and lost a stone in ten days, i don't recommend it but by god it was the most effective diet i'v ever been on!

D!ve^Bomb!

indeed - i got a virus a few weeks ago and lost a stone in a week, this was mainly due to not eating and sweating it all out, i thought i would have put the weight back on when i got better but i didn't..

LegacyUser

Cheers lads for the reply.

Basically, according to BMI, I am barely overweight. i have not been active due to a series of injuries involving my foot - broke it then had an ingrown toe nail for 6 months and that meant I could not do a lot of things for the last year. Now I personally do not notice weight change really, maybe a half stone to a stone in the whole year has been added but basically want to get active again.

So now that I am perfect again and my foot is grand, I will be taking up a martial art and hopefully get back into soccer(but that is not definite) wheras the martial art is definite.

So will the program they make up for me be effective? What should I ask for? Are the fitness instructors reliable?

tunney

Better off taking the advice of gym instructors rather than people you don't know on the internet eh?