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Starting Small

  • 21-06-2006 3:08pm
    #1
    Lothaar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭


    Hi,
    My gf was asking me for advice to help her get in better shape. She doesn’t really do much exercise, apart from cycling to and from work (45 mins each way) twice a week. The cycling is helping her shed a bit of weight but she wants to do some sort of resistance training for better results.
    Thing is, with long working hours, a long commute and a young daughter, she doesn’t have much free time. She doesn’t want to join a gym, as she won’t go. She’s the sort of person who joins a club, goes a few times and then gives up. We’re getting married in October, so she is more motivated than usual to get in shape. (BTW – she’s got a good figure and all that, just not as ‘toned’ as she could be.)
    I think I can get her started at a basic level of resistance training at home, by just doing a 30 min session a couple of nights a week in the front room. I want to start small. I have a set of dumbells with light weights and I think these can be utilised well.
    Tonight is the first session – here’s what I had in mind:

    3 x 10 pressups (on all fours)
    3 x 10 Bent-over Dumbell Rows (one arm at a time)
    3 x 10 Dumbell Squats
    3 x 10 Situps

    What do you think of that? Perhaps she could do them in a circuit, and do three reps of the whole circuit.

    As a frequent reader of this forum, I understand that this is not a regime that will give optimum results or anything like that. But that’s not what I’ve trying to achieve. I need a short, simple set of exercises that can be done in the front room. The only equipment we have is a yoga mat (she gave it up, before you ask!) and some dumbbells.

    I would really appreciate any advice I can get on this.

    EDIT: PS I'm in charge of food in our gaff, so she's been eating a quite clean diet. 5 meals, porridge for brekkie, carbs early in the day, no processed stuff... I'm going by a lot of the stuff in the stickies on here!


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  • #2
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    www.crossfit.com

    A massive ammount of stuff here that she can do at home, I also have an endless list of homework outs she can do If you want to PM your e-mail address.

    The list does have some stuff the requires equipment, but it also has a massive ammount of variations of body resistence stuff.

    If she puts in the effort with this stuff she will get a body like she won't believe. ;)


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