Just Starting again in Gym

joxers25

Just Starting to get back to the gym after a few years..

Have about 45mins for gym every work day during lunch.

I'm 5'6" and 12 stone = Overweight!!
Diet is ok during the week - lots of fruit and veg, nuts etc, sensible portions for dinner let myself down at the weekends though, takeaways etc.


I want to shed about 1 & 1/2 stone whats the best way to get there and maintain.

Pure Cardio?
Mix of cardio and Weights?
Pure Weights?

Either way I want to Tone Up. no more tiny man tits - I'm bored with them : )

Cheers

justsomebloke

joxers25 wrote:

I want to shed about 1 & 1/2 stone whats the best way to get there and maintain.

Pure Cardio?
Mix of cardio and Weights?
Pure Weights?

actaully it is the unseen option D that is actaully the best way to lose the 1 and a half stone, which is Diet.

Post up your current Diet and what you think your new diet is going to be and we can offer soem advise. Other then that the mix of cardio and weights preferably on different days will probably give you the best results

telecaster_dub

im in similar position although i need to lose more

i joined gym on sat and got a fitness assessment

obviously stretches first then 8 mins on bike as warm up

then 20 mins on cross trainer at high resistance and 20 mins on thread mill at 7 kph minimum walking and then all weight machines and free weights for 12-15 reps x 2 sets

so that im struggling to reach 15 and im going to do that 3 days a week

im drinking grapefruite juice in morning and eating 2 apples and 1 mandarin and then drinking juice again and for lunch small portion of pasta and chicken and in evening brown wholemeal bread with ham and turkey and low calorie coleslaw and drinking least 2 litres of water a day and in 6 weeks i go back and get measured again to see if any weight loss and loss of inches or gains

so hope this helps

im no health freak and weekends kill me also but just have to do something else about it

Leon11

I'm not gonna proclaim to be an expert but surely 45-50 mins of cardio followed by weights can surely not be good for you. I just train hard for 40mins using weights and have a 10min warm-up/cool down period that brings total time to 1hr.

Any more experienced people to advise?

not meant to knock you just that you can overdo yourself very easily as I found out.

joxers25

breakfast - bowl crunchy nut, orange, coffee

lunch - bagel/brown bread sandwich of mayo curried chicken, peppers, lettuce. fruit juice and crisps

Dinner - Mon - spag bol, Tue - lasagne, Wed - chicken stir fry, Thur - chicken cassorole, Fri - oven fish & chips, Sat - Indian Take away, Sun - Roast and the trimmings

Evening - Tea/coffee & maybe cheese and crackers or a mini choc bar

New Diet - open to suggestions

I'm off the alcohol. Thats what has me in this state! that and the world cup, was having a beer watching the evening matches and then not bothering to cook getting take aways too much.

thank you all for the suggestions

Thanks

Joxer

telecaster_dub

Leon i dont think ur right

anybody will tell you that cardio and weights together is a great way to lose weight and tone up

justsomebloke

telecaster_dub wrote:

anybody will tell you that cardio and weights together is a great way to lose weight and tone up

i'll wait for anybody to arrive then

g'em

joxers25 wrote:

I'm off the alcohol. Thats what has me in this state!

your diet is equally to blame. you eat sugar cunningly disguised as cereal for breakfast and supplement it with lots of processed foods during the day.

For breakfast, porridge, sugar-free muesli, wholegrain bread, eggs.. take your pick. Have a snack mid-morning and mid-afternoon (yohgurt, nuts, fruit). Drop the crisps and fruit juice at lunch, have water and snack on nuts, make sandwiches on wholemeal bread with lots of salads and lean meats without sauces. For dinner lean meats and veg, unless you workout late afternoon or evening you don't need stacks of carbs, they'll only go unused and get stored as unwanted fat. cheese is fine in the evenings if its only a small portion, drop the crackers and certainly the chocolate bar. Treats are fine as long as they're only occcasional.

Stickies with oodles more info on this ftw!

@ Leon- there's nothing really wrong with cardio and weights together, but weights first, then cardio, although ideally they're done separately to maximise the benefits.

joxers25

cheers g'em

Leon11

ye apologies for what I said I completely got it mixed up for some reason i thought u meant 45 mins of weights and then 45 mins of cardio. I guess I'll just stop talking:D