Advice: Personal Programme

El Che

I got a fitness programme from a personal trainer, with the intention of losing weight the target being to drop from 123kg to 90kg in 9 months (by August).

Currently, I am on a protein only diet (except on Sunday when 1 non-specific meal is allowed) and have the following programme:

Morning Workout (before breakfast) - 1 Hour Cardio

• 30 Minutes Fast-walk on treadmill, raising incline by 2 every 2 mins.
• 30 Minutes on standard excercise bike at Level 6.

Evening Workout (before Dinner)

• 35 minutes of weights, varying each day but mostly involving chest press, shoulder press, pullover, triceps pulldown string, bicep curl bar, incline press, lateral and frontal raises, and finishes with abs and dumbell oblongs.

Can anyone here recommend any improvements that should increase weight loss to speed things up, currently my body seems to be toning by noticably "tightening up" but my weight has slumped at 113kg and rarely goes down.

aye

is there a reason you dont do any leg weights?

amazingemmet

Protein only diet?

El Che

aye wrote: »

is there a reason you dont do any leg weights?

I do leg weights as well: Lunges, Leg Extension, and Leg Curl. Forgot about them sorry.

amazingemmet wrote: »

Protein only diet?

Its a "high protein diet" composed by the personal trainer. I don't think there's much, if any, carbs in it:

Daily

Food 1: 5 eggs (boiled, scrambled, or poached) with no yoke
Food 2: Protein Shake
Food 3: 2 chicken breat and fresh salad
Food 4: 4 eggs, boiled, no yoke
Food 5: Tuna (1 tin) and fresh salad
Food 6: Protein Shake
Food 7: 2 apples and pint of milk

The gap between these is about 2 hours to 2hrs 30mins, and have been instructed that "if not hungry, then don't eat", meaning I can skip a meal if I'm not particularly hungry.

Colm_OReilly

I guess the real question is, if you don't have faith in your personal trainer and his program/diet, why are you still going to him?

Don't mean to be harsh, but I felt I should say it.

amazingemmet

El Che wrote: »

I do leg weights as well: Lunges, Leg Extension, and Leg Curl. Forgot about them sorry.



Its a "high protein diet" composed by the personal trainer. I don't think there's much, if any, carbs in it:

Daily

Food 1: 5 eggs (boiled, scrambled, or poached) with no yoke
Food 2: Protein Shake
Food 3: 2 chicken breat and fresh salad
Food 4: 4 eggs, boiled, no yoke
Food 5: Tuna (1 tin) and fresh salad
Food 6: Protein Shake
Food 7: 2 apples and pint of milk

The gap between these is about 2 hours to 2hrs 30mins, and have been instructed that "if not hungry, then don't eat", meaning I can skip a meal if I'm not particularly hungry.

Your diet is terrible if its a long term one. You need more healthy fats to aid in your fat loss as well as make you still feel normal. Also such a high protein intake for too long will enocurage muscle wastage as well as fat loss. If its for a one/two week fat loss blitz then moving on to something more reasonable then its fine.

El Che

amazingemmet wrote: »

Your diet is terrible if its a long term one. You need more healthy fats to aid in your fat loss as well as make you still feel normal. Also such a high protein intake for too long will enocurage muscle wastage as well as fat loss. If its for a one/two week fat loss blitz then moving on to something more reasonable then its fine.

Its generally pretty short, about 3 weeks per diet. I've had several prior to this which were much more sustainable but this is more of a blitz to the finish line diet which he's prepared.

Colm OReilly wrote:

I guess the real question is, if you don't have faith in your personal trainer and his program/diet, why are you still going to him?

Don't mean to be harsh, but I felt I should say it.

Well he works at the Gym where my membership is, so its either use what services are available to me or go it alone and have no idea what the fvck I'm doing. Personally, I think he does a good job and has done to date so I sorta feel that perhaps there's something that I'm not doing that has caused the standstill in weight loss.

I have faith in the trainer, but I'm just wondering is there any way to get weight moving downward again as I've lost over a stone since starting and now its been the same for two or three weeks.

MagicMarker

Such a waste of yokeage. Your fridge must be full of eggs to go through that amount daily.

What's your current height & weight? Male or female?

Magnet

such a bad diet
Anything over 100g protein is just wasted - your body can only process so much.
Have 5/6 small meals, add vegetables into most meals.
whats your energy levels like?
Eat every 2-3 hrs to keep up your metabolism,if you skip meals you body will hold onto its reserves...
Eat good quality fruit but beware of the sugar content.

Aedh Baclamh

Anything over 100g protein is wasted? Hmmm.

Transform

such absolute nonsence and no back up - over 100g protein wasted!!

If your 125kg you seriously need to drop weight so what you have outlined will get you to 100kg the quickest - lots of salads and greens and 6g fish oils also per day.

Why is it the ones with no experience in fat loss shout the biggest load of toss?

Zamboni

El Che wrote: »

I got a fitness programme from a personal trainer, with the intention of losing weight the target being to drop from 123kg to 90kg in 9 months (by August).

I just reread your post.
You've dropped 10Kgs in (working backwards) 5 months.
You're aiming for another 23Kgs in 4 months?
Is that right?