Advice - Am I getting good use of my time?

ILA

I've started a new cardio programme which I do four days a week and was wondering if I'm getting the maximum use out of my time in the gym doing it:

Bike 1 - Level 6 - 20 minutes/134 calories
Treadmill F/W - Inc .5/Speed 5 - 9 mins/85 calories
Cross-Trainer - Level 5 - 7 minutes/100 calories
Bike 1 - Level 6 - 20 minutes/134 calories

Total Time/Calories: 56 minutes /453 cal

I then begin about 30 minutes of circuit training, most often containing shoulder press, chest press, abs machine, dumbell oblongs. Don't know how many calories this burns exactly.

The overall aim is weight-loss, from a current weight of 135kg.

xgtdec

Hi There ILA

As with all my posts i stand to be corrected but the sort of cardio where you change from treadmill to bike to x-t to bike...i dont think this works for fat loss, i think you may be better getting your heart rate up and sustain it for the 56 minutes rather than move from machine to machine where you have a rest period and you HR drops....if you have an hour to spare why not try a spin class and see how you like it....sustained higher heart rate will be much better for your goals than chaning machines after a few minutes.

The circuit training can be good if the intensity is high enough and you really pushing it, i tend not to do both in one day, circuit with weights on Monday..then cardio on bike tuesday sort of thing. I alway know which one is what day and put 110% into that...bike and circuit on the same session would just annoy me...but that just me...im easily annoyed:D

Best of luck with the training and one of the more experienced lads would prob offer up some better advice soon enough, it may be an idea to put up a full HONEST diet too, every little helps!!!!

Patdusty2010

ILA wrote: »

I've started a new cardio programme which I do four days a week and was wondering if I'm getting the maximum use out of my time in the gym doing it:

Bike 1 - Level 6 - 20 minutes/134 calories
Treadmill F/W - Inc .5/Speed 5 - 9 mins/85 calories
Cross-Trainer - Level 5 - 7 minutes/100 calories
Bike 1 - Level 6 - 20 minutes/134 calories

Total Time/Calories: 56 minutes /453 cal

I then begin about 30 minutes of circuit training, most often containing shoulder press, chest press, abs machine, dumbell oblongs. Don't know how many calories this burns exactly.

The overall aim is weight-loss, from a current weight of 135kg.

Hi Ila,

Do incline running on the treadmill. You could easily burn 100-150 calories in ten minutes at max resistance at 6km an hour. Thats only ten minutes and you could burn that many calories.

I would do sprints on the bike. Go flat out for two minutes and recover for a minute then do this again for as many times as you can. Sprints wills shed the weight off you.

Go on the rower. Go flat out for 80 seconds, recover, then go again as much as you can. The rower is an excellent machine I use it everytime I am in the gym and most people seem to ignore it.

So if I were you trying to lose weight I would do cycling and rower intervals and do some incline running. If you did the three exercises alone 3-4 times a week your weight would drop rapidly. There is no point just tipping along in the gym if your goal is to lose weight. I would cut the crosstrainer out for a while...

Dusty:)

Transform

at a weight of 135kg the training is not going to make a big difference as compared to diet alone

When you sort out your diet you could easily drop 2-3stone with diet alone changes

Read all of this and i would not be doing a whole lot of running at your current weight if you can avoid it for the moment -

http://thetransformationcatalyst.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/fat-loss-101-everything-you-want-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/