Cardio or Weights

happymondays

Hi

Any advise would be great thanks.

Male Aged 31, Height 5 - 11 Weight 83kg

Been slightly over weight for a few years now so finally decided to do something about it. Through cleaning up my diet and doing cardio 3/4 days a week I’ve lost nearly 10 kg since Jan. Still have another 4 or 5kg to go before im happy with my weight.

Ive focused nearly all on cardio so far just to get the weight down first.
I want to start doing weights now to make my upper body looking better
(fat around stomach has certainly decreased a good bit but not so much around the chest area!)

Should I continue with the Cardio at this stage and keep trying to lose the extra kg’s or start using weights?

I’ve struggled to do weights because I usually go without any structured program and I just try to do bits and pieces which I know are not doing anything for me.

I’m a member of Westwood so would I be better off just getting one of the trainers
there to do a weights program up for me and show me how to do the weights properly or would it be worth it using a good personal trainer for a while?

bosswinger

Starting Strength would be a good place to start for a weights program and its also goes into diet and cardio too. Post up your diet (As accurate as you can). It is amazing what you think is good for losing weight but actually is the thing (or one of the things) holding you back. Getting down the last few kgs is mostly down to diet so have a real hard luck at that. I was very similar size to yourself and got down to 84kg pretty easily from 90 but down to my current 78kg took tweaking diet and workouts as the last few kgs are the toughest.

You could get a program from an instructor that could be excellent or down right awful, it all depends an the instructor. Never used a personal trainer myself so can't comment.

happymondays

bosswinger wrote: »

Starting Strength would be a good place to start for a weights program and its also goes into diet and cardio too. Post up your diet (As accurate as you can). It is amazing what you think is good for losing weight but actually is the thing (or one of the things) holding you back. Getting down the last few kgs is mostly down to diet so have a real hard luck at that. I was very similar size to yourself and got down to 84kg pretty easily from 90 but down to my current 78kg took tweaking diet and workouts as the last few kgs are the toughest.

You could get a program from an instructor that could be excellent or down right awful, it all depends an the instructor. Never used a personal trainer myself so can't comment.

i'll admit the last few Kg's have been tough to shift alrite!
Obvious it changes every day but here is a regular example of my diet

breakfast
8:00am Glass of Innocent Smoothie
9:00am Porridge with low fat Milk or 3 Wheetabix and 1 Banana with Low fat milk.

Morning Snack
1 cup Green tea.


Lunch
1:00pm Sandwich - 2 slices whole grain bread + ham or tuna + lettuce + Avonmore Low fat soup
Or
John West tuna light lunch pack

Afternoon Snack
1 cup Green tea.
Low fat Yougurt


Dinner
6.30pm
2 chicken breasts + vegetable stir fry pack + small bit of soy
Or
2 chicken breasts or lean beef + balti sauce + peppers + wholegrain rice.
Or
Roast chicken + potatoes + veg

Evening
10pm
Yougurt or fruit.
Handfull of nuts
the odd time a small piece of Chocolate.

chiefbrody1974

happymondays wrote: »

i'll admit the last few Kg's have been tough to shift alrite!
Obvious it changes every day but here is a regular example of my diet

breakfast
8:00am Glass of Innocent Smoothie
9:00am Porridge with low fat Milk or 3 Wheetabix and 1 Banana with Low fat milk.

Morning Snack
1 cup Green tea.


Lunch
1:00pm Sandwich - 2 slices whole grain bread + ham or tuna + lettuce + Avonmore Low fat soup
Or
John West tuna light lunch pack

Afternoon Snack
1 cup Green tea.
Low fat Yougurt


Dinner
6.30pm
2 chicken breasts + vegetable stir fry pack + small bit of soy
Or
2 chicken breasts or lean beef + balti sauce + peppers + wholegrain rice.
Or
Roast chicken + potatoes + veg

Evening
10pm
Yougurt or fruit.
Handfull of nuts
the odd time a small piece of Chocolate.

Not a major expert here but I know enough to say knock the smoothie sugar loaded crap on the head. youre not having any serious protein before 1pm. have at least 30 grams fo protein per meal. or to simplify, a piece of meat, fish or poultry the size of your palm.

Example of good diet for shaping up : this is mine by the way.

7am : 100gm porridge, with 20gms wallnuts, 40gm blueberries, sith skim milk and honey.

8.30am protein shake (dont live of these things either)

11.00am can of tuna and natural yogurt, large can!

1.30. steamed broccolli, carrotts and half a bag of uncle bens palau rice, with sliced turkey.

4pm : pot of cottage cheese and an apple. then a spoonful of natural peanut butter.

5pm : 3 full eggs/ 3 egg whites, tomato, mushroom, onion, omelette on a load of lettuce with some brown rince.

7pm : real coffee and 4 giner nut biscuits (not every night) but so as you dont go off your head!!!

10 PM : can of tuna if im hungry or maybe a shake!! some flax/udos or cod liver oil!!

you need to be gettin tons of protein in buddy and only go near the oul bread/pasta/potatoes if you feel jaded and realy lacking energy after a workout though these lads are perfect, especially baked spud or a big tuna salad sambo on good bread. you can eat plebtly of fruit but done lash into it cos it's still sugar, try more veg or some nuts etc. them smoothies are made in VATS and mass produced, If you cant make it yourself then dont bother, its still being processed!!