Hoping for some advice

loribells

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help me out. I need some advice about what i should do at the gym. The people who work in there keep giving me the same plans and to be honest noting is working. I have been going 3 times a week for 2 years.

I am a female and I am 26. I am 5'10, 11st. My main problem areas are my thighs/ bingo wings/ and love handles. which havent changed at all. I also have some celulite.

My diet is good (but not so good at weekend). I eat porridge for breakfast, fruit and veg throughout the day but sometimes at the weekend i treat myself to pizza or burger. I drink maybe twice a month and would drink a lot on those nights out.

At the gym I do:
Threadmill (walk fast) - 20mins
Bike - 15 min
Cross trainer - 10 min
Rower - 10 min
And then sometimes I do some light weights. I was told to keep my session under an hour by the staff as they said its more "releastic".

My boyfriend is going to buy a bench press and he said maybe if i do some weights it might help.

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you

squod

Someone posted up figures for an hour spent on an exercise bike, 500 kcal.
I'd stick with the boyfriends plan and hit the weights, watch the diet etc.

Ask one of the instructors about doing free weights, something that doesn't involve a smith machine.

Frogdog

The advice given above is solid, OP.

Also, have a read of this brilliant thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056232328

loribells

Hi,

Thank you for your responses. I had a great read through the forums. Just my fear is that if i do weights I am afraid that I will get too "bulky" (like some people in the thread posted above, I have that misconception also)

Is it really as simple as just watching my diet, and doing weights?

I am going to try and find out what weights i can do to do help my thighs and love handles. Anyone any suggestions?

Thank you soo much

squod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acRdlwx1Hh8

The first thing Zuzanna does here, dumbell squats. Realistically the instructor is going to know more about you than we are and will be better placed to advise.

Ask your instructor about compound free wieight exercises like that dumbell squat IMO.

Mellor

loribells wrote: »

My diet is good (but not so good at weekend). I eat porridge for breakfast, fruit and veg throughout the day but sometimes at the weekend i treat myself to pizza or burger. I drink maybe twice a month and would drink a lot on those nights out.

I'm afraid your diet isn't good. It is had been for two years you would of lost weight, even without exercise.
Diet is the main part of losing weight, exercise only speeds it up slightly. I can't say if its the pizza on the week end that's the problem, or if you are eating too much during the week (too much "good" food is still bad for weight loss). A treat at the weekend is fine, but to make up for it you need to eat less during the week

Laisurg

I'd say do run rather than walk on the thread mill and keep your carbs low in your diet and a fair amount of protein if you're going to be doing weights.

If you've been following what the trainers been saying properly for 2 years and have seen no results then scrap everything they say because they're a load of gob****es.

Take as long as you need to get your workout done, keeping workouts under an hour is more to do with bulking up as you don't want to burn too many calories but that's the opposite for you so workout to your hearts content, could even throw another day in there if you wanted.

I've seen people lose crazy amounts of weight but it only happens when they really want it to, if you've been trying for 2 years and seen no significant changes it's time to step things up, keep the diet good on the weekends, watch the alcohol especially i know a girl who put on a stone in a few months from heavy drinking.

Just keep at it and you'll get there, there's no such thing as someone who can't lose weight.
If you really want it then cut out all the bad foods for a month or two and see what happens, start counting calories and keep it at around 1700-1800.
I'd suggest food like chicken breast (real chicken breast none of that birds eye crap) and fish is great as well, avoid red meat it's quite high in calories.

SanoVitae

Mellor wrote: »

I'm afraid your diet isn't good. It is had been for two years you would of lost weight, even without exercise.
Diet is the main part of losing weight, exercise only speeds it up slightly.

Laisurg wrote:

If you've been following what the trainers been saying properly for 2 years and have seen no results then scrap everything they say because they're a load of gob****es.

A big + 1 to both statements.

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to achieve a different result.

As Mellor said, diet is the main part of losing weight.

It's merely a matter of achieving a calorie deficit (taking in less calories than you use) on a daily basis.

You can do this in a variety of ways, favouring certain types of foods.

The most popular way to do this is to reduce your intake of refined/processed carbs, but all that ultimately matters is the calorie deficit.

Therefore, find an eating plan that suits you and that you can stick to on a permanent basis.

musicfood

loribells wrote: »

Hi,

I am a female and I am 26. I am 5'10, 11st. My main problem areas are my thighs/ bingo wings/ and love handles. which havent changed at all. I also have some celulite.

My diet is good (but not so good at weekend). I eat porridge for breakfast, fruit and veg throughout the day but sometimes at the weekend i treat myself to pizza or burger. I drink maybe twice a month and would drink a lot on those nights out.

At the gym I do:
Threadmill (walk fast) - 20mins
Bike - 15 min
Cross trainer - 10 min
Rower - 10 min
And then sometimes I do some light weights. I was told to keep my session under an hour by the staff as they said its more "releastic".

My boyfriend is going to buy a bench press and he said maybe if i do some weights it might help.

All those bits of cardio here and there seem like a waste of time (especially the walking!). Try running for 20-30 minutes (outdoors is better) 3-4 times a week - and spend about 20-30 minutes, including rest times, lifting weights about 3 times a week (give your body a chance to recover as well though).

Even just doing 3 sets of 10 dumb-bell squats a few times of week should make a difference after a couple of weeks (worked for me anyway). Also, bench presses are great, and I like other arm exercises, where you lift the weight from the back over your head (don't know what they're called) - again you shouldn't be able to more than 10 in the one set, or the weight's too light. You definitely won't bulk up from this!

AntiVirus

loribells wrote: »

At the gym I do:
Threadmill (walk fast) - 20mins
Bike - 15 min
Cross trainer - 10 min
Rower - 10 min

What distance did you cover when you first started in all of the above and now what distance are you covering now. In 2 years you should have progressed from walking.

You have to push yourself in the gym it's not about just turning up. Also as Mellor has pointed out your diet is the main problem.