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Regaining fitness

  • 04-01-2017 9:05pm
    #1
    Bitconfused
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Hi

    All I am looking for some guidance and some personal experiences of which route you think best for me to take when getting into shape.

    A little background, up until about 18 months ago I had been in decent shape and enjoyed lifting weights and some running. Some personal circumstances lead me to gain quite an amount of weight over the past 12 months or so and have done absolutely no strenuous physical exercise in that time.

    When choosing an exercise programme I must say that my knee is quite badly off due to a cruciate injury a number of years ago. I don't have any certain goal in mind but am looking for long term improvement with set goals along the way possibly. Btw I'm 30 5.8 and just now weighed in at 13.7 St. I have lead a healthy lifestyle before so I understand some of the things involved ie I'm not a total novice.

    I would be grateful for your suggestions here and also some personal experiences from people who have started out in poor shape and overtime gained a decent level of fitness.

    I can tell you that when I had a decent level of fitness I felt much better in general and there were knock on effects also.

    Edit: I should also mention that the weight gain was caused mainly by large quantitys of alcohol consumption, five or so pints a most nights which went hand in hand with lots of fast food.

    I now don't drink alcohol and plan not for the foreseeable future. If anyone has any good meal planning resources or tips on good meals to batch cook. Spices are something I love using
    TIA


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  • #2
    Bandage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Bandage


    I'm no expert here but would a couch to 5km type programme be somewhere to start? Not sure if you're a gym member but mix it up with some swimming, exercise bike and/or weights and stepping up as you go along.


  • #3
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Well I think a good start would be to get your knee assessed by a physio before returning to any strenuous exercise, even something like swimming which is generally considered good for exercising with injuries but like all things, swimming technique done wrong can bring its own difficulties.

    That aside, can you swim and do you enjoy it?.


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