Posts by fredontoast

Woah I really did not expect so many replies! Thank you all!

One thing I guess I should have said is that I'm already doing Jillian Micheals 30 Day Shred Level 1 workout and occasionally the longer "Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism" Workout at home. I'm not a member of the Gym at the moment, but will join one when I hit University, as it's only £70 for the whole year then.

Littlesimongeorge:

My Nutrition is slowly becoming better. I'm working out the foods I don't need and adding healthier ones. I'm counting calories on everything and trying to plan what to eat so that I dont eat more than 2000 a day. As for Weights, I have some 5kg weights, and they are a bit light tbh. But I don't have the money to buy heavier ones. They are quite expensive, but I might go and have a look in the local charity shop to see if any heavier ones are lying about. I think the 30 Day shred counts as Interval Training. However, I'm doing it over 60 and increasing the time I do each workout from 10 days to 20.

Skylar:

I don't think running is that good. I have an injury in my calf from where I was hit by a car a year ago, any more than 10 minutes running/jogging/jump roping or jumping jacking causes it to ache severely.

floggingsully:

I will read your article now and post again with what I think, the support here for it seems to be pretty good.

Elmslady:

I dont have a gym membership yet.

Susiecue:

I love swimming, but I'm so self concsious I wanna lose weight before I go to the pool. So this is what this is for. However, I do love my workouts still. So In the real world I would do it. Also, I should point out I'm on summer hols. I have at least 3 hours free a day to myself where I can workout.

ds1973:

Yeah, I have been doing lifting and I **** love it. I can feel my muscles grow stronger and I wanna do so much more. I need to know more exercises than bicep curls though. Any ideas? Has to be dumbell training though. I have no barbells. I did read some of "Starting Strength" but as I have no barbells... not much point.

vyperman:

Sounds like a good idea. I think I need to work out some sort of dietplan. Any idea where I can do this?

My biggest weakness: Diet Coke. I know it's crap for you, but I'm having real trouble getting rid of it. I guess cause it means I can have something sweet without it  being more than 1 cal a can. I'm having 1 can a day sometimes. So I really need to get rid of it.

Right guys, I've got my Starting Strength on the way

:D

Really excited.

Just downloaded the 30 day shred.
Do you guys find that it's best to watch a vid through before doing it?

I've never tried this before.

edit:

WELLLL just done my first ever 30 minute work out with julianne micheals or whatever. man it was fun... as the exercise went on i could really feel my endurance going up and i was able to get through the exercises much quicker.

was a lot of good fun.

Original Post by floggingsully:

Original Post by fredontoast:

I'm a dude btw, so books for women would be no good.

Why not? You have the same muscles as women do, and the funciton the same way. 

If that's true, then why is it important to put whether you're male or female on these sites when finding out your quota for calories. And on food labels they always say 2000 for women, and 2500 for men?

Sorry I didn't mean to sound sexist if that's how it came across.. I just thought that men and women functioned different in terms of calorie burning and muscle building because our government here makes a massive deal about it.

Guess not.

I'm a dude btw, so books for women would be no good.

And yeah I guess weightlifting would be best. What would be an ideal weight to start out on?

I think they may be talking about the mass of fat vs that of muscle.