Posts by littlekitty13

You do actually bloat a bit when it gets hot out. Your probably eating more salt or drinking more water to make up for the fact that "hey, its really humid out! I need to survive!"

Honest opinion: if you were working with doctors and nutritionists try following the maintenance meal plan they gave you for a longer period.

unless you just came off of a weight gain plan, then cut 300 calories every week until you stop gaining.  If you are losing weight again then add 1-200, just be a bit flexible :) it took me a few years to start eating without counting anything after recovery.

Original Post by aoifefa:

I do a sit ups, bicycle crunches, the reverse plank and quite a few exercises from Casey Ho's blogalates videos.

+1 to Cassey Ho's ab workouts, her other workouts not so much. Except for a few HIITs. 

Also focusing on abs every day or even every other day will not build you a stronger core but instead keep tearing and wearing the core muscles down.

Like previous posts, abs are more of a diet thing. Also building muscle in other areas of the body can help reveal them faster. I want to suggest Tatianna's Lovingfit.com (she also writes for cyberevil, which has some really good advice about overtraining and planing workouts that are not posted on her site) because she goes into detail about nutrition and hounds down on proper form.  She also suggests to do more than just crunch type of exercises unless you are a beginner (which is true because after a while you dont progress). Also I found her "take 5 days off every 6 weeks" very helpful, your body will need it so that you don't plateau.

Your profile says you used to do competitive gymnastics, my friend was in that and after she quit gym and swimming she got obsessed with it for a while and burned out.  Me on the other hand went through a similar phase at one point. Basically what will happen is that your body will start burning up or "eating away" muscle since it doesnt know where else to get its resources to push itself.  You will eventually burn out, it wont happen right away, it can take several years.  Like the anorexic xc runners I used to see in college who never came back because of burnout.

You wont technically ruin your metabolism either, just temporarily until your body repairs itself.

basically what the previous two posts mention, but i also want to incude the surface you are running on.  the beach may seem like the perfect place to run on because it is such a soft surface, but it can do more harm then people think.  I've seen twisted ankles, knees go bad from just one run, it messes with your running form.