90 minutes to workout and 50lbs to lose..

BhangraPrince
BhangraPrince Posts: 123 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
As the title says.. What would your cardio vs weights time breakdown be. Remember I wanna get to about 175-180lbs.

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  • shabaity
    shabaity Posts: 792 Member
    Depends on goals.
  • BhangraPrince
    BhangraPrince Posts: 123 Member
    Goal lose 50lbs
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    edited November 2015
    What is your fitness goal?

    You could lose 50 pounds with 0 minutes of exercise per day, if you ate less. Exercise is really only marginally related to weight loss (it lets you eat more and still lose at a good pace, but you won't outrun a bad diet).

    The primary benefits are gaining health, not losing weight.

    For example, my weight loss goals are to lose another 75 pounds, but my fitness goals are to preserve lean mass while doing so, and to be able to hike to the top of Kilimanjaro in 2017.

    In general: strength training helps build or preserve lean mass which keeps your metabolism a bit higher than if you lost that mass, and of course it makes you stronger. Cardiovascular exercise gives you endurance and stamina. I pick a mix of both since both are important to me.
  • shabaity
    shabaity Posts: 792 Member
    50lbs is possible without exercise. My exercise goals revolve around martial arts training ie lifting to be stronger, mixed cardio so I can grapple longer lots of stretching so that stupid key lock doesn't hurt as much etc.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    I started at 220lb and am now at 180lb while doing StrongLifts 3x/week for 60-75 minutes and playing Ultimate once per week for 1-2 hours. However, it wasn't the exercise that got me here (I played Ultimate last year and gained 10lb). It was focusing on the calorie intake.

    Personally, if you just want to be healthy with the minimum amount of effort, I think a whole body strength training routine (2-3x/week) and 1 hour of running per week, combined with monitoring calorie in vs calorie out gets you there the fastest. This is basically your health.gov guidelines. You could easily do this with your time amount by lifting 3x/week and running (or any areobic activity) 30 minutes 3x/week.

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