What is your go to workout/exercise?

Traveler120

Of course you're going to be out of breath if you're unfit. You'll get better with time.

In the beginning, even though I was "only" 152 lbs, I was getting overuse injury on my foot just from walking 7 miles due to having been a couch potato. So I stopped walking and started doing only elliptical and spinning at the gym for zero impact/stress on my foot. I would put very high resistance on the elliptical and do standing climbs on the spin bike, both very effective workouts coz I started shrinking pretty fast.

I only started walking and jogging again after over 6 months. Nowadays, after I quit the gym, I mostly do hiking, trail running, cycling, a bit of bodyweight exercises and I'm down to 117 lbs.

akf2000

Walking at first, and it soon became one of my favourite activities. I'd listen to audiobooks (usually fantasy genre), music or BBC Radio iPlayer dramas (usually horror) and the time flies by. I get off the train a stop earlier and walk home 5k daily and added a long Sunday walk of 16k. Walking is the best.

Nowadays I do what seems to be known as 'fitness walking' which combines jogging, almost like a C25K programme. It's really amazing, me and my wife go for a 80 -100 mins walk/jog and burn 700kcal. It's actually enjoyable and something we look forward to. There's nothing like getting back home and pouring over the data (we use the Mapmyrun app which syncs with MFP). My wife has a Polar HR band and can see how many mins she was in each HR zone. The technology these days is amazing, smartphones have transformed our fitness levels.

worsthorse

when i started, walking, definitely. my first walk was ten minutes. i walked every day gradually increasing my time out until i was regularly doing an hour, then started increasing my speed, adding hills, etc. my goal was always to push a little harder, in some way, every day. these days? i lift three times a week and do a combination of high intensity cardio and long walks (five or more miles) three to five times a week. also... get a heart rate monitor and learn use it. the hrm will help you track how hard you are working and the progress you are making. you can do this!

inayat301

My dinner is heavy then lunch. mostly I don't take breakfast. But still I am overweight by 30 Kg (66 Lbs).

From last one week, I have started walking for 15 Mins after taking dinner and planning to gradually increase to 1 Hour.

Advice is much appreciated regarding how to lose weight.

Josh_lol

My go to workout is running. When I started, I got out of breath really easy and couldn't run very fast. I just found a speed I could stick at and I eventually improved my distance. The speed came later on.

ReadyforOctober

Thank you everyone for sharing. All this information is going to help a great deal. Wonderful community this is. Again, thank you for the awesome support

ReadyforOctober

inayat301 wrote: »

From last one week, I have started walking for 15 Mins after taking dinner and planning to gradually increase to 1 Hour.

Advice is much appreciated regarding how to lose weight.

Seems like you are headed into the right direction. Keep at it

AuroraGeorge8393

Walking. When I started, I could barely manage 3 miles a day. On average, I now walk between six to eight miles each day.

cerise_noir

When I first stared at 260lbs, I did the 30 day shred. It was hard, but I felt elated when I finished. That DVD was a door opener to fitness for me.

Now, I do a combo of strongcurves, DDP yoga/YRG (I am about as flexible as a tree stump), and c25k with a little kickboxing here and there if I feel like blowing off some steam.

85Cardinals wrote: »

Trampoline exercise has its ups and downs.

Nice.

bwogilvie

I run every other day, bicycle 2-4 days a week (more when I'm bike commuting), do a few hikes every month, and force myself to do some basic strength training 2-3 times a week.

But I built up to that gradually. I walked a lot, hiked occasionally, and bicycled from time to time when I was at my heaviest. From 2008 to the present, I got more serious about cycling, and gradually went from occasional 10-20 mile rides to regularly cycling 50-100 miles a week, longer some weeks. In 2014, after I had lost a lot of weight, I took up running again, with the Couch to 5K program, and cut back a little on my cycling.

The human body can adapt amazingly, as long as you keep two basic principles in mind:

1. To improve fitness, you need to stress your body a little bit more than it's used to. If you can easily walk 2 miles, try 2.5 next time.

2. But the improvement comes not from the stress itself but from recovery, which means alternating hard and easy days. That's especially important with high-impact activities like running, and with strength training, but it's a good general principle to keep in mind. If you always train hard, you'll just feel exhausted.

AnnPT77

I've been quite active for about 13 years; that followed decades of relatively sedentary life. But I've only lost weight recently.

About 16 years ago, at age 44, I went through treatment for locally advanced (stage III) breast cancer - surgery, chemotherapy, radiation. Afterward, I came to realize that I'd have to work at it in order to feel strong and healthy again.

I started with some yoga, but soon saw that a breast cancer survivors rowing team (long skinny boats like in the Olympics) was starting locally. So I joined, and loved it. It got me to do other things to be more fit for rowing - spin classes, cycling, aerobics, more. You better believe I was out of breath at first, starting doing really vigorous stuff at an obese body weight.

But I stayed fat because it was easy to out-eat even a fairly high calorie burn. (BTW, it surprises people to meet a fit(-ish) fat person, but they exist. People underestimate the workout capabilities of fat people.)

Over the past year, I've lost 60+ pounds by changing my way of eating. My rowing shell goes faster now that there's less weight in it.

ShrinkinMel

Right now walking on the treadmill at the gym 5-6 days a week. Weight lifting about 4 days a week. I do some occasional other things like swimming, roller skating and Just Dance Wii games but mostly my routine the last six weeks involved walking and lifting. In that six weeks I've lost 10 lbs so I'll keep doing this until fitness increases and weight drops enough to do walk/jogging.

dizzieblondeuk

I started out really unfit. I began slowly - 20-30 minute walks after work, trying to consciously build up my pace. The first week I walked, I had backache, leg ache, everything ache(!), and couldn't catch my breath for minutes afterwards! For me, the key was to just power through those aches, because I knew hauling my overweight, unfit body through even tiny bits of exercise that would eventually pay off with better health.

As for cardio, it's all about hanging in there, it really doesn't matter at all what exercise you choose - just aim to be out of breath and stick with it! I got a heart rate monitor (don't bother with a super-expensive one for now, any reliable one will do), calculated what my 'work-out zone' was supposed to be, and made sure I stuck to that zone. Any class or work-out you do should be at your pace - you're not competing against anyone else, just yourself! Tracking my fitness has been just as motivating as tracking my weight loss. Knowing I have to work so much harder these days to push my HR up to the 'high performance zone' is sort of a reward in itself. I also can watch just how quickly my HR and breathing returns to baseline at the end. I know my health has improved because I can see the numbers.

My cardio choices are spinning classes, HIIT circuits and interval training on elliptical and treadmill, usually 4-5 times a week. Good luck!

EttaMaeMartin

yoga is my daily go to now for almost 3 years. there are all different types, temps and levels. starting at the beginner level i was able to learn to follow the breath and learn to use it to move from pose to pose. i learned proper technique, most important, to avoid any injuries. today i am in advance hot vinyasa(which means flow) classes. i feel all stift if i miss even a day. it is also something you can do at home, if you want to have some practice before you go public. it is not a competition, if you are in a place that has that vibe, go somewhere else. everyone goes for different reasons, mine is for peace and serenity, the changes in body shape are an added bonus. if you are not flexible or not great with balance, no worries, you soon will be. constant change and watching the breath makes it a moving meditation. has helped me thru good and bad times. start small and move at your pace. find a good place with good or great instructors. be playful, have fun, and let go of that the does no longer serve you. NAMASTE! ( i bow to you). for me it is something i look forward to, not dread and that makes all the difference in the world! take care jennifer ps. take it off the mat to all areas of your life. it makes you see and react differently to the world.

LivingtheLeanDream

I started off just walking. It was a struggle to begin with but now I love to walk (average 18k/day). I also run and I lift/strength train too.

ReadyforOctober

ShrinkinMel wrote: »

In that six weeks I've lost 10 lbs so I'll keep doing this until fitness increases and weight drops enough to do walk/jogging.

Congrats on 10 lbs. lost!