attempted my first at home circut

aplhabetacheesecake

So I am a cardio junkie and I have wanted to get into building some muscle with body weight strength training.
I found a circut online and attempted it last night

circut 1 is done 3 times
warm up run in place 2 minutes
body weight squats x 15 reps
butterfly situps x 10 reps
side plank- hold 30 sec per side
Plank to pushup x 10
knee pushups x 10

Repeat this circut x 3

then circut 2 starts

burpees x 15- there was more but I couldnt even get thru the 15 burpees without needing a break- the burpees got my max heart rate super fast and it was just too much to continue, I was spent!!

I am happy I got thru the first circut x 3 rounds, everything felt nice and challenging with the exception of the squats, I even had hubby come and assess my form incase I was not doing it right- They were just too easy!!

I think my next trial at this will be a weighted squat, I will have to use plates or dumbbells, I dont think I have plates small enough to do equal weights on a deadlift bar so it will have to be dumbbells, any idea what a good starting weight would be if my own bodyweight (191lbs) was not enough?
Thanks!

waldo56

If your goals are to get stronger and build muscle, that sort of workout is not ideal.

First of all, muscle mass is really only built in a calorie surplus. The tiny bit you can build at first outside of a surplus is mostly irrelevant.

Circuits are pretty much just doing cardio with easy strength exercises. To build strength and/or size you really need a progressive plan and need to be working at the edge of your capabilities, doing things that are really hard for you. Circuit style work generally includes too little recovery to be useful for much in the way of strength or size gain unless you are doing a very slow circuit, resting between each exercise.

aplhabetacheesecake

If your goals are to get stronger and build muscle, that sort of workout is not ideal.

First of all, muscle mass is really only built in a calorie surplus. The tiny bit you can build at first outside of a surplus is mostly irrelevant.

Circuits are pretty much just doing cardio with easy strength exercises. To build strength and/or size you really need a progressive plan and need to be working at the edge of your capabilities, doing things that are really hard for you. Circuit style work generally includes too little recovery to be useful for much in the way of strength or size gain unless you are doing a very slow circuit, resting between each exercise.

So can you recommend something?

I cannot eat at a calorie surplus as my BMI is in the obese category, I would like to lose an additional 40-60 lbs ontop of the 22 I have lost. I run, do step aerobics, yoga and walking- I would like to get into a strength routine that carries me thru weightloss and into strength building