College Exercise Routine Advice? Bikram? Weights?

ampfh17
ampfh17 Posts: 4 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi, I'm going off to college next week and I really want to utilize the time to get back into shape and begin a life of healthy habits. I've got my diet all worked out for college but as far as exercise goes, I'm not too sure. I really want to workout 6 times a week, and I'm familiar with working out at that magnitude. My main goals are to: 1. lose weight 2. get stronger 3. get more flexible
I'm going to college in a city so I'm finally going to have the opportunity to take different types of fitness classes, mainly yoga. I've devised three workout modules and I would like an opinion on which one you think would be best, easiest to maintain, and most beneficial.

Workout Out Module 1: Bikram Yoga or Heated Vinyasa 6 times a week, every morning. I'm a little familiar with yoga and I really like it because of how calming it is, I just never really got a chance to get really into it because of my location.

Workout Module 2: Bikram or Heated Vinyasa 4 times a week, in the morning (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) + Hour long kettle-bell workout twice a week (Monday and Friday)

Workout Module 3: Bikram or Heated VInyasa 6 times a week, every morning + 45 minute Kettlebell workout on Tuesday's and Thursday's (I would attend Bikram or Vinyasa on those days).

Which do you think would be best? Also, what do you think about no cardio? My thing with cardio is, I get super lazy with it. I'll typically just turn on my music and get lost and while I love it, I know I'm not pushing myself hard enough. That's why I want to cut out cardio and do workouts where I'm forced to be aware of every movement.

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  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    Your weight loss goal is going to be all in your diet, basically comes down to calorie intake especially if you don't want to do cardio which is fine. As far as wanting to get stronger, if that's a serious goal of yours, then you should really start a weight lifting program like stronglifts if you are going to have access to a gym or fitness center on campus. You're just not going to see anywhere near the same strength increases with any sort of kettlebell workout or with yoga that you're going to see with a heavy lifting program like stronglifts. As far as flexibility, I can't comment because I'm one of the least flexible people ever, but flexibility isn't important to me but I would thing yoga would definitely help with that.

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