Can I just lift weights??????????

jedi9393

O.K. I hate cardio. I get bored easily and I try to do different stuff, but I still get bored. I also like to work hard or I dont feel like I'm getting a good cardio work out. However, I love to weight train. I fell in love with weights when I took weight lifting in high school. I was the only chick in the class but I learned a lot. I love the way I feel after I lift.

So is there anyway I can just lift weights and not do cardio and still lose weight? Has anyone done this??? I'm stalling and been told to get off the weights for a week or so cause my muscles are retaining water. Which is depressing. Thanks!

FairyMiss

O.K. I hate cardio. I get bored easily and I try to do different stuff, but I still get bored. I also like to work hard or I dont feel like I'm getting a good cardio work out. However, I love to weight train. I fell in love with weights when I took weight lifting in high school. I was the only chick in the class but I learned a lot. I love the way I feel after I lift.

So is there anyway I can just lift weights and not do cardio and still lose weight? Has anyone done this??? I'm stalling and been told to get off the weights for a week or so cause my muscles are retaining water. Which is depressing. Thanks!

sure
but there is more benefits to cardio then weight loss. a better working heart for one

SHBoss1673

Weight loss has little to do with the type of exercise you perform (weight loss, and fat loss is more about nutrition). Cardio is, however, a necessary part of a healthy body. If you are bored with LSC (Long Slow Cardio), look up HIIT training or Tabata protocol, not exactly the same as a straight cardio workout, but it's close enough that you will benefit.

Coltsman4ever

IMO, as far as weight loss goes, body building is more effective than cardio.
Even though you can't build a lot of muscle while in a calorie deficit, you can keep what you have, where if you diet w/o weights, you'll lose muscle fast. And since muscle burns fat so much more, you will lose more weight.
Always eat healthy though. That's number one!

jedi9393

Hmm thats is true. I understand the benefits, but I do huff and puff during my strenth training. I do eat healthy and all that. I just feel cardio sometimes is such a chore. Right now I've gotten off the eliptical machine and just do walking. I find I dont get as bored, but still I hate how time consuming it is. I walk for about an hour or more.

Also, I dont wanna lift and keep retaining this darn water. I've gained 4lbs in about a week since I have upped my lifting.

joejccva71

O.K. I hate cardio. I get bored easily and I try to do different stuff, but I still get bored. I also like to work hard or I dont feel like I'm getting a good cardio work out. However, I love to weight train. I fell in love with weights when I took weight lifting in high school. I was the only chick in the class but I learned a lot. I love the way I feel after I lift.

So is there anyway I can just lift weights and not do cardio and still lose weight? Has anyone done this??? I'm stalling and been told to get off the weights for a week or so cause my muscles are retaining water. Which is depressing. Thanks!

You don't have to even exercise to lose weight although you'll have issues with body composition. Yes you can lift and not do cardio.

Remember your diet is #1 priority. You can exercise until you are blue in the face, but if your diet is not 100% in check, you will go nowhere.

ArroganceInStep

Make the weights your cardio. Do supersets back to back with no rest between the exercises.

You don't need cardio to lose weight, but it is good for you.

nolehusker

Make the weights your cardio. Do supersets back to back with no rest between the exercises.

You don't need cardio to lose weight, but it is good for you.

Do this. Do more reps with less weights with 10 second rest in between reps and 30 second rest in between sets.

4theking

I only weight trained when I lost my weight. After walking out of the gym some days dragging and my chest about to pound out of my chest, I wonder about those that say you must do cardio. If you don't mess around in the gym, you are getting a great heart workout.

ilovedeadlifts

yep. you can just lift weights and end up with a great body.


like the poster above said, throw in some supersets and make your weight routine become a cardio workout.

ProTFitness

O.K. I hate cardio. I get bored easily and I try to do different stuff, but I still get bored. I also like to work hard or I dont feel like I'm getting a good cardio work out. However, I love to weight train. I fell in love with weights when I took weight lifting in high school. I was the only chick in the class but I learned a lot. I love the way I feel after I lift.

So is there anyway I can just lift weights and not do cardio and still lose weight? Has anyone done this??? I'm stalling and been told to get off the weights for a week or so cause my muscles are retaining water. Which is depressing. Thanks!

Well to burn fat you have to add cardio in. You want to burn dat right? well eating right and working out with weights and cardio do the job. Tyr this. depending on your lifting schedule you can do 1-2 min burst on the treadmill or machine or your own weight after a few sets of exercises or do 10-15 min of HIITs after weights. If you get it in between sets or exercise it is not so bad plus your getting it in

jedi9393

Honey let me tell you If I dont lift my body wont lose. I've tried all cardio at one time and my circulation improved and my blood pressure, but once I started to lose weight it all started to get flabby. So thats why now I've increased my lifting and i've lost inches.

I'm 5'11 278.8. I'm trying to lose 100lbs! I've stalled for the past month.

joejccva71

O.K. I hate cardio. I get bored easily and I try to do different stuff, but I still get bored. I also like to work hard or I dont feel like I'm getting a good cardio work out. However, I love to weight train. I fell in love with weights when I took weight lifting in high school. I was the only chick in the class but I learned a lot. I love the way I feel after I lift.

So is there anyway I can just lift weights and not do cardio and still lose weight? Has anyone done this??? I'm stalling and been told to get off the weights for a week or so cause my muscles are retaining water. Which is depressing. Thanks!

Well to burn fat you have to add cardio in.

Incorrect.

kenyonsmom10

I hated cardio too... until INSANITY! Check out my profile /add me... my pic shows my results so far. I would love to help you with your journey! I also did P90X for the weight training! I absolutely love weights, but was not losing as much weight as I wanted...fast enough

Espressocycle

Weight training is actually better for fat loss, because muscle burns more than jiggly flesh. If cardio is too boring for you, don't do it. Just try to walk more.

AMIS456

How about circuit training where you mix your weights with sprints etc. also programs like P90X provide a good combo of weights and cardio.

JennW130

Make the weights your cardio. Do supersets back to back with no rest between the exercises.

You don't need cardio to lose weight, but it is good for you.

Do this. Do more reps with less weights with 10 second rest in between reps and 30 second rest in between sets.

you could maybe do a circuit training type thing too...where you do weights and then do jumping jacks or some sort of cardio work in between different types of lifting.

jchester71

Hmm thats is true. I understand the benefits, but I do huff and puff during my strenth training. I do eat healthy and all that. I just feel cardio sometimes is such a chore. Right now I've gotten off the eliptical machine and just do walking. I find I dont get as bored, but still I hate how time consuming it is. I walk for about an hour or more.

You can definitely lose weight, just lifting weights, but a lack of cardio conditioning will really effect you ability to work hard in the weight room. I would also caution you that being unwilling to tackle things that seem like a chore is a recipe for disaster not just in terms of fitness, but in life in general.

jedi9393

I've never tried p90x or insanity or anything. Don't know much about those programs. Do you have to do them at home??? If so, that will be a problem. I cant be banging around early in teh morning. I have a little one that is a light sleeper.

If my cardio workout get boring or too easy I dread going to the gym. When it came to my strength training days I never get bored! I always look forward to it.

TeaBea

There are so many cardio options - you should be able to find something that you like doing at least a couple times a week. Biking (or spinning) swimming (aqua aerobics), eliptical, rebounding (mini trampoline) step aerobics, zumba, kickboxing etc.

Egger29

I'm currently doing Elite Level Ice Hockey training and believe it or not, there is a ZERO cardio component to the program. Why? Because steady pace activity doesn't have any direct correlation to performing better on the ice.

In other words: How you train all depends on your goals and your results!

You don't need to run 4x a week to lose weight and you don't need to sweat on the treadmill for hours on end to burn fat. The key is to educate yourself on a healthy lifestyle overall. How to eat properly, food Quality and not just quantity, and incorporate regular activity as part of that lifestyle.

That's what will bring you long lasting results for a lifetime.

Do what works for you and what you enjoy doing, and mix it up regularly so you keep challenging yourself to do new things.

jedi9393

Ok I hate aerobics too. I dont like the group stuff. I prefer to go alone or just me and a personal trainer. Ive had co-workers begging me to do zumba. I tried it once and not for me. Not a people person.

I am glad to hear I can just strength train, but my other problem is my nutritionist totally poo poo's women doing too much weight lifting! She says its great in moderation, but wont move the scale. I fear the scale. Seriously, it's driving me nuts.

My doctors are all about how many pounds I've lost and last time I was brow beaten cause they said I wasnt losing weight so I must be doing something wrong. Which made me angry. I've been working out like a mad woman and eating right, but nothing. So I've been told to cut the weight lifting in half.

ArroganceInStep

What's your lifting regime like?

jedi9393

grueling! about 30-45 min of lifting. I do it all legs, arms, core. machines, dumbells, floor work with the dumbells too. bench pressing. leg pressing.

Dumbells 15lbs each. I leg press 140. bench press 80lbs.

emmab0902

The most important thing for you to do is get rid of your scales. You have commented in many threads about the lack of weight loss as measured by scales, but you have also said that you are losing inches which is a way better indicator.

It just seems like the scales are going to do your head in and possibly put you off what is a good plan for you, just because you want the scales to shift.

Be happy that you are losing where it counts and stuff the scales. Do what I did - put them on the driveway and run them over.

jedi9393

yes the scale is driving me mad. I'm gonna tell my husband to put it in his car and weigh himself at work! He needs the scale cause of his heart condition.

But now my nutritionist and surgeon are telling me basically im a failure. So yeah, I'm not having fun.

emmab0902

Well put THEM on the driveway and - hmm better not.

Have you told them you are losing inches?? Or are they thinking you have made no progress when that isn't true at all.

Are they using other markers of improved health or just the scales? If its the latter I'd be sacking them.

jedi9393

No, they only go by the scale. I dont get measured. They have me print out my food intake for 2 weeks, my workouts too and weigh me. Ask about how hungry i am. Kept asking me if this was all I ate. Yes it is you *************! Once again they say it's impossible for me to gain, blah blah blah. Suggest I cut back on the weights, drink more water and pray to the weightloss Gods that my surgery is working. Well that last part I made up!!

ArroganceInStep

grueling! about 30-45 min of lifting. I do it all legs, arms, core. machines, dumbells, floor work with the dumbells too. bench pressing. leg pressing.

Dumbells 15lbs each. I leg press 140. bench press 80lbs.

Try to get on a set schedule that you follow continuously. Not just 'doing it all'.

Basically

Workout A
Exercise 1 - X1 Sets of Y1 Reps
Exercise 2 - X2 Sets of Y2 Reps
...

You can target specific muscle groups on specific days, you can do a full body routine every time you lift (assuming of course enough time is left in between lifting to recover). Whatever you do though it should be consistent, that way you can track your progress and ensure that you are balancing your workout appropriately and improving.

It sounds like the best first step for you would be to develop a solid workout plan. There are many people on this site who are far more knowledgeable on that particular subject than me, but if you have any questions I'd be happy to give advice to the best of my own abilities.

snowstorme

Sounds like you need a new nutritionist and dr. If you are loosing inches I wouldn't worry about any gain. How many days a week are you doing this? You have to give your muscles time to repair.

jchester71

grueling! about 30-45 min of lifting. I do it all legs, arms, core. machines, dumbells, floor work with the dumbells too. bench pressing. leg pressing.

Dumbells 15lbs each. I leg press 140. bench press 80lbs.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but that is not grueling. For a lot of people that is a short workout before they do cardio.Even if you get your heart going for that amount of time, you still are not getting enough cardio conditioning