what actually is the best excercise for weight loss?

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  • tobnrn
    tobnrn Posts: 477 Member
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    All you need for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

    If your asking about your workout routine I am partial to compound lifts (squats, deadlift, bench, OHP, rows). Machines take stabilizer muscles out of the equation.
  • GFON
    GFON Posts: 8 Member
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    How long are the slow down periods ?
  • Gunsentry
    Gunsentry Posts: 121 Member
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    How long are the slow down periods ?

    One minute

    All out One minute, slow down one minute and repeat for 20 minutes.

    If you can do 20 just do as much as you can your endurance and stamina will come the more you do it.
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
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    10 mins free weights on arms
    x3 sets of crunches, x3 sets of squats
    plank for 1 minute

    then alternate day using weight machines on my arms and then legs, 20 mins each time.

    Is the sufficent enough for weight loss or is there anything else i need to be doing to mix it up? any advice appreciated.

    Thanks :)

    It mostly down to diet but that sounds like a rubbish workout routine, You have a back, chest and shoulders which need to be worked also.
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
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    The best exercise for weight loss is one you enjoy doing.

    This is bs

    Do squats
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
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    The best exercise for weight loss is one you enjoy doing.

    amen! I agree!
  • TheViperMan
    TheViperMan Posts: 235 Member
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    The best exercise for weight loss is one you enjoy doing.

    Win



    I enjoy swimming - feel free to buy me a pool, plzkthnx....
  • meghanner
    meghanner Posts: 180 Member
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    I agree with the high intensity intervals. Do them every other day and alternate them with days of strength training. Make sure you are really working hard. Investing in a HR monitor can help ensure you are working hard enough. Another suggestion would be to not use the weight machines. They only train one muscle at a time. The two main problems with this are that one, our bodies don't usually move one muscle at a time, it's not functional and two, it dramatically decreases your metabolic/caloric burn. Favour compound bodyweight (pull ups/rows) or bodyweight added (squats with dumbells or kettlebells) instead.
  • alpine1994
    alpine1994 Posts: 1,915 Member
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    Weight Loss: Running
    Making my body look good: strength and ballet
  • MonkeyBars
    MonkeyBars Posts: 266 Member
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    4 legs to the table:
    quality nutrition
    resistance training (full event, not isolation)
    cardio (short intense bursts, not endurance)
    rest

    do all 4 or the weakest leg will hold you back.
  • bufger
    bufger Posts: 763 Member
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    I find Basketball and Paintball the best for my weight loss.

    Paintball has extra motivation behind it, move quick or get shot!
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
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    Running was what worked for me.

    Out of interest, how many miles did you run a week and what was your starting and finishing weight? Just interested to learn about people's experiences of steady state exercise.
  • kmorganlfc
    kmorganlfc Posts: 115 Member
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    Even though I do quite a lot of running, and have done an awful lot of cycling in the past, the one form of exercise where I see sharper and more regular spikes in improvement, fitness and weight loss is circuit training, and maybe boxercise. This is my personal perspective of course. Even though running takes a lot of energy to perform, doing circuits you move through the whole range of heartrate zones and do work on lots of different muscle groups.
  • mommyred35
    mommyred35 Posts: 282 Member
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    The best exercise for weight loss is one you enjoy doing.


    This ^^^^^
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
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    Eating less.
  • GomesDavid
    GomesDavid Posts: 149
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    This is my current fitness regime;

    15mins cross trainer
    10mins rowing machine
    10 mins exercise bike

    then

    10 mins free weights on arms
    x3 sets of crunches, x3 sets of squats
    plank for 1 minute

    then alternate day using weight machines on my arms and then legs, 20 mins each time.

    Is the sufficent enough for weight loss or is there anything else i need to be doing to mix it up? any advice appreciated.

    Thanks :)

    u can also do Pilates 6x a week. 40-50 minutes of strength training followed by 5-15 minutes of HIIT. Add extra cardio 3x a week. 45 minutes doing intervals on the treadmill, or a 3-4 mile walk. Cut out white sugar and white flour. (keeping the changes from the other months).
  • GomesDavid
    GomesDavid Posts: 149
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    Weight Loss: Running
    Making my body look good: strength and ballet

    Same here Running,

    Also I enjoy Swimming and Playing Basket Ball :)
  • mareeee1234
    mareeee1234 Posts: 674 Member
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    You could do longer, more sustained cardio? A good 40 mins of one thing, such as running! Running is great :)
  • MaudeBeige
    MaudeBeige Posts: 282
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    The best exercise for weight loss is one you enjoy doing.

    amen! I agree!

    I ABSOLUTELY agree! No point in doing things that you hate and then not managing to maintain.
  • dawson55510
    dawson55510 Posts: 197 Member
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    Eliiptical for me is the best equipment for fatloss or a stairmaster but very expensive most gym wont have one

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