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What should I be doing?

maxamilene
maxamilene Posts: 4
edited January 17 in Fitness and Exercise
Seems like a vague title but it is worth asking I think.
I currently am a member of my local gym which is great and I love going I do I'd say 75 % cardio and the rest weights (Which I have not been logging as I do not know the names of the machines)
I also will be going swimming at least twice a week. Walking more just keeping busy.

Clearly I am trying to lose weight and I do not want to waste my time doing something that will not help.

Please keep it positive. I see a lot of posts on here where people have a go at whats others are trying to do and it is rather silly we are all here for the same reason.

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  • freelancejouster
    freelancejouster Posts: 478 Member
    Honestly, everything helps. If you're being active in a way that you enjoy being active, keep it up. It's all about calories/nutrition in versus calories out rather than HOW you go about doing it. You're close to your macros? Staying under your limits? Exercising a few times a week? Leaving a rest day?

    Then you're doing it right.
  • seena511
    seena511 Posts: 685 Member
    Honestly, everything helps. If you're being active in a way that you enjoy being active, keep it up. It's all about calories/nutrition in versus calories out rather than HOW you go about doing it. You're close to your macros? Staying under your limits? Exercising a few times a week? Leaving a rest day?

    Then you're doing it right.

    perfect :smile:
  • freelancejouster
    freelancejouster Posts: 478 Member
    Honestly, everything helps. If you're being active in a way that you enjoy being active, keep it up. It's all about calories/nutrition in versus calories out rather than HOW you go about doing it. You're close to your macros? Staying under your limits? Exercising a few times a week? Leaving a rest day?

    Then you're doing it right.

    perfect :smile:

    Hey thanks :)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Seems like a vague title but it is worth asking I think.
    I currently am a member of my local gym which is great and I love going I do I'd say 75 % cardio and the rest weights (Which I have not been logging as I do not know the names of the machines)
    I also will be going swimming at least twice a week. Walking more just keeping busy.

    Clearly I am trying to lose weight and I do not want to waste my time doing something that will not help.

    Please keep it positive. I see a lot of posts on here where people have a go at whats others are trying to do and it is rather silly we are all here for the same reason.

    Depends on your goal. Is it just to lose weight, without caring about your health or how you look? Then you can stop doing 90% of all that and just hit the gym for an hour twice a week.

    If you want to be thin and toned, then switch the cardio and weights - do 75% weights and 25% cardio.

    If you want to be able to run a marathon, you can ditch the weights almost completely.

    If you want to be quick, look into plyometrics and power training.

    If you want to be fast, do HIIT.

    Etc.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    If you want to be thin and "toned", then switch the cardio and weights - do 75% weights and 25% cardio.

    I agree with this.

    Also with the weights cycle in some dumbbell work as well. I don't know how long you've been working out at the gym though. Did you just start or have you been working out there for a while? Also how many days a week do you workout and for how long?

    The cardio will help you lose the weight but the lifting will give you muscles and keep you from being "skinny fat".
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