Advice on excercise

Fammy17

Okay, so I'm 5'6 and close to 200lbs. I have absolutly no idea what to do for excercise.! Unfortunatly, I am not yet at that stage where I would feel comfortable working out at the gym with a bunch of people who are 2/3rd my size. I have treadmill and weights at home. Can anyone please advice me on what workouts I should be doing and how long I should do them.

tryinghard71

Having a treadmill and weights at home is great! Start out walking daily and then lift weight. Walk as far as you can then the next day walk a little longer. Since you already have weights you can google workouts for weight lifting and it will suggest how many reps and what exercises to do daily. Just lift heavy. Your last couple of reps should be a struggle. If you are not struggling at the end pick up a bigger weight. Good Luck!!!

tricelive

I stared out working out at home on my treadmill and weights. I started out a half hour in the morning and half in the evening on the treadmill and 20 minutes of strength, and then I switched to evening work outs not a morning person. Escalated to an hour on the treadmill and a half an hour strength doing some sort of exercises I found on cable ON-DEMAND fitness. I did that for about 2 months losing about 30lbs. Starting weight 285-290lbs current weight 206lbs, 5”9 that was accomplished in 6 months. Problem is I started to workout 80 minutes on the treadmill 5 days a week and 90 minutes on the weekends along with strength. My knees began to hurt very badly, I learned that I was spending to much time on the treadmill, you should never stay on there longer than an hour it’s bad for your knees, I did 1.5 – 3.0 incline. So I stared the gym 1/7/13 started working out at home 8/20/12. Currently I am taking a week off from cardio because I have to rest my knees, exercise became and addiction for me now that I go to the gym I am in there for 2-3 hours. Anyway, my advice is start with a lot of cardio and a little strength and when you’ve lost a nice amount of weight start adding more weights to shape and sculpt your body. Learn you body shape and work out for it, I am an hourglass shape so I really didn’t need to be doing hours of cardio, I found out now that because of how I am proportioned to much running and jumping is bad for my knees. The body shapes are apple; pear, hourglass, and rectangle, Body types are Ectomorphs, Mesomorphs, & Endomorphs. Get educated so that you won’t risk injuring yourself and so that you cannot work out more efficiently. Best wishes!

ChrisLindsay9

Here are some bodyweight/light dumbbell exercises that are good for beginners. I included links to pictures/videos.

Lower Body (bodyweight or holding dumbbells)
Bodyweight squats (aka sit squats) http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/sit-squats
Dumbbell squat http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/dumbbell-squat
Bodyweight walking lunges http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmjFqNlDIw
Walking lunges with dumbbell http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/dumbbell-lunges

Upper Body
Decline Push-Ups http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/decline-push-up
One Arm Dumbbell Row http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/one-arm-dumbbell-row
Standing Dumbbell Press http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/standing-dumbbell-press-
Front Dumbbell Raise http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/front-dumbbell-raise
Dumbbell Shrug http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/dumbbell-shrug
Hammer Curl http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/hammer-curls
Concentration Curls http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/concentration-curls
Seated Tricep Press http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/seated-triceps-press
Tricep Dumbbell Kickback http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/tricep-dumbbell-kickback

Maybe to start, do 3 lower body and 3 upper body exercises every other day? Do each exercise three times for 6-10 reps.

A suggestion. Before you start, take some measurements and pictures. And after 6-8 weeks, take measurements/pictures again. If you're diet is good and you're committing yourself to a decent amount of exercise, you should start seeing a difference, and that can be very self-motivating.

Good luck!