What are some good ways to burn Calories
Pastor_John
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I dont Join a gym until soon, for the mean time Im at home, Im 5 foot 4 inches and weight 250. I cant do push ups because i get tired easily. I cant complete some excerise videos because i get tired easily and i cant complete it. I love Cardio expecially if its fun, I want to burn calories before i join a gym. what would you guys recommend?
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Other than eating at a deficit I'd say WALK. A lot.
It'll help a lot more than you think.0 -
Hiking!!!!!!!!0
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just do what you can, and it will get easier. see how long you can do the video, and try to up that time by a few mintues each week. walk. swim if you can.
few things i do to add some steps to my day:
i take one thing out of the dryer, fold it, then walk to put that one thing away. repeat for the whole load. take 3 trips to carry three things downstairs.
park far out from the entrance
i have kids, so i chase them around the hose and tickle the snot out of them when i catch them.0 -
Walking is the best all around exercise. Get the MapMyWalk app on your phone and link it to this site. Load your favorite tunes, make some friends who are using the app. It works for me and keeps me motivated. Good Luck.0
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Other than eating at a deficit I'd say WALK. A lot.
It'll help a lot more than you think.
Agreed. This is probably the best thing you can do to start. Work up from there, but you have to start somewhere.0 -
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and any other kind of cardio. The harder you go, the more calories you burn. There are tons of HIIT programs on youtube for free, in case you don't have the knowledge yet to develop your own.
If you are just starting, it might be a good idea to start doing cardio at ~60-70% HRM. It's easy, and you will burn a lot (400-600kcal per hour or so). HIIT is more efficient, but a bit more demanding. If you are short of free time, go HIIT without a doubt.0 -
I have been doing well with hula hooping. Even if you happen to be no good at it (I'm certainly not good) you still get good exercise each time you have to bend down to pick it back up.0
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I dont Join a gym until soon, for the mean time Im at home, Im 5 foot 4 inches and weight 250. I cant do push ups because i get tired easily. I cant complete some excerise videos because i get tired easily and i cant complete it. I love Cardio expecially if its fun, I want to burn calories before i join a gym. what would you guys recommend?
Dude, you're going to get tired. That's the whole damn point.0 -
I've started in the same boat and been stuck inside due to weather for months. Walk. Set a timer for 3 minutes or 5 minutes, whatever you can start with. Add a minute or two at a time. It will add up quickly. Or buy a cheap pedometer and do it by steps. I have walked thousands of steps walking circles around my living room. Not all at once, but don't go to bed until I get my goal steps in for the day. In two months, I have gone from about 2000 steps to over 7000 and some jogging in place. I definitely do not get tired as quickly or easily and my knees are stronger.0
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lots of 'I can't' in your post. Everyone gets tired when they start. If your going to not do an exercise video because you get too tired why do you think you're not going to get you tired doing something else? Many people can't compete exercise videos when the start but what they do is'try' . Try a video then if you don't finish it, try it the next day. If you keep doing something you get better at it. Go for a walk start a C25K program. Don't make excuses try things push through them if you fail once then try again. Good luckI dont Join a gym until soon, for the mean time Im at home, Im 5 foot 4 inches and weight 250. I cant do push ups because i get tired easily. I cant complete some excerise videos because i get tired easily and i cant complete it. I love Cardio expecially if its fun, I want to burn calories before i join a gym. what would you guys recommend?0 -
Walking
Couch to 5k
With workout videos, say you can only do 5mins today. Tomorrow aim to make it 6mins in and so on until your able to complete the whole thing. I've had to do scenarios like this with several of the workout videos I've done.
If you do your own laundry:
- take 1 piece of clothing out of the dryer
- fold it
- put it away
- repeat for each individual piece of clothing
This should get you making quite a few trips between the laundry room and your room. This will result in burning slightly more calories than you would if you took all the clothes to your room at the same time.
Park far away from stores. The more distance you put between yourself and the store, the more calories you will burn. I like to park in the back of the parking lot. Takes a bit longer to get into the store, but I get 2 things out of it:
- increased calorie burn for the day
- don't have to struggle to find a parking spot (most people are generally trying to get spots close to the doors)0 -
Thanks for the advice guys. I need to build my stamina and endurance, Walking i dont get tired, Also a Cardio video I can last 15 mins at best, Dancing i love to do, I can last awhile with some low impact zumba.0
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Agreed! That's the benefit of exercise...it works your body and your heart. Keep going at it. You will improve. I remember when I first started losing weight a few years ago. I could barely jog 5 minutes without feeling like I couldn't go anymore. I eventually was able to jog 30 minutes.I dont Join a gym until soon, for the mean time Im at home, Im 5 foot 4 inches and weight 250. I cant do push ups because i get tired easily. I cant complete some excerise videos because i get tired easily and i cant complete it. I love Cardio expecially if its fun, I want to burn calories before i join a gym. what would you guys recommend?
Dude, you're going to get tired. That's the whole damn point.
Maybe do one of those push up challenges where you gradually add more push ups every day. Do the video, but keep going until you physically can't anymore, not just when you're winded. At the very least walk. You don't need a gym to lose weight.0 -
Hey I have MS and balance issues from it, but I walk around my house. I put on music and do a little dancing. Is it easy, no, but am I having fun doing it, yes cause at least I am moving. U just have to grab yourself by the neck and say. Hey do this and then Never give up.:bigsmile:0
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I dont Join a gym until soon, for the mean time Im at home, Im 5 foot 4 inches and weight 250. I cant do push ups because i get tired easily. I cant complete some excerise videos because i get tired easily and i cant complete it. I love Cardio expecially if its fun, I want to burn calories before i join a gym. what would you guys recommend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08o6Z8PjTMM
There are a lot of fun, short dance videos on youtube! I wouldn't join a gym, even if I had the money to spare, because they smell bad and in California, they're like meat markets. I just do yoga, dance, and walk. I just started 9 weeks ago and could only walk 10 minutes at a time. This past weekend, I got up to 3 hours! My first week of walking, I set a goal of being able to walk around a nearby lake. And, I finally achieved it. It's beautiful there, so maybe a scenic walk would work for you too.
If it's not fun, I know I won't keep doing it. There are also a ton of games on my Wii Fit Plus that I haven't even tried yet. I just do 20 minutes of yoga and then hit the road, but I've heard that there are all kinds of fun fitness games on there. Check it out!0 -
Can't do something because you get tired easily? :huh: As others said - that's the point. You build up endurance by ENDURING the exercise.
You do what you can, and do a little more the next time. I'm a 45 year old woman - I can run 6 miles, I can do push ups, I can lift weights, I can do HIIT workout videos, and yeah, I get tired! But not as quickly as I used to because I built up my strength, endurance, flexibility, and general awesomeness over time.
If I can do it, you can do it.0 -
If you're not getting tired, you're doing it wrong0
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Be willing to get sore and tired. That's the best and fastest way to lose weight. Walking is a great exercise for anyone beginning. Also look into the xbox 360 kinetic system for games to play. Any movement is good movement.0
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I agree with everyone saying that you're supposed to get tired. Sometimes I get so wiped from my workouts that I lie flat on my back on the floor for a few minutes, then you know what? I get back up and I keep trying. The pain and exhaustion is the price of improvement.0
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SWIMMING! If you have access to a pool, you can burn an AMAZING amount of calories with little stress on the body.0
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Im going to play the Just dance games, Its fun and I can burn calories without knowing im working out, ill also walk around too.
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I dont Join a gym until soon, for the mean time Im at home, Im 5 foot 4 inches and weight 250. I cant do push ups because i get tired easily. I cant complete some excerise videos because i get tired easily and i cant complete it. I love Cardio expecially if its fun, I want to burn calories before i join a gym. what would you guys recommend?
Nobody can do much at the start. ...That's sorta the point. If we could all do tons without having worked up to that level we wouldn't need to exercise. You do the little you can and each day, each week, try to do just a little bit more.
That's how exercise works to produce beneficial effects. There's a technical term for it "Progressive Overload" which is a fancy way of saying that if you want to get fit you have to step out of your comfort zone a little and do stuff that's hard.
If you can do 3 push-ups at a time do that. Tomorrow to do 4. etc.0 -
Videos - Leslie Sansone's Walk at Home series or Richard Simmon's
Low Impact Activities - Walking, hiking, yoga, or swimming
More importantly, really spend these beginning weeks understanding your food habits and keep a diary to log your all food in-take, fluid in-take, and physical activity. Once you build up stamina, your options will open up tremendously.0 -
Let me tell you. Whn I first went to the gym, I used the elliptical. 5 minutes and I was covered in sweat. And now 3 years later, earlier today, I hit the 40 mile mark for the week.0
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Lift and count calories. Fat will melt off.0
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15 minutes is 15 minutes more than 0 minutes. Do the 15 minutes.Thanks for the advice guys. I need to build my stamina and endurance, Walking i dont get tired, Also a Cardio video I can last 15 mins at best, Dancing i love to do, I can last awhile with some low impact zumba.
Do the 15 minutes enough times, and soon you'll be able to do 20. And eventually 30+
When I started exercising, it was hard for me to even walk for 10 minutes. Now I can hike for miles.0 -
Thanks for the advice guys. I need to build my stamina and endurance, Walking i dont get tired, Also a Cardio video I can last 15 mins at best, Dancing i love to do, I can last awhile with some low impact zumba.
Do what you love - that's the key to sustainability. Get on that low impact zumba! :drinker:
P.S. I'm a huge fan of hiking myself.0
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