What Machines are good for weight loss at the gym?

Exercise isn't for weight loss, it's for fitness and health. As long as you're eating within your daily calorie goal, logging accurately and consistently and eating some of your exercise calorie back, you will lose weight.

Your stamina will likely improve with time and practice. I know when I started walking it was fairly slow but I've gotten much better with time and even started running. Yes, you should lift weights - strength training helps retain muscle so your losses will be mostly fat and it still burns calories. And you'll likely be happier with your appearance when you reach goal weight.

Good luck!

The best machine for weight loss is a food scale

Does your gym have free weights?

It's already been said, but I have to say it again: Weight loss happens in the kitchen, fitness happens at the gym. People think exercise burns way more calories than it does. A healthy diet is a must for fat loss. Exercise is great, but it's just a small part of it.

As for machines, ditch them. Free weights is where it's at. Compound moves that hit multiple muscle groups. Look into the StrongLifts 5x5 program. If you prefer cardio, there are worse things than a treadmill. I don't get much use out of a stationary bike, unless you're participating in a spinning class or something. Go outside and walk/jog/run if the weather permits.

And once again, make sure your diet is right.

As long as you stick to your calories limit, you could use a mixture of machines at the gym. I use the treadmill, bike, and elliptical. I will incorporate weight lifting over the next few weeks.

As theJTfitness said the food scale is a great tool.

If you are using the treadmill. Speed walking uphill is good. But make sure you do it correctly, not like how some people do it in my gym - holding on the treadmill for dear life. Set it at a reasonably challenging speed and incline and power through with your arms.

I suggest you forget all the cardio. You burn more calories doing body weight exercises and you get to build muscle (which burns calories all by itself). A good diet combined with heavy lifting is the way to change your body however you want it to look.

Hm...30 minutes of cardio burns more calories than 30 minutes of strength training. However, having more muscle means you'll burn more throughout the day, like you said. Plus there's the afterburn, which I think people exaggerate. I think cardio is great if you like it and have body fat to lose, but it's not necessary. I personally hate cardio, but I do it twice a week around my strength training for the extra calorie burn. You can't lift every day, so it's good to stay active. If you don't have much body fat and just want your body to look better, heavy lifting with little to no cardio is certainly the way to go.

Why not develop a plan that incorporates cardio and strength training.

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I suggest you forget all the cardio. You burn more calories doing body weight exercises and you get to build muscle (which burns calories all by itself). A good diet combined with heavy lifting is the way to change your body however you want it to look.

Hm...30 minutes of cardio burns more calories than 30 minutes of strength training. However, having more muscle means you'll burn more throughout the day, like you said. Plus there's the afterburn, which I think people exaggerate. I think cardio is great if you like it and have body fat to lose, but it's not necessary. I personally hate cardio, but I do it twice a week around my strength training for the extra calorie burn. You can't lift every day, so it's good to stay active. If you don't have much body fat and just want your body to look better, heavy lifting with little to no cardio is certainly the way to go.

A little cardio is okay, but it is unnecessary for most people.

http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2014/01/do-we-systematically-underestimate.html

"For Mr. Average Joe with a body weight of 80kg, this would mean that his 30 minutes body weight workout doesn't consume 288kcal, but 576kcal and thus way more than 30min of jogging, which should cost him ~400kcal.

Bottom line: I guess I don't have to tell you that these results are very important. Not for you, obviously, because you as a SuppVersity reader know about the fallacy of working out to burn energy, but for all those Average Joes and specifically Janes out there who still believe that you'd lose weight by simply burning all the junk you eat off in the gym.

Cardio "addicts" would yet not be the only ones for whom these results - if they turn out to be substantial - would have huge consequences. The average "expert" on the panels we owe the wise dietary and exercise guidelines to, would probably also have to revise his opinion on the primary of "cardio" exercise for its "superior ability to help shed weight"... unfortunately, my gut tells me that I am the only one who even noticed the (future) publication of this paper in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning."

All of them.

the one that keeps food out of your mouth

My trainer told me form doesnt matter its the muscle contraction.

You need a new trainer.

This x1000.

All Exercise helps with weight loss, but ultimately weight loss happens in the kitchen, not at the gym. Exercise is more about fitness than weight loss.

Well said!

But to answer your question, they all help. Any sustained medium intensity activities are some of my favorite, like spin machine, some people swear by high intensity workouts, like treadmill. I also think that strength training is actually really good for weight loss. You continue to utilize calories for repair long after you've left the gym.

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