Newbie! Advice please.
paarus90210
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Hey everyone!
I just joined and I am excited to get my metabolism back on track. A little about myself:
I was at my heaviest at 17 years old at about 240 pounds. I am 5 ft 6 in and decided to begin losing weight when i was almost 18 years old. I went down to about 128 but that was when I started really eating very low calories, like 1200ish and soon enough began gaining the weight. Currently, I am 20 years old, 152 pounds and looking to gradually increase my calories by 100 cal/week from 1200. So right know I am eating 1300 calories. I know that this is still very low but I am gradually increasing my calories every week. When I calculated my TDEE it was about 1940 calories. I also workout 5-6 days/week
My workout schedule:
Monday: Jillian Micheals (JM) Body revoultion + 30 min cardio
Tuesday: JM Body Rev + 30 min cardio
Wednesday: 30 min HIIT +30 min cardio
Thursday: JM Body Rev
Friday: JM Body Rev
Saturday: 1 hour cardio
Sunday: Rest
I usually split my workouts on the days I am doing JM and cardio. So I do one in the morning and the other late afternoon. Am I approaching this the right way or am I doing something wrong.
1. For the cardio, can I still do HIIT training?
Also, I am open to any advice and tips. Thank you.
I just joined and I am excited to get my metabolism back on track. A little about myself:
I was at my heaviest at 17 years old at about 240 pounds. I am 5 ft 6 in and decided to begin losing weight when i was almost 18 years old. I went down to about 128 but that was when I started really eating very low calories, like 1200ish and soon enough began gaining the weight. Currently, I am 20 years old, 152 pounds and looking to gradually increase my calories by 100 cal/week from 1200. So right know I am eating 1300 calories. I know that this is still very low but I am gradually increasing my calories every week. When I calculated my TDEE it was about 1940 calories. I also workout 5-6 days/week
My workout schedule:
Monday: Jillian Micheals (JM) Body revoultion + 30 min cardio
Tuesday: JM Body Rev + 30 min cardio
Wednesday: 30 min HIIT +30 min cardio
Thursday: JM Body Rev
Friday: JM Body Rev
Saturday: 1 hour cardio
Sunday: Rest
I usually split my workouts on the days I am doing JM and cardio. So I do one in the morning and the other late afternoon. Am I approaching this the right way or am I doing something wrong.
1. For the cardio, can I still do HIIT training?
Also, I am open to any advice and tips. Thank you.
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Hey just wanted to be clear that I will be increasing my calories by 100 cal per day every week until I get to my TDEE of 1940 calories. I know it will take time but I know doing this will be way better for me in the long run, Also I am looking to lose about 20 pounds.0
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The HIIT fad name has been tied to all kinds of very non-HIIT stuff - what do you do when you call it HIIT?
Because real HIIT needs a warm up and cool down, just like lifting, so 30 min would mean either only 10 min of it with the w/u and c/d, or 30 min including it.
Because HIIT is for cardio lovers that don't want to lift, it's as close as you can get doing cardio.
But it requires the same all out push anaerobically, then rest, then do it again, just like sets and rests to push heavy weights anaerobically.
It also requires good warmup, and recovery day after. So confirm not using the same muscles intensely day before or after, or you can't truly do HIIT.
What TDEE level did you select with all that exercise?
How many hours a week is that in exercise?
I see 2.5 hrs just cardio, then 4 x JM.
Is the JM any kind of strength training, or just fast aerobics?
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Welcome! Great job taking the slow approach and upping your calories slowly --- I think this makes the process so mush easier to adjust to (gives the body time to adapt along the way...)
The first thing that strikes me about your post is that you are VERY active! That is a lot of exercise! I believe those JM workouts are 30 minutes long, no? That adds up to about 5 hours of formal workouts a week. Just throwing your numbers into Scooby, I get your TDEE closer to 2,300. Where are you getting that 1,940 figure? That sounds low to me...0 -
Okay now that I realize it, the TDEE was without incorporating all the exercise I was doing. Oops. Yeah it should be closer to 2300 cals. Also the HIIT workouts are in the form of mostly cardio such as burpees, sprints etc. It is mostly all body weight exercises. Also with the warm-up and cool down it totals to about 35 minutes. So its about 20 minutes going all out. For the Jillian Micheals Body Rev I only do the strength workout DVDs, no cardio. The strength days are split into different body parts each day so there is time for the muscles to recover.
So my schedule is:
Monday: Jm 30 min strength + 20 min cardio (HIIT)
Tuesday: Jm 30 min strength
Wednesday: 20 min cardio (HIIT)
Thursday: Jm 30 min strength
Friday: Jm 30 min strength
Saturday: 20 min (HIIT) (I will be cutting the 1 hr of cardio because I realize that I am doing way too much cardio)
Sunday: Rest
I am really trying to get more strength training in my routine and lessen the cardio. Does this schedule seem better? Thanks!0 -
That sounds better! Glad you were able to figure that out :-)
Great job trying to incorporate more strength training - that is where the magic happens!! You want to make sure that you are giving yourself one day between strength training days (or at least do a split, where you are not working the same body parts two days in a row...)
You are going to do awesome!0 -
Thank you! Also I had another question. Like I said before I am increasing my calories gradually by about 100-150 calories per day every week until I get to my TDEE. So currently I am at about 1350 calories from 1200. Do you think this is a good way to do things so the body has time to accustom or is their another way you would prefer? Thanks for all the help!0
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Thank you! Also I had another question. Like I said before I am increasing my calories gradually by about 100-150 calories per day every week until I get to my TDEE. So currently I am at about 1350 calories from 1200. Do you think this is a good way to do things so the body has time to accustom or is their another way you would prefer? Thanks for all the help!
Yes, absolutely! Both the fast and the slow methods will get you to the same end result, but by doing it slowly, like you are doing, you give the body time to adapt along the way. You will also often minimize some of the big jumps that can show up on the scale if you increase your calories all at once. Just stay at each "level" until your weight stabilizes and you feel ready to progress another 100-150 higher...0 -
Okay now that I realize it, the TDEE was without incorporating all the exercise I was doing. Oops. Yeah it should be closer to 2300 cals. Also the HIIT workouts are in the form of mostly cardio such as burpees, sprints etc. It is mostly all body weight exercises. Also with the warm-up and cool down it totals to about 35 minutes. So its about 20 minutes going all out. For the Jillian Micheals Body Rev I only do the strength workout DVDs, no cardio. The strength days are split into different body parts each day so there is time for the muscles to recover.
So my schedule is:
Monday: Jm 30 min strength + 20 min cardio (HIIT)
Tuesday: Jm 30 min strength
Wednesday: 20 min cardio (HIIT)
Thursday: Jm 30 min strength
Friday: Jm 30 min strength
Saturday: 20 min (HIIT) (I will be cutting the 1 hr of cardio because I realize that I am doing way too much cardio)
Sunday: Rest
I am really trying to get more strength training in my routine and lessen the cardio. Does this schedule seem better? Thanks!
Good job, you'll probably be able to push harder on the hard strength days with tad less cardio.
So that's 3 hrs now.
Those TDEE tables that say 1-3 hrs of exercise for Lightly Active are going on assumption your daily life otherwise is 45 hr desk job/commute weekly for sedentary life - is that true?
If it is Lightly Active rounded up probably right, but if you actually do more, I'd suggest take Moderately Active and round down the TDEE, then take deficit.
So calisthenic routines are good strength training too for what you are calling HIIT.0
