For the people who work out like crazy and are not losing

Hello, I just joined to day but started getting serious about 4 months ago. Worked out for a year on my own at the gym. Had a physical and blood work came back lousy plus i still looked the same. I signed up with a personal trainer at the gym, 2 time national bodybuilding champion. First thing he did was have me eat 6 times a day. Boost the metabolism. next he had me lifting weights 4 times a week. Seems like a lot, but exercises he gave me were easier than what I had been doing. Biceps and triceps one day, back and shoulders one day, legs one day, and chest one day. 3 sets of 15 reps. You only work one or 2 groups of muscles each workout, but you really are concentrating on that group. Cardio 5 days a week. 35 minutes on treadmill. Just get the correct heart rate going, no need to kill yourself or go all out all the time. Goal is to gain lean muscle, which burns fat during aerobic workout. 4 months, lost 15 pounds. Went from BMI 21% fat to 14%. I can even start to see a rib or 2. Best of all, I enjoy going to the gym, which I never thought I would say. 30 minutes in and out if you do it right. Had blood work redone after 3 months and it came back all normal. Blood pressure and everything else is right on. Insanity workout might be great, but not sustainable for the rest of your life. Its a marathon, not a sprint. I still go out with my wife and have a beer every now and then. This work out lets me do that. With nutrisystem your always hungry. Eat 6 times a day, lean protein and you won't be hungry. My wife is on weight watchers and can't believe the amount I eat.

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Great info, thanks !

Great post! I'd like to add one thing that was my issue; working out too hard with heart rate too high (above my target, which might have been set too high for me to begin with) means that you burn glucose (sugar) instead of fat. So you feel very tired and crave carbs after workouts. I dropped step aerobics and other make-you-sweat, high impact stuff and switched to yoga, walking, weight lifting and the pounds finally came off!

So check your heart rate and see if this might be your issue, also.

this is why i always recommend drinking 1 to 2 cups of chocolate milk post workout, it stops that craving dead in its tracks and replenishes the muscles.

This is why post workout nutrition (Newfiedan's chocolate milk or something like it) is so important. There is nothing wrong with burning glucose. In fact, in workout of so intensely, you will also burn more fat with the glucose that you would in the "fat" burning zone. If you then eat a post workout meal with a good amount of protein and carbs, those carbs will go right into your muscles and liver to replenish would glycogen stores rather than into fat. Burning carbs and eating carbs is not bad. Work out at a high intensity.