Hello! what can I do for a work out when you are way overweight and soooooooo out of shape?

I would start by walking for a few weeks and then gradually introduce weights into your workout

JenPc1978 wrote: »

What is a good beginners work out? When u are overweight and completely out of of shape?

Start walking. It's the gateway drug to jogging/running, and then you're in calorie-burn heaven....

As everyone says, walking is a great way to exercise. One thing I'd add is don't avoid the hills, walking up hills is a great way to increase stamina ready for more intensive cardio exercises. Once you get comfortable walking at a decent pace try out something like Couch to 5k (C25K). Good luck

I will add my vote to the walking and add the Leslie Sansone walk at home videos. She has a walk social website where you can walk to her videos for free. There are dozens to choose from! The 5K with a twist still makes me sweat. She is over the top perky and that can get annoying, but you can level the videos up (using arms more, getting knees higher) so you can always get the work out you want. She breaks all the workouts down into miles so you can go for as long as you want. The moves are easy to follow along to, so you don't feel like you are tripping over your feet. Good luck.

I would say walking. I am pretty heavy starting to walk more since I got my fitbit; I also do my walking cd when its to cold outside.

walking, Leslie Sansone 1 mile indoor (walks), ellen barrett has some that are more do-able than others (one about killed me)...jessica smith has some freebies on youtube(can also sometimes find a 1 mile leslie or just do 1 mile of whatever of hers you find on there and add a cooldown on your own...there's also an exercise series that was on PBS called 'sit and be fit'

I also started out walking, on a treadmill, and now I walk fast on a treadmill and also do powerlifting. (Stronglifts 5x5). When I got on the treadmill the first time I could barely keep my balance, that's how out of shape I was. Walking one mile at a moderate pace made me very sweaty! 80 pounds lost and nine months later, I am much more comfortable, can walk for a long time without breaking a sweat, can run up and down the stairs at work, and I plan to start running outside this next Spring. Best of luck to you!!

Ok, this is my personal secret to lose inches, so don't laugh. When you walk, if you wrap your troubled areas with saran wrap (several times) you will lose more inches and melt more fat faster. I went from a size 24 to a size 8 in 7 months using this method.

Way back when I first started exercising, I started just dancing in my bedroom to music. I tried to do bouncy twist type when I could but it took me a while to build it up. Eventually I moved to small amounts of running mixed with walking and gradually built it up. I also started doing light weights from the beginning. I just found a routine in a magazine and it did seem to actually make a difference while not feeling quite so hard as the cardio at that point.

SKME2013 wrote: »

Walking, longer walking (increase distance), then faster walking, then faster and longer walking, then C25K (free running app) which eases you slowly into running. Weight training, elliptical...

I started from being out of shape last April to now running half marathons and now training for a full marathon! (I am soon turning 50)

Best of luck
Stef.

Pretty much the same for me and also swam quite a lot starting in Apr-13. Done 6 half marathons in 2014 and have 2 marathons in the diary for this year.

Most importantly though is find something you enjoy as you're more likely to stick with it. I gave everything 4 weeks as knew I was very unfit so anything was going to be hard work at first. If, after giving it enough time for my fitness to improve, I still disliked it I tried something else. For example the elliptical went as soon as I started enjoying running, I disliked kettlebells but liked 'normal' weights.

Good luck

When I started MFP i began the couch to 5k program at the same time. I highly recommend it. Its designed around being super out of shape and it will help you gradually increase your cardio/running.

When I did the program I just downloaded the app, put on some music, and did whatever the time interval was they said. Speed was not something that I even considered, so long as I finished the interval, I was happy with it.

In 8 weeks I went from jogging 60 seconds intervals to 30 minute run (~2.5 mi). After I finished the program I slowly kept increasing like the program had and now 7 months later I'm up to 5mi 3x a week (~45min).

The point is, start small, start slow, but be consistent and push to challenge yourself. At the start it might feel like you'll never survive the 8 weeks, or that those 60sec intervals will accomplish nothing. But they will. Just stick with it.

Edit: If I had read all the posts before replying I would've noticed someone mentioned this app already haha. Good Luck!

Thank you that sounds like something i could actually do.