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DJohnson80m
DJohnson80m Posts: 2 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
I am looking to lose about a 100 lbs and jogging is almost impossible can't keep a pace going. Any ideas to rebuild my cardio and how to
Lose this weight

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  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    Go walking
    Eat at a deficit
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    DJohnson80m wrote: »
    I am looking to lose about a 100 lbs and jogging is almost impossible can't keep a pace going. Any ideas to rebuild my cardio and how to
    Lose this weight

    Walking is fine. I walk. I've lost 27lbs since January. Eat at a calorie deficit and ensure that you are logging and weighing your food accurately. If you do manage any exercise, make sure you eat 50-75% of your gained exercise calories back.

    There are some great stickied threads that give you amazing advice and really do help you get on your way to losing the weight! Good luck!
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    You can do any other exercise (or no exercise at all). You will lose weight by eating at a calorie deficit, regardless of how much activity you do.
  • HumboldtFred
    HumboldtFred Posts: 159 Member
    incline a treadmill all the way and wear a weighted vest. It may help preserve your knees and ankles too. Also you could run until you can't then walk until you can until you can run all the time.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Start by walking. You don't need a weighted vest or inclined treadmill to start. Aim for something like 15 minutes 3 times a week. After a couple of weeks, up your time by 5 minutes per walk or add a fourth walk. Each week up it by 3-5 minutes. You will find that your comfort level with walking improves quickly. At a certain point you might decide to switch over to running. When you do that, run/walk intervals are a great way to ease into it. Look into a program like C25k or one of Hal Higdon's running plans. But if you get walking and never decide to run, that is absolutely fine. Running is great exercise but so is walking. I do both and get the same results either way.
  • Tubbs216
    Tubbs216 Posts: 6,597 Member
    I would say not to try running until you've lost a bit of weight - it will be very hard on your joints. Running won't make you lose the weight anyway, a calorie deficit will.
    Walk to increase your fitness, if you want to exercise. Or swim, or bike? Anything you like really!
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    If you want to run first walk. When that's easy walk faster. (A very fast walk burns a lot of calories because it's not "natural" movement.) When a fast walk is no longer challenging start adding running intervals. You could then start a Couch to 5K program and build up to running without walking intervals.
  • futuremanda
    futuremanda Posts: 816 Member
    You don't need exercise to lose weight (though I'd recommend it). So, you should be able to lose 100 lbs just by getting MFP set up correctly, learning to log as accurately as you can/are willing to, and logging consistently (even on the days you eat over your target, which will happen, and is fine from time to time, just log it). Try to hit your target more often than not, and not to go WAY over when you do go over (or WAY under when you're under, as that can be unhealthy too).

    For exercise, find things you enjoy. The things you enjoy will be the things you're still doing 100 lbs from now, still doing for years to help keep those lbs off.

    If you're interested in jogging, I'd recommend something like building up your walking, and then starting Couch 2 5K. It may feel like dying and be impossible to complete correctly on the first day, or first week. (When I did it, I don't think I actually could complete the first day as written, and had to split the second half of my sets into half sets, and do twice as many of those. I also think I repeated week 1.) Just keep repeating days and making modifications until you get it, then move on. Soon enough, your body will adjust, and you'll find it much easier and more rewarding, and you'll make better progress. <-- That is, if your main problem is "can't keep a pace going" aka, your breathing and heart rate get too uncomfortable and you stop. If your problem is something like "my knees feel like there are knives stabbing them" then find something low impact.

    And always warm up. Even if your exercise is a brisk walk, start with a few minutes of comfortable walking, enough to start raising your body temperature a bit but not enough that you get out of breath or start to tense up, and ramp up from there.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    I've lost 60 pounds and I've never run. I walk and I lift, and that's pretty much the only exercise I do. I'm hoping to start C25K soon, but not until I can sustain walking at 3.5 MPH.
  • mike8pow
    mike8pow Posts: 10 Member
    Take a nice long walk at the park
  • LyssaJ1
    LyssaJ1 Posts: 240 Member
    Like others have written: walk and calorie deficit. I've lost more than 40 pounds since January with just that. Good luck and be good to you!
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    Agree w/all - with 100 extra pounds on you, walking will be plenty good exercise. Don't get caught up in a 'more is better' paradigm - use your weight to your advantage. Like @malibu927 says, when you can walk for 30 min at a good fast clip and feel fine, then think about maybe a running program like C25k.

    The worst thing would be to hurt yourself and have to stop before you even get started.
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