Advice to students starting the fall(share some advice also

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portexploit
portexploit Posts: 378 Member
edited October 2024 in Motivation and Support
I constantly hear "i gained weight cause im in school." That's an excuse. A few tips to stay on track. Do your workouts early in the morning before school. There’s a saying “To be successful eat a giant live frog first thing in the morning. If you have 2 ugly frogs, eat the biggest and ugliest one first.” The moral is if you eat a live frog every morning, that’s probably the worst thing you have to do the entire day, you got it out of the way. If you have 2 giant tasks, do the biggest one first. The frogs are a metaphor for what you have to do. Health and fitness “ALWAYS” comes first, no excuses. Get it out of the way before class.

Intensity is the key to results; you can get in a killer workout in 20mins. You can engage in circuit training to get a cardio vascular effect (burn calories) and build muscle. You can even do a split circuit, such as do pushups or whatever resistance you want to do, then jog in place for a minute, then do the pushups again for set 2, and so on. Circuit routines are time savers.
You want an high intensity cardio workout that can be done anywhere? Learn to jump rope.

The issues with food, on the weekend make a huge serving of your favorite snack. Personally, I'd recommend a huge salad with a lot of different vegetables; add some chicken for some protein, almonds, or olive oil, or avocado for some fats. Make enough to last you for 6 days, freeze half of it. Have the fresh salad last you for 3 days, once it’s gone, unfreeze the rest and eat that.

Wraps are also a quick snack, I don’t use tortillas, I’d personally use a nori sheet(sea weed) you can also use pita bread. You can fill it with vegetables, some lean meat, and a few slices of avocado. Or you can just stuff the wrap with your salad you made in advanced. When I was doing low carb, I’d cook an entire package of chicken about 4lbs I the oven. Doesn’t take longer than a hour, and it’s really simple. It yields about 10 pieces, if you eat 2 pieces of that a day, that will last you 5 days.

The ultimate key to the food issue is "PREPARE IN ADVANCE." It will also help you to make a schedule,

8am - Do 20 minutes of a full body circuit routine.
8:30am - Eat breakfast ( I don't eat breakfast I do IF)
10am - math class, bring healthy caloric beverage(such as meal replacment, or a smoothie with protein powder)

If you did a full body circuit workout you'd be sweaty, so take a shower so you're not stinky.

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  • helenium
    helenium Posts: 546 Member
    Thanks for the tips. I have been wondering what to do for exercise as October (and going back to university) approaches. Perhaps a 20 min DVD would do wonders every morning for a quick 100 cal burn (I can't seem to burn more than this!) and far more approachable than a morning run.

    Lectures start at 9am so I'd probably have to get up at 7.20am to fit it all in :)

    Appreciated! You've given me some ideas :)
  • pkarim
    pkarim Posts: 171
    The pita bread is something I thought about since i'm moving off campus so for lunch take pita bread, stuff it with all the good stuff and take it to go and also I am going to keep a tiny container for snacks like grapes or lowfat cheese sticks on the days when I have later classes. Really looking forward to it!
  • meggers123
    meggers123 Posts: 706 Member
    I'm a teacher, but facing similar issues with fitting in the time arounds classed. I found getting up at 5 am a few times last week to work out in the morning worked for me, because my motivation is gone after I get home in the evening!

    Good luck everyone who's headed back to school.
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