Replies
-
My main goal is fat loss. However, I know I don't have to sacrifice muscle in order to achieve this. Earlier, when I started, I concentrated on cardio due to restrictions from surgery. At that time, my main concern was weight loss. As I recovered, I added some full body weight routines a few days a week. Now that I'm…
-
Thanks everyone. I'm doing a 5 day split. Super sets, chest-back on Mon, Legs on Tues, Abs Wed, Shoulders-lats Thurs, Arms Fri. The lack of progress/regression started when I wanted to focus on weight training for a bit. Was afraid of losing my cardio gains. Will prolly step back the cardio a bit and see what happens s…
-
To maintain solid fitness. My fear is that I'll let go some cardio and lose overall fitness. I guess I feel I'm hitting a plateau and wanna power through. Thanks!!
-
Thanks. Do you (or anyone else) think 2 days of cardio is enough? Thoughts on keeping the M-F lifts and changing the M-Sat runs to 2-3 days of runs followed by by 1-3 days off? Should also add that I'm keeping my calorie goals at 1 lbs/wk weight loss and NOT eating back all calories as calculated.
-
Also, since you're just starting, you can do kettle bell movements with dumbbells. I had a trainer coming to my house, and it wasn't long before my kettle bell wasn't heavy enough and we kept some of the movements in my routine, but subbed in my heavier dumbbell. These dynamic movements helped me burn fat by gaining muscle…
