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Agreed. I am a certified personal trainer at a large athletic club The trainer should be designing a plan depending on what your goals are. I start deconditioned clients off with a stabalaztion phase, 15 reps 2-3 sets. The 13, 14 and 15 rep should be getting harder with you maybe able to do 3 more or so. The exercises are…

Good to hear. :-)

I am a personal trainer at a well known Athletic club. There are 19 other trainers there. There will always be clients that I would not be the best fit for as another trainer may be for them. Do not feel bad if you do not feel like it is a good fit for you and ask for another trainer. It has to be what is best for you and…

I use the Polar FT4 and my wife uses the FT60. We like them. Hope this helps.

I use a HRM then subtract the total from my rmr to get my net calories burned. I use the site http://www.shapesense.com/

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You are doing great!!

Do you go to a gym or have access to weights?

A good CPT will set up a program for you that will get you to reach your goals in a safe and effective manner. This is done with the start of a health and fitness eval to make sure they are no health problems they may be an issue and to find out if you have any muscle imbalances that needs to be corrected. A periodization…

Yes! It may be a little painful at first but it works great. I do this and recommend doing this before and after your workout. http://www.completepathway.com/myofascial-release.html

Find a good trainer, A trainer can set you up with a monthly fitness program. Don't always follow what others do as they could be doing it wrong and you can create more problems then help.

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I agree with a lot of the same from previous posters. It is about nutrition which includes % of (carbs, protien and fat). Treat your abs the same as your other muscle groups.

You can try the numbers as stated above or even doing 35,35,30. 3-5 sets of 8-10 reps and keep your heart rate about 75% of max. I would make sure your getting enough complex carbs in that mix to fuel your body and to get lean mass. Protein can be about .05 - .08 grams per lb of body weight. Hope this helps. My opinion :-)

It does not look bad to me, The only thing I would say is to increase your water intake. Try drinking 11 cups a day. This will help numerous things.

Not alone at all. There are many different opinions here as some have a creditable background and others do not. Some ways works for some and not for others. Ok now that is said my opinion is 1200-1300 is too low if you are doing that much exercise. try around 1600-2000 a day. Make sure you get a balanced day with Protein,…

Amazing how a post from someone that clearly states what was told to the for their situation by someone who has studied and went to school to learn a profession must be completely wrong, a moron, stupid etc simply because you do not agree with them. I have read plenty of articles and talked to numerous people with degrees…

Same here, add it under cardio.

I take several as most food even healthy do not have the amount of nutrients we need.

SW 214lbs CW 149lbs before-after1 by rubysphoto, on Flickr

before-after1 by rubysphoto, on Flickr

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I don't really have advice but wanted to say good for you! My wife and I just signed up for our first 5K on September 9th. For us it will be running at the track, treadmill and the 3.1 miles around our area.

Thanks everyone, I feel like I'm 20 years younger. @ Tina, anytime :-)

That is what I said LOL. I never in my life have seen them before :-D

We just got a pool membership and I thought I was in decent shape LOL. Well after a few days in a row of doing lap swimming my body was feeling it. A great workout for sure.

I would recommend some carbs just stay on the complex carb side so they digest slower and help keep you fuller then what simple carbs do. I personally try to keep mine to 20-30% of complex a day. Just my opinion.

I agree with the others 11lbs in 5 weeks is a great pace. My opinion and just man opinion is I would increase your calories slightly on workout days say just by 100-200 calories and get more protein. Try maybe to get about 75-100 grams by chicken or fish. Another recommendation would be cut out some of possible all simple…

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