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Have a search online for bodyweight exercises. They require zero equipment, no gym membership and can be done in your own home. They can also obviously be adapted to suit any level of strength you have so you can continuously progress the difficulty of each exercise, which is the cornerstone of any strength training plan.

A celebrity who has ample time on their hands to give maximum effort every workout and also workout for 5 or 6 hours a day will obviously show amazing results. Now translate that for someone with a job, kids and other commitments that put a huge dent into their valuable time and you've got something that normal folk have…

You already own the best equipment you could ever wish for, your own body! Bodyweight exercises can go from the ridiculously easy to the monumentally hard, nigh on impossible for most mortals. You might be able to squat 400 pounds but can you do just one pistol squat?

Try doing just one pistol squat. You'll feel the burn after that no matter how much weight you can squat with a barbell. As for the extra calories burned afterwards, think of them as a nice added bonus, but don't count them if you're eating back your exercise calories as they'll be negligible no matter how you weight train.

I'd say use the stairs. Start at a height you can almost manage 8 to 12 reps on for 3 sets and then keep moving down a step once you find it too easy. Or you could try knee push ups whilst wearing a rucksack with increasing weight in it.

Simply astonishing!! Well done.

Have a look round the gym and see what types of equipment they have, Kettlebells, Free Weights, Machines? See which you like the look of and Google routines for what you choose. Don't forget about Bodyweight training either, no equipment necessary other than maybe a pull up/chin up bar and you can progress an awfully long…

Walking at a relatively slow speed like that you wont be causing your heart rate to soar, meaning your muscles aren't crying out for more blood and oxygen, which in turn means they're not being worked that hard so you wont be burning loads of calories.

I'm a proud owner of a FitBit One. It stays in my pocket all day and since having it I find myself going out for walks when not working just so I can ensure I reach my daily step total. I'm on holiday this week and have been out for 3 walks already today and am just in the process of cajoling the wife into joining me for…

If you've got your FitBit account linked to your MFP account then just log the activity, in this case elliptical, on here and specify the exact time you started and for how long and any steps the Flex does pick up during that time will be disregarded. Have to admit from reading on here and other places I'm so glad I got…

There's a Strength Training option within the Cardio section for logging. Most people tend to use that if simply wanting a rough estimate of calories burned. If you want to keep an accurate record of what weights are lifted in what exercises, there's plenty of apps for mobile phones that will do just that, Jetfit and…

The most popular and also most highly rated are those made by Polar. Just be aware that this thread will probably descend into you being shouted at for not knowing that heart rate monitor readings aren't totally accurate, with some people going to great lengths to patronise you about how inaccurate they are, whether you…

Nothing wrong with using dumbbells for bench press. You're lifting the same weight with each arm and not having your stronger arm do more of the work like you can sometimes get when using a barbell. Plus you get much better range of motion with no restriction as you do from a barbell. The main advantage of a barbell is the…

Please, no laughing, but right now I've started playing Viva Pinata again. I normally play Halo/Gears/Assassins Creed but wanted a change of pace.

I think a lot of the anti cardio rhetoric comes from people swallowing the doctrines that are found in the Starting Strength and most certainly the Strong Lifts guides. It's more like a sales pitch the way you get constantly bombarded with false information and some eventually start to believe everything these guys say as…

You customised your percentages. All MFP is doing is increasing all your macros but still keeping the percentages the same. Mine can shoot to over 300g of protein too on some days.

Press ups, pull ups, dips. Can't go wrong with that lot and there are variations for everyone from beginners to highly advanced.

I'll easily go over 300 calories doing 30 minutes on the elliptical.

I had the exact same thought from just the first page alone. Seems people have either terrible reading skills or are just plain ignorant and self absorbed enough to believe their story is better than clinical science conducted under strict conditions. They're so eager to argue against eating at just 1,200 calories,…

You can quote all the online dictionary's you want. Seeing as they all use the bastardised american version of English they are bound to be wrong too. I am English, I speak English, I don't speak, read or write in Americanish, therefore when I hear it used in England by an English person it is wrong. Much the same as…

and that is why it is wrong if I hear it.

Of course you count it as water. You're putting one part cordial in with 10 parts water or some similar ratio. It's 90% water! What the hell else is it if not flavoured water? To all those who got confused and thought the OP was on about a vegetable. What planet are you on? Even without knowing that squash is the English…

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Toothpaste squeezed in the middle of the tube. People who use the word obligated, it's not a bloody word!! The word is obliged.

Of course the elliptical is good piece of kit! It's currently very in vogue to say that all you need to do is lift weights and do no cardio at all. A lot of people have blindly followed that principle and take it upon themselves to tell anyone who doesn't follow it they are wrong at every given opportunity. Which is…

Have you sought professional medical advice about it? Please don't leave your prognosis to a bunch of internet educated people who wont know what they're talking about for the main and get proper professional medical help.

And who made you lord of all that is knowing what sucks and what doesn't? If someone is getting their desired results from that programme then it clearly does not suck. What you mean is, it's something you don't agree with and as the self appointed fitness guru master you feel it is your duty to point out how everyone is…

I can't see anywhere in that post a single mention about "please critique my workout plan and tell me I'm wrong" The OP asked for others to share their own workout plans, not act like know it alls and berate her for following a routine that doesn't fit the current fad amongst the cultists here. What works for one wont work…

The amount of times you get ignorant numpties who are walking two abreast, taking up the entire pavement and they see you coming towards them and instead of momentarily moving to walk in single file so another fellow human being can also use the pavement and doesn't have to walk into the road and oncoming traffic but…

Personally, anything by Stock Aitken and Waterman I find infinitely offensive. Any of the manufactured garbage that pollutes the radio these days is utterly repugnant and vile.