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As bioklutz indicated what you speak of is known as a "re-comp" or recompositioning. For a majority of the population that are drug free, with average genetics recompositioning works well if your out of shape and new to training. In general after 6 months to a year the muscle building gains come pretty slow. So, to the…
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I love cycling. When I first decided to change my lifestyle I tried running....but at 240 pounds my knees felt like they were going to explode! I started cycling, and weight training...the perfect combination for me to loose 60 pounds of fat. Now I find that I have to limit cycling because I literally cant eat enough food…
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Good morning. Look at your caloric deficit. I started at 240 chubby pounds. At a 500 Kcal / day deficit I ran into energy problems as well as loss of strength problems in the gym. After a few months, and after about 30 pounds of fat loss I increased my intake to result in a deficit of about 300 Kcal/day. I almost instantly…
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I have been attending the Les Mills RPM classes my gym offers. I do it on Saturday mornings for 1 hour. This week will be my fourth week. In that short amount of time I have noticed what I would consider to be a major improvement in my conditioning. I was worried that it would negatively affect my strength training....but…
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Jardimgirl. Give your family some time to get used to the new you. I recently went through this myself. If your feeling pressure from your family I would recommend staying at maintenance for a while...give your body some time to accept its new body composition as permanent. This will also give your family time to adjust to…
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Same thing happened to me! In August of this year I decided to get back into shape. I started at 207 pounds. I got my nutrition in check and decided on a 400 Kcal per day deficit. I added 3 day a week 10 minute High Intensity Cardio along with 3 day a week progressive weight training. Note: I usually eat back my exercise…
