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You should read my question again. I wanted to know if I could get most of my weight loss off with simply cardio and THEN use weights to tone up AFTER the weight loss. It's silly to me how instead of trying to give advice to people earnestly seeking opinions and trying to do better, people give flippant, condescending…

You just responded to a thread like this? Well hopefully you were more helpful there than you were here!

That sounds very logical. I have my 1st "Body Works" class at my gym today...I think it's an hour of free weights & ab exercises. I'll be doing it three times a week & cutting down on cardio. These responses have been a lot of help!!

I find weights boring & sucky too. In the past I did a lot of squats and barbell stuff for biceps & triceps but that was it. The woman who runs the gym I used to belong to was very focused on rowing as cardio AND resistance because it does a combo of both. Her opinion was that the pulling that happens when you row IS a…

You're probably right. I think one of the things that makes you lose perspective when you're losing weight & tracking everything is, you can SEE how MANY calories you're burning with cardio PLUS the scale moves. With weight training it's a mystery as far as "how many calories are burned" based on reps/weight. That is…