Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at
12:00 am
Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at
12:00 am
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 at
1:52 am
Well, I’m finally back at the gym (horrah!) and I realised that I’d been out of it for so long that I just didn’t know how to tackle it!
I know that for me to lose weight, I need to be doing cardio most of the time. But when I was doing my routine before, I was doing up to an hour on the cross trainer 2-3 times a week and weight wasn’t budging very much.
So, I had a really good chat with one of the gym staff to see what he might suggest. He explained to me that it’s not necessarily what I’m doing but how I’m doing it. He asked me about High Intensity exercise and whether I’d tried it. I told him that I had, but because of my health issues, it caused my muscles to severly spasm!
It turns out that I was using the cross trainer on a too high effort level. He said that I don’t need to be doing really high resistance levels, just the motion of switching between fast pace and low pace movement. He showed me a program on the cross trainer that tells you when to use a fast pace and when to slow it down throughout the workout whilst keeping it to a lower resistance level so I don’t stress out my muscles.
I loved the program. Very simple to set up on the machine and I can do it for as long as I want and it’ll figure out when to slow down the pace and step it up again. It actually made the time on the cross trainer fly by and it felt a lot more fun instead of zoning out staring at the clock every few minutes! It’s the first time in a while that I actually realy enjoyed my work out and I’m looking forward to doing it again this week!
Doing this High Intensity workout means it’ll help spike my metabolism to help burn fat more. If I can do this type of workout 3 times a week and build up the time on the cross trainer, it’s really going to help kick start more weight loss!
I’m very excited to have learned something new and I’m looking forward to doing this new routine. It gives me more purpose and focus in the gym and I can tailor the idea to any of the machines.
I thoroughly recommend chatting with one of the trainers in your local gym about your weight loss and what you’ve tried/has or hasn’t worked for you. They may just hold the answer you’re looking for!
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 at
1:52 am
Well, I’m finally back at the gym (horrah!) and I realised that I’d been out of it for so long that I just didn’t know how to tackle it!
I know that for me to lose weight, I need to be doing cardio most of the time. But when I was doing my routine before, I was doing up to an hour on the cross trainer 2-3 times a week and weight wasn’t budging very much.
So, I had a really good chat with one of the gym staff to see what he might suggest. He explained to me that it’s not necessarily what I’m doing but how I’m doing it. He asked me about High Intensity exercise and whether I’d tried it. I told him that I had, but because of my health issues, it caused my muscles to severly spasm!
It turns out that I was using the cross trainer on a too high effort level. He said that I don’t need to be doing really high resistance levels, just the motion of switching between fast pace and low pace movement. He showed me a program on the cross trainer that tells you when to use a fast pace and when to slow it down throughout the workout whilst keeping it to a lower resistance level so I don’t stress out my muscles.
I loved the program. Very simple to set up on the machine and I can do it for as long as I want and it’ll figure out when to slow down the pace and step it up again. It actually made the time on the cross trainer fly by and it felt a lot more fun instead of zoning out staring at the clock every few minutes! It’s the first time in a while that I actually realy enjoyed my work out and I’m looking forward to doing it again this week!
Doing this High Intensity workout means it’ll help spike my metabolism to help burn fat more. If I can do this type of workout 3 times a week and build up the time on the cross trainer, it’s really going to help kick start more weight loss!
I’m very excited to have learned something new and I’m looking forward to doing this new routine. It gives me more purpose and focus in the gym and I can tailor the idea to any of the machines.
I thoroughly recommend chatting with one of the trainers in your local gym about your weight loss and what you’ve tried/has or hasn’t worked for you. They may just hold the answer you’re looking for!
Friday, February 25th, 2011 at
12:00 am
