WEIGHT LOSS + the challenge

[White Line Fever]

Swimming good for fitness and building lung capacity, but ineffective for weight loss.

I wouldn't say swimming is ineffective for weight loss at all, if you went for a 2km swim each day you would be losing weight. But running and bike would be my preferred choice of cardio. My client i'm training atm hasn't actually done any running at all because of a knee recon he had 18months ago. All he has done is walking on the treadmill cross trainer and bike. But the reason he has been so successful is because he has stuck to the diet plan and has been motivated to want to lose fat.

I think Q means swimming is a highly inefficient mode to burn fat.

If running is boring you try varying the runs...
Up hill
Sprints
Sprints uphill (painful)
HIIT
Fasted cardio (great fat burner)

Or

Boxing
Kickboxing
Skipping
Plyometrics

Sometimes you need to step out of "it works best for me" mentality and try new methods and shock the body into a response.

[Phantom Gossiper]

Fasted cardio (great fat burner).

What is Fasted cardio? Sounds like exercise on an empty stomach?

[kickinit]

Swimming good for fitness and building lung capacity, but ineffective for weight loss.

I wouldn't say swimming is ineffective for weight loss at all, if you went for a 2km swim each day you would be losing weight. But running and bike would be my preferred choice of cardio. My client i'm training atm hasn't actually done any running at all because of a knee recon he had 18months ago. All he has done is walking on the treadmill cross trainer and bike. But the reason he has been so successful is because he has stuck to the diet plan and has been motivated to want to lose fat.

I think Q means swimming is a highly inefficient mode to burn fat.

If running is boring you try varying the runs...
Up hill
Sprints
Sprints uphill (painful)
HIIT
Fasted cardio (great fat burner

Or

Boxing
Kickboxing
Skipping
Plyometrics

Sometimes you need to step out of "it works best for me" mentality and try new methods and shock the body into a response.

I think it really comes down to the person and how they apply them selfs. And you don't need to get out of the "what works best for me" especially with people with a weight problem. The problem is they will get too bored or it get's too hard and they go back to where they were. Weights is the only place where the shock system works cardio is cardio. The trap people fall into with cardio is they don't push to run further or faster, to where they get to a point that there not burning enough calories.

[Q.]

Yep, inefficient is a better word. If I'm gonna cut my BF, I'd rather do 20 mins of HIIT than swim for 2 hours to achieve the same result.

Having said that, I do love the water.

[Magpiespower]

The biggest thing is staying motivated and what works best for you.

Spot on again, just got to keep doing it, its a lifestyle thing, easy to start exercise hard part is keeping on doing it.

Can also go the other way.

Exercise was definitely a chore when I went on my big weight-loss kick at the start of last year.

But as the kilos dropped, I found that I actually enjoyed exercise!

Now I'm spewing if I can't go for my nightly run (though I give myself Sunday and Monday off when I just go on a long walk instead)

Local park has enough challenges to mix things up a bit...

[mickey]

Tough local park?? combat training needed to successfully negotiate it?

[Magpiespower]

Tough local park?? combat training needed to successfully negotiate it?

Dogs off their leashes... kids running amok... DJs spinning on wheels of steel... crazy homeless bums setting up shanty-towns... boot camps...

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!!!

[locky801]

an absolute horrid month have blown out to 117.8 no wonder havent been feeling well

Went to the Docs last week and got told in no uncertain terms especially with blood pressure and Cholesterol way up as well to do something about my weight or i will suffer the consequences

Diet has begun, all beer and chips gone, replaced by water (3 litres a day) and no snacks. At this stage doing an hour solid on an exercise bike to get started.

Fingers crossed this works

[kickinit]

snacks don't have to stop mate if your feeling that your hungry and feel like a snack have a piece of celery it might take a couple of weeks to get use to but you'll get there. Green tea is good for losing fat as well.

[Phantom Gossiper]

94.3 :'(

[Psyber]

Still the wrong way - 95.8 Kg.
I've decided to review the diet that I've let slide a bit again, and dig out the exercise bike.

[sherminator]

101.7

A loss from last month probably due to cricket season starting up again. Over the last 2 months I have had a net gain of 600grams. I have been a bit slack and have lost a little bit of motivation. I've been getting home from work, sitting down and not getting back up again to get to the gym. I really need to step it up for the last 2 months to get to the goal. I'll start taking my gym stuff to work and go there on the way home. On a bright note, I made my first ever 100 in cricket during October. No way would that have been possible with the excess baggage I was carrying last season!

[fish]

On a bright note, I made my first ever 100 in cricket during October. No way would that have been possible with the excess baggage I was carrying last season!

Nice work sherminator! Was it mostly boundaries or running between the wickets to clock up the score?

[mickey]

82.2

Don't know why I didn't start doing anything about the expanding guts earlier....

Since starting to weigh in at the start of august, I've dropped nearly 6kg. Just by small adjustments to what I eat and drink, and doing some exercise...

[Media Park]

85.5 kgs

85.5 kgs. No change.

[Kahuna]

115.7 up a little but not too upset as I have been away a fair bit and have had a rather "socially rich" month.
Have also bought a weight bench which is definitely toning some of the flabby bits.
Will update the table in a day or two

[wristwatcher]

snacks don't have to stop mate if your feeling that your hungry and feel like a snack have a piece of celery it might take a couple of weeks to get use to but you'll get there. Green tea is good for losing fat as well.

Celery is sh#t! Id rather be hungry
Does green tea really help? I have never heard that one

[stampy]

Swimming good for fitness and building lung capacity, but ineffective for weight loss.

hope thats not true, i am starting a swimming program tomorrow and currently weigh in at 121

[kickinit]

Celery is sh#t! Id rather be hungry
Does green tea really help? I have never heard that one[/quote]

I take green tea in supplement pill form as i can't stand drinking it. I was getting much better results when using it then when I wasn't. But Green tea isn't going to help if your diet isn't 100% and your cardio and weight program aren't 100%. celery is one way i get through my cravings as is having hungry jacks or macca's once a week as a cheat meal. You probably think i'm crazing saying having fast food once a week while on diet but you'd be surprised that by doing this you will lose more weight and stay motivated until the end.

[White Line Fever]

Chew gum.
Stops hunger pangs.