[Support] 50 million pound challenge

Good luck to all those involved. I'm a personal trainer and have helped a lot of people lose weight. I have a mother and daughter who lost 107 and 85lbs respectfully and it was one of the most gratifying experiences I've ever been a part of. I applaud those willing to take up eating healthier and exercising as a regular part of their lifestyle. If anyone has any basic questions, I'd be more than willing to help out my fellow clutchfaners! Good luck.

 

So to kick things off I ran to the gym during lunch (about half a mile to a mile away) and did 30 minutes on the bike and then ran back to work.

Next stop... improving diet.

 

I went to yoga today.

Classic, what is a good arm-toning exercise? If I use dumbbells how heavy should they be? I've heard that you should do many reps on lighter dumbbells for weight loss/toning, but I don't know what is considered light. I'm not a very strong person and my arms are spent when I try to do many reps with my 10 pounders.

 

I went to the zoo today. Glad to do my part.

 

il pass.

i brought up this **** last year when that dude was in town.

 

good luck Hayesfan.

I need to lose a bit o weight myself

 

I'll take the over. j/k! j/k!

But seriously, for the nationwide project, what if a massive amount of weight is gained. That is possible.

 

it's hard to take weight off.

the most i ever lost was 7 lbs in one week.

i wasnt eating for a week. or it felt like.

 

Played a couple hours of ball tonight. Will get on my stationary bike while watching the tube I guess.

 

I'll go on record saying it isn't THAT hard to lose weight for most. It just takes discipline and time.

But it is harder for most women imo.

 

I take it you're a female. In my experience when it comes to weight training with women, a lot of times women don't actually push themselves hard enough with weights to actually get any benefit. By that, I mean, women pick a much lighter weight and do a bunch of reps. To really tone and build muscle, you need to find a weight that you actually 'burn out' on reps 12-15. It is one thing to get tired, another to 'burn out.' Without seeing you I have no idea if 10lbs and what you're doing with it would constitute that.

Some exercises that work well for tricep toning though:

rope/straight bar cable pull down
dumbbell kickbacks
assisted dips
skull crushers
overhead tricep extensions

I was telling my wife one time that a lot of women don't use enough weight to really get results. We were on vacation and she picked up a Shape magazine because of what the front cover said along the lines of 'tone up this summer' and that was basically what the article was saying. It is kind of hard to teach this kind of stuff without being in person though. I'm sure if you googled the above exercises you could find illustrations or pick up a book at the book store. There are a lot of really good weight training books for women out there. Also, my wife reads Shape and it's not too bad...

 

It is painful waking up at 6:20, but did it so that the gf and I could go walking for 30minutes this morning.

Hopefully, I can convince her to go swimming this evening.

 

Did the same thing today... my "weigh-in" was a little startling, though. Yesterday when I finished the bike the scale said 199 and today it said 192.

I'm assuming its water weight but that's still a pretty big number.

But anyway... feel good so far.

Should we set up an alternative place to discuss this?

 

do i get credit for weight i already lost?
212 ---> 179

now trying to put on muscle

stuck at 189

 

Overall I've done a good job eating the 'right' foods and I've greatly increased my exercise. (0 to most days doing something)

Yesterday was a bad day though for dinner :/ pizza. But, oh well... it'll happen.