Exercise/Gym/Working out!

metallex78

I couldn't seem to find another topic that existed about this, nor am I sure if this should be in the Sport section, so feel free to move this to the right section if need be.

Anyway, I started up back at the gym at the beginning of June and so far I've lost 3 kilos.
I'm pretty proud of myself. I've been working pretty hard, around 4 nights a week doing mostly cardio classes (where you do boxing and kicking stuff) as well as using general cardio machines like cycling and the treadmill.
I want to start getting into weights soon too, but want to lose my beer belly first!

Anyone else want to share some of their 'getting fit' secrets?

monkeychow

Awesome dude!

Congratulations...getting yourself in shape can be a real life changing experience. I'm a true life story, I went from being one of the fattest people you'd meet to being reasonably skinny.

My advice would be to be careful with the weights. I know we all want to be buff, and weight training does have some medical benifits (denser bones etc), there is a culture of taking things too far at a lot of gyms I think. While I have a ton of respect for bodybuilding guys due to the work involved, I feel that at an extreme of anything is bad for your body, and some bodybuilding ideas are taking something that should be healthy to a place where it becomes unhealty. It's also very easy to fuck up your joints or back - even with a personal trainer, I know because it happened to me. Anyway - i'm just saying know your limits - like we can't all be in WWE wink I don't mean to discourage you - maybe you can get ripped to all hell - just make sure you do it profesionally and keep a balanced and relalistic view of what your asking fom yourself.

Cardio wise sounds like you are onto the right track. It's basicly just getting into routenes with it so that its part of your lifestyle. I used to go to the gym a lot, but after I messed up my back most machines made it worse - so now I just do a fast walk daily. Well almost...I set my tredmill for 6.8 Km/h and go for 46 mins, which equates to about 5.2km, and I do it 6 days a Week.

The other thing is food. Eating properly is really the key, this sounds like a silly thing to say, but don't be ashamed to get some lessons on how to eat right. So much of the food in our culture is unhealthy -and not just junk foods - lots of things seem logically healthy - like processed soups but turn out to be way full of salt and shit like that. I went and saw a dietian (from the yellow pages) - cost me like $50 but gave me a lot of great advice on how I could balance my diet to get optimum health and also loose weight etc.

Most imortant thing is to stick with it I think. My rule is I don't make exceptions based on moods and stuff like that. Its easy to go - i had a bad day so i'll go eat crap - or somehing - but doing that is actually hurting yourself more. For me anyway - i realised a lot of my eating was habitual, or related to other desires (such as sexual frustration, anger, disapointment etc) and when I couldn't resolve those things In life i'd go eat instead. So for me the cure was to be disciplined - I worked out a regime of what I eat each day - and I stick to it - hungry or not - happy or sad etc. It takes the enjoyment out of it I guess, but if you had a problem like i did - it was a way to get in control.

Anyway most of my advice is prob specific to my situation and not all that relevant to you...but anyway - keep it up and as I say congratulations - its a really good thing smile

myillusions

I started working out at a gym exactly one month ago today, June 19th. It's now been a month and I'm addicted and loving going to the gym every day. I do cardio first and than hit the weights. I can already tell a big difference in many ways. From the better nights sleep I'm getting to seeing muscle definition all over my body. My abs are looking great only after one month. I have to get up real early and go in the mornings. I can't wait all day and than go to the gym in the afternoon. I have no energy by than.

I had been trying to push myself for years to get back to the gym and now that I finally did, I'm enjoying it so much and I'm already reaping the benefits of working out.

Saikin

I've been going to the gym for over a year now, and unlike most people, i am trying to gain weight. And i am proud to say that i have gained weight in the form of muscle. I am addicted to working out. I love it.

The gym i go to is really nice. Best of all, it's free!

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