Exercise advice

[TracyH]

Hi. I am new to this site. I just stumbled upon it a few minutes ago actually! Anyway, I have a ? about exercise. First off, I need to lose about 60 pounds. Is it best to do cardio first and then wieghts/resistance training or vice versa? I have lots of fat to burn and would like to build some nice lean muscle. I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks.

[5kgLifter]

Originally Posted by TracyH

Hi. I am new to this site. I just stumbled upon it a few minutes ago actually! Anyway, I have a ? about exercise. First off, I need to lose about 60 pounds. Is it best to do cardio first and then wieghts/resistance training or vice versa? I have lots of fat to burn and would like to build some nice lean muscle. I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks.

It's best to do both at the same time. Do cardio for 3 days of the week, or 2 days...and do it for about 45 minutes if you can. Do weights on the other 3 days of the week. So you'd do: Mon/Wed/Fri weights, and Tues/Thurs/Sat cardio...obviously swap the days to suit your schedule, but each one every other day works well. If you only want to do 5 days so that you have 2 full days rest, that's okay too.

Weights will build up your muscle so that it burns calories.
Cardio will burn the fat, and also teach the body to use fat as its fuel.

Hope that helps, and feel free to ask more questions.

[stikfigure]

from what I understand if you want to do both in one workout and your goal is weight loss, keep the warm up cardio to 10 or 15 min. and then do the majority of the cardio 30-45 min. after the weightlifting to maximize.

[jennifer8055]

Hi,

I used to be pretty obese and started putting on a lot of weight especially on my thighs and bottom in my late thirties. I started exercising as often as possible and also cut down on a lot of high calorie stuff. Unfortunately I hardly managed to lose much weight at all. I then recently read an article by a lady who claimed that she managed to lose nearly half of her weight using a particular weight loss supplement. I tried it out and it actually worked quite well. Within 4 months I managed to lose about 65 pounds. The results were pretty amazing and I feel so much healthier and energetic now. You can read more about the lady's article at

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[ddktt]

Hi Tracy - Do you have an eating plan to go with the exercise? I started my weight loss with exercise only and it was good, but adding a workable eating plan ultimately gave me the results I wanted. Kim