Thu, Feb-23-06, 08:02
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Go Big or Go Home
Posts: 3,948
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Plan: I plan to lose weight!!
Stats: 000/000/150
BF:47.65/25.28/28.8
Progress: 0%
Location: Alberta, Canada
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Mike posted this in response to another member who feels like she is doing everything "right" (eating well, exercising regularily) and not seeing any progress or reward for her effort. With his permission, I'm posting it here for myself......
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Originally Posted by Dodger
My personal experience is that increased exercise does not result in increased weight loss. Exercise is great for cardio vascular health and keeping/building muscles, but diet is the key to weight loss. With your amount of exercise, you may want to add another 'off' day in your program to allow for adequate recovery. Exercise is catabolic and damages muscles. It is the recovery after exercise that rebuilds the muscles and builds new ones. You should exercise hard and rest harder.
I have noticed that the more I exercise, the more my body wants food. This makes sense as muscles have to be rebuilt after exercise and more capillaries have to be grown to support the future exercise. While they are being repaired after exercise, the muscles also retain water, which hides any fat loss that occured.
My advice is to keep exercising and let the weight loss occur when it will. Even when not losing weight, you are getting healthier.
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. I started looking online for information on exercising too much (if there even WAS such a thing) because I was trying to find out if I should be pushing myself (the old adage "no pain - go gain") or resting more between workouts. The problem with resting more is the horrible guilt I feel if I don't exercise so I make myself do something even if it means a crappy workout (like today). The mornings after I've had a day off and the scale hasn't changed I blame it on me & it's my fault I still weight XYZ & if only I had worked out the day before, I might have lost some weight. I've even tried calculating BMR & adding up that & the calories burnt when I exercise to compare to the calories I take in when I eat and trying to figure out why despite creating the deficit required to lose weight, the scale is still the same as it was last December. And then, as guilty as I feel about taking a day off, I've also discoved that my workouts the day after are my best workouts! I can actually feel the muscles that I'm working, so I know I'm doing the exercise correctly instead of just doing it for the sake of saying I exercised that day. I also know when I've worked a muscle group properly because I do feel those muscles the day after (like today) or even hours after. I also feel way more invigorated & charged after those GREAT workouts. When I try to exercise when I'm sore (like today) & have to resort to my WATP video's, I end up feeling depressed and totally let down. I guess I was looking for or needed permission from somewhere to validate needing to take the day off when my muscles hurt or when I was just too tired/sick & I think I found a couple sites that gave me that. I also discovered a few things about myself & exercise that really surprised me.
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