what kind of excercises should i be doing?
 

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and after all the extra excercising i've done the last couple of days, even though it only walking it's still way more than i usually get - i find myself up another 1/2 a pound this morning. :(

How much water do u drink? Try upping your water intake and doing a little resistance training. Lifting weights seems like its making a difference in my weightloss. Im losing inches everywhere including around the middle. :D .
Have u tried crunches?

i drink anything from 3 - 9 litres of water a day..hehe :D i've thought about crunches and sit-ups thinking they sounded the most logical choices...but worried about just building muscles under the fat. then last nite after posting this i read about the *Mathews Method* and they totally slam crunches and situps in favour of working muscles deeper into the abdomen so i'm confused once again. :lol:

thanx for your post and congrats on the weightloss. :) :thup:

My exprience has been that whenever I seriously up or change my exercise programme, I either gain weight or stall. This seems to be true for quite a lot of people I've spoken to also :) Give a couple of weeks for your body to adjust, you should see a drop again...

Concerning the abs... I'm from the school that says if you want to move that flab you're going to have to do some cardio; sorry!

abs are made in the kitchen... 90% of that is diet.

the fat leaves the places where you hold it most - last. hence i have a slightly squishy tush. :)

i'm of the school that suggests weight training to increase metabolism. muscle at rest burns a zillion times more fat than fat will... and too much cardio will burn muscle along with fat...

Weight training will also fix the skinny arms and legs problem. Low intensity cardio like walking is very catabolic - will burn what little muscle you have. Pilates is very good for abs - do a search, there's been about 5000 threads started on it.

Jen

you mean steady state high intensity cardio right? walking is not catabolic that i'm aware of.

HUH? :confused:

Patently false. Low intensity cardio will preferentially burn fat, assuming your amino acid pool isn't borderline empty.

There is no substitute for resistance exercise. You will need a modicum of home gym gear. An incline bench and a few dumbells can provide a great variety of beginner exercises for under $200.

I just bought a 100lb barbell set where the barbell plates can be used as dumbells as well -- included a curl bar as well. $49 or so at my local Sportsmart. So you don't need anything too expensive. :)

Hmm... I'll have to check my sources, but seems like I read that several places and was surprised myself. I think most of the bodybuilders do 20 min of HIIT now for cardio, and I think it was in reference to that.

Jen

Yes, if I remember correctly low intensity can be catabolic if you go for more than and hour or so, but not if kept shorter in duration.