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[ironwings]

Hang in there girl. As everyone else has said it takes diet to pull it together. 80% diet, 20% what you do in the gym.

I find interval training with weights and plyometrics to be most effective in someone with your stats and body shape. Later today I'll post some of the tabata style training I am doing in my journal - you might want to try some of the techniques and see if they work for you.

 

[myway]

Hang in there girl. As everyone else has said it takes diet to pull it together. 80% diet, 20% what you do in the gym.

I find interval training with weights and plyometrics to be most effective in someone with your stats and body shape. Later today I'll post some of the tabata style training I am doing in my journal - you might want to try some of the techniques and see if they work for you.

+1! I was just talking about tabata the other day. It's the BEST, IMO.

 

[nangiggles]

Wow, was reading on Tabata training and sounds pretty tough love I can't go to the gym this month so might consider doing these at home with what I have available.... by the way, any useful workouts you can recommend at home? I have a medium yoga ball and one of these http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/110/353110_290708_benchpress.jpg with 2x 20 pound discs, I can do my normal chest press and leg lift on it, but am open to anything else that may be sueful

 

[myway]

Wow, was reading on Tabata training and sounds pretty tough love I can't go to the gym this month so might consider doing these at home with what I have available.... by the way, any useful workouts you can recommend at home? I have a medium yoga ball and one of these http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/110/353110_290708_benchpress.jpg with 2x 20 pound discs, I can do my normal chest press and leg lift on it, but am open to anything else that may be sueful

No weights, but u WILL feel it:

 

[*ebony*]

No weights, but u WILL feel it:

dude crossfit stuff is brutal!! i "attempted" twice doing a beginner workouts and i almost died....both times.

 

[myway]

dude crossfit stuff is brutal!! i "attempted" twice doing a beginner workouts and i almost died....both times.

I think they say you should start off only doing it once a week or so until you adapt. If you are thinking about it, I would highly suggest it. Its great for when you are short n time. Sure, the first 10 times, you think you're gonna die but after that, it gets easier WAY fast. I have been doing tabata for about 2.5 years. Now, I wear a weight vest when I do my squats. It DOES get easier and its WAY worth it.

 

[Redrocker13]

Hi B-Mom...I was wandering thru threads when I read this. I read thru it 3 times just to try and make sure I got the gist. It sounds as though the boys were doing a plyo excercise. Don't know if they were doing it on purpose of course. But it sounds like they were. We use that one in footbal quite a bit for core power explosions and improvement of vertical jump as well as stride length. Just thought I'd throw that out. Then again, maybe they were just screwing around.

Regardless of what activities you choose - BE CONSISTENT. Meaning, even if you do something different every single time you are active, make sure you keep at it. Don't give up.

There is no "one way" to achieve a goal, but there are definitely wrong ways to go about it ie - crazy intense contra-indicated movements/activities that put you at great risk for injury.

Yesterday afternoon (no exaggerations) I saw to young men. Couldn't have been over 30. They had an aerobics step platform (the kind where you can adjust the height by adding/substracting risers) up against on of the columns that supported the ceiling. They were jumping (both feet) to see how high they could go (each time adding another riser) to see if they could keep landing, both feet, on the riser without grabbing onto the column to stabilize their landing.

I tried REALLY HARD not to stare.

What THE HELL were they thinking?

Aside from sheer stupidity like I just quoted above, keep changing it up every several weeks. The human body adjusts very quickly. Vary the intensity/frequency of cardio. Engage in activities that you like to do - get some result and a sense of satisfaction. Also activities that have least amount of risk for injury. Activities that are more difficult, should be worked up to slowly.

I've been in the gym for more than 25 years. And yet when I was out for two weeks with a virus it took more A FULL MONTH to get back to where I feel strong and productive.

Slow and steady wins the race. Consistency is key.