Group: General Fitness & Exercise

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 379, Messages: 54578

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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nay34
nay34
Posts: 15
Joined: 2012/02/09
United States
2012/07/31, 09:34 PM
Age 34
Female
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Starting Weight - 223.2 2/08/12
Weigh In - 213.2 4/11/12
Weigh In - 210.6 4/18/12
Weigh In - 200.8 6/6/12
Weigh In - 200.0 7/6/12
Current Weight - 200.0
Goal Weight - 144
Occupation: Desk Job
Days workout: 5-6 days a week

When I first started back on my workout plan back in Febuary, I meet with a trainer at my gym to find out about weight training. I had never done weight lifting before and mostly stuck to cardio. He advised me as to what machines I need to focus on. In the begining I noticed that I would hurt everywhere the next day after I did the machines that I was advised to use. I also have been changing up my workout plan every 6-8 weeks so my body does not get set on the same workouts. But I am finding that my musles are not hurting like they used to in the beging and I feel like I am not getting a good enough workout. So now I am at the stage where I wonder if I need to do something different. When I started, the trainer advise that I do 3 set of 15 reps of every machine that I was shown, but since then I have changed it on my own to 3 sets of around 25-30 reps. But even uping my sets/reps I still don't feel the burn/soreness that I did in the being of weight training. Should I be doing something different? Should I up the scales of weights? I am at a loss.
barrygrottis
barrygrottis
Posts: 12
Joined: 2012/06/14
New Zealand
2012/08/07, 10:48 PM (Edited: barrygrottis - 2012/09/11, 06:37 PM)
Hey nay34, if you want to get that burn back then try increasing the weight you are lifting. So aim for a weight where you are lifting that at 15 reps max; instead of increasing the reps.

You should be changind up your routine every couple of weeks; this is to force your body to adapt to different variability. In doing this your body burns fat and grows muscle. You can get an e-book on training variabilities at this link :
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxioSoMd4q3-Q2o5R1JjZV9LMnc

If you are having trouble accessing the link then send me your email @ this site http://kill-abdominal-fat.in and I will send you a copy on PDF.

Best Wishes