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2007/01/04, 04:14 AM
i have about 4 months to lose 80 lbs in order to keep my job. i have to be able to run 3 miles in 27 min, 50 push ups, and 50 sit ups. i currently weigh 280 and im 6'3" and can run 1.5 mile in 16 min and do 25 push ups and 10 sit ups. Is this even possible? Any help would be appreciated on how i can accomplish this, i have access to a gym and just got the work out program from here. Just wondering if there was anything extra i could do?
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2007/01/04, 03:22 PM
Is this military related? just curious it sounds like a military test.
Proper diet and excercise will help, however I personally have never heard of losing 80 lbs in 4 months. 80 lbs is around 280,000 calories worth of weight(Each pound is roughly 3500 calories), which means you would need a deficit of 2,333 calories per day below what you are using. (In otherwords if you use 5,000 calories, you could only eat 2,667)(Hopefully I did my math correct).
This is a extremely unhealthy calorie deficit and could actually kill you if you maintain such a deficit over time. Plus the fact you wish to increase your abilities, I just don't see it happening. Short of a surgury to cut the weight out, it is virtually improbable. Note how I said improbable, not impossible.
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2007/01/04, 03:35 PM
close to military its a state police school, and i was hired about a month ago and told all of this and told good luck so i have been doing every thing i could think of since then and have dropped about 15 lbs but my run and push ups, sit ups have not improved. i had never seen a gym before a month ago so i am CLUELESS and have just been running 6 miles a day and doing bench presses.
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2007/01/04, 03:36 PM
i was logged in under my wifes name
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2007/01/04, 03:47 PM
Excercise wise I am not 100% on, thats not my area of expertise. I know a little but choose not to proclaim my self an expert. On the diet side however I am pretty confident you can not overcome the 80lb mark. Even if you bump it up to a 1000 calorie a day deficit (not recommended, just in theory) you are still looking at 9 months and a couple weeks to trim 80 lbs.
To help get the results higher, I would hit a lot of cardio, using a off/on period as I call it. What I use to do (again not my area of expertise, I am basing it on my results and experience and may not be the best for you personally) is a high period of around 5 minutes of maintaining a high pace/high heart rate (on), followed by a low pace/lower heart rate(but not too low, still around the 120-130 range) (off) for around 2 minute. I would repeat this over a period of around 45 minutes. This should help lower your running times. For the situps and pushups, the easiest answer I know of (again personal experience from my marine corp training) is just doing a large amount of pushups/situps every day. I use to just drop and do as many pushups I could do at random times during the day about 5-6 times a day. I would also do as many situps as I could 4 times a day.
If anyone else has any better ideas or are better qualified to answer the excercise part please feel free to correct me or add to my answer.
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2007/01/04, 06:34 PM
I tell you, that is tough to be brutally honest...the average healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds a WEEK, now the heavier you are, your initial loss may be greater with the exercise and eating right, but let's figure it out....3500 calories makes or takes a pound, so at 4 months, you would have to get rid of a total of 280,000 calories (through exercise and eating less), that is approximatley 17,500 calories a WEEK or 2,500 a DAY, that is some tough goal...not to mention suicide in most cases I would think...
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2007/01/04, 06:39 PM
Wow exactly what I said lol :)
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Quoting from vedakathryn:
I tell you, that is tough to be brutally honest...the average healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds a WEEK, now the heavier you are, your initial loss may be greater with the exercise and eating right, but let's figure it out....3500 calories makes or takes a pound, so at 4 months, you would have to get rid of a total of 280,000 calories (through exercise and eating less), that is approximatley 17,500 calories a WEEK or 2,500 a DAY, that is some tough goal...not to mention suicide in most cases I would think...
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2007/01/05, 04:13 AM
thanks for the responses im just gonna do the best i can with it and hope for the best. i feel confident i can make the push ups and sit ups i just dont know bout the run but im dang sure aint gonna quit! if i dont make it i will have done all that i could.
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