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General Fitness & Exercise

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

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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Trying to reach new goals...

warren3224 Posts: 49 Joined: 2008/04/13	2008/04/13, 03:38 PM Hey everyone, I just joined the site and i'm trying to drop some weight, as our most people around this time of year. Im 20 years old, im 5'10, I weigh 215lbs. Thats a drop from 230lbs that I weighed on Jan 1. My problem is that I stopped losing weight. I want to get down to 190lbs. I have been switching up my weightlifting routine every 3-5 weeks. I was on a 3 day split, each day focusing on 2 different muscle goups. I recently did a 3 day a week full body workout. My cardio has been about 40 minutes a day, 3 days a week on the elliptical. I know its been a while since I changed it up but I am always checking my HR and its staying between 155-175 for the majority of it. I have no complex diet. I try to eat 5-6 small meals a day. Mostly diet icead teas and diet sodas for my drink. Im not big on drinking water except for when I workout. Any tips for getting over the weight loss hump? Im looking at some of the workouts on this site and I am trying to figure which are best for me. Thanks everyone!

asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2008/04/14, 08:04 AM Hi Warren! Welcome to freetrainers:big_smile:try making one or two of your cardio sessions HIIT. Drink water and count your calories for a week to see what you areaveraging - you may be too low or too high to lose weight. There are a lot of posts about busting a plateau, try a fit buddy search and see what you find! -------------- Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they\'re yours. Richard Bach
warren3224 Posts: 49 Joined: 2008/04/13	2008/04/14, 09:02 AM Thanks. Yeah I have been reading alot of your posts of different kinds of routines. My average calorie intake is about 2000. The past couple weeks I have dropped it to about 1700 to 1900. I have heard of HIT, high intensity training. Whats HIIT? Could you give me an example, I probably know exactly what it is, just never called it HIIT before.
warren3224 Posts: 49 Joined: 2008/04/13	2008/04/14, 01:39 PM Ok I did the research about HIIT so just ignore that question:laugh:! I like the treadmill one with just adjusting the incline. Do you know of any for the elliptical? Whenever I use the treadmill for a while it really hurts my knees. The elliptical is great because of the low impact! I been searching but im not finding any.