2012 Weight Loss Thread
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Do cardio before resistant excercises
At the risk of covering old ground; why are you suggesting this?
Soldato
I never done Cardio before resistance workout; I'd rather use all my energy doing lifts
Unless you mean to warm/loosen up for resistance work, but stretching helps me do that (as well as ball work) 
. Hell, if you want to do cardio before a workout, do complexes.. They'll soon get you sweating!
Soldato
Its good to do 5-10mins of cardio before lifting to warm up your muscles.
(obviously you need to try and warm up the muscles that you'll be using later - no point doing 10 mins on a treadmill and then doing bicep curls.)
No, all exercise is not created equally.
Posting this again: T NATION | Hierarchy of Fat Loss
Another benefit of resistance training is muscle growth, which leads to more calories being burnt at rest (muscle being metabolically active tissue). To pre-fatigue with cardio will mean less stimulation with weights so there will be less required adaptation (i.e. muscle growth). With cardio, absolute output is less important, it's more about relative output.
Also, warming up with cardio is completely unnecessary. Even when squatting or deadlifting well over 200kg I have never done this. A sensible warm up with weights (which you need to do anyway to make sure everything is activating properly) is all you need.
Soldato
Thanks Ice, going to give that link a read over; See if there is anything I can add once I get back in to training again and getting rid of this xmas podge
Soldato
Another good week under the belt. Lost 3.1kg since last week which is me down to 105kg now!
Soldato
GJ man! Mines been a slow week with workmen in from 0830 till 6 every night, so been some light wii fit, but with the heating on it's a nightmare hehe.
Don
Only down to 14st 6.8lb this week, but I feel fitter, my leg strength is back and after having a bit of new years blues, I'm feeling great.First week in:
Last week 14st 13.4lb
This week 14st 7.2lb
Not sure how much of that is real weight loss, or just the "yule logs" I got rid of earlier in the week
Soldato
Here's my first update:
I have set a final target weight for the end of march and worked out weekly targets from there in even increments. The weekly targets are really just there as a rough guide and i expect that i will lose weight faster initially and the weight loss will slow as i go.
Also, i have started the table from the start of the year, but, in reality, it will start from next week. The first week of the year i was eating a lot as i was carbo-loading for a 24hour bike race, and the second week of the year was spent eating a lot as my body recovers from the race. Over these two weeks, i have made a small loss, which is a good start because i wasnt expecting to lose anything.
Tune in next Sunday for an exciting new table and description of my week
I have set a final target weight for the end of march and worked out weekly targets from there in even increments. The weekly targets are really just there as a rough guide and i expect that i will lose weight faster initially and the weight loss will slow as i go.
Also, i have started the table from the start of the year, but, in reality, it will start from next week. The first week of the year i was eating a lot as i was carbo-loading for a 24hour bike race, and the second week of the year was spent eating a lot as my body recovers from the race. Over these two weeks, i have made a small loss, which is a good start because i wasnt expecting to lose anything.
Tune in next Sunday for an exciting new table and description of my week
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back to 15.5 now.I posted yesterday I'd lost 4 pounds, but since found out the scales are wrong, therefore I used the ones at the gym and I'm actually more than I first thought 
13 Stone 8! How could the scales be so out? (probs cos they're years old!) I wonder how much I actually weighed before I started all this!?
I'm doing weights 3 times a week & 1 day cardio (because I enjoy it). Hopefully It'll carry on falling off me.
13 Stone 8! How could the scales be so out? (probs cos they're years old!) I wonder how much I actually weighed before I started all this!?
I'm doing weights 3 times a week & 1 day cardio (because I enjoy it). Hopefully It'll carry on falling off me.
Soldato
Carl, if you weighed yourself on your home scales last week and you were 13st 4lbs, and then weighed yourself yesterday and you were 13st, then you'll lost 4lbs. It doesn't so much matter what the weight is, the fact that you've lost 4lbs is the important thing
Soldato
Scales are not always very accurate.
As long as you always weigh yourself on the same scales you should get a reasonably good idea of your weight gain/loss.
For example, if your scales said you were 13 stone 4 the first time you weighed yourself and they now say 13 stone exactly, they may not give you an accurate weight, but the 4lb loss they are showing is likely to be more accurate.
Dont worry too much about how accurate they are, as long as they show a little bit less each time you weigh yourself then you're going in the right direction.
edit: haha beaten almost word-for-word
As long as you always weigh yourself on the same scales you should get a reasonably good idea of your weight gain/loss.
For example, if your scales said you were 13 stone 4 the first time you weighed yourself and they now say 13 stone exactly, they may not give you an accurate weight, but the 4lb loss they are showing is likely to be more accurate.
Dont worry too much about how accurate they are, as long as they show a little bit less each time you weigh yourself then you're going in the right direction.
edit: haha beaten almost word-for-word
Soldato
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