Want to lose some podge and get back to being fit

er about 3 apples a day I'd guess - obviously I was careful rest of diet too though

weight April time 13 stone 8 (ish - maybe higher I'd given up weighing myself)

Now - 9 stone 13
 
Oh, I had an image of you chomping through 3 huge sacks ;) 3 is more than I'd eat, but not bad if someone does it like you and is careful with their whole diet.

Fantastic work on the weight loss mate!
 
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Gary - you seem to have disappeared, how is going for you?

Any HIIT experts here? Not sure what is the best ratio of cardio/HIIT/weights to do? I do around 5 or 6 days a week of rowing. Weight loss is the main goal and building up some muscle as a secondary goal.
 
I am swapping some of my fruit for carrots now, guessing you can't eat too many carrots (within reason)? Don't know why I didn't get on them before, I love carrots! :o:p
 
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xibinim said:
Gary - you seem to have disappeared, how is going for you?

Any HIIT experts here? Not sure what is the best ratio of cardio/HIIT/weights to do? I do around 5 or 6 days a week of rowing. Weight loss is the main goal and building up some muscle as a secondary goal.
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When you say rowing, are you talking about steady stake cardio?

A set up that I would follow might be:

3 days of weights (or 2 if you aren't too bothered about muscle/strength, make them full body workouts in this case)
2 days of HIIT
1 day of steady state (or 2 if only doing 2 weights days)

I posted this somewhere else, but you might want to read it as well http://www.t-nation.com/free_online...raining_performance/the_hierarchy_of_fat_loss

Oh and carrots>>fruit :p
 
Usually do around 40-50 minutes a day, burning between 400-700 calories (think that is about 8-10k). This is on a lowish setting and at a pace of 30+ spm
 
xibiniim - that sounds like loads of calories burnt off :)

I did a calorie calc the other day and was quite surprised, for my height, weight, and amount of exercise per week I should be taking in between 2100-2300 calories a day to maintain weight... I'd been aiming for 1600 or so as thought thats what I should be taking in to be slightly under - and loose small amounts of weight

I think I'm averaging out about 1800 now- as I've got to my target weight and doing lots of heavy weights its probably not enough to be building muscle :( but don't want to wreck all of the hard (very hard) work its taken me to get down to this weigt - if that makes sense its a difficult balance
 
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