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SicketySix · **05-09-2015, 05:57 AM**

(05-08-2015, 07:59 PM)Bopdoot Wrote:
(05-07-2015, 04:08 PM)Casden Reeves Wrote: You actually don't even really need to exercise, just need to eat decent and maintain a decently active lifestyle.

It cracks me up when someone decides to be healthy and turn their life into non-stop exercises, guzzling protein shakes and horking down salads left and right.....for 2 weeks and falling out.

Just need to eat decent, go out and walk the dog, go to the mall, go fishing or something or even take a bike ride. It's all you need to stay in shape.

Well that's more the fault of the person not having willpower and drive than the concept of weightlifting.Â I changed my lifestyle cold turkey and I've been at it for over a year and a half, with a break in between only because I had to have surgery lol.

And people that lift don't "guzzle protein shakes" they use them to supplement their protein macros for the day.Â Don't be ignant, jussaiyan.

Building muscle IS healthy, regardless of if you do it in a gym or with your body weight.Â Like I said, it improves quality of life to actually have strength.

Statistically speaking, it is way more common for someone to change their routine/diet cold turkey and fail, than it is for them to be successful and maintain that.

But I didn't state it's true for everyone. You obviously had the willpower and know how a protein shake is used. Most people do not. Don't confuse my assesment of the many, to extend to the few.

I'm sure you know exacly the type of people I'm referring to. Th ones that see you and say "hey you look good, what do you do to stay in shape" you let them know and hen next thing you know they are up at 5:00am going running, protein shakes, over extending themselves at the gym for 3hrs a day, have more protein shakes, rinse and repeat until they quit and tell you it was to hard.

Those are the people I am referring to Smile

Edit: And for the record, I'm not saying it cannot be done, but doing it this way is a high burnout rate.
If you want to be healthy, set a weight loss goal, and get a workout routine that works for you and be diligent about it.

ArmachiA · **05-09-2015, 08:19 AM**

Many many moons ago I weighed about 290 pounds (I'm 5'8" and female just for reference). I decided to get off my butt and do something about it and got down to a pretty manageable weight - losing A LOT of pounds - that I liked, though something happened that caused me to gain 40 pounds of it back (Health Issues Sad

), so I'm back on the path to getting back down. Here's some advice I have for you:

~ Don't go too fast. You kind of hear all these things like "Give it 100%!" "Push hard!" "All or nothing!" and, sure, you can do that for 2 weeks, but then it just gets demoralizing and you give up. Figure out how much time you can go for - usually attempt 20 minutes or so to start, then push it up to 30, then to 40, etc etc. You don't need to do it until you puke, you just need to do it at all. Last month I started barely able to make it to 20, now my workouts are about an hour and a half. Go at your pace!

~ Find what you like to do or you'll just give up. Don't like to run? Don't force yourself to run. Find what it is that will give you a little more motivation to want to work out and not "Ugh... ghh....noooo" For me, I like dance. When I was young a took a lot of dancing lessons and that stuck with me, so most of my work outs are dancing mixed in with some toning cardio and strength training. Ellion, on the other hand, likes weights and weaved a work out around that. Both of us decided to try hiking a few of our mountains here in Colorado when summer hits, and that could be really fun, too. Just try to find ways you like staying active.

~Calories are important. Truth is, if your looking to lose weight, Exercise doesn't work all that well unless your cutting your Calorie intake. Too many people are like "Well that workout was 280 calories, time to eat a hamburger as a reward." Workouts actually don't burn that many calories in our current high-calorie world so look for things you can cut down on. I actually don't believe in cutting out completely (Unless you have horrible willpower) because cutting out everything so quickly can be... well demoralizing and hard and you'll just go right back to old habits. Buy 12 packs of Soda? Well now you're only buying 2 liters. Better make it last! Look around for alternatives for soda as well. I have a really hard time with Soda because, while I think most of it is too sweet, I love carbonation. It's the fizziness that pulls me in. So I've learned to drink sparkling water (Add some Mio for flavor if you must). Try to do that with EVERYTHING you eat. It'll still be hard, but it will be doable.

~ Your body is weird. This was a big one for me, I didn't lose weight in 2 weeks I would get sad and give up. Your body kinda decides that your working out when it wants to, and it could be days or it could be weeks. One of the things that kept me at 290 at 24-25 years old was I never saw results fast enough. At 27, even when I didn't see the weightloss I decided to keep going and in about a month my body was dropping a ton of weight. I dunno why, but it does that. My body is weird. Your body is weird, it's gonna do what it do, just keep going.

Everyone else has listed a lot of good stuff on the internet and I agree with those. I never once went to the gym. I don't really like the gym.

Good luck!

ZacharyVolfire · **05-09-2015, 09:26 AM**

Final boss training** lets me stay in shape and keep up my horrid gaming addict lifestyle.

Work your way up to this you just need
Â 2 hours once a week (My day is sunday morning from 5-7 )

1 Mile walk
100 meter sprint
Two flights of stairs run up and down 5 times for a total of 10
50-65 push ups (don't try this from the start go for 5 and work your way up.) 2 sets
25-45 Sit ups 2 sets
20-35 pull ups sets
Finsh up with thisÂ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Hr3rNUZ24

Doing this will keep you in shape and if you get better eating habits then me. (I'm a sugar food junkie so I'm a terrible example OTL) then you'll defiantly help out

Nwelmaer · **05-11-2015, 01:16 PM**

Oh yey fitness stuff! Big Grin

I do Zombies, Run! at least 3 times a week (I can NOT recommend it enough) and I do strength the rest
I get my workouts from http://darebee.com/workouts.html. Pretty sure all of them can be done at home and I love how most of them are nerdy themed ^_^ (Right now I'm doing the Commander Shepard one)

I've done p90x which is great but does require an at home pull up bar and some free weights, and I also have the Nike workout app but I haven't used it yet. Don't get discouraged! You can GREAT workouts without going to a gym.

Martiallais · **05-12-2015, 04:16 PM**

(05-11-2015, 01:16 PM)Nwelmaer Wrote: Oh yey fitness stuff!

I get my workouts from http://darebee.com/workouts.html. Pretty sure all of them can be done at home and I love how most of them are nerdy themed ^_^ (Right now I'm doing the Commander Shepard one)

Seconding this one! I actually love this site not just for the workouts but it has a LOT of free information, guides, and such that can help transition to being healthier.

As far as workouts, I've got Nightwing, Sword Art Online, and Batman: Bane Edition on my list. Big Grin

Sailor July · **05-12-2015, 04:47 PM**

(Copying this from a previous thread~!)

I'm 5'4" and overweight, with little muscle, though I can hold my own with pure force. My goal is losing weight, eating better, building muscle, working on flexibility, boxing, marital arts, and yoga.Â

Jen and I don't have money for a gym membership (plus hello, social anxiety) or exercise equipment, so right now we're setting up an exercise plan that we can do with just our bodies and stuff such as weights, medicine balls, etc.Â

We also love weaponry, so we each have an axe, cold steel training swords and Jen just bought a shinai and I'll be buying one soon. We practice fights with the swords and will with the shinai as well - the axes are way too sharp to use against each other, but good practice by themselves. So, that's my fitness story so far!

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