July 25th, 2011
Weight Loss and Workout Schedule
Working out is not to be discounted in the weight game. Many people are satisfied with starving themselves, but that can permanently slow your metabolism making future weight gain easier and possibly more severe.
Building muscle hedges your bets against future obesity. That muscle will add to the entire body’s metabolism. A highly muscular body burns fat at an astronomical rate. A fatty body does just the opposite.
In each direction the cycles just multiply in intensity. The severely obese can eat anything and gain weight. The highly athletic and eat anything and don’t gain. These two bodies are at the extremes of the spectrum. Most of us are somewhere in between but there is good news.
The good news is that you have 3 great tools at your disposal. First you have to get informed about the caloric content of food. Most people who eat pizza have no idea that pizza is as high in calories as it is. Most people do know that pizza is very fattening but not that they are consuming 2,000 calories in a sitting. The average man eats 3 slices of pizza when he eats pizza. Do you think the average guy knows he is consuming as much as 1800 calories? I don’t think so.
Your workout schedule should be designed to include aerobics and weightlifting. The idea is that it will help you shed pounds with aerobics and help you keep it off with weightlifting. Simply dieting isn’t enough. A good weight schedule will work your upper body one day and your lower body the next.
Your aerobics schedule may include running but the running must take more than 15 minutes. You will want your workouts to last at least 45 minutes and stretching should always be included for every type of exercise. I also recommend that you spend at least one day every 30 days doing nothing but stretching or yoga. This helps your body recover from the strain of exertion.
A practical schedule has 1 day each week that you rest on, and one week each month that you don’t lift on. This is so your muscles can recover and continue adding muscle material.
