Hello. My name is Chris, and I'm from Wisconsin.
I'm here to find the motivation to lose the weight I've put back on again.
About 5 years ago I lost 30 pounds over the course of a few months by serious exercise, eating healthy and just plain old common sense.
Fast forward 4 years, after a very rough year at a very horrible job I've put most of that weight back on. The job was very labor intensive (moving Appliances and furniture.) So I would up getting pretty strong.
But then I got promoted to management, spent more time in the store, and more time eating, sleeping poorly and stressed I packed the weight back on in a very very short time.
And fast forward again to now. I work in appliance sales, wonderful hours, pretty pathetic pay (about 10k less a year than I made previously) but significantly happier, and I want to get back into shape again.
My dillemma is what route to go. Im a lot weaker then I was (I could to 45 pushups in a minute. Now I struggle to get to 20 pushups in a rep).
I'd like to build muscle, but cant really afford a gym membership. At the same time I wonder if I'm really getting any benefit out of what I can do. (20 pushups in the first rep, 10 in the next 3, 20 single arm curls with a 30 pound weight, then another 3 reps of 10. And I do ab crunches, but my back muscles get tired before I feel any burn in my stomach, even with the 30 pound weight on my chest. And I know I'm doing them right. I checked a lot to make sure.
I may not be being entirely clear, either. Ultimately, will a combination of calisthenics, dieting and aerobic exercise produce any sort efficient results, or should I pick weight loss then muscle gain? (and I've heard that its hard to get any true muscle gain from calisthenics but I want to prove to myself I'm ready to do it again before I make a huge investment)
Sorry that was so long winded. And maybe I should've posted all that in another forum, but I didnt know if it would be redundant.
I'm here to find the motivation to lose the weight I've put back on again.
About 5 years ago I lost 30 pounds over the course of a few months by serious exercise, eating healthy and just plain old common sense.
Fast forward 4 years, after a very rough year at a very horrible job I've put most of that weight back on. The job was very labor intensive (moving Appliances and furniture.) So I would up getting pretty strong.
But then I got promoted to management, spent more time in the store, and more time eating, sleeping poorly and stressed I packed the weight back on in a very very short time.
And fast forward again to now. I work in appliance sales, wonderful hours, pretty pathetic pay (about 10k less a year than I made previously) but significantly happier, and I want to get back into shape again.
My dillemma is what route to go. Im a lot weaker then I was (I could to 45 pushups in a minute. Now I struggle to get to 20 pushups in a rep).
I'd like to build muscle, but cant really afford a gym membership. At the same time I wonder if I'm really getting any benefit out of what I can do. (20 pushups in the first rep, 10 in the next 3, 20 single arm curls with a 30 pound weight, then another 3 reps of 10. And I do ab crunches, but my back muscles get tired before I feel any burn in my stomach, even with the 30 pound weight on my chest. And I know I'm doing them right. I checked a lot to make sure.
I may not be being entirely clear, either. Ultimately, will a combination of calisthenics, dieting and aerobic exercise produce any sort efficient results, or should I pick weight loss then muscle gain? (and I've heard that its hard to get any true muscle gain from calisthenics but I want to prove to myself I'm ready to do it again before I make a huge investment)
Sorry that was so long winded. And maybe I should've posted all that in another forum, but I didnt know if it would be redundant.