How much exercise???

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Lisa3

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Lately I hear more and more, that when you exercise the same amount of time with the same intensity, your body will get used to this and then you will hit a plateau and won't be able to lose any more weight.

What I am wondering now is if I were to start an exercise programm and stick with it, I would reach a plateau in approx. one month, so after a month I have to increase either time or intensity or both. So if someone wants to lose 20 lbs over the course of 5 months...by the end of those 5 months the exercise time would have come up to approx 1-1.5hrs 3-5 times a week. Now if someone wants to lose more weight, they would have to exercise even longer and more often...and once you reached your goal weight and the exercise time by then would be i.e. 1.5hrs for 5 times a week. Would you start gaining weight if your diet wouldn't change, but you just didn't have the time to exercise that long....

Now I know if it is important you make time....but for me that would be a real problem, cause my free time is very limited and exercise is not exactly at the top of things that I like to do in my free time. Needless to say that I don' t exercise enough:(, but that's a different subject alltogether....

 
I am going to post the first response right away as well...

cause I just read an article that states that all you need is 13 minutes to burn fat and build muscle.


It was written by Jesse Canone a certified Personal Trainer...
I found the article here http://www.theragear.com/article/13minutes.php

I'd be very interested to hear what other think might be the right way!!
 
Heya Lisa again

I took a look at that workout as well, looks pretty good, I think if you did it, then just increased the reps or the sets of exercises every couple of weeks you would never hit a plateau, just always add variety. And if you are strapped for time you can always get up in the morning an extra 20 minutes early and do this, also has the added fat burning effect of working out on an empty stomach. You can easily do this, I got faith in ya.
 
if u are burning calories, then u have the ability to lose weight. The only thing is that your endurance increases and the amount of calories burned actually decreases. Keeping variety and changing pace is the best way. You can burn fat with only 13 minutes, but you still need to include the warm-up and stretching into that. It's not effective if you aren't properly warmed up.
 
The body does become more efficient at whatever it practices. By "efficient" it means that you reduce the amount of unnecessary action, reduce the amount of excess work done by the muscles to perform the activity. When trying to burn calories, efficiency is bad! You want to burn calories consumed inefficiently so more of the calories you consume are expended (instead of getting stored as fat) and you want your exercise to also be ineffcient, in that you have to burn more calories to get something done rather than less calories.

However, the impact is subtle, so plateauing isn't usually solely a matter at becoming more efficient in your exercise. Rather, as you lose weight, the work done to practice and exercise also often gets reduced. So 265 pound bicker would burn 140 calories walking a mile, while 165 pound bicker burns only 95 calories walking a mile.

Raising intensity is one approach. Jogging instead of walking, but jogging for a much time as you walked, not the same distance. I hike, and as I get fitter and more experienced at hiking, I climb higher mountains, hike more difficult terrain, etc.

Another is constantly adding new exercise regimens to your program. I did yoga for a few years, and then started cycling. I did that for a year or so, and then started The Firm.
 
bicker, let us know how the firm is working. i have it on layaway at walmart and will have it soon. i am not able to jog, so i walk as quickly as i can and walk 3-4 miles each night 7 days a week. it would probably be impossible for me to increase this when i hit a plateau cause im already walking every day and if i do more than 4 miles i start getting blisters and sore feet which causes me to miss a day to rest.
 
The Firm works great as long as you keep it up. I have trouble doing it more than twice a week these days because I'm not sleeping well (for unrelated reasons). But when I was doing it 3-4 times a week I noticed incredible results. Right now I'm happy enough just maintaining what I've built.
 
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