Not Necessarily Fat but Big Hipped/Butt & Wedding Coming

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WanderLustMan

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Hey all, just registered and seems like there is a lot of good information on this site. I have a challenge here. I am getting married in June and need to look my best for the wedding and the honeymoon in August.

My problem is that I am:

5'10" - Male - 26 years - 195 lbs

I have a 42R chest size, so my top is usually thought of by people as big and muscular. That's fine and dany and I actually like the way I look up top. My big problem is that I have a relatively small waist at 35 inches but my "seat" or butt is around 44-45 inches. I have a larger than normal for a non-J.Lo. butt. My thighs follow suit in the size department.

Now, I'm trying to figure out if there is a good way to lose weight on the butt and thighs without sacrificing muscle up top. I thought it was a good way to do it with cardio and such but people here think that running is not the best option in this case because i'll build even more muscle in the legs and butt.

Any suggestions? should i do HIIT? run for longer periods at a slower rate? swim? what might be most effective?

DIET:

I have usually eaten very well and don't have any bad eating habits. I rarely if ever eat any junk food. My biggest vice is that I enjoy eating and so my portions tend to be larger than normal and I might eat a little too many carbs a day.

I was thinking that a good diet plan for losing weight might be as follows:

Breakfast: quaker instant oatmeal or a 2-egg omelette with mushrooms, onions, peppers

snack mid-morning: apple or carrots

lunch:
1) usually a salad (corn, chicken, peppers, mushrooms, brocolli) and diet soda; or
2) soup from Hale and Hearty soups in NYC; or
3) grilled chicken with veggies

afternoon snack: cashews or maybe a Zone fudge graham bar that are so deliciious

dinner:
not sure what is the best to eat here pre-sleeping, i usually end up eating some sandwich or salad or something. would love to hear some suggestions.


Thanks,

WLM
 
Your starting early enough to where you may be able to get good results.

Heres a few tips to get you started

1. Make sure your eating enough. At 195, make sure you eat no less than 2000 calories a day, no more than 2500. I know what your saying, count calories? Is this dude an idiot? Try www.fitday.com. Its a free online dietary journal that keeps tracks of calories for you, all you have to do is plug in what you eat.

2. Start an exercise regimine that entails upper and lower body workouts Theres a decent beginner workout I posted in this thread http://training.fitness.com/showthread.php?t=3970&page=4.
Do this workout on 2 consecutive days, rest 2 days, then do it 2 more consecutive days, rest one day, repeat. Take it easy first couple of weeks, don't train too heavy, you don't want to be too sore to move. Once you get used to it though, train as heavy as you can to maintain your muscle.

3. Incorporate some cardio in your routine. Try HIIT (search the forum) its great for burning fat and sparing muscle.
 
Thanks Allen, I actually started using FitDay yesterday when I was browsing aroudn this forum. The only problem is that it's tough to find the exact foods I'm eating. The omelettes for example, it's tough to narrow it down.

Yesterday, according to FitDay I ate only 1,800 calories which might be a bad thing I guess, but 245g were carbs (had a chocolate chip cookie at lunch).

Is better? Might be worth the $20 for the year but wanted to hear your thoughts if you've used it.

Also, how do I figure out for each of the exercises you mentioned, what the ideal starting weights should be? Is it failure by the 12th rep?

Also, any suggestions on the diet?
 
Ive never used it, but the estimating on fitday is close enough. I understand what you mean about it not being exact though hehe :D

At first, you don't want to be close to failure at all, just get form down. Once you train enough to add weight, you should be close to reaching failure by the end of the set. If you don't reach failure in the first set but do close to the end of the 2nd and definitely by the 3rd, your right. If you don't reach failure at all, your probably light.
 
So Allen, I did this workout yesterday...most of it. Ended up eating well during the day and I'm happy with the way I feel and feel that I can keep this up.

Did 25 mins of HIIT on the treadmill, slow pace at 4-4.5 and high pace at 8-8.5. going to try doing that again tonight since i have more time.

Only was able to the the upper body part of the workout yesterday and didn't get to the tricep/bicep extension/curls. I'll work that in tonight.

Question though: how much time should I rest in between sets?
 
For that workout, ideal rest is 45 seconds to 1 minute between sets. Don't necessarily sweat not getting in the biceps/triceps. Don't make it a habit, but they do get some work with the pec/lat exercises.

For instance, the workout I do right now (designed for strength and increasing punching and kicking power) Is all compound movements and very heavy. My bis and tris get worked in the second day at the end of my routine.

The HIIT routine looked very good. Try to keep track of your heart rate to really push it to the limit

220-26 = 194 thats your theoretical maximum heart rate. At the maximum threshold, you should reach 185 bpm, low should be 159, with the HIIT you did, I figure you should have no problem reaching those numbers.
 
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