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trevose74

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Ok, i've joined a Gym and have been going for 3 months, i do a Body Pump class twice a week and have 2-3 Gym sessions in between, BP class is 60 minutes and my gym sessions are usually 90 minutes, and i work hard in both.

I'm male, 37, 5'6" and weigh 100KG

At first i started to lose some weight, but now for the last 6 weeks nothing, not an ounce So, i've been trying to figure out why, i found a calculator online that said i needed to take in 3564 Calories a day to maintain my current weight, and from using a calorie calculator i'm averaging 2300 - 2400 a day, but no weight loss, i'm working really hard in the Gym (when i leave i'm soaked and exhausted), and for those that have done Body Pump will know it's also a hard workout.

Any idea's what's going wrong? The whole thing is becoming very demoralising.
 
Like the other post it is probably fat-loss, muscle gain, which is VERY good.

I highly suggest taking pictures of your progress because it will allow you to see changes that are taking place that the scale is not showing. Also, take measurements. If you are having fat-loss you will be losing inches. Even after a one pound loss I had managed to lose a few inches, which is what matters anyways. When people see you they see how you look, not what your weight on a scale is.
 
If I were you I would probably play around with my calories. I wouldn't decrease but I would slowly try to increase them.

I realize the whole calories in/ out thing but your body knows it needs a lot of fuel to keep up with your exercising and so it's probably trying to hold on to the fat reserves because you aren't giving it enough fuel from food.

I would probably add protein and good fats like almonds if you don't already eat those. At this point at 6 weeks I would be pissed too. I hope things start looking better for you though!
 
I plugged your numbers into a calorie calculator (including 5 workouts per week) and received the following results:

Maintenance: 2732 Calories/day
Fat Loss: 2185 Calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss: 1760 Calories/day

It seems to me your calorie intake may be a little too high, especially if your measurements are not precise. I am 234 lbs, 5'7, workout 5x/week and eat around 1800-2000 calories per day.

I would suggest playing with your calories and seeing if it makes a difference.
 
I am with dwwise on this I think your calories could be cut a little, it is unlikely to be an appreciable amount of muscle gain.

I would suggest you have your bodyfat % measured and post more detail about your diet and workout. pump class is ok for a beginner but you will soon find it gets easy.
 
Im really glad others came with more opinions! I didn't want you to gain weight as I have no idea about calories so much. I have been changing my diet around though since I started losing weight and I have seen steadily declines. Good luck to you!
 
I agree with the others that you should play around with your calorie intake and see if that helps. If you do that for a couple of weeks and it doesn't work, try changing up your workouts. If you're always doing high intensity, you may be depleting carb stores, but you might be working at too high of a heart rate to tap into fat stores. What do you do for your 90 minutes in the gym on your own?
 
trevose74 said:
Cross trainer
Squats
Lunges
Chest Press
Shoulder Press
Pecs
Rear Delts
Biceps
Triceps
Cycle
Rowing
Crunches
Plank
Stretches

All weights are 15 - 20 reps rather than low rep high weight.
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Hmmm... Ok. My suggestion would still be to play around with your caloric intake for a few weeks first to see if that makes a difference. If you change your caloric intake and change your workouts at the same time, you won't really know which one is working, if you start to see weight loss again.

The other option is to keep your calories at 2300-2400 and change your workouts a bit. My first suggestion would be to try some HIIT training 1-2 times per week. This is a bit easier to do on an elliptical or bike, but a treadmill also works. A basic HITT routine would look like this:

5 min warmup
repeat 5-7 times: 30 sec high intensity, 90-120 sec LOW intensity
5 min cool down

There are many variations that you can look up, but start off slow and build up your high intensity intervals very gradually, by 15 seconds at a time at most.

For the rest of your cardio for the week should be low-moderate intensity, but longer than 30 mins at a time if possible.

I hope that helps, keep us posted!
 
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