really out of shape!!

hey everyone im new here. my name is jon 16 years old living in california.

i have a real big problem.. im really out of shape.

i have love handles, a chest with fat(titties(my main concern))!!, and a gut.
now if i have a shirt on you cannot tell i have these unless i wear i tight shirt or take off my shirt(you can't even tell im fat if i have a real big shirt on). im emberrassed to take off my shirt to go swimming or in those hot LA summers.
any way i can get rid of these? diets? exercises? im not really a muscle body building guy but some muscles on the chest and abs would be nice.

hope you guys can help. thanks.
 
Hello and welcome.

Yes, with proper diet and exercise, you most likely can accomplish a lot. A good place to start would be the stickies at the tops of each section. They explain many of the most commonly asked question about where to start with what/how to eat, exercises, and all that.

One thing to remember is that weight lifting is about more than being a big no-neck meathead. A good well rounded strength training program can go a very long way in helping you get the body you want, when combined witht he right eating plan.

Hope you enjoy the forum, and happy reading!
 
wow thanks.
lately i have been weight lifting with 15lb. bells.
not the heaviest but if i keep on working with them after a while i start feeling the burn.
 
You need to concentrate mostly on:
1. Drastically changing your diet. Cutting out junk food, soda, refined sugar, and other bad fatty foods.
2. Start some kind of cardio program. I recommend Jump skipping, a great calorie burner, improves agility/quickness, cheap and you can do it at home ( garage, backyard ). 25-35 minutes a day. Try to start off slow, aim for atleast 3 days a week and work your way up.
3. Strength training - Strength training is good, but you should concentrate more on getting your aerobic program in place. When you do, look for some full body workouts you can perform 3 times a week.

Start counting calories and paying attention to what your eating.

Read the stickies in the nutrition section, they contain alot of valuable information
 
Thats a good calculator to give you a good idea how many calories you should be eating, depending on how tall or how much you weigh

Try and keep sugary drinks like orange juice to a minimum, and see if you can get 2% or some kind of low fat milk.
 
Keep track of your results of your body fat % and your weight, if you don't see any change in body fat, or on the scale in 2-3 weeks then continue lowering calories.
 
What is your diet like now?

One major thing that has been shown over and over, is that a drastic, all at once, change leads to burn out, disappointment, and failure. Make gradual, realistic changes that you can stick with in the long run.

*If you drink 4 sodas a day - cut that down to 1 or 2, then down to 0 (substituting in something like iced tea w/Splenda to help with the caffeine needs).
*If you drink whole milk (which most red-tops are, depending on brand) - go to 2%, then 1%, then skim.


What is your schedule like now?

For exercise, 3 times a week of cardio is an excellent goal. However, more important than the actual goal, is how realistic that goal is. If you can do aerobic exercise 3 times a week, wonderful, if not, don't set that as your goal, b/c it will set you up to fail. If all that is truly workable (accounting for appropriate prioritizing of course) is one, then aim for one.

For weights, it would be a good idea to get some varied weights and additional equipment, or join a gym. If those aren't options for you, I would look into body weight training, and other ways to be creative, so you aren't stuck lifting the same weights over and over.
 
Also, is a good way to track caloric intake. It's a free account that many people here use. It can be a good tool in helping you see exactly what your nutrition looks like, and how to adjust it accordingly to meet your needs.
 
hey everyone im new here. my name is jon 16 years old living in california.

Welcome to the forum, ZepplinROCKER:

ZepplinROCKER has the MENTAL STORAGE LOCKER to be a REAL SHOCKER because he will bring down the Tissue storage BLOCKER!


i have a real big problem.. im really out of shape.

This can be fixed, and I am your friend that will try to help you. You have come to the right place at the right time, and I extend my hand to you.

i have love handles, a chest with fat(titties(my main concern))!!, and a gut. now if i have a shirt on you cannot tell i have these unless i wear i tight shirt or take off my shirt(you can't even tell im fat if i have a real big shirt on). im emberrassed to take off my shirt to go swimming or in those hot LA summers. any way i can get rid of these? diets? exercises? im not really a muscle body building guy but some muscles on the chest and abs would be nice.

Rocker, dont be embarrassed my dear friend. The physical portion of an individual pales to the beauty inside an individual person, and this very thing can bend steel and repair many a wall put up in ones path in life. Determined Steel brings the real Deal:

“Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.”


“The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.”


“Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.”


"Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment”


“The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.”

“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.”

Dr. Joyce Brothers and Waltz

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You have come to the right place for personal encouragement and assistance in your personal goals. I am your friend, and will walk with you in your path.

I wish you much success. :)

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To lose or gain wgt read this post below for an example using Benedict:

Deficit dieting is the MAIN thing that does the job.

Some Basic information that can lead you to fat tissue loss

Calorie calculation is an approximation science, remember this. Through your journey WATCH, LOOK, and LISTEN, to your body..........it will TELL YOU if your doing the correct things or combination of things!


○ Change your eating habits (below are some suggestion examples)

○ Substitute an artificial sweetener of your choice in the replace of refined white sugar (Refrain from Refined Sugar like you would a disease)

○ Try eating 5 to 6 smaller meals during the day

○ Balance your meals out during the day so in one day you have a mix of protein, carbohydrate and good fats

○ Drink lots of water during the day and before, during and after exercise

○ Simple Carb Examples: Grapefruit, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Strawberries, Oranges, Apples, Pineapple, etc

○ Complex Carb Examples: Whole Wheat Pita Bread, Oatmeal, Long Grain Brown Rice, Brown Pasta, Malto-Meal (Plain, whole wheat),etc

○ Good Protein Examples: White or Dark Tuna, Chicken Breast, Lean Turkey, Lean Ham, Very lean Beef, Quality Whey Protein Powder,, etc

○ Good Fats Examples: Natural Peanut Butter, Various Nuts, Flax Seed, Fish Oils.

This is what you need to do:

This an approximation science, but you can narrow it down very close, if your meticulous in your vision when looking at the data.

Tweak your desire and passion by educating yourself on the basic requirements of losing fat tissue. With your age, sex, height, and weight, in mind, find your approximated base calorie needs (this is organ function, breathing, or bodily function needs). One can use the Benedict Formula.

Calculate your BMR:

The Harris Benedict equation determines calorie needs for men or woman as follows:

• It calculates your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) calorie requirements, based on your height, weight, age and gender.

• It increases your BMR calorie needs by taking into account the number of calories you burn through activities such as exercise.

This gives you your total calorie requirement or approximated Maintenance Line (I call it the MT Line).

Step One : Calculate your BMR with the following formula:

•Women: BMR = 655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 x age in years)
•Men: BMR = 66 + (6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - (6.8 x age in years)

Step Two : In order to incorporate activity into your daily caloric needs, do the following calculation:

•If you are sedentary : BMR x 1.2
•If you are lightly active: BMR x 1.375
•If you are moderately active (You exercise most days a week.): BMR x 1.55
•If you are very active (You exercise daily.): BMR x 1.725
•If you are extra active (You do hard labor or are in athletic training.): BMR x 1.9

Create a Calorie Deficit:

In order to lose weight, you must create a calorie deficit. It is easier and healthier to cut back your calorie intake a little bit at a time.

Every 3,500 calories is equivalent to approximated 1 pound.

If you cut back 500 calories a day, you will lose approximated 1 pound per week. (not necessarily all fat)

If you exercise to burn off 500 calories a day you will also lose approximately 1 pound per week.

The calorie deficit margin is just an example:

Apply this knowledge by backing off the approximated MT Line (approximated Maintenance line), say for example, a -500c per day, for about 1 week. Before the week begins, weigh yourself in the AM when you FIRST get up (do not eat yet) (remember your clothing, preferably with just underwear and t-shirt or like clothes). Note the time, and the approximated wgt.
Each day spread your caloric content out throughout the day (keep the body fed, with calories in the 300 to 500c approximated calories each meal), or a like division which mirrors your end caloric deficit limit (meaning MT-500c).

This way you have your entire day and body encircled with nutrition (I assume you already know to eat clean), which if your eating right, will give an approximated good energy (not optimal because your in deficit) to fuel your training and exercising schedule.

At the end of the week, on the same day, the same time, with the same like clothes, weigh yourself again. Note whether you lost or gained tissue (or weight I mean). To further assist you, I want to tell you that for every approximated caloric deficit of (-3500c), one could lose 1lb of fat tissue. (though some may not all be fat tissue, this information is for another question, and isn't presently suited here).

Now, in this example you were calculating a -500c per day deficit. There needs to be -3500c to lose approximated 1lbs of fat. Now lets do some basic math. -500cX7=-3500c. With all things considered equal, and you were meticulous and faithful on the diet, you should have been CLOSE to losing at least one pound of tissue in the week.

If this didn't happen, this means you need to make finer adjustments, and the MT line is not accurate, and you need to adjust this on your own.

Based upon the FEEDBACK your body is giving you, ask yourself how faithful you were on the diet, AND how faithful in training (whether you kept the training schedule (if you didn't, this would effect the caloric equation, no?!), AND how accurate you figured in your activities caloric wise.........but, you have the base information to begin making adjustments.

The calorie SURPLUS margin is just an example: (attempt to gain weight)

Apply this knowledge by going OVER the approximated MT Line (approximated Maintenance line), say for example, a +500c per day, for about 1 week. Before the week begins, weigh yourself in the AM when you FIRST get up (do not eat yet) (remember your clothing, preferably with just underwear and t-shirt or like clothes). Note the time, and the approximated wgt.
Each day spread your caloric content out throughout the day (keep the body fed, with calories in the 300 to 500c approximated calories each meal), or a like division which mirrors your end caloric deficit limit (meaning MT+500c).

This way you have your entire day and body encircled with nutrition (I assume you already know to eat clean), which if your eating right, will give an approximated good energy (not optimal because your in deficit) to fuel your training and exercising schedule.

At the end of the week, on the same day, the same time, with the same like clothes, weigh yourself again. Note whether you lost or gained tissue (or weight I mean).

If this didn't happen, this means you need to make finer adjustments, and the MT line is not accurate, and you need to adjust this on your own



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The Nutrients are an essential factor in the diet; however, the law of energy balance within the DIET, is the ultimate KING while the Nutrients can play in some decisions made within the body.

Do yourself a favor, figure out your MT line, adjust off of this, eat well balanced spaced out meals (DONT EVER starve YOURSELF), AND listen to your body for the results.

While you are trying to figure out your body, IT WILL PAY YOU BACK, I promise. You have to learn to MASTER yourself to become the master of weight loss for YOURSELF.
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"Let your inner vision cultivate your ultimate exterior expression" —Chillen

"The strongest inner feeling that prevails will result in the exterior expression" –Chillen

"Your cultivation and manifestation of thought accumulated within your reasoning will determine your outcome"----Chillen
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Deficit dieting is the fat burner, and EVERYTHING follows after this. The deficit can be implemented through the diet or exercise can cause the deficit when you know your MT line reference. Without a adequate deficit, cardio WILL NOT burn fat off you. This is WHY I don't partake in the cardio debates of heart rate, etc........because the bottom line is the deficit diet....period, debate OVER. If you stick to the basic: The Law of energy balance, and tip this to the negative side of the equation, you will be on your way, with everything considered equal and your healthy.

Losing fat is sort of like draining a pool. It usually leaves the shallow end first before the larger end starts to diminish. But, fat and/or tissue is lost all over when deficit dieting.

If you want to lose overall body fat, get your diet in order, eat clean, learn what your approximate MT reference line is according to activities (and back off a HEALTHY margin), and perform overall weight training, and of course, include cardio (cardio DOES have its benefits other than burning calories, carbs, fat, ect).

The most effective beginning is to look at your diet, and make a diet journal in my opinion, THEN work in a training program around this diet.

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I wish you the best,


Best regards,



Chillen
 
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