Hi all
I'm 42, male, starting-weight obese (245 lbs, 111 kg) at 5'11, a combination of food love and sedentary life (there are very few in the world who can beat me in Modern Warfare 2 if I'm rocking the Holo-M16, bwahahah).
So on 20 April 2012 joined the Glasgow Life municipal gym scheme, means I can use any council facility and unlimited classes. Have a small gym and weekend classes within walking distance, ten minute drive to choice of sports complexes with daytime classes, plus pools, steam, sauna, etc. Good value.
I started doing as many Les Mills Body Attacks as I could find per week. Now I'm doing two Body Attacks and two Body Combats per weekend, plus four Body Attacks during the week. Eight hours of Les Mills music each week... oh god the pain. I'm also managing to get in two or three hours on the Treadmill (not jogging, fast, varied, steep interval training always with boxing, punching, hand raising, disco arms, whatever, timed to unrelenting techno). As the start of July I added three half-hour early-morning Meta-Fit HIIT classes to the week-days.
I have one day a week (Monday) off for recovery.
After 11 or so weeks of battering this hard I'm (hops on) 218 lbs, 99 kg, a fair whack in that time-frame. (Can it really be a kilo of flab a week?). I have easily the same amount of fat to burn, and then some. No bio-mechanical niggles have cropped-up and feeling very fit and "breathy" (as distinct from "out-of-breathy").
I'm also eating like a horse, though modifying my diet. Smaller dinners, more food during the day, more fruit, the "fitness usual" mix of nuts and seeds (I'm making a point of a daily nut/seed munch), "snacks" like half a tin of tuna, Greek yoghurt, poached eggs, etc. rather than processed crap, cake, etc. I've cut out most (not all) empty calories, but I have not cut out food. Far from it. That I can tell I haven't lost muscle mass, it's the fat that's been cut - from double chin to square jaw.
Only supplements so far are Multivitamins with Minerals and Omega-3 rich Fish Oil capsules.
I'm not feeling weak either, have gained crazy core strength. Body Attack/Combat is very jumpy and skippy, very balls of toes. From there my calves, thighs, hips, and abs feel strong, I'm starting to feel bouncy (even though I have still a fair amount of weight around the middle). Certainly showing more endurance in classes. This is good as I was disco-fit in my 30s and want to get back to that.
My plan is to continue this, at this intensity, over the summer until I've burnt all the flab right off. I think I have a full schedule for cardio/burn classes, but want to improve the nutrition, and start to add weights. I've got a fairly big frame, looking to grow and get strength in the upper - arms, shoulders, back, chest - and compliment and improve the torso and legs the classes have started to do wonders on.
I'm going to go through the weight machines available to me (simply don't have someone who can spot me on free weights yet) and see what kind of muscle-mass routine I can start from them.
I'm 42, male, starting-weight obese (245 lbs, 111 kg) at 5'11, a combination of food love and sedentary life (there are very few in the world who can beat me in Modern Warfare 2 if I'm rocking the Holo-M16, bwahahah).
So on 20 April 2012 joined the Glasgow Life municipal gym scheme, means I can use any council facility and unlimited classes. Have a small gym and weekend classes within walking distance, ten minute drive to choice of sports complexes with daytime classes, plus pools, steam, sauna, etc. Good value.
I started doing as many Les Mills Body Attacks as I could find per week. Now I'm doing two Body Attacks and two Body Combats per weekend, plus four Body Attacks during the week. Eight hours of Les Mills music each week... oh god the pain. I'm also managing to get in two or three hours on the Treadmill (not jogging, fast, varied, steep interval training always with boxing, punching, hand raising, disco arms, whatever, timed to unrelenting techno). As the start of July I added three half-hour early-morning Meta-Fit HIIT classes to the week-days.
I have one day a week (Monday) off for recovery.
After 11 or so weeks of battering this hard I'm (hops on) 218 lbs, 99 kg, a fair whack in that time-frame. (Can it really be a kilo of flab a week?). I have easily the same amount of fat to burn, and then some. No bio-mechanical niggles have cropped-up and feeling very fit and "breathy" (as distinct from "out-of-breathy").
I'm also eating like a horse, though modifying my diet. Smaller dinners, more food during the day, more fruit, the "fitness usual" mix of nuts and seeds (I'm making a point of a daily nut/seed munch), "snacks" like half a tin of tuna, Greek yoghurt, poached eggs, etc. rather than processed crap, cake, etc. I've cut out most (not all) empty calories, but I have not cut out food. Far from it. That I can tell I haven't lost muscle mass, it's the fat that's been cut - from double chin to square jaw.
Only supplements so far are Multivitamins with Minerals and Omega-3 rich Fish Oil capsules.
I'm not feeling weak either, have gained crazy core strength. Body Attack/Combat is very jumpy and skippy, very balls of toes. From there my calves, thighs, hips, and abs feel strong, I'm starting to feel bouncy (even though I have still a fair amount of weight around the middle). Certainly showing more endurance in classes. This is good as I was disco-fit in my 30s and want to get back to that.
My plan is to continue this, at this intensity, over the summer until I've burnt all the flab right off. I think I have a full schedule for cardio/burn classes, but want to improve the nutrition, and start to add weights. I've got a fairly big frame, looking to grow and get strength in the upper - arms, shoulders, back, chest - and compliment and improve the torso and legs the classes have started to do wonders on.
I'm going to go through the weight machines available to me (simply don't have someone who can spot me on free weights yet) and see what kind of muscle-mass routine I can start from them.
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