Workingout but no result

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Hi,

I started to workout from a month. I daily do 30 min to 45 min threadmill or elliptical, mostly threadmill because I feel exhausted very fast on an elliptical. Somedays I try to do 15 min statiionary cycle because most of the fat is stored on my thing. I do at moderate pace and burn from 150-200 calories depending on my stamina.I do some lunches(about 3 repetitions),push ups, and some stomach excercise which I learned from pilates. I started to even eat healthy-totally cut down on fat and started to eat steamed vegetables,low-fat yogplait,milk....., drinking 2.8 liters of water.

My concern is I feel, I have'nt reduced a bit. I did not check my weight(120 pounds before starting excercise) because I just want to reduce inches on the body rather than weight( especially on the thighs). I know that it takes time and dedication and I am ready to do whatever I need to do to acheive it. But I hear people reduce atleast an inch in a month. I am just concerned whether am I doing something wrong or not putting that effort to reduce the body fat. I like to reduce atleast 2 inches by june end as we are planning for a vacation. Can you please help me out on my workout and advice what I need to do.

Thanks in advance.
 
I've been reading a lot about correct way to work out and been finding out that a lot of people work out incorrectly and end up creating muscles by lifting heavy weights, doing cardio on wrong machines and hurting themselves.

I am trying to lose my post pregnancy weight that is mostly stored in my thighs, behind, hips and abs.

When I went for assessment in my gym, a personal trainer made a comment, make sure you do exercises for your body type (spoon type).
He also asked me, do you want to lose weight and inches or do you want to build muscles based on your figure now? I said of course losing weight and inches and he said stay away from lifting heavy weights because you will end up getting bigger then you were, your fat will will become muscles and then what?

I am educating myself every day about spoon body type and what exercised I should do. There are a lot of websites on internet.

I am spending 6 days a week about 45 minutes on cardio, either fast walking on treadmill or on bike and then doing abs exercises.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I am lifting weights after the cardio and weights are from 20-30lbs, not heavier. Thats for the lower body. I am doing a little heavier on upper body, depending on machine.
Once I reach my desired body weight and my body gets toned down, I will consider lifting heavier weights and building some muscles.

Being on elliptical will not help you out trim your inches on things. Your legs will become only stonger.

Hope this gives your some ideas.
 
I agree with LiveFromNY you should be lifting weights. Your fat doesn't "turn into muscle." You build muscle and that muscle helps you to burn fat.

Also, what is your diet specifically?

Since you only weigh 120 pounds (you didn't say your height) I'm going to assume you don't have much to lose (if that's wrong, let me know). It may take a stricter diet or more time to lose inches.

Are you running on the treadmill or walking?
 
Jassy25 said:
I've been reading a lot about correct way to work out and been finding out that a lot of people work out incorrectly and end up creating muscles by lifting heavy weights, doing cardio on wrong machines and hurting themselves.

I am trying to lose my post pregnancy weight that is mostly stored in my thighs, behind, hips and abs.

When I went for assessment in my gym, a personal trainer made a comment, make sure you do exercises for your body type (spoon type).
He also asked me, do you want to lose weight and inches or do you want to build muscles based on your figure now? I said of course losing weight and inches and he said stay away from lifting heavy weights because you will end up getting bigger then you were, your fat will will become muscles and then what?

I am educating myself every day about spoon body type and what exercised I should do. There are a lot of websites on internet.

I am spending 6 days a week about 45 minutes on cardio, either fast walking on treadmill or on bike and then doing abs exercises.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I am lifting weights after the cardio and weights are from 20-30lbs, not heavier. Thats for the lower body. I am doing a little heavier on upper body, depending on machine.
Once I reach my desired body weight and my body gets toned down, I will consider lifting heavier weights and building some muscles.

Being on elliptical will not help you out trim your inches on things. Your legs will become only stonger.

Hope this gives your some ideas.
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Jassy25, not to be rude, but the personal trainer that spoke with you either is giving you a line of bull or he isn't just knowledgable. muscle does NOT turn into fat or vice versa. Muscle and fat are two completely different tissues, and one cannot turn into the other. Also you won't get big muscles lifting heavy weights. Women are not "built" for that. The only way you are gonna get "big" muscles is if you put things in your body that you shouldn't. Now I am not trying to tell you how to train, just wanted to point out a couple of things to you. Good luck with your goals :eek:
 
Your trainer makes me sad that he's actually certified and believes that crap he's telling you. Find out whatever certifying body passed him and run away from their trainers...far far way.

In a very basic, generalized way--->
Weight training causes your calorie burning potential to rise through more muscle.
Cardio causes weight to be burned due to moving.
Cardio+weight training=a fantastic fat burning potential+the confidence knowing you are strong.

Tell your trainer to pick up an NSCA text or a Human Kinetiks text and learn something. You're wasting your money and your time.

It's not really rocket science.

Here's a pic of a chick lifting heavy weight and as you can see...she is totally fat.
 
It frightens me that there are trainers out there telling people stuff like that. Seriously jassy, find another trainer - the one you have is delusional.
 
he said stay away from lifting heavy weights because you will end up getting bigger then you were, your fat will will become muscles and then what?
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Sometimes this industry of mine makes me sad. Please take the advice of other people on this board and get a new trainer. :(

I pretty much agree with everyone else on this thread. Lifting weights will help decrease body fat. Weights should be used in conjunction with cardio and a great eating menu. Proper rest is important too.

I post 5 tips to fat loss often on this board. You can try searching for it or PM me for them.
 
Thanks for your comments. I havent start paying this trainer yet, neither did I plan, I got a free hour. I got a comment from him like I am obese, hello I just had a baby, trust me, he aint getting a pennie from me.

I appreciate your comments and letting me know that I wasnt told the truth. There is a lot of personal trainers that have no idea what they are talking about.

Any good idea would be appreciated.

Thanks again.
 
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I agree with LiveFromNY you should be lifting weights. Your fat doesn't "turn into muscle." You build muscle and that muscle helps you to burn fat.

Also, what is your diet specifically?

Since you only weigh 120 pounds (you didn't say your height) I'm going to assume you don't have much to lose (if that's wrong, let me know). It may take a stricter diet or more time to lose inches.

Are you running on the treadmill or walking?


I am sorry for a late reply, I was busy with my scholl work. I am 5'2 in height. I used to weight 100 pounds before coming to the U.S . It's been 2 yrs that I got married, since then I have gained weight. I know I am not overwieght but I store fat in my body , especially the butts n thighs. I walk most of the times on threadmill. I get tired very fast if I run. So I usally do 30 min threadmill at an incline from 0-4 and burn 150calories and 15 min stationary bike at level3-5 and burn 50 more calories. Is it ok if I break my workout? After cardio, twice or thrice a week I do some lunches, pushups n few stomach excercises.

My diet: 8-9-----Gym
9:30--- a cup of milk (skim milk, I dont like whole or 2%)with honeybunchesofoats or cheerios.
10:30 or 11------- one fruit.
12:30 or 1--------lunch- brown or white rice(very rare), wheat tortillas or oats with Indian curries and yoplait or plain curd
3:00---------- fruit or some light snack.
4 0r 5--------- green tean or some Indain tea( I can't be without tea)
6:30 or 7------ dinner- something like a vegetable soup, or a vegtable sanwich or some Indian food. I do takecare that they dont contain much fat.
8----- fruit or yoplait
10--------drink a cup of skim milk and go to bed.

I even add a cup of vegetables to by daliy diet either for lunch or dinner. On alternate days I eat 2 bolied eggs and weekends chicken. We dont eat much non veg.

Please let me what all I need to improve. Whenever I look at the mirror I feel I am short and stout. I am ready to do what ever I can in order to reduce my body fat.
 
It's okay if your cardio is broken up on different machines. In fact lots of times it's a good thing because you don't get as bored.

Try to add protein to your breakfast and snacks. It looks like you're not getting enough protein.

A good weight routine will help a ton. Look at websites like www.exrx.net to find a good routine.
 
Well, what do I say? When a 'certified' personal trainer starts saying things like that, everyone has to watch out! Some wolf is probably wearing a sheep's clothing!

Thanks everyone here for telling the truth and saying it LOUD & CLEAR.

However, my little advice for your Jassy25 and everyone here is: if your ultimate goal is to lose body fat, keep your cardio low-intensity. That way, you will burn more fat. High-intensity cardio would likely raise your heart rate to over 70% of your maximum heart rate, at which point you would gradually start relying on glucose metabolism as your source of energy instead of body fat. If you are very well conditioned, you likely would not have this problem. So high-intensity cardio would just be OK for you.

Your surefire way to burn the most fat is resistance training - using weights or resistance machines. Why? Simple: Resistance training stimulates the tissue that burns the most fat i.e. the muscle. Besides that, the production of fat-burning hormones (e.g. testosterone) increases.

Hope that helps:)
 
More protein and possible more calories.

base007, where are you getting your information from? I know it is NOT from Tom's book. You have half of your info correct, but the other half I am not too sure about. Please provide some sources for this. I am interested.
 
Trainer Lynn said:
More protein and possible more calories.

base007, where are you getting your information from? I know it is NOT from Tom's book. You have half of your info correct, but the other half I am not too sure about. Please provide some sources for this. I am interested.
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Lynn, thanks for showing interest. It is quite understandable that you don't agree with me 100%. While I'm not a trainer myself, I would say I have done quite a lot of research on these issues. I don't know the half that you are not sure about but I guess it's the one that has to do with the advantages of low-intensity cardio over high-intensity cardio. I did not get all of that info from Tom's book, but I got it from various researches I made among which is someone Tom has a lot of regards for - David Grisaffi. You can confirm Tom's high regards for him in this interview:

I'm not here to promote David Grisaffi, but I dare say I have a lot of respect for him too. When you subscribe to his newsletter, you would get a report that I guess would be enough proof about the issues I raised here (you can unsubscribe immediately after if you so wish). If you are still unsatisfied (and I really think you won't be considering that we are talking about David Grisaffi), I would be glad to provide further proof.

Hope I've cleared myself. :) If anyone is still not satisfied, please post it here and let's talk some more.
 
Thanks for clearing up your position. I am aware of Tom and Dave. I am one of the trainers included in a book with Tom, Dave, and many many many other well known fitness people.

The part I do not agree with is "if your ultimate goal is to lose body fat, keep your cardio low-intensity. That way, you will burn more fat. High-intensity cardio would likely raise your heart rate to over 70% of your maximum heart rate, at which point you would gradually start relying on glucose metabolism as your source of energy instead of body fat."

I see what you are trying to say... but I disagree. Which is fine. Different things for different people. Saying low intensity burns more fat is wrong- in my opinion and many many many many research studies would concur.
 
You are right, Lynn. Difference strokes for different folks. With the world full of experts (I'm not claiming to be one), there sure would be disagreement on various issues.

That wouldn't stop me from continuing to learn tho. I'm opened to learning from different sources (Lynn included :) ).

Lynn, what book are you talking about? Can you post a hyperlink here for us?
 
Sure thing-
 
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