What is everyone favorite way to exercise? What has worked for you? And have you tried?

Question

breathing exercises. I am having a hard time finding something that works. I have been lifting weights,gazelle glider, and ballet ti chi stretching with Miranda Esmonde White (www.classicalstretch.com) for a month I feel like I have lost inches, but my weight has not changes. I am getting alittle discouraged,but I am not giving up, come across bodyflex and wonder if it worked. It is just aggravating to exercise 6 days a week 45 minutes a day and not loss anything just feel alittle bit toner. Please give advice thanks:)

Answer 1

hey! you're doing good! i was told by a doc that if you're losing inches, you're doing something right. PLUS! Muscle weighs more than fat! :) CHEERS!! I ride my bike and I was on the Atkins Diet. I lost 3 inches off my waist in a week. A toned body is a sexy body. Don't give up, when you are finished you'll be glad you persevered. I'm rooting for ya!

Answer 2

thats exactly whats happening, you are losing a little bit of fat but gaining the same mount back in muscle, which weighs more then fat. Its great that your working out this much but you are doing the wrong kind of exercise. To lose fat you need to do cardiovascular exercise, an exercise that works you heart like running, jogging, walking, swimming, biking, rollerblading. These other exercises you have been doing are great for injury prevention, but you need to do 30-45 minutes of steady intense activity like jogging to lose fat. Also make sure your eating right. the basic rules to losing weight are no soda, no fast food, lots of chicken, fish, fresh (not canned that’s bad) fruits and vegies, whole wheat stuff, yogurt. Not so many cakes and donuts and cookies. Basic common sense for eating, you just need to enforce it. Get all the bad stuff out of the house right away, just toss it or give it away while your still motivated. No alcohol if that applies. Some juice but make sure its all natural, because the ones that aren't are loaded with sugar and a leading cause in diabetes in children and adults. Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread it out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer. Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart. You also need to stay away from any sports drinks unless you’ve just had a long workout and then you need to limit yourself. Most atheletes mix Gatorade with water because its two complex for your body to get all the nutrients out of. It needs to be diluted. These rules may be hard to adapt to at first so start with cutting out the things you know you can live without. Then work from there. Remember these are perfect eating habits, it can take you a while to work into it. If you know you can’t live without your one treat a day, don’t fight it by trying to eat something else, just eat it and make sure that’s the only one you cheat on a day. Otherwise you’ll get depressed and quit. Another important point is getting the right amount of sleep every night. You need 8-9 hours of sleep each night for your body to function correctly. This is an important factor of losing weight. Set up a routine for yourself and go to bed at about the same time each night.
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Answer 3

You did well, if you've toned up a bit. That means that you converted fat into muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. Basically you're doing it the right way. It takes a bit longer to see the results. Most people do it the other way around. They lose the weight and then try to build muscle and often end up with excess flab. Great going!

I do exercises 6 days a week, alternating high intensity high impact aerobics and weights/push ups/lunges. I don't live for exercise. To me it's just a means to an end, because the sports that I enjoy require a degree of fitness. ... my favorite routines are beachbody dot com's power 90 and turbo jam.

Answer 4

Krista is full of crap:
"Some juice but make sure its all natural, because the ones that aren't are loaded with sugar and a leading cause in diabetes in children and adults. "
BS. Natural juices have sugar also. And there's no proven link between juice and diabetes.
"Lots of water, 3-4 liters a day, not all at once, but spread it out. Its really easy to down a liter or two while your watching tv or on the computer."
More BS. No proof that drinking water is helpful. All this is good for is making you pee a lot.
"Also drink some after you eat the bigger meals of the day, it helps your body pick out the nutrients in food when your food is more spread apart."
WHAT?? This is total crap. There is NO evidence to support this BS. (where does she get this?) Your body does NOT need extra water to "pick out" nutrients. What an absurd concept.
"You also need to stay away from any sports drinks unless you’ve just had a long workout and then you need to limit yourself. Most atheletes mix Gatorade with water because its two complex for your body to get all the nutrients out of. It needs to be diluted. "
More crap and BS. The science behind Gatorade has been going on for 30 years and there's NO evidence of any "need" to dilute it. It works just fine as-is. Again, your body does NOT need extra water to "pick out" nutrients.

Don't take diet advice from uneducated 19 year olds. It's full of myth and folklore, sadly lacking in truth and science.

Answer 5

My mother has had a terminal bone and hormone disease and she has been doing Falun gong exercises. It is a form of Qi gong, and it involves meditation. She is cured, and it has been 7 years without seeing a single doctor or taking any mdedicatins. Her health and weight is excellent.

It is a controversial exercise group which has been banned by the Communist gov't in China. Perform at your own risk.

Here is the link:
http://www.falundafa.org/eng/exercises.htm

There videos and music which you can get DVDs or CDs for. Good luck.

Answer 6

I'm more of a walker, hiker, cycleing girl myself. Weight traning can make it hard to feel like you are losing weight as muscle weighs more than fat.