[jaejoongiefied]

I have a question >_< .
I'm 5'5 1/2 and I weigh about 120 lbs .
I want a body sort of like Lee Hyori's .
What basic exercises can I do to lose fat around the hips, back, and waist ?

[kinein]

Are their any alternatives to weights? If not how much are the weights? and where do you buy weights?
I'd feel quite embarrassed though, i'm young and afraid to go ask my parents :x.
Thanks in advance

Exercise bands ~ they can get quite pricy as well. Like www.bodylastics.com or another similar company - you can ask p1nke in the p90x thread. You can buy weights at target, and general consumer store. sporting goods. Or craigslist lots of people sell old dumbbell sets all the time.

Don't be embarrassed, learning to communicate your desires and articulate why and show that you really want to do something instead of waste their money is the most effective way. Fear of parents leads to an inability to have a truly close loving relationship from your end.

I have a question >_< .
I'm 5'5 1/2 and I weigh about 120 lbs .
I want a body sort of like Lee Hyori's .
What basic exercises can I do to lose fat around the hips, back, and waist ?

Run.

[hankyungsaranghaex3]

hey question

i ran on the treadmill today (5.0 incline, 4.2 speed) for half and hour and only lost 120ish calories.

i don't think my workout was very efficient.
what's a better way to exercise?

[nekkid]

hey question

i ran on the treadmill today (5.0 incline, 4.2 speed) for half and hour and only lost 120ish calories.

i don't think my workout was very efficient.
what's a better way to exercise?

Run faster ahha just kidden i dont know wait for the pros to help

[thefox_]

Weight=/= fat.

You could have a flopping belly, fat cheeks and man boobs but still be classified as "underweight", but really your not...

your not gonna lose fat if your eating a lot and not exercising enough. and your not gonna lose fat if you barely eat anything and don't exercise...

your gonna lose fat if you just eat normally (but really you should cut the fast food- you can eat some but not more than maybe 2 times a week), RUN. Seriously if you run a lot, your gonna lose heaps of fat. your waist will get thinner, and your gonna get a defined face (from all that cheek fat going away).

also drink a lot of water. protein, carbs and fat are all essential. the more muscle you have, the harder it will be to gain fat. so you should also work out a lot.

[kinein]

hey question

i ran on the treadmill today (5.0 incline, 4.2 speed) for half and hour and only lost 120ish calories.

i don't think my workout was very efficient.
what's a better way to exercise?

http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=281904

read this thoroughly x 3. when you have learned everything then you will know.

[THE BIGAKU]

I've read articles that morning cardio is the best way to burn fats.

I've done it but i found myself, feeling "sick" and "powerless" to the point where i feel like throwing up

So is morning cardio yay or nay?

[thefox_]

I've read articles that morning cardio is the best way to burn fats.

I've done it but i found myself, feeling "sick" and "powerless" to the point where i feel like throwing up

So is morning cardio yay or nay?

cardio is the best way to burn fat... dunno about the morning bit though. just make sure you're eating a lot of carbs (most of your energy should be from carb rich stuff like bread..., enough proteins and little fat (you don't want to completely avoid fats, but having too much is bad).

[Makaveli]

I've read articles that morning cardio is the best way to burn fats.

I've done it but i found myself, feeling "sick" and "powerless" to the point where i feel like throwing up

So is morning cardio yay or nay?

How frequently have you been doing cardio in the morning?

[thefox_]

I've read articles that morning cardio is the best way to burn fats.

I've done it but i found myself, feeling "sick" and "powerless" to the point where i feel like throwing up

So is morning cardio yay or nay?

actually now that I've read some stuff while googling morning cardio has 300% more fat burning than doing cardio in the afternoon. that's before you eat breakfast.

[kittn]

i hate the way i look, i hate my body, im quite a chubby girl and ive decided its time for a change.
ive cut all junk food out of my diet.. no chips, lollies, chocolate, fatty cheese.. etc. and havent eaten any since the start of the year. ive started to do some cardio, just power-walking and jogging when i can but im so unfit. i get puffed out so easily and i just dont know what to do. i want to change so badly, and im trying but its just so hard. i come home and i feel so sick in the stomach, but i really have been pushing myself.

can anyone give me any tips on how to stay motivated?
i'm currently d/ling the winsor pilates workout video, i heard its really good for muscle (which i have zero of) and i plan on doing it atleast 3 times a week ontop of 30mins of cardio everyday.

btw i weigh about 73kgs. (yuck)

[THE BIGAKU]

How frequently have you been doing cardio in the morning?

Probably about 5 days a week
weekends i do yoga and stretch

actually now that I've read some stuff while googling morning cardio has 300% more fat burning than doing cardio in the afternoon. that's before you eat breakfast.

Yeah i read that too but i just CAN'T exercise when i don't eat before. I feel sick and nauseated. And can't do the workout properly.
So i'm kinda confused with this statement...

[thefox_]

Probably about 5 days a week
weekends i do yoga and stretch




Yeah i read that too but i just CAN'T exercise when i don't eat before. I feel sick and nauseated. And can't do the workout properly.
So i'm kinda confused with this statement...

http://www.buildingbodies.ca/Cardio/early-...ng-cardio.shtml

Early morning before you eat, your levels of muscle and liver glycogen (stored carbohydrate) are low. If you eat dinner at 7 p.m and you eat breakfast at 7 a.m., that's 12 hours without food. During this 12-hour overnight fast, your levels of glycogen slowly decline to provide glucose for various bodily functions that go on even while you sleep. As a result, you wake up in the morning with depleted glycogen and lower blood sugar - the optimum environment for burning fat instead of carbohydrate. How much more fat you'll burn is uncertain, but some studies have suggested that up to 300% more fat is burned when cardio is done in a fasted, glycogen-depleted state.

You can still do cardio anytime of the day... i think it's just more efficient fat loss if you do it before your first meal everyday. your still gonna lose fat if you do cardio in the afternoon.

[kinein]

Probably about 5 days a week
weekends i do yoga and stretch




Yeah i read that too but i just CAN'T exercise when i don't eat before. I feel sick and nauseated. And can't do the workout properly.
So i'm kinda confused with this statement...

Please describe what kind of cardio you are doing ~ also I want you to downshift it to 1 day on 1 day off - until you feel better.

Stretching you can do everyday ~ yoga is a great way to get in touch with yourself

5 days straight you see with people that have been actively exercising for more then 3 months ~

I would recommend faced paced walking ( NOT POWERWALKING ) or Running ~ if you are feeling really crappy

Example speed on treadmill of 3-4 for an hour ( no incline necessary unless 4 feels too easy even after 30 minutes).

i hate the way i look, i hate my body, im quite a chubby girl and ive decided its time for a change.
ive cut all junk food out of my diet.. no chips, lollies, chocolate, fatty cheese.. etc. and havent eaten any since the start of the year. ive started to do some cardio, just power-walking and jogging when i can but im so unfit. i get puffed out so easily and i just dont know what to do. i want to change so badly, and im trying but its just so hard. i come home and i feel so sick in the stomach, but i really have been pushing myself.

can anyone give me any tips on how to stay motivated?
i'm currently d/ling the winsor pilates workout video, i heard its really good for muscle (which i have zero of) and i plan on doing it atleast 3 times a week ontop of 30mins of cardio everyday.

btw i weigh about 73kgs. (yuck)

Take pictures of yourself in your undies and look at your pictures vs the pictures of bodies you want to look like!

I and Makaveli have noted our motivation before so this time I'll quote nojeel ~

That's easy, for my own well-being. smile.gif I've worked so hard and busted my ass for too long. I'm never satisfied with my body, I always want to improve my knowledge in health and fitness and improve my personal goals as well. Now with the knowledge I posses, I'm now qualified to help others hopefully to achieve their fitness goals as well, and that's what strives me to do what I do.

I started off as a very unhealthy person. Before fitness training and actually getting into the lifestyle, I was a very unmotivated person. I'm a true ectomorph, weighing 110pds, I'm naturally very brail and very thin. Weak bones and very hard to gain muscle. I was also chain smoking with cigarettes and eating about once a day, I was probably literally consuming around 300 calories a day. I wasn't starving, I wasn't anorexic, I was just never hungry. I found myself very low of energy, always stressed and was sick of always having to cough and deal with mucus whenever I got cold due to smoking. Plus I worked 10-11 hours a day 7 days a week, plus school I went to school 3 times a week, so that didn't help to me either.

Alot of people recently have been sending me pms telling me they were embarrassed to go to the gym. The guys that been pming me have been intimidated by the heavy weights other gym members be lifting. The ladies who have pming me have been intimidated by the 'skinny, materialistic' girls who roam around gym litterally doing nothing but try to draw attention from other people. As I 'guy' I was probably curling 8-10pd dumbells, bench pressing 100pds, while my waist was a size 25 and my legs were skinny then most junior high school kids. But I didn't care what other people were doing, I just stucked with doing my business, doing what I needed to do, I could care less what the other guys in the gym were doing. They're them and I'm me. Alot of men who go to gym try to lift too heavy too fast and that's where they get hurt and make no gains. Alot of women can't go to gym because their self-conscious and it effects their self-esteem. They're too intimidated by the other women at the gym that's why they have trouble sticking with the routine. Most people also expect to see results too quickly, they want it so bad but what they don't realize is that they need to be patient. They don't see results in a couple weeks and they start to lose their morale and that's a mistake as well. Everything takes time and patience, if you want something bad enough you'll stick with it and believe you'll reach your goals. Nothing ever comes easy and nothing is given to you, (soooo cliche) but seriously, you want something bad enough you'll eventually get it.

I'm smoke free, a solid 135pds with 6% body fat, I can bench nearly twice my body weight and I have managed to drop my mile from from 7:15 to 5:47 within 2 1/2 years of fitness training. You too can do the same thing, anybody can achieve their goals. smile.gif

I apologize for the ongoing blabbing, it's hard for me to stop talking about something I'm so passionate about sweatingbullets.gif

[thefox_]

i hate the way i look, i hate my body, im quite a chubby girl and ive decided its time for a change.
ive cut all junk food out of my diet.. no chips, lollies, chocolate, fatty cheese.. etc. and havent eaten any since the start of the year. ive started to do some cardio, just power-walking and jogging when i can but im so unfit. i get puffed out so easily and i just dont know what to do. i want to change so badly, and im trying but its just so hard. i come home and i feel so sick in the stomach, but i really have been pushing myself.

can anyone give me any tips on how to stay motivated?
i'm currently d/ling the winsor pilates workout video, i heard its really good for muscle (which i have zero of) and i plan on doing it atleast 3 times a week ontop of 30mins of cardio everyday.

btw i weigh about 73kgs. (yuck)

if you have a big waist in comparison with everything else, then your probably fat.

if you have a chubby face, you need to start running now since a chubby face is caused by high levels of body fat.

you need to have a balanced diet of carbs, protein and fats. also don't skip meals because your metabolism will drop, hence making it harder to lose fat.

[THE BIGAKU]

Please describe what kind of cardio you are doing ~ also I want you to downshift it to 1 day on 1 day off - until you feel better.

Stretching you can do everyday ~ yoga is a great way to get in touch with yourself

5 days straight you see with people that have been actively exercising for more then 3 months ~

I would recommend faced paced walking ( NOT POWERWALKING ) or Running ~ if you are feeling really crappy

I usually do step aerobics and combine it with Turbo Jam
You know how 'hyper' and 'active' some of the Turbo Jam moves are and doing all that before eating breakfast makes me go
What i meant by doing the stretching is the Stretch X from P90X
Since i'm not THAT fit enough to be doing the P90X and i feel Turbo Jam is much more fun

I've been thinking the same like what you have suggested, jogging or fast paced walking but too bad i currently live in a country where the air pollution is really high and it's not safe to exercise outside
So i opted with home exercise videos lol :x

[qteepiggy2393]

Heyyy
im 16 and 157cm and 49 kg

I used to do alot of track and field and cross country and im still really fit with a good diet
exceptttttt
my calves are thick and muscular along with my thighs...
they're toned but i really want them to be skinnier
what can i do?
i heard running for like an hour or so can help because the muscle turns into an energy source or something like that but im scared it'll turn my calves even more muscly
and i KNOW for a fact that my calves get bigger when i exercise them alot cuz it's happened before

[azn_meeagi]

I'm about 5'5 and I weigh 125. Would it be possible for me to lose 10-15 lbs by mid-June?
What's the best way about doing this? I do track, but I'm currently injured (I can run about 5 miles or so on the elliptical though). And if I have time I do crunches and weight lifting at home. Unfortunately, when I come home I have a lot of hw to do and I can't find time to work out. Is it critical for me to exercise at home?

And idk if this question belongs here, but:
How do I get rid of cellulite? I run a lot, but I can't get rid of it! Also, would it be possible to get rid of it by mid-June?

[kinein]

hey question

i ran on the treadmill today (5.0 incline, 4.2 speed) for half and hour and only lost 120ish calories.

i don't think my workout was very efficient.
what's a better way to exercise?

Run at 8.

Heyyy
im 16 and 157cm and 49 kg

I used to do alot of track and field and cross country and im still really fit with a good diet
exceptttttt
my calves are thick and muscular along with my thighs...
they're toned but i really want them to be skinnier
what can i do?
i heard running for like an hour or so can help because the muscle turns into an energy source or something like that but im scared it'll turn my calves even more muscly
and i KNOW for a fact that my calves get bigger when i exercise them alot cuz it's happened before

Slice out carbs except for breakfast and after working out ~ run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run faster.

I'm about 5'5 and I weigh 125. Would it be possible for me to lose 10-15 lbs by mid-June?
What's the best way about doing this? I do track, but I'm currently injured (I can run about 5 miles or so on the elliptical though). And if I have time I do crunches and weight lifting at home. Unfortunately, when I come home I have a lot of hw to do and I can't find time to work out. Is it critical for me to exercise at home?

And idk if this question belongs here, but:
How do I get rid of cellulite? I run a lot, but I can't get rid of it! Also, would it be possible to get rid of it by mid-June?

Anything is possible ~ it just depends on how far you are willing to go in eating, exercise, rest ~ the information is all over the internet - it is up to you to decide to stop being fat without much lean muscle tissue. Cellulite is a tell-tale sign of someone with high body-fat% that needs a lot of work. Such as an INCREASE in lean MUSCLE tissue ( in all the right places ).

Do more ~ no excuses. It is critical for you to find out what you actually want to accomplish and DO IT. Instead of talk to people about it uselessly go find what you need to know and do it ~ there are over 120 pages in this thread - all the answers have already been given. In Fitness #2 thread the new one there are over 10 pages with all the answers given. There is no one single best way - It is a combination of eating + exercise + rest.

Your excuses are meaningless ~ I dropped 20 lbs in the last 3 weeks - I know how hard it is but if you really want it you work hard and you work diligently every day - morning lunch night - and repeat everyday without fail ~ like a avalanche - unstopppaaaBOHHH!!!

It is up to you ~ not me.

Other way : run like Aiagasa 20 miles a day on the road.

Or as much as possible everyday! Though.. 4-8 should be reasonable! * or you read through the threads for the body of knowledge within.

[Danni3]

whats a good time frame for me to gain 7~10 lbs of muscle?

going from 132lbs to 140 :3