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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2014 12:15:54 GMT -5
Welcome to your new ProBoards forum! Here at Healthy Living Forever, you can post about anything that has to do with health, and your appearance. We will eventually have threads from weight loss, weight gain, acne, exercise, or whatever, but only things that will do with health and beauty. Any negative comments about anyone's race, religion, color or anything else will get the poster banned from this site. Now in a site like this race and color will always come up, because there are health problems that one's culture is more predominate to get, and when those issues are brought up they will be looked upon as just historical data. If you need any assistance in the forum, our staff is available to assist you seven days a week. Please visit our Support Forum at support.proboards.com. |
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Post by mainstreem2k on Aug 5, 2014 1:09:46 GMT -5
How To Got Back In Shape
Before starting to work out I made sure to get a full physical from my doctor and a letter stating it is ok for you to do physical activity. Wasn't sure if I was going to go back to the gym yet or not. I've wanted to check out some of these home workouts for a while now, and I have some workout equipment I haven't used in years. Many gym and aerobic centers will require this letter before letting you start working out their.
I started and recommend that you if its been a while since you worked out to start off slow and gradually build up your workout to harder levels.
It is generally recommended to start off on a treadmill and the lifecycle for the first week or 2. This is to wake the muscles up and to slowly get you prepared for a harder workout. I just used my treadmill.
You will generally want to find a speed on the treadmill that is a pace you can keep up with little discomfort and do it for 20 minutes. After this take a 5 minute break, stretch a little and have a drink of water, then go back and increase the speed just a bit then do another 20.
Remember that pushing yourself too far is taking a gamble that you may not be able to live with. In a casino you can put everything you have on the roulette table and maybe you win and maybe you lose, but in the gym if you push too hard you can die, so take things slowly.
Many people make the mistake of getting back into an exercise program and going all gung ho an trying to get back in shape in just one hour, well let me tell you this will not work. The only thing this will do is make you very sore the next day and you will not be able to workout that day, and it will make you lose interest fast in the gym. Discomfort in ok pain is not.
Depending on how long it has been since you last worked out, I recommend working out 4 or 5 days a week. This may seem like a lot but if you were trying to win a poker tournament you would go to a casino or an online casino and poker room to practice almost every day right? So you will have to do the same with the gym.
Working out 5 days a week does not necessarily mean you have to go to the gym every day. I recommend the gym 3 times a week and the other day or 2 you can just go for a long fast paced walk around your neighborhood. Try to vary the things you do so that you do not work out the same parts of your body 2 days in a row.
Most professionals will tell you that if you work out your arms and chest on a Monday do not exercise those muscles again for at least 48 hours. This is to give the muscles time to heal and grow. It is this straining and resting of the muscle that makes it grow not just the working it out. If all you did every day was work the same muscle group in a few days the muscle would be more likely to tear in a painful experience and the only thing you will be able to do for several months will be playing in an online casino from your laptop in bed.
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2014 1:37:55 GMT -5
Thank you for my new member and the great post. It will be interesting seeing how this forum grows and how many people we can chat with about different things that have to deal with our health, beauty, and self improvement.  Trying to make everyone on the planet healthier one person at a time |
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Post by Carol on Aug 5, 2014 8:19:51 GMT -5
For me working out did help me with my weight loss, but I think for me I lost more weight because I changed my eating habits.
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2014 9:40:20 GMT -5
Thank you to Carol for the guest post. But I will say this I'm glad that she didn't say she went on a diet, but she said she changed her eating habits, because diets are temporary until you get to that goal your looking for, but if you change your eating habits you can make it into a lifestyle change where if your trying t lose 5 pounds or 150 pounds you'll never have to worry about it coming back. That also includes people who want to gain weight if you want to gain 5 to 100 pounds, if you totally change what you eat and how much you eat you can gain or lose the weight you want to. Depending on who you are, and if you want to go on a "diet" or not no one diet is for everyone, so if you try a diet and it doesn't work for you don't get discourage just try something else. In the future we will discuss body types and different "diets" and healthy eating habits that will change your life no matter what. Trying to make everyone on the planet healthier one person at a time |
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Post by cbane776 on Aug 5, 2014 14:15:43 GMT -5
I'm a 31 year old woman who has always been overweight and have been on many diets over the years and want to know if you have any suggestions that I haven't heard before or any new ideas to lose weight.
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