Losing that beer belly in time for Ibiza
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Hally
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Lean meat, fish and eggs.
Yep. Use it on many of my female clients, followed by some more intense conditioning work. Remember, if you start putting on a bit of muscle, it is fully reversible. Just decrease your effort in your workouts and eat less carbs/protein (that's a very short summary). Also, being a woman, it is very very hard to put on muscle. Even men genetically gifted with high testosterone levels find it difficult to put on decent muscle.
For women I would recommend 2 x weekly resistance sessions of some sort (kettlebells, barbells, dumbells, body weight) combined with circuits, intervals or some sort of exercise that gets you so out of breath while you are working out that you cannot maintain a conversation with your training partner. Oh and my number one tip.....
...............YOUR NUTRITION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. Check the posts further down my blog.
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Boardgrrrrl
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Interesting stuff Londoner - will have a read of your websites over the next few days
I've got a question for you in the meantime though - the day after I train, I get so hungry especially if it was an intense work out. How can I combat the urge to stuff my face?
I generally eat low carbohydrate on non-workout days (under 30g a day). I just ensure I eat lots of green fibrous veg (brocolli, green beans, salads etc.) with some protein (fish, meat or eggs) and some good healthy fats (avocado, olive oil, home made mayo, fats on my meat, fish etc).
The hunger pangs generally occur on a low carb/high protein diet, or a diet with lots of simple carbs. I find a higher proportion of healthy fats and moderate amounts of protein with low carb maintains my appetite for a lot longer during the day, and energy levels are better sustained. In fact, the only time I eat carbs is before my kettlebell workouts.
The hunger pangs generally occur on a low carb/high protein diet, or a diet with lots of simple carbs. I find a higher proportion of healthy fats and moderate amounts of protein with low carb maintains my appetite for a lot longer during the day, and energy levels are better sustained. In fact, the only time I eat carbs is before my kettlebell workouts.
It seems that I've managed to get from 86 kg to 77 kg in 30 days. So that would be 9 kg in total. Seems that I'll set my goal to 72 kg so 5 kg to go. It's 12 days till Ibiza so basically having myself in 75 kg till I get there is realistic, hopefully less.
Having a low-carb-diet seems to be effective as hell. I don't really feel hungry and I don't feel lack of energy or lazy or anything even though I do cycling about 8 hours per week now. Sure, the cycling is a bit hard as carb levels are low but after I get my goal weight, I can start doing some training, propably with Zone-diet.
Having a low-carb-diet seems to be effective as hell. I don't really feel hungry and I don't feel lack of energy or lazy or anything even though I do cycling about 8 hours per week now. Sure, the cycling is a bit hard as carb levels are low but after I get my goal weight, I can start doing some training, propably with Zone-diet.
That's not entirely true as I do competetive cycling, not just riding for fun. When I get to my goal weight, what ever that will be, I'll start to train quite hard and then I'll need the fast energy, ie carbs, to do that. My next years goal is to take part in duathlon races and hopely do well or even win some. Zone is ideal for that, low carb isn't.
Experience.
WeLuvIbiza
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Hmmm.
I usually go for my run (usually on the treadmill) approx 07:00, having last eaten approx 19:00 -> 20:00 the previous day. At the moment I am only running 4.5km and burn 400 ish calories, consuming <= 2,000 calories per day.
Should I have anything before running, banana or something? I thought by not having anything I would be potentially getting rid of fat?
Hally
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If your goal is to lose weight then as a general rule calories down and exercise up is the way to go. You need to think about pre and post exercise nutrition if you are training more seriously. Pre to maximise performance, post to maximise recovery and adaptation.
On a separate note I went to see a friend who is seriously ill yesterday. I came home and ate a family sized bag of chicken nuggets, 3 bags of chocolate fingers and 2 bags of crisps. Not good.
On a separate note I went to see a friend who is seriously ill yesterday. I came home and ate a family sized bag of chicken nuggets, 3 bags of chocolate fingers and 2 bags of crisps. Not good.
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I know that if one wants to lose weight while training hard, the best and easiest way is to eat properly (with carbs) before exercise and after the excercise one should eat no carbs (or very little) at all but proteins and limited amount of fat. This will force the body to use body fat as there is no other source of energy available. You would lose weight but getting sleep is usually a problem (that I have solved with a one of two vodka shots).
Having a snack before running 5 km or so is propably not mendatory. Burning 400 kcal is very little and body should have that much energy easily stored. I rode my bike last time in thursday and kcal consumption according to my trusty heart beat monitor was 1900 kcal so basically that would mean that the total consumption that day was about 4000 kcal.
What comes to fat burning in training, it works if the work load is low enough and that would mean very long endurance training. The fat burning is not fast enough if the training is hard. Having a low intensity long duration training is those who want to lose weight or get out of the house but not for those who want to perform in competetive level.
Having a snack before running 5 km or so is propably not mendatory. Burning 400 kcal is very little and body should have that much energy easily stored. I rode my bike last time in thursday and kcal consumption according to my trusty heart beat monitor was 1900 kcal so basically that would mean that the total consumption that day was about 4000 kcal.
What comes to fat burning in training, it works if the work load is low enough and that would mean very long endurance training. The fat burning is not fast enough if the training is hard. Having a low intensity long duration training is those who want to lose weight or get out of the house but not for those who want to perform in competetive level.
Hally
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I have to slightly disagree with the last point. The idea of burning fat more effectively with low intensity exercise is not correct. High intensity exercise does not using fat as an energy whilst the exercise is being undertaken but there is a very significant carry over. The body uses increased calories for a significant period after intense exercise and the over all consumption of calories, and eventual fat reduction, is higher than that of the equilivant low level exercise.