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02-08-2004, 12:29 PM #1Registered User
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weight watchers....
My wife and i recently started weight watchers. We like the diet, feel it is really a balanced diet that mostly teaches you portion control, and eating a balanced diet. The thing is we are also wanting to lift weights. We actually enjoy that part of the day, it feels good to lift. Im 5'11 250 pound man. i was just wondering what you all thought about this diet and if the weight lifting will drastically slow down the weight loss.. if the diet will drasticly slow down the the muscle gain? can i even gain muscle on weight watchers? so far my weight loss has been very staggerd.. first week i lost 6 1/2 pounds second week nothing ,third week 5 pounds, fourth nothing. any help or opinons on this would be great thanks.
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02-08-2004, 12:38 PM #2Rebel without a clue ELITE MEMBER
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02-08-2004, 01:13 PM #3Super Hero in Training
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Welcome to IM!
WW is primarily for weigjht reduction. You can lift, and that is good. You won't add alot of muscle, but the muscle you do build will also help burn more calories. You have heard that muscle at rest burns more cals than fat?
What are your workouts looking like?
days / split? reps, etc.Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results
Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem
THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
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02-08-2004, 01:57 PM #4I see YOU!! ELITE MEMBER
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Lifting should speed up your metabo more. The added muscle will help you burn more efficantly. My sister is on weight watchers and I keep telling her to start lifting, that it will help her in her fat loss, but just to have her loosing her added weight makes me happy. So i do not push the issue with her!
Congrats on taking the steps forward to improve your health and well being!"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
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my goals are to first to loose weight, second to tone up. maybe in the long run i would like to gain muscle and look like the guys on the cover of mens fitness. but at 250 pounds right now i would be pretty dang happy to get rid of my man boobs and hanging gut. =) thanks for all the replys.
mondays: twenty min cardio abs. crunches and leg lifts
tuesday: legs and shoulders twenty min cardio
wednesday: chest back arms twenty min cardio
thursday off
friday abs
saturday: legs and shulders
sunday:checst arms back
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02-08-2004, 02:37 PM #6Super Hero in Training
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hey dune-
you're doing leg exercises on Monday, then legs on Tuesday?
Chest the day after delts?
Too much for one day: (wednesday)
Personally, my slpit is:
chest / bis
legs
off
Delts / tris
back
off
repeat
Once per week.
Or, if want to do twice per week:
day 1: chest, delts, tris
day 2: Back, legs, bis
off
repeat day 1
repeat day 2
off
off
As a newbie, I'd kleep your working sets to three, and reps in the 8 - 10 rep range. (if can't do 8 reps, too heavy, if do more than 10, too light.Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results
Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem
THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
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02-08-2004, 08:00 PM #7Registered User
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Well the exercises im doing and the order im doing them are from the book body sculpting bibble for men. i liked the workouts but not the food.. i like to eat. and ocording to that book...food isnt to be enjoyed.. yay right... i dint get to 250 pounds cuz food is gross. =)
the exercises are split up so your doing opposets. bicept tri cept chest back, thighs hamstrings, calves shoulders. all the exercises are compoud super sets as well. we are starting at doinga bout 12 reps and only two sets. it will be that way for two weeks when the reps goes down and the sets go up. according to the book its so your body don't get use to the same thing.
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