Is there a Such Thing as too much Cardio for a Obese person?

[HoldDaMayo]

Originally posted by Streetdisciple
Trail, I am 27 years old, 6'2", and 205lbs. 4 years ago I weighed about 300lbs. I started lifting and doing cardio. When I started lifting, I could hardly bench 135. I was weak. I lost over a hundred pounds of fat, and put on muscle at the same time. I can now rep out hundred pound dumbbells 8x, squat about 400lbs, and run 5miles. Not huge, not superstrong, but I've come a long way. All without a personal trainer, or workout partner. The number one thing is that you must stick with it for the long term. DON'T GIVE UP! I agree that doing too much cardio in a day could very well be doing more harm than good. A good hour's probably enough, but you have got to lift weights, especially legs and back. But keep with the cardio.

Also, you will start to LEARN YOUR BODY, and see what works and doesn't work, how your feel, etc. Pay EXTREME ATTENTION to that, as someone's advice might not work the same for you.

Stick with it, and track your progress. You just might be able to write a book or something later on.... or at the very least, it's good to look back at and see how far you've come from. Your past successes. It can help motivate you at times.

May The Lord be with you and help you out, protecting you all the way.

Good Read... very inspiring!

 

[PreMier]

Wow... Trailrix. I find your story very inspirational, and I look forward to your progress.

 

[once was fat]

Hey trailrix. I have something that may keep you motivated. This helped me out alot while I was loosing weight. First you can set a mini goal. My mini goal would to be to get to a weight where you could go buy an everday scale. The since of accomplishment walking into a store and picking out wich one you are going to buy will be like winning the stanley cup. This is where a scale helped me. Some may not agree but it was my everday motivational item when I sometimes wasnt feeling all that great.

I made it a point to weigh myself twice a day. Yeh it sounds obsessive but here is how it helped. I knew that after having a good cardio workout my weight would temporary drop from water loss. I always weighed myself after every workout. Why becuase I knew most of the time I was going to weigh in lighter. I understood that if I weighed myself three hours after that I would go back to normal weight. I always told myself while I was on the scale while looking at the 3 or 4 pounds that I lost because of a goodworkout enabled my mind to say see I can be done. Then I always weighed myself in the morning right away becuse again I knew from resting that I would be lighter in weight. This didnt happen every time but you get the concept. It was amazing when I went back to the scale and the weight stayed off for good and it wasnt just water loss.

I hope this helps as it helped for me on losing 60 pounds in four months. Keep up the good work and like every one said we are all here for you. Even if its just to chat were here.

 

[GodLift]

60 pounds in 4 months doesnt really seem healthy... mab i'm wrong?

 

[Rixmon]

I found a awesome as heck link about obesity, that came from what prince posted!

http://www.exrx.net/FatLoss/ExTherapy.html

It tells me Exactly the variation of weight loss!

And tommarrow I go in for a weigh in to see how much I have lost since 578

 

[CowPimp]

Originally posted by GodLift
60 pounds in 4 months doesnt really seem healthy... mab i'm wrong?

Damn, I hope not. I decided one day that I wanted to lose weight as well, when I was 15. I weighed 210, and I wasn't very strong. I could only bench about 180 at that time.

I started exercising about 2 hours per day. All I had were some 15 pound dumbells, so I ran, did pushups, squats without weight, whatever exercises I could do with my limited resources. I also started eating healthier. I still ate about 2000 calories a day, but the calories consisted of more nutrients as opposed to worthless calories like that in junk food.

My results were ridiculous. I'm not sure how I achieved it, but I lost 40 pounds in 3 weeks. I didn't really lose any muscle either. I don't really think I gained too much, but I definitely didn't get any weaker.

 

[BabsieGirl]

Originally posted by trailrix
tommarrow I go in for a weigh in to see how much I have lost since 578

I bet you're going to shock the panties off those people! Be sure to let us know how things go and GOOD LUCK!

 

[ponyboy]

Good luck man! I'm sure you're going to see positive results!