Weight training kinds of exercise will put on muscle mass, this is true. But what you need to be doing with a weight-loss program is some form of aerobic exercise that ups your basal metabolic rate, i.e. the rate at which your body burns calories, as well as toning exercises to unstretch the bits of you that don't have as much flab to hold in as they did.
Again, I like THD's program - it's a ladder, and you start on the first rung, which is basically 2 stretches, 3 crunches, 4 leg lifts, 2 cheats' pressups and running on the spot for 120 double steps, interspersed with 7 jumping jacks. Each rung adds a little more, and the idea is that you go up rungs when you feel that the rung you're on is easy enough that you're up for it.
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Date: 2002-09-30 07:36 am (UTC)Weight training kinds of exercise will put on muscle mass, this is true. But what you need to be doing with a weight-loss program is some form of aerobic exercise that ups your basal metabolic rate, i.e. the rate at which your body burns calories, as well as toning exercises to unstretch the bits of you that don't have as much flab to hold in as they did.
Again, I like THD's program - it's a ladder, and you start on the first rung, which is basically 2 stretches, 3 crunches, 4 leg lifts, 2 cheats' pressups and running on the spot for 120 double steps, interspersed with 7 jumping jacks. Each rung adds a little more, and the idea is that you go up rungs when you feel that the rung you're on is easy enough that you're up for it.