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Bunnie
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I am being a bit of a thread whore here...sorry!
Thought it was best to just do a separate one.
I went to the gym last night, and I have pulled something in my back. Not sure exactly how, but my guess is the rowing machine. I was pushing myself a lot harder than normal.
Anywhoo, Do you think i just have today off and not go, or do you think it will do me good? I'd like to go, as I'm going away tomorrow morning, and therefore won't be able to go again until Monday, and Im getting quite into it.
Also, I have been eating ok, but excersing loads but dont feel any slimmer in the slightest, due to which I am feeling quite hard done by! Why is this? and will I notice something soon?
Thought it was best to just do a separate one.
I went to the gym last night, and I have pulled something in my back. Not sure exactly how, but my guess is the rowing machine. I was pushing myself a lot harder than normal.
Anywhoo, Do you think i just have today off and not go, or do you think it will do me good? I'd like to go, as I'm going away tomorrow morning, and therefore won't be able to go again until Monday, and Im getting quite into it.
Also, I have been eating ok, but excersing loads but dont feel any slimmer in the slightest, due to which I am feeling quite hard done by! Why is this? and will I notice something soon?
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Yes you will notice something soon, however, what might happen is you won't ever get smaller, you'll just change fat to muscle and look better.
Bunny you should have rest days anyway. Thats the only way you recover between excersise. Dont risk another strain, take a rest.
Dont overdo excersise either. People think the more you do the more you lose. If your burning to many calories there most likly coming from muscle rather than fat.
you don't lose weight just by changing what you eat, you need to exercise to burn off the calories.
you're basically saying you can lose weight by sitting on your arse and eating healthy. rubbish.
Cutting your calories below maintiance will shed bodyfat, not excersise.
I thought you were a student at Loughborough, so I hope you worded that in the wrong way
like i said, evidence please.
and learn to spell. :thumb:
doesn't mean she studies sports.
I thought I read somewhere in the past that she did, maybe i'm wrong...
so yes, you can sit on your arse doing sweet F all and still lose weight.
If you exercise with only cardio, you'll lose muscle as well as lbs.
do some weights combined with a clean diet and you'll improve muscles, increase speed of fat loss and feel better.
oh, you want proof? go read pretty much most threads in the beginner section of www.menshealth.co.uk/talk
How about common sense? The metabolism burns calories, excersise helps. I'm also living prove, I was out 3 weeks with a bad back and didn't do any excersise at all, I stuck with my low calorie diet as the metabolism sheds fat.
No she doesn't. She's an engineer. She does sports as extra curricular.
As an example, a 2500cal diet with cardio will burn fat. A 2000cal diet without cardio will burn fat.
Cardio can be benefical if you want to eat slightly more. Low intensity cardio plays its part in using oxygen to metabolize fat, but nothing much.
Knew it was one of the 2
Putting it crudely. I never got thinner by excercising, I shed fat as quickly as I built up muscle though.
ETA: In fact, before long I went up a size