Burning Fat
 

best way to burn fat?

i hate running, and would much rather swim. but i hear swimming is NOT the best way to burn fat. What works for Dwellars?

BBQ.

These three things in tandem work FANTASTICALLY:
Not eating due to:
1). Anxiety.
2). Living in a house with a disgusting kitchen that had I cleaned it would have led to World War 3.
3).Not having any cash for anything other than the absolute necessities.

Mountain biking and fencing are working for me. It also seems like if you do your eating right after working out your metabolism stays high so you keep burning fuel/fat. Long periods of rigorous activity seem best so it has to be something you enjoy. Maybe you could get your heart rate up on the treadmill for 20-30 minutes and then hit the pool?

(and stress lots and lots of stress)

Stress is the truth and a diet of mostly just cigarettes and coffee. I dropped almost 20 pounds in one month doing that.

[High intensity] Interval training. This can be any cardio activity, swimming, jumping jacks, biking, even walking if the hill is steep/stairs are steep enough.

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Also, working out hungry will burn fat instead of the carbs you recently ate.

Jinx, I've been doing that for about a month now. The first 15 minutes I do a brisk walk while doing various arm exercises with weights. Then I alternate brisk walks and speed walks with jogs and sprints for a half hour (in one minute intervals each). Then I cool down by starting with a very fast speed walk and gradually moving to a slow walk for 15 minutes. I have lost one pound in all that time. Now I'm sure I've gained some muscle mass that accounts for that since I was pretty much a total sloth for the last 6 months, and my shape has changed a bit, but so far I haven't seen much reduction in my fat deposits (butt and thighs), which is all I'm trying to do at this point - I only weigh 110 lbs. I haven't changed my diet a lot because I have always eaten healthily and moderately. So, I'm kinda disappointed with the results. I will keep on keeping on, even though.

Have you had a target heart rate assessment done by someone who knows what they're doing, to determine your zones and how long you should be in them?
I did, but don't follow it. I was 111.2 yesterday, down from 118 about a month ago.

I don't know. My body seems like and hang onto its BMI rating of 25 no matter what.
damn thyroid

No Jinx, but I did figure it out by going on line. Not that it is useful to me - I suck at monitoring my heart rate while I exercise. I mostly just judge the intensity by my breathing. I have recently increased the speed of my jog/runs from 4 and 4.5 to 5 and 5.5 and sometimes 6, because I noticed my endurance improved. I'm pretty jealous of your 7lb weight loss! I'm figuring that being middle aged (48) and post menopausal is working against me.

p90X and a healthy diet

wtf

me and my speed typing. At least my fingers are skinny

I manage it through diet, combined with short, intense bursts of wrestling and brute strength. But the diet did more than the muscle usage, for sure.

This only works with the OMGWTFBBQ.

If you don't want to monitor your heart-rate, then I'd also recommend:

spin class or riding up hills (even undulating ones)
squash
walking up hills

getting my thyroid issue fixed seems to be doing it for me...10lbs in 2months!
small amount of exercise, definitely not dieting, lol.

I suck at monitoring mine too, was talked into the stress test thing by my trainer. I do really long intervals too, so I'm definitely not going high enough with the heart rate (I'm supposed to be at 180 something while I'm up there, fuck that) - I'm also not training for a marathon, just trying to get some exercise while watching Law & Order. I walk uphill on treadmill, set as uphill as it will go (15); 3.9 for 4 minutes then 4.2 for 6 minutes, for an hour. About twice a week I do an extra 15-30 minutes at a steady 4.
The machine says I burn about 850 calories an hour but I don't set my age/weight so it's actually a little less.


Hey morty, that's awesome!

What was wrong with your thyroid? And how did you know to have it checked?

I'm going to start adding inclines to my workouts again - I was doing it when I first started but it was really tough to keep up. Now I may be better able to handle it. I wish I could watch TV at the same time, but we have At&t u-verse now and the treadmill interferes with the signal. So I have to make do with music - if it wasn't for the intervals I don't think I could keep it up - its mind numbing..

I have to have the right music, or i feel like I'm lagging. I like to be able to adjust my stride to the timing of the song.

I have a playlist on my ipod just for the treadmill

I listen to the radio...there's no way I could listen to the same play-list over and over again.

Are you talking about multiple stations, Pico? Because I'd be willing to bet most radio stations have a shorter playlist than LJ's ipod.

Pandora via my blackberry is good too.... I have a station called Cake radio....i get a lot of Cake, Beck, RHCP, Johnny Cash, and Bass heavy bands.

Dude you stole my station.

Fewer hours staring at monitor (read cellar) and tending to chores in your garden.

tallow candles

I mix it up between two local stations, but you're right they do repeat a lot of songs. However, I never really know whats coming next. I thinks its about time I get myself an ipod. I tried looking for a shelf system a while back and its gotten to the point where some of them don't even play Cd's anymore - or if they do, just one. But they do have ipod ports. The times have really changed since I bought my JVC system in '98.

If you don't want to know what's coming next, just use the shuffle function. I would never want to listen to my music in order anyway, I like being surprised by stuff I haven't heard in ages.

Honestly, where's PillowLover when you need him?

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I have lost 25 and a half pound since January having gained an obscene amount of fat after (FUCK) cancer & chemo and compensating with cake & chocolate & ice cream etc.

Weightwatchers is the basis on 19 points then walking treadmill x4 weekly 4.4-6.0 over twelve mins with incline, then 'Kilimanjaro' on recline bike again over ten - twelve mins then a variety of weights machines (not sure of their names!). The one working hamstrings, then glutes, then fixed row, then shoulder lifts, all with increasing by small amounts of weight weekly.

I'm having a bionic knee fitted in September (Osteo-Arthritis) so can't do much which involves weightbearing but am very keen to strengthen the muscles involved in post-op progress. Also swimming. LOVE IT especially now I have a waterproof MP3 (The Dolphin) and I just roll out the lengths to music.

Anybody have any extra suggestions, oh I'm 63 now and bursting with life, energy, smugness!!

Hooorah! For smugness!:D