Haha, not me! My max run is still less than most of your guys’ warmup runs
Ok. I have a friend who runs a lot. Like around 5-10 miles a day. Her diet is good, too. But she always complains that she can’t lose any more weight. She’s a wee bit thick and wants to come down to the next level. You guys know of anything that would do this? I mean she’s already running like 10 miles a day so she’s in good cardio shape, but if that’s not burning enough calories what else is there?
She has a trainer at Bally’s but I’m not placing much faith in that
So you guys have any like “super calorie burning aerobic exercise programs?”
No thermogenics, and no kettlebells. Please keep it bw and cardio-only.
Originally posted by IronFist Ok. I have a friend who runs a lot. Like around 5-10 miles a day. Her diet is good, too. But she always complains that she can’t lose any more weight. She’s a wee bit thick and wants to come down to the next level. You guys know of anything that would do this? I mean she’s already running like 10 miles a day so she’s in good cardio shape, but if that’s not burning enough calories what else is there?.
HIT is known to burn fat faster than Long-slow-distance training. Have her check out some of the articles at cbass.com and also, she needs to control the calories better. Have her figure out where the hidden calories are. Maybe she likes bread or something. There’s also all this “carbo-loading” stuff still floating around out there in the running world. Believe me with that much work that she’s putting in, she must be eating extra calories somewhere.
I dunno dude… unless she’s lying about what she’s eating or something…
Anyway, what are you referring to when you say “HIT?” Cuz whenever I hear that I think of that bullshit superslow stuff that I think is also called “HIT.” You know, where you take like 30 seconds to do each portion of an exercise and you only do 1 rep total?
I assume you’re talking about some other type of HIT.
She needs to run faster shorter distances. Running ten miles a day isn’t healthy. She is screwing up her hips and knees right now. In the future she might have a lot of joint problems.
It might not be that she can’t lose weight. Everyones’ bodies are shaped differently. Just because someone is super thin…doesn’t mean he or she is healthy. And just because someone is thick…doesn’t mean he or she is unhealthy. Not everyone can get their bodies to look like Paris Hilton’s. Tell her to accept the way she looks because it sounds to me that she’s doing all the right stuff to be healthy.
Originally posted by IronFist
[B]I dunno dude… unless she’s lying about what she’s eating or something…
Anyway, what are you referring to when you say “HIT?” Cuz whenever I hear that I think of that bullshit superslow stuff that I think is also called “HIT.” You know, where you take like 30 seconds to do each portion of an exercise and you only do 1 rep total?
I assume you’re talking about some other type of HIT. [/B]
High Intensity Interval Training. Read the article I posted; it goes into detail on why that works better for fat loss than LSD - Long Slow Distance running.
i’d suggest getting her doing some moderate strength work to help burn the excess, along with the HIIT. have her do one of scrapper’s workouts on www.trainforstrength.com. my girlfriend did scrapper1 with me, pushups were on her knees, and aside from pullups (no bar, so we did cable row), and it was one of the best workouts she’s ever had. she can probably squat more than me max, but the 144 pushups (pyramids up to 12) had her anterior deltoids hurting for around a week (she did knee pushups).
anyhoo, get her some basic muscle elsewhere in her body to burn up fat as well, and try the HIIT.
Agreed High Intensity,but just get her to do sprints(assuming she enjoys her running),****lek style,Hill or stair runs.
Medi ball work
Burpees (cause its great to see women do these)and other assorted jumping excerises. http://www.warriorforce.com/articles/warriorarticle1.html
Skipping
Basic Boxing or MT classes.
Its endless really because its about intensity.
Then there’s the Diet…
oops, yeah it’s HIIT. But I’ve heard that exercise is only 20% of a diet, anyway. Have her run in the morning on an empty stomach, no more than a banana, and no carbs after 3 pm. That will work for anybody.
Originally posted by IronFist
[B]Haha, not me! My max run is still less than most of your guys’ warmup runs
Ok. I have a friend who runs a lot…
So you guys have any like “super calorie burning aerobic exercise programs?”
No thermogenics, and no kettlebells. Please keep it bw and cardio-only. [/B]
sure…
For starters, walking instead of running will help, don’t mix sugar and complex carbs for a lean lithe torso and incorperate some callisthenics (like pilates). Do these things and pounds will melt. I also do several thousand ab excercises a day, with navel to spine concentrating on different angles at different speeds for about 200 reps each set…of each section. I am normally known for my abs and this definately works. Also spine articulation before,during and after makes a good difference. Wish her luck.
There was an article in Muscle Media 2000 that talked about the use of high intensity sprints in a short period of time. She should also cut back on the frequency of such runs and focus on gaining some muscle mass. This echoes some of the previous posts.
Someone has to tell her that the cut and deisel look of competitive bodybuilders is the result of starvation and is not good for the body (male or female). She can also bring about menopause sooner (fat stores estrogen: I read that somewhere).
sure…
For starters, walking instead of running will help, [/b]
How do you figure?
I also do several thousand ab excercises a day, with navel to spine concentrating on different angles at different speeds for about 200 reps each set…of each section. I am normally known for my abs and this definately works.
I guarantee you that if you have ripped abs it is not because of your “thousand” ab exercises that you do each day. Muscle definition comes from low body fat and big enough muscles to see. Doing high reps, especially reps into the thousands, does absolutely nothing to make a muscle bigger and absolutely nothing to change the way a muscle looks. It also doesn’t burn enough fat to even bother with.
Once again, muscle definition is a result of low body fat. Look at the pics I posted. My abs are definately ripped and I haven’t done an ab exercise in years (other than heavy benching, squatting, and deadlifting). This proves that you can have ripped abs without doing ab exercises, much less thousands of reps of them.
Originally posted by mickey Someone has to tell her that the cut and deisel look of competitive bodybuilders is the result of starvation and is not good for the body (male or female). She can also bring about menopause sooner (fat stores estrogen: I read that somewhere).
Thanks mickey. She doesn’t want to be shredded like a bodybuilder or anything, tho. Just a little less “thick.”
I am not getting into a big discussion on the validity of what I posted. I did that class too and am well aware of what you’re saying. Proof is in the pudding and whatever ********..20+YRS OF FITNESS INDUTSRY EXP…12ISH MA…HIGHEST NATIONAL MARKS IN SCIENCE..OLYMPIC QUALIFIING RUNNER FATHER..EX-MODEL AND TO BE QUITE HONEST…DON’T GIVE A PERSONAL **** IF SHE ISNT HAPPY WITH HER BODY OR EVER IS!
