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If it is all about losing weight, then CV CV CV and more CV.
Minimum 4 sessions of 40 minutes a week, but mix it up. Intervals are brilliant because the HR stays higher for longer, so rather than plodding 4 miles, do a sprint session in your local park or up and down your local hill.
Swimming is fine, but really need to put shed loads of effort in to turn it into and effective workout - do not be an old grannie thinking that you have exercised because you have done 20 lengths - if you are not breathing hard, it is not any good for want you want to achieve. Get out of the pool (climb, no steps) at each end and do some exercises (heaving yourself in and out is really good exercise and less embarrassing than press ups).
Exercise in the morning if you can, if not, just before a meal time. Your metabolism will be raised and continue to burn extra Cals during the day and exercise will suppress your appetite before a meal so you take fewer calories into the system.
On days off do NOT take the day off! Active rest is important. Don't sit in front of TV, go for a walk or a really bimbly cycle ride just for the sake of it.
Keep a real diary of what you eat.
Put a weight chart on the fridge of where you want to be and when - mark on it the exercise sessions you have done each week. Make yourself a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time) goal rather than a wishy washy wanna be skinnier goal. You want to be x kg, xx" waist (both of which you have been before so can again) by daymthyr, and you are going to get there in small stages by dropping 1-2 lb a week over the next x mths.
Get a poster of the Reebok belly (belly's gonna get ya) and put it on the fridge.
Alternatively become a roadie and get paranoid about weight and feel guilty if you did not train for 3 hrs every day last week!
Minimum 4 sessions of 40 minutes a week, but mix it up. Intervals are brilliant because the HR stays higher for longer, so rather than plodding 4 miles, do a sprint session in your local park or up and down your local hill.
Swimming is fine, but really need to put shed loads of effort in to turn it into and effective workout - do not be an old grannie thinking that you have exercised because you have done 20 lengths - if you are not breathing hard, it is not any good for want you want to achieve. Get out of the pool (climb, no steps) at each end and do some exercises (heaving yourself in and out is really good exercise and less embarrassing than press ups).
Exercise in the morning if you can, if not, just before a meal time. Your metabolism will be raised and continue to burn extra Cals during the day and exercise will suppress your appetite before a meal so you take fewer calories into the system.
On days off do NOT take the day off! Active rest is important. Don't sit in front of TV, go for a walk or a really bimbly cycle ride just for the sake of it.
Keep a real diary of what you eat.
Put a weight chart on the fridge of where you want to be and when - mark on it the exercise sessions you have done each week. Make yourself a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time) goal rather than a wishy washy wanna be skinnier goal. You want to be x kg, xx" waist (both of which you have been before so can again) by daymthyr, and you are going to get there in small stages by dropping 1-2 lb a week over the next x mths.
Get a poster of the Reebok belly (belly's gonna get ya) and put it on the fridge.
Alternatively become a roadie and get paranoid about weight and feel guilty if you did not train for 3 hrs every day last week!