Overall weight loss

lyrical84 · Post by **lyrical84** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:08 pm

I need a workout plan that i can reduce fat tremendously and tone up. Personal trainers these days cost an arm and a leg, and all i really need to know is what machines to use. i am 5'6 and i weigh 260 pounds. i am supposed to be 163 pounds. that is 100 pounds i need to lose.

i would need to work out sunday, monday, wed, thurs. Please help

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:40 pm

food - "read before posting..." in diet section

training - search "your body is a barbell' by alwyn cosgrove

machines are no good

lyrical84 · Post by **lyrical84** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:58 pm

Thank you swan! I appreciate your response. I went and read that article. He sounds like he knows alot. What he said does make sense. If i can not lift own bodyweight why am i trying to use a machine or a dumbbell.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:49 pm

wha eercises can;t you do? it doesn't matter if we can't do exactly what it says, it's just an outline

vamp · Post by **vamp** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:46 am

lyrical who said you need to be 163 lbs? throw out your scale girl!, use a tape measure and a camera (front, side and back shots in your bathing suit) You will know more about your progress from this than a number on a scale which is simply the amount of force your body exerts with gravity upon a springy device.

If you are refering to your height weight chart then throw it out! THESE ARE GARBAGE!!! Worth less than the paper they are printed on, poor trees to be used to print such trash as height weight charts, its equivelant to hate posters against races and religions.... not worth being printed! The number of people that strive to hit that specific number or else they are too fat or too skinny, blah, blah, blah. Trash Trash Trash!............

Sorry to rant......

Honestly lyrical, use the photo's and tape measure, if you go by the scale you'll never be happy, and its a very bad, bad method of measurement. The scale cannot read the difference in a week if you lose 1 lb of fat and gain 1 lb of muscle, your weight remains the same. However, for comparison sake, the size of your thumb would be a lb of muscle and the size of your whole hand would be a lb of fat. Tape measures and pictures will show this, the scale won't.

So if your goal is to be frustrated and to fail then use the scale.

If your goal is to be happy with yourself and your acheivements in how much better you feel and look than use a tape measure and pictures.

Cheers

vamp · Post by **vamp** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:49 am

Wow, sorry, I did rant on that one....

cheers

brianDAhawaiian · Post by **brianDAhawaiian** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:30 pm

It was an informative and uplifting rant, so its all good, I wanna go lift now

redi2lose7 · Post by **redi2lose7** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:52 am

vamp wrote:lyrical who said you need to be 163 lbs? throw out your scale girl!, use a tape measure and a camera (front, side and back shots in your bathing suit) You will know more about your progress from this than a number on a scale which is simply the amount of force your body exerts with gravity upon a springy device.

If you are refering to your height weight chart then throw it out! THESE ARE GARBAGE!!! Worth less than the paper they are printed on, poor trees to be used to print such trash as height weight charts, its equivelant to hate posters against races and religions.... not worth being printed! The number of people that strive to hit that specific number or else they are too fat or too skinny, blah, blah, blah. Trash Trash Trash!............

Sorry to rant......

Honestly lyrical, use the photo's and tape measure, if you go by the scale you'll never be happy, and its a very bad, bad method of measurement. The scale cannot read the difference in a week if you lose 1 lb of fat and gain 1 lb of muscle, your weight remains the same. However, for comparison sake, the size of your thumb would be a lb of muscle and the size of your whole hand would be a lb of fat. Tape measures and pictures will show this, the scale won't.

So if your goal is to be frustrated and to fail then use the scale.

If your goal is to be happy with yourself and your acheivements in how much better you feel and look than use a tape measure and pictures.

Cheers

It's a very well put rant ^^