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Beginner Fitness programme?
I have just joined a gym but the instructors aren’t particularly helpful and I was hoping there may be someone out there who could give me some sound advice on designing a fitness / weightloss training programme to do at the gym. It is a fully equipt gym with all the cv and strength training equiptment.
I am very unfit and the moment and due to hip surgery have put on 4 stone. Because of the surgery I am not allowed to participate in ANY ‘impact’ exercise like running.
My 3 objectives are… weight loss, tone up and get fitter..
Anyone have any sensible advice on what is a good programme to build on????
I’m assuming that you are new to exercise, and that the weight increase is your motivation in going to the gym. However, if you only put on the weight when you had surgery then it suggests to me that you were in a state of equilibrium beforehand (calories in = calories out), not that that necessarily means you were healthy though!
Your priorities should be in two stages; weight loss first, and toning up second. Your fitness will improve during the process.
First things first, you need to think about what is going in. Most people (myself included) overlook this at the start of a gym programme. There is a tendancy to feel hungry after starting a gym workout for the first time so be alert for it and don’t order the take-out pizza when you get home (this was my failing). There is a lot of advice out there about what to eat, but you are asking about the ‘calories out’ side of the equation so we’ll concentrate on that.
You need to focus on cardiovascular exercise at the moment, so ignore all the weight kit for the next few months. What you need to do is use equipment that will get your heart rate up, to the point where holding a conversation with someone next to you would be difficult (but not impossible). Most modern CV machines have handgrips and/or a wireless receiver for picking-up your HR, which will make spotting the relevant machines easier if you don’t know which does what.
The other very important consideration is to not damage your hip whilst you recover from the surgery. I would be very conservative given your history and stop if you have any level of pain in the affected area.
I think you can use the treadmill, but keep the speed well down (i.e. walking only) so as to keep both feet in contact with the ‘floor’ all the time. Experiment with the gradient, increasing it to as much as you can without any discomfort as this will burn more calories, which is what you need to be doing.
The cycle machines should be OK as your upper body will be supported, though the rotational movement of the pedals has some potential for damaging your hip, so be careful. On that, set the level as high as you can to get your HR up, whilst pedalling at around 70-90 rpm. Most bikes will have displays giving you all that info.
Avoid any cross trainers/stairclimbers as you will be ‘loading’ your hip quite high with both of those machines.
I use a rowing machine and find it a good all-round exercise, and one with great potential for getting the HR up. However I am not sure how you will find it with a dodgy hip. Try it, but be careful.
I have used a hand bike in the past. Basically a cycle machine, but you pedal with your hands. That would be perfect if your gym has one as your hip won’t be subject to any strain.
Probably the best exercise for the moment is swimming if that is an option, as the water will support your weight and not overload your hip (though you’ll need to watch out for the stroke you use).
Time-wise, no more than three times a week and whilst you get used to the gym, don’t go too crazy – say half an hour tops for the first couple of weeks.
Avoid any instructor led aerobic classes on offer until your hip is better, as pretty much all of them have potential to be high-impact, and you could find yourself feeling too self conscious to stop if in pain in a class full of other people. That said Yoga has been suggested already, and is something I do myself. I use it to complement other things I do and not to replace CV exercise, as in the calorie burning stakes it does not score highly. It could help speed recovery of the hip though, but you should probably discuss that with your doctor first, or at the very least the Yoga instructor lest you make it worse.
When you’re exercising, as the weight comes down, the fitness will also pick up. Toning is really a longer term goal as I am afraid that the OP is right in saying that you can’t see a six pack under a layer of fat. You should notice your clothes getting baggier though! Your doctor will no doubt tell you that in getting your weight down, you’ll put less strain on your hip, and that should help with the recovery.
Don’t expect instant results. It’s a marathon not a sprint, and those 4 stone will take a while to shift. Aim to lose 1kg/2lb per week, as any more than that is generally considered unwise. That said I did have a shock one week (week three I think it was) when my weight fell by 5kg/11lb. It only ever happened the once though.
What’s possible? Well I’m 38, and four years ago I was 3st overweight. In June 2004 I could not run any more than 2mins at 9km/h. In July 2005 I was a healthy weight and completed a half marathon in 2hr20. Since then have run in 34 other races, most recently the same half marathon last weekend which I did in 1hr55. Granted, I didn’t have the hip problem you have. In my case it was a knee joint instead.
A last hint, keep a note of what you do at the gym. I find it helps with motivation in looking back and remembering how hard it was, when now that is little more than a warm up!
Hope I’ve helped, and good luck with it.
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A question about working within the RAF?
I am planning to apply for a personnell/admin job in the RAF. It’s occurred to me that I will most likely relocate somewhere in the UK or maybe even outside of it. The fact that I dislike my current job and feel that there’s nothing really good going for me here in Edinburgh makes it seem even better. Can anyone who has had experience of working in a the personnell dept of the RAF tell me what I would expect? What are the average working hours? how often would you be able to go home? Are you given free accomodation? are you given free meals? Would you be expected to take on minimum training ie fitness? The website doesn’t cover a lot of the things that I was hoping to read. Thanks
Yes you will have to do fitness, there are fitness test every 6 months now. Training for it is often taken during working hours but this varies from unit to unit. You will probably have to do it in your own time as well.
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What kind of program or exercises can i do for weight-related training for soccer ???
Im 17 , turning 18 in two months and i am about 140 lbs, and about 5′ 5″ . I joinmed a gym this week and i wanna start training for high level soccer, for an U-21 provincial team i might be joining in the fall season. What kind of program can i do to increase my fitness. I NEED A WEIGHT RELATED PROGRAM, not like running , cuz i do that outside of the gym and i wanna do something with weightlifting . So any help i can get is great. Thanks
Here you have a weight training in the gym program: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/532117/soccer_players_weight_training_lifting.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2182182_weight-train-lift-soccer-players.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art
Some soccer-related weight training tips http://www.soccerdrillstips.com/weight_training_soccer.html
Here is a list of some exercises
• Jumping squats: to build leg strength and power for your kicks. It works your whole lower body.
Make sure you do this exercise explosively. You need to really power yourself as high as you can into the air and make sure you spring off again as soon as you hit the ground. The idea is to make your muscles contract and expand as quickly as possible under a lot of pressure.
• Chin ups and pull ups: works your back, shoulders, biceps and abs. When you do the chin up you need to have a shoulder width grip with your palms facing towards you. The repetition needs to be done at a snails-pace; super slow and very controlled. Make sure you pull yourself up as if your elbows were doing the work. This helps you to isolate your lats. Finally, make sure your have a full range of motion; letting yourself stretch all the way down and pulling yourself all the way up.
• Decline sit ups for the core of your body (abs, obliques, etc). Do the crunches on a decline board.
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Although all of us have been walking since we were toddlers, many people still don’t walk correctly. This can be especially dangerous for the people who are walking for exercise. Even if you are just walking for the joy of walking or to get from one place to another, it’s still important to walk correctly.
One of the most common mistakes is to not use proper posture. Improper posture will put stress on many different parts of your body such as vertebrae, joints, and muscles, and can even cause pain. Proper posture entails keeping a straight line from your ear down to your ankle, include your shoulder and hip in this line and try to hold that position as you are walking. Holding this posture position will help to prevent excess stress on any single joint or any other part of your body.
Do not arch your back as this can cause pain in your lower back and shorten your step length. Instead you can do what is called a pelvic tilt, by holding your stomach in and try to pull your buttocks under your body while you are walking. This will probably take some effort on your part to do this initially, but with time it will become automatic.
By walking in this manner, it will help to strengthen your back muscles as well as your stomach muscles. In turn this redistributes your weight away from your lower back and helps to avoid and sometimes even eliminate back pain.
Another mistake that people make while walking is to keep their arms still at their sides. By walking this way you lose a large portion of the value of walking. By moving your arms you increase your heart rate in addition to giving your shoulders, back, and arm muscles a good workout.
The correct way to move your arms while walking is to hold your elbows slightly bent, or if you are doing an aerobic walk work out, then keep your elbows at a 90 degree angle, and pump your arms while you walk. If done correctly you should feel and or hear the inside of your arms rubbing against your body. Pumping your arms is a great upper body exercise for your upper back, shoulders, and chest. Pumping your arms during an aerobic walk you are effectively doubling the value of the exercise.
You should also keep your feet between hip width and shoulder width apart. Keeping your feet to close together will make it easy for you to trip and fall. Also do not take short quick steps while walking. This will cause your leg and hip muscles to tighten up and will reduce the overall value of the exercise. Longer steps will make you burn more calories, increase your circulation, and help to raise your heart rate.
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Need an exercise routine.?
In my health class, we are doing a group project where you make a Workout.
It has to be 15 Minutes.
Inclueds tae bo, yogo, jazzersize.
Can anyone help me make one?
try the Lil Jack Workout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCGe2Ezris it really works
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Need some feed back about Personal Training?
Hello to everyone! Ok.. so here goes. I am a Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach/ Massage Therapist. I’ve worked at health club for about 5 of the 6 years. This passed year i decided to venture out on my own, so i go to clients’ homes/ clubhouse gyms/parks/track etc.. As well, i offer nutrition counseling/coaching which includes grocery shopping tours, meal plans, education on why and what to eat (specific to the client). So far i’ve been doing well with business but i wanted to get some honest feedback from the public.. What would your “perfect personal trainer” offer you to make fitness fun and help you to achieve your fitness goals? What other services can i offer to make myself more valuable? Please any ideas are welcomed.
Mix it up and offer hiking, boot camp on Saturdays for the client and their friends, fitness challenge, bike rides. My trainer was trying out for the police dept in my town and had to take a fitness challenge. He had me do it also in my age category. It was fun and something different.
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What are some fun ways to teach policies and procedures to employees at my gym?
I’m a building manager at the recreation center at my college, and i was assigned to teach the policies and procedures for the track/bball courts. What are some creative ways (a game) that I can do to review the policies with 5 other building managers?
Use videotapes, diagrams and other visual aids in your presentations. Make a trivia game where the learners will have to answer questions and get points and a modest prize to the winner at each training session.
As I get closer to the designation of elderly, or as my 10 year old son says, “the ooooooollllllldddddd man”, I am curious about what the counseling field has to say about working with Boomers and elderly counseling.
All the folks I hang around with are very vital and engaged in life, and I am 61. Many of us have been hit hard by the current recession, and some are worried about finances, but I am not seeing anyone give up.
All of us have had to deal with losses and triumphs and illness and children and divorce and marriage and re-marriage and betrayal and medication and illness and death and funerals and disappointment and insight and wonder and awe and business reversals and business successes, and have created rich deep friendships and spiritual, physical, and cognitive healing paths throughout it all.
Speaking for myself, I am looking forward to a retirement, meaning I own my own time, where I earn my livelihood on the internet, and I am amazed at folks who do not see the opportunity there.
I work regularly on my physical and spiritual health, and I am paying close attention to my mental health, and using some recently developed software programs to keep my neuroplasticity and neurogenesis going. (Never heard of those new neuro-words? Nobody else had either until a few years ago, so read on please).
My workouts are in some respects stronger than those I did 40 years ago, and I just do not feel right if I don’t work up a good sweat.
The place where I break down is in nutrition, I eat larger portions than I need, and can eat for comfort rather than nutrition, which happens when I am tired.
So far, I am not finding a great deal of information about counseling for the elderly that does not deal with illness, although I have had some care givers in my domestic violence classes, so that I know caring for an aging parent is very difficult.
Elderly counseling is a new field, and it looks like there are programs that offer a degree or a certification for that field.
The issues that are covered in those programs are final life cycle stage, the aging mind, changing family systems, multicultural issues of aging, planning retirement, family issues, sexuality, security, illness and dependency, bereavement (widow or widower), community resources, advocacy, and life review or generativity.
Certain groups show potential for higher counseling needs including the sick and disabled, the disadvantaged, minorities, prisoners, substance abusers, homosexuals, and the single or widowed.
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The marketers have not given up on us Baby Boomers, even though the counselors are still a bit behind the eight ball.
The marketers are looking out for our pocket books, , and offering us wellness, and supplements, and antiaging pills and potions, and coaching programs, and there are marketing campaigns aimed at just us, as there have been since we began to arrive enmass after WWII.
There are some tools folks that I think are very good elderly counseling.
One of them has been put together by Michael Merzenich,Ph.D. who is a leading researcher in the new field of neuroplasticity.
I first came across Merzinich’s work when I read a book by Norman Doidge, MD, about a year ago, called THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF.
Merzinich was talking enthusiastically about the potential of our brains at any stage of life, if we continued to take care of the ‘pillars of brain fitness’ and challenged our neurons with novel learning experiences.
For decades, neuroscience has taught us that our brains were fixed and that we could only look to slowly losing them until we were sent off to the home.
Merzenich and other researchers are discovering that nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact, the IMPACT study just published in April of 2009 indicates that there is great value to computerized brain fitness programs like the The Posit Science Brain Fitness Program, created by Merzenich’s company.
Brainfit for Life is a really neat book written by Simon Evans,Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt,Ph.D. who are neuroscientists at the University of Michigan. They write for the layperson, and they have culled the neuroscientific research for hints that you and I can use to keep our brains alive and vibrant at any age. They say there are some pillars of brain fitness that we can attend to, which are important in us keeping our wits about us.
Those pillars are, physical exercise, and I exercise with guys at the YMCA who are in their 80′s, and they are there every day.
Even at 61 they call me ‘young man’, like I could not have learned anything about life.
So I like to use the Scott and Angie Tousignant model of physical exercise when I am not at they YMCA. If you go part way down the page that the blue link takes you to, you will meet two of the Tousignant students who are in their 80′s and began to exercise to make travel easier.
Stress management is a key piece of the elderly counseling puzzle, and the best stress managers there are would be physical exercise and deep breathing.
They are free and we are built for them.
I tell my anger management clients that deep breathing is good for them, and they nod sagely and go back to very shallow breathing which actually induces a stress response.
So I use a tool called Heartmath or heart rate variability biofeedback which teaches clients on their PC to regulate the time between heart beats, which is a feel good experience, and leaves them with an internal bath of DHEA, the antiaging hormone, rather than adrenaline and cortisol, the aging hormones.
Heartmath also opens up the higher perceptual centers in the brain for your brain fitness work with Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro or Lumosity or Posit Science Brain Fitness Pro.
Elderly counseling can be in part a DIY project. I think it is important for us Seniors to look out for ourselves, and take charge of our conscious aging.
Michael S. Logan is a brain fitness expert, a counselor, a student of Chi Gong, and licensed one on one HeartMath provider. I enjoy the spiritual, the mythological, and psychological, and I am a late life father to Shane, 10, and Hannah Marie, 4, whose brains are so amazing. http://www.askmikethecounselor2.com
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Complete subject and predicate?
Directions: Underline the complete subject once and the complete predicate twice in the following sentences. The first one is done for you.
Could someone tell me if I did this exercise correctly? Somehow, I think a large number of my answers are wrong. I starred the complete subject once and the complete predicate twice since I can’t underline.
1. *Some of you* **will take this test tomorrow**.
2. *Mr. Watson* **is a great football coach**.
3. *The entire class* **enjoyed the field trip**.
4. *Your argument* **does not make sense**.
5. *The water* **in the tub was hot**.
6. *His boss* **gave him a raise**.
7. *My brilliant friend* **won the contest**.
8. *We* **baked a delicious chocolate cake**.
9. *Mother and I* **cleaned the house for the holidays**.
10. *Farmers* **grow corn and wheat**.
11. *The faculty* **planned a school picnic**.
12. *Philadelphia* **is in Pennsylvania**.
13. *Frisky squirrels* **climb trees**.
14. *He* **writes plays**.
15. *Fish* **swim**
Yeah, what the last girl said.
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