Alright, after trying to lose weight
myself with little success, i've consulted
a doctor and started a vitamin supplement
bar diet, which ensures that I get all the
needed vitamins/minerals from my food, and
only intake 750 calories/day. All my
life i've been a fairly strong person (in
comparison with other people my age at
least), and i'm worried that if I lose
weight, i'll also be losing muscle, and
i'd like to still be able to lift the same
amount that I used to be able to. So I
was wondering, would cardio excercise be
such a good idea for me? As i've heard
that this can actualy decrease muscle
strength. If I want to be able to keep
the same amount of muscle that I have at
the moment, should I be training using
heavier weights with less reps, or lighter
weights with more reps? Currently i'm
losing about 3lbs/week without any
additional excercise, except taking stairs
more often and getting off the bus a few
stops early. Anyways, if anyone could
help me out, it would be appreciated, I
don't want to go from being able to bench
140 to only 120 or something.
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shadowwolfdemon
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 5
No Problems Posted: 05-12-05 14:45pm
Accually when u lose fat u gain muscel and
muscel is the key factor of losing weight.
The more u have the faster the fat will
burn away.As going for cardio . Thats
more for ur lungs so you have a strong
respetory system. More for runners who
want to be able to run long distance and
not get tired and worn out as fast. For
the weight factor it depends. Id say
stick to the small weights but to now how
fast. It depends when u go slow ur
building musles and I belive when u go
fast it tones them. And watch out for ur
muscel make sure when u weight ur self u
also measure ur body fat. Because I was
dicuraged to. When I was in areobic I was
getting depressed because I gained 20
pounds in 3 months and couldnt figure out
were it was going because im toned as it
is . Then later I used the body fat
measure ment and saw that I was acually
losing body fat. Beacue muscel has more
mass.I would highly recamend you to take
aerobics if u want to expriment with
different work outs because they show u
different things and should tell u what ur
doing does what. I took the class in
school and I loved it . And 3 pounds a
week thats good keep up the good work. I
hope my knowlaged helps you and if it does
please tell me because I want to become a
personal trainer and ive been studing on
it. So keep up the good work and
hopefully my advise helps you. And o yeah
sorry for the spelling mistakes
