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I'm 22 M and 250lbs. My skinniest weight (while I was working out) was 198lbs in June 2010. I feel, look and am fat. Problem is I have little to no idea what I was doing when I lost all that weight. What I'm looking for is a workout regime that I can stick with, one that works and works well. People with a first hand account on these regimes will be given highest priority but all advice will be looked at and rated as to how helpful it is.
Thanks everyone,
Gateway01 (link)
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What the other guy said, especially when it comes to High intensity interval training. I've been doing something similar for the last three months, and I've dropped about 25 pounds so far.
As an adjunct, if you're not currently a gym member, there are excellent bodyweight workouts that you can do at home. A personal favorite is 52 Pickup.
Start with a deck of cards. Assign an exercise to each suit: for example, hearts are regular pushups, spades are squats, diamonds are situps, clubs are Hindu pushups. Shuffle the deck, then put down the first card. Do however many reps of whatever exercise corresponds to the card (eg: 5 of hearts = 5 pushups.) Face cards are 10 reps each. Go through the whole deck. If you don't stop to scratch, you should get through that in about 20 minutes.
Alternately, you can do sets of calisthenics as part of a circuit training routine.
One of the best things about bodyweight exercise is that the recovery times are short. You can work out every day without having to worry about overtraining.
Again, diet is going to be 80% of dropping weight. Keep eating clean, stay off the booze and fatty food, and congratulations on the upcoming nuptuals.
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