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Good Work-Out Plan
My question is simple, could you suggest a good, easy, and result showing work-out plan? I really need to get in shape for my Junior year. I am the Junior-Class President next year, and I MUST look in great shape. I have tried diets and many differents tools, and none show results. I am 16, and currently weigh, last I checked, 225lbs.
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if you were elected class president at your weight? why MUST you be in shape? your student body obviously likes you for who you are
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South Beach Diet
Atkins Diet
eating your heavier meals at breakfast and lunch saving the light meals for dinner
Sit ups
Palites
I hope I helped! Good Luck!
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You need a two fold plan. Burn calories and tone or build muscles. Burning calories is any exercise of long duration. Running, walking, biking, skating, swimming. rowing. Any or a combination of all, for an hour at least 5 times a week. Then work with free weights. Low weights like 3 to 5 to 8 lbs will help tone muscles, higher weights will build muscles. You don't want to work on building muscles until you have lost weight. Otherwise you build the muscles under the fat and you will look better. GEt a book on weight lifting or go to www.about.com they have a section on weight loss and weight training, you can sign up for their free newsletter. Can you join a gym? Is there a YMCA in your town. They have the best gyms and are the least expensive. If you are going to work out a home you have to at least invest in a few hand weights and a work out bench. You can't do the right kind of exercises on the floor. Look for books by Joyce Verdral, PHD. She has books about weight lifing that explain everything, and they have pictures and all. YOu can find used books and old books on www.half.com for very little money.
And finally, yo need to go on a very low fat diet, here is a basic one that I used for many years, and still try to follow. I know this works. I lost 45 lbs. in 5 months.
Cut all fat out of your diet. Read the labels and see what food you eat that contains fat. I mean the nutrition labels. Foods that are high in fat are
Whole milk
ice cream
potato chips
cookies
cakes
pies
cheese
cheese
cheees
especially cheese
cheetos
doritos
snack only on pretzels and low fat popcorn
no candy
no soda
drink lots of water
consume low fat versions of
milk
yogurt
drink lots of water
eat lots of fruits and veggies
white meat chicken and turkey or fish
no red meat.
Eat a piece of chicken or turkey no larger than the size of your hand.
Cereal is a good snack food. Choose cereals low in fat and low in sugar, have with skim milk.
Eat dairy, fruit and cereal in the am.
snack on fruit
eat dairy, fruit, 4 oz of meat, and one slice of whole grain bread, and veggies or salad for lunch
repeat for dinner.
have a smalll bowl of cereal with fat free milk as a snack after dinner.
follow this NO CHEATING, and you will loose 10 lbs in two weeks.
This is taken form the FAT TO MUSCLE DIET. It is a book, see if you can find a copy.
Good Luck to you. You go girl!
Michele
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I would definatly try pilates--there are tv ad's on all the time for this!
I absolutly LOVE it! I started when i was 16--weighed 195 lbs--and am now 18 and only 120 lbs--all of it muscle and toned though!
I HATE diets--so it must be this work out!!
you see--her videos are very easy to do--none of that running around, jumping everywhere crap! It focuses on toning your stomache the entire time (which is where most girls want to lose some weight + gives you a nice toned stomach)
You can buy the dvd/vhs set either from the tv, online, and now alot of times i see them in stores!
Goodluck with finding a workout!
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