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follow up on the exercise question.
i just go on the stair climber for one hour in the morning which burns 1000 calories and then another hour at night or during the afternoon if i have time. i'm a college student so i use the meal plan here and the food here is just so bad. i try to make good choices but it seems like everything i eat is terrible. i'm 5'6", 19 years old, and around 145 pounds. i used to be around 130 or so before coming to college. it seems like i'm not seeing any results from working out and it's bothering me. thanks so much for answering my question.
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You should NOT take any diet pill if that is your regular exercising time. If you are taking any sort of diet pill right now, I suggest you to stop =)
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If what you said is true--exercise everyday, height at least 5'6", and 19 years old--then 145 pounds should be just the right weight.
And you said that you exercise at least 2 hours a day, then you could actually go up to 150 pounds and still considered as "fit." Although if you go above 155, then that would be overweight.
HOWEVER, studies show that many women at your age considered that around 130 pounds would be an ideal weight. But hey, you are active. You got muscles. Most women don't.
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Now, in the future, if you are wondering whether you are at the right weight or not, then try to calculate your BODY MASS INDEX (BMI).
BMI will give you a number that in which will be used to tell whether you are underweight, at the the right weight, or overweight. The number is based on your height and weight, along with other minor factors like you age, your gender, and whether you are active or not.
Here is a great BMI calculator, bookmark or write the page down somewhere so that you can use it in the future:
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On there, medically speaking, if your Body Mass Index is between 20 to 25, you are at the right weight. And because you are exercising everyday, anything between 22 to 25 is good.
Also, here's a little funny fact, along with the coke and pepsi one, 70% of college students gain 9 to 15 pounds during their freshmen year. It is call "Freshmen 15."
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IF YOU STILL WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT even after knowing all that, then I suggest you go with the following schedule of exercise.
WARNING: I hope you take these warnings seriously if you are following the following schedule of exercise. If not, the following schedule of exercise will do you MORE HARMS THAN GOOD =)
--This schedule requires a decent intake of energy, so EAT AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO (while staying out of fast food and soft drinks like coke or pepsi, of course). No need to hold back. I would afraid that you don't eat enough, rather than eat too much =)
--WATER is very important. Drink at least EIGHT glasses of water each day. TEN or MORE would be recommended. If not, you'll suffer from dehydration.
Ready? Shall we begin? Here goes:
--Wake up early in the morning ("early" means 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM, NOT 7:00 AM), go out to your yard, and do some stretching. Push your body a little because the point of this is train your body's flexibility. Do this for about 20 to 30 minutes.
--After that, jog for half an hour. Then after a month, steadily increase it until you can continuously jog for a whole hour without stopping. After 2 or 3 years, strive for 2 hours if you can. (Jog, not walk, just to make it clear.) The point of this is endurance. And this trains your heart and lung, too, they're important internal organs.
--After the jog, 100 sit-ups and 30 push-ups. After three months, steadily increase the rate to 150 sit-us and 50 push-ups. After that, strive for over 100 push-ups. (and this is RIGHT AFTER the jogging). It'll be really hard because you're already tired.
--You'll be very tired after all that. So rest a bit, catch your breath, then take a warm bath (WARM, NOT COLD). While taking the bath, relax your body . . . just enjoy the bath for about half an hour. This is to relax your muscle so that it won't hurt too much afterward.
--Go to work or school, work, hangout, whatever, just do your everyday stuffs.
--In the afternoon, put together a thick stack of paper (again, thick! Else, you'll hurt yourself a lot), tape the thick stack of paper onto a brick wall or a tree's trunk, and punch it. Punch it as hard as you can until your knuckles hurt, bleed, or maybe until you just bored of it. Done punching? Then go to kick =D
--Sprint 10 meters, not 100 meters, but 10! Run as fast as you can. It doesn't matter whether you can run long distance. The goal of this is to cover a short distance in the least amount of time possible.
--As you have dinner, sit without a chair supporting your butts. You still sit as if there's an invisible chair there. Your feet, knee, and thigh area will be undergoing serious work out if you do this everyday =D
--relax a little now, do whatever you want
--Just before you go to sleep, do some push-up. Your goal is 50 at first, then slowly strive for 100, and then until you are exhausted.
--After that, try to stand by your arms instead of legs. Get support from a wall if you have to. In the first 3 month, your goal is 10 minutes. Then steadily strive for longer time as you go. After 7 months, try to walk with your arms =)
--Time to sleep? Take a bath! Just like in the morning, a relaxing . . . warm bath . . . maybe with roses? hahaha
--Yoga if you want to, if you don't, who care! Yoga is mental training, you are aiming for physical training here so you can careless about it. >=)
--SLEEP well. Sleep is when your entire body is at rest. You need at least 7 hours of sleep with this training. (And I'm talking about 7 hours per day, not per week, hehe).
--IT'S WEEKEND!!! =D What should you do? Well, do whatever you usually do, but no exercising in the weekend. Your body NEED TO REST! Instead, you should dance, or play some kind of sports. This is agility training. Dancing help make you feel like your body is lighter, so that your movement will be a lot smoother. Dancing is a work out itself. If you don't like to dance, play some sports, such as tennis, badminton, soccer, or basketball, etc.
--2 years later--
--Join a martial art school. You've trained your body so well over the last three years. Now, your goal here is not to study martial art, but to train your reflexes. Sparring without other practitioners help you train your reflexes in danger. Not to mention that here you will have all the equipments to further your training.
--3 more years passed-- (a total of 5 years)
--By now, for a girl, you kill! See if your boyfriend can mess with you, hehehe ^-^
--Of course, never stop training. As you get older, the amount of training will become less, but you'll have a healthy body. =D
Hope this helps,
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