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micronesia
United States24768 Posts
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ShotoKat
Canada3 Posts
I want to congratulate you on you decision to live a healthier life. I've also struggled with my weight and body image for a good part of my life but I think that I'm finally getting to a point where I'm starting to be happy with how I look. I recently graduated with a Minor in Psychosocial Dimensions of Sport and Exercise Psychology. I've made programs to help athletes work on their mental game. I don't want to get into the core of your program and try to change everything that you're doing. Something that I believe in is the idea of empowerment; that clients are capable and have a right to manage their own life. If they need help I can help them get to a spot where they can they feel that they can tackle life's issues by themselves. Obviously you are already taking charge of your life so you don't need any help there. I did notice after reading your two blogs that you have an issue with motivation. If you'll allow me to make one suggestions it would be to start a goal setting program. Pick one ultimate goal; this goal might take years to achieve but as long as you believe that it is attainable you should be good. Now break this goal down into as many steps as you think that it will take to achieve. These steps should go up in progression from easy ->medium->hard->mission accomplished->maintenance. We can call these milestones. Then break it down even further, what do you want to accomplish this month? What are you going to work on this week? What do you have planned for each day to help you achieve your weekly goals? A basic example would be this: My ultimate goal is to run in a race by the end of the year. My milestones might be Walk->Jog->Run->Sprint I might spend a month or two going for long walks to strengthen my legs so that I can walk for a few kilometres without having pain in my legs. I would have a journal and everyday for a week it might just be to finish my track. The next week or two later after my legs get used to walking I might try to pick up the pace until I can walk my entire track at a brisk pace. It's the same idea with each milestone/step, just start slow and record everything that you do in a journal. Hell, you can even assign a couple days for rest and recovery. Just make sure that you have a plan and that you follow it, even if you aren't feeling like doing it. It's a lifestyle change! Something else that I have found really helps is using your social support network. If you can get any of your friends/family and have them call you everyday for 5 minutes just to call and see what you did each day on your program it can really help to motivate you. You feel really stupid when you skip on your program and someone calls later that day for details. Anyway, this is getting a little lengthy, so I'll call it quits. Keep up the great work and congratulations on the results so far! | ||
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IshinShishi
Japan6156 Posts
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TechNoTrance
Canada1007 Posts
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brtd90
United States49 Posts
Sheth Fighting! | ||
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Brutaxilos
United States2633 Posts
Drink as much water as you can. It will almost always help! | ||
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davidohx
United States114 Posts
GO SHETH!! | ||
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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Misacampo
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Wampaibist
United States478 Posts
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khellian
Korea (South)922 Posts
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philliechease
United States16 Posts
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
I was/am a longtime (I mean only like 5 years but I'm 18) runner. A lot of the time you can hurt/overstress your knees by going from no exercise to exercise, which was essentially what I did at the beginning of high school. If your knees go from no stress to constant working out (of any kind) it can put too much stress on it too quickly as they try to cope. I had that issue for maybe the first couple months (I ran cross country) of freshman year until they caught up. I don't know if that's your problem, but just thought I'd let you know a semi-similar experience that I saw reading your post! Good luck! :D | ||
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sMiViRUS
United States2 Posts
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MirageTaN
Singapore871 Posts
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
On February 08 2013 16:01 Alryk wrote: Hey Sheth, hoping you see this! I was/am a longtime (I mean only like 5 years but I'm 18) runner. A lot of the time you can hurt/overstress your knees by going from no exercise to exercise, which was essentially what I did at the beginning of high school. If your knees go from no stress to constant working out (of any kind) it can put too much stress on it too quickly as they try to cope. I had that issue for maybe the first couple months (I ran cross country) of freshman year until they caught up. I don't know if that's your problem, but just thought I'd let you know a semi-similar experience that I saw reading your post! Good luck! :D Running is never a good way, if you ask me not even an option (at least not a healthy one) to lose weight for a person thats overweight by so much. No offence to you Sheth obviously, but you should be aware that you don't got a few pounds too much, but a lot. You will damage your knee and it will hurt you in the long run if you run/start running. Its better to have good cardio (bike) training for your weight. It doesn't put on your knees as much. I'd say you could go a 5x5 stronglift program, without squats as you won't manage to do them in the correct manner with a lot of overweight and especially with additional weight. Overheadpress Barbell Rows Deadlifts Benchpress (Squats) Combo is Workout 1, Squats 3x5 warmup (50%, 50%, 75%), 5x5 main; Benchpress 3x5 warmup (50%, 50%, 75%), 5x5 main; Barbell Rows warm up(50%, 50%, 75%), main 5x5 Same applies to Workout 2 Squats, Deadlifts (only difference, 3x5 50, 50, 75') main is 1x5 to start off until you reach your limit, then you'll go down in weight and do 5x5, Overheadpress Its all basic exercize and trains your whole body, Squats as said will damage your knees if you do it wrong, but basically are one of the least knee-stressing things you can do, if you do it right. Probably all you need to do is lose weight slowly and as you do that, start to work out. Good luck to you, I have deep respect of people who know they want to change, need to change and do it. Keep it up! Edit: If you dont want to post pictures, TAKE pictures of you to remember, you will see progress, it will be a lot of motivation to see. | ||
ToKoreaWithLove
Norway10161 Posts
I've been eating paleo myself for the last 18 months or so, and I am very happy with it. | ||
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guN-viCe
United States687 Posts
I don't know if this is backed up by science or it's just quackery... but logically, people(hominids) have been running barefoot for hundreds of thousands of years, so it makes sense to me. GL! | ||
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WikidSik
Canada382 Posts
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Dorillion
Sweden1 Post
I have one advice I give to all people I talk to about the weight loss. And when I got that advice it help me so much I always want to give that to everyone else. I had a similar journey a few years back as you have started now. I promise you it will do you really good and I hope you can keep it up for as long as you want to. When you get into a slow period (I think it will most likely happen) on the loss of weight, even if you do everything else really good (you might end up on same weight for months (3 months for me)) remember that it is just your body that is getting acustomed to your new style of life. And don't give up the weightloss will come again eventyally as long as you keep up the good work. If I had not have someone telling me this I would have lost the motivation right there most likely. But as it turned out I lost alot after the slow period, not at the same rate but still a steady loss. Kepp up the good work !! /Peppe | ||
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