Your help in cutting down?

[Rychi]

Hey

I am a little bigger than what I would really like to be, but naturally my bones are quite big, would be easier to explain up front but I'm sure you can understand!

My exercise routine is quite consistant,

Marathon Monday- Bike/running in training gear (not actually a marathon distance, it just helps remind me cardio!)

Training Tuesday- I practice and perfect kata to the best of my ability, and follow up with repetitive punches and kicks in varying stances whilst wearing training gear in a hot surrounding

Wicked Wednesday- This is a slight relaxing day, I just wear training gear the entire day

Thoughtful Thursday- This is a nice day, it involves keeping a calm mood throughout the day, meditating, walking in the hot sun or the refreshing rain, enjoying everything, reading, studying, to be strong, you can't just work your arms and legs you know

Friday&Saturday, I don't like these days.. because they are my longest days at work I do not have the time to do anything worth while, so I make sure I eat healthy.

Sexy Sunday- A do-what-I-want day! So long as it involves 1-2 hours I can do what I like

My food is pretty ok if you were to ask me, mostly it's

Breaky- Blueberry cerial for that oh so loved little fiber.

Lunch- 2 hard boiled eggs, 4 chicken slices and some veg

Snack- apple, banana or orange

Dinner- sometimes when i eat at work I'd stick to ham slices and pineapple, but at home I like to eat a little richer, perhaps some egg noodles with chicken chunks, or fish with lemon sauce, it's a varied thing lol

I was just wandering, what do you guys think of this, anything I can improve in your professional opinions? remeber, I don't want to built up any more muscle just yet anyway, just to slice some fat away!

ps.when I say training gear, I mean weighted, 40pound vest, 10pound either leg, 6 pound either arm

[JCavin]

According to your schedule you're only working out 2 days a week...

If you want to lose weight you have to work out more. Cardio is where you will lose the most fat.

That means you should be running at LEAST 3-4 days a week, not to mention vigorous exercise for 30 minutes every day. Try some progressive workouts too. For instance, get a pedometer and add .1 of a mile every time you run.

It really becomes a task of ensuring you're expending more calories than you're taking in.

What do you usually drink? Soda, milk, wine, etc.? Attempt to eat vegetables, fruit, and protein with every meal. Have you ever had a salad for breakfast? Try it. It's great. (Stay away from ranch dressing)

[guitarguy]

According to your schedule you're only working out 2 days a week...

If you want to lose weight you have to work out more. Cardio is where you will lose the most fat.

That means you should be running at LEAST 3-4 days a week, not to mention vigorous exercise for 30 minutes every day. Try some progressive workouts too. For instance, get a pedometer and add .1 of a mile every time you run.

It really becomes a task of ensuring you're expending more calories than you're taking in.

What do you usually drink? Soda, milk, wine, etc.? Attempt to eat vegetables, fruit, and protein with every meal. Have you ever had a salad for breakfast? Try it. It's great. (Stay away from ranch dressing)

I agree with your post except for running and cardio. I have personally lost weight and got in shape without any running at all. It's all come from karate, conditioning workouts and healthy eating. To me theres far more interesting things you can do in a workout which will give you the cardio benefits of running with the added strength, endurance and speed which comes with conditioning.

An example might be a circuit workout where i do 10 burpies, 10 pullups and 20 pushups have a rest and repeat, do that 5 or 6 times and i save time and get real bang for my buck. Or you can do things such as sledge hammer workouts, kettlebell workouts, bag work or jump rope which is one of the best tools for agility and fitness IMO.

Try working out about 4 times a week maybe 3 hard contioning workouts and a day when you walk for recovery. Eat healthy don't get sucked in by any fad diets, drink heaps of water and mix your workouts up so you don't get bored. I never do the same workout twice in a row so it lets my body adapt to different challenges and keeps me interested. One thing I will say before I leave you, is if you want to get into conditioning and resistance exercises have a relatively even balnce between pulling and pushing back/chest shoulders exercises. You don't want inbalances. Keeping a journal is a good way to achieve this. Also if you want to be a martial artist i recommend ignoring the physique drivin bodybuilding based workouts which let you attain size at the loss of functionality. Anyway train more and think less and you'll be right.

Peace.

[JCavin]

According to your schedule you're only working out 2 days a week...

If you want to lose weight you have to work out more. Cardio is where you will lose the most fat.

That means you should be running at LEAST 3-4 days a week, not to mention vigorous exercise for 30 minutes every day. Try some progressive workouts too. For instance, get a pedometer and add .1 of a mile every time you run.

It really becomes a task of ensuring you're expending more calories than you're taking in.

What do you usually drink? Soda, milk, wine, etc.? Attempt to eat vegetables, fruit, and protein with every meal. Have you ever had a salad for breakfast? Try it. It's great. (Stay away from ranch dressing)

I agree with your post except for running and cardio. I have personally lost weight and got in shape without any running at all. It's all come from karate, conditioning workouts and healthy eating. To me theres far more interesting things you can do in a workout which will give you the cardio benefits of running with the added strength, endurance and speed which comes with conditioning.

An example might be a circuit workout where i do 10 burpies, 10 pullups and 20 pushups have a rest and repeat, do that 5 or 6 times and i save time and get real bang for my buck. Or you can do things such as sledge hammer workouts, kettlebell workouts, bag work or jump rope which is one of the best tools for agility and fitness IMO.

Try working out about 4 times a week maybe 3 hard contioning workouts and a day when you walk for recovery. Eat healthy don't get sucked in by any fad diets, drink heaps of water and mix your workouts up so you don't get bored. I never do the same workout twice in a row so it lets my body adapt to different challenges and keeps me interested. One thing I will say before I leave you, is if you want to get into conditioning and resistance exercises have a relatively even balnce between pulling and pushing back/chest shoulders exercises. You don't want inbalances. Keeping a journal is a good way to achieve this. Also if you want to be a martial artist i recommend ignoring the physique drivin bodybuilding based workouts which let you attain size at the loss of functionality. Anyway train more and think less and you'll be right.

Peace.

I agree with you. Running was simply something I suggested since she/he already does it.

I didn't want to completely confuse her/him with suggesting a HIIT workout. Which is why I said "Cardio is where you'll burn the most fat."

[guitarguy]

According to your schedule you're only working out 2 days a week...

If you want to lose weight you have to work out more. Cardio is where you will lose the most fat.

That means you should be running at LEAST 3-4 days a week, not to mention vigorous exercise for 30 minutes every day. Try some progressive workouts too. For instance, get a pedometer and add .1 of a mile every time you run.

It really becomes a task of ensuring you're expending more calories than you're taking in.

What do you usually drink? Soda, milk, wine, etc.? Attempt to eat vegetables, fruit, and protein with every meal. Have you ever had a salad for breakfast? Try it. It's great. (Stay away from ranch dressing)

I agree with your post except for running and cardio. I have personally lost weight and got in shape without any running at all. It's all come from karate, conditioning workouts and healthy eating. To me theres far more interesting things you can do in a workout which will give you the cardio benefits of running with the added strength, endurance and speed which comes with conditioning.

An example might be a circuit workout where i do 10 burpies, 10 pullups and 20 pushups have a rest and repeat, do that 5 or 6 times and i save time and get real bang for my buck. Or you can do things such as sledge hammer workouts, kettlebell workouts, bag work or jump rope which is one of the best tools for agility and fitness IMO.

Try working out about 4 times a week maybe 3 hard contioning workouts and a day when you walk for recovery. Eat healthy don't get sucked in by any fad diets, drink heaps of water and mix your workouts up so you don't get bored. I never do the same workout twice in a row so it lets my body adapt to different challenges and keeps me interested. One thing I will say before I leave you, is if you want to get into conditioning and resistance exercises have a relatively even balnce between pulling and pushing back/chest shoulders exercises. You don't want inbalances. Keeping a journal is a good way to achieve this. Also if you want to be a martial artist i recommend ignoring the physique drivin bodybuilding based workouts which let you attain size at the loss of functionality. Anyway train more and think less and you'll be right.

Peace.

I agree with you. Running was simply something I suggested since she/he already does it.

I didn't want to completely confuse her/him with suggesting a HIIT workout. Which is why I said "Cardio is where you'll burn the most fat."

Ok my bad haha. At least he/she knows they have a wide vaiety of options. And yes getting good at performing and making/understanding these types of workouts does take a while so I understand why you said that.

On a side note the OP can take a look at the workout log theres some great ideas in there and I have used a handful of those workouts and adjusted them to suit me. It's definetly a valueable place to get ideas and concepts from.

[Rychi]

Hellos, just to get something out, by sunday do anything, i don't mean eating/drinking, I mean whatever I feel like doing when I workout..

My workouts are intense sessions, as it has more benefits when I'm resting, my mondays are a mixture between HIIT and consecutive strain too.

I drink water, water and erm, water... I used to be addicted to cokeacola when I was in high school and it took me a long time to get off of it and not get ill after 2 days

Monday, tuesday, sunday- workout days

Wednesday- weighted day

Thursday- Learning

Friday, saturday- day offs

I ddin't think that was so bad?

Hmm, thanks for your replies Guess it just takes time huh

[JCavin]

It isn't that it is bad, it just isn't a schedule that will lose much weight for you, if any.

Cardio, cardio, cardio at least 3-4 times a week. You should also be doing some type of vigorous exercise for 30 minutes a day.

[bushido_man96]

Along with the cardio, make sure you inputs are less than your outputs. Check how many calories your taking in, and make sure you burn more off than you take in. If you can't increase your amount of workouts, then you need to decrease your caloric intake a bit more to facilitate losing more weight.

[Jay]

Just to add something in, if you want to lose weight and fat you don't have to just do cardio, weights can be just as effective in trimming you down. I lost a noticeable amount of body fat on the stronglifts program without ever doing cardio. Im not recommending not doing cardio because its very important just that its not the only way. As long as your outgoings are higher than your ingoings you will lose weight.

[Rychi]

Thanks for all your comments! I haven't really been cutting down for a long time at the moment but I am defiantly feeling different, so much energy inside, I get that feeling where I don't want to stop training! everything everyone has said has been taken into effect in my routine