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HoldYourBreath

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I've wanted to start dropping body fat for a while now, but since there were a ridiculous amount of variables involved to keep the weight loss progress healthy I never found the energy to properly start researching.

Well, I finally decided to kick myself into action. I'm still very worried that I'm doing it wrong or that my routines will be unhealthy (especially since I haven't really done a lot of exercising in the past several years) which is why I'm here! I'm very motivated, but also very concerned.

I weigh 60kg (At 164cm tall) but I'm in terrible shape, no muscle to speak of. I'm also somewhat worried about my eating habits, which are the opposite of a lot of people here; I eat around 1100 kcal every day, less if I don't count calories. I have no eating disorders to speak of, but I just forget to eat and I have zero appetite. I'm hoping to get a bit more motivated on that end too. I don't really know how to count how much of my weight is fat /exactly/, but I'm hoping to change most of it to toned muscle by the end of the year. If that's even possible.

It's wonderful to meet you all!
 
Welcome to the forum :)

the key to changing your body composition is going to be a combination on the type of exercise you plan to be doing and ensuring you are getting adequate nutrition to suport the maintenance and building of muscle, in particular your protein intake.

What is your exercise plan ?
 
Thank you!

My plan is currently to do strength training on three days a week every other day and cardio on the remaining days. That being said, I have no access to a gym (or heavier gym equipment) and I really despise walking as an exercise method, so I'm still trying to map out what I actually can do with those off the table.

Right now I'm wondering if I could look up no-equipment strength training routine videos and get by doing those, as the ones I've tried have been a lot of fun... But I'm also concerned that they're not enough. I'm concerned about far too many things.
 
Bodyweight exercises are good to get you started, If you are going to watch some video's look for ones aimed at men as often the ones aimed at ladies are superficial and not effective for anything except cardio.

Long sessions of steady cardio are counter productive for your goal, short bouts of high intensity cardio are more effective for maintaining muscle. If you don't like walking then there are other options including short high intensity home videos or as simple as grabbing a skipping rope and alternating 1 minute of intense skipping with a minute of rest repeated several times.
 
Thank you for the tips, I feel much more confident in my success rate already! Is it healthy for my muscles for me to do high intensity cardio after strength training days? It sounds like something I'd like because high intensity is much more enjoyable than long sessions to me, but I've been told that I'll just injure myself.

And thank you @ Brandon!
 
it is safe within reason, doing a leg intensive strength session followed by a leg intensive cardio session is not ideal but an upper body session for strength training right before a high intensity leg based cardio session is all fine.

A lot depends on your current level of fitness and your ability to recover from a training session. An experienced athlete can train almost every day without problems but somebody new to training needs to take it easy to begin with while the body adapts to the new levels of exercise.
 
One more question before I stop bothering you, how do I know if a strength training video is good, and if it's targeted toward women or men?
 
try to avoid celebrity videos, however if you look for videos which have keywords like bodybuilding, powerbuilding or powerlifting you will be on the right track. they will talk about building muscle. Videos which uses words like "tone" are usually more about marketing the trainer and building an online profile.

Bodybuilding style routines will build more muscle and some strength
Powerlifting style routines will build more strength and some muscle
Powerbuilding is a mix between the two giving moderate results for both goals but not specialises in either.
 
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