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I thought the thread title meant something else too 
Well your dilema could be one or many things. Most likely you may need to:
- Eat less
- Eat more
- Eat better
- Workout more
While horseback riding will tire you out, my gut feeling is that you need a bit more strength training and cardio. The fat will come off when these few things are followed:
1) Eat 5-6 small meals throughout the day. Each meal should be 3-4 hours apart. Each meal should contain one protein and one carb.
2) Drink lots of water
3) Rest properly. This means taking at least 24-48 hours between strength training the same muscles, and it also means getting at least 7-8 hours of sleep per night. Lastly, it means taking 1-2 days off from exercising per week.
4) Cardio. This should be done at different intensity levels and different session lengths. Consider doing a low intensity/long session, a high intensity/short session and a few medium intensity/medium length sessions.
5) Strength Training. Strength train each muscle 1-3 times per week. You should lift a proper weight and perform the proper amount of sets/reps for your strength training method.
All of the above things combined will result in fat loss. Good luck to you!
Well your dilema could be one or many things. Most likely you may need to:
- Eat less
- Eat more
- Eat better
- Workout more
While horseback riding will tire you out, my gut feeling is that you need a bit more strength training and cardio. The fat will come off when these few things are followed:
1) Eat 5-6 small meals throughout the day. Each meal should be 3-4 hours apart. Each meal should contain one protein and one carb.
2) Drink lots of water
3) Rest properly. This means taking at least 24-48 hours between strength training the same muscles, and it also means getting at least 7-8 hours of sleep per night. Lastly, it means taking 1-2 days off from exercising per week.
4) Cardio. This should be done at different intensity levels and different session lengths. Consider doing a low intensity/long session, a high intensity/short session and a few medium intensity/medium length sessions.
5) Strength Training. Strength train each muscle 1-3 times per week. You should lift a proper weight and perform the proper amount of sets/reps for your strength training method.
All of the above things combined will result in fat loss. Good luck to you!
NothinToLose
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Hi, I'm an equestrian too. I used to ride 2 times/week in lessons until I had mono and could not ride anymore. To make your workouts harder for you and not for the horse, you can use exercises while riding. Posting without stirrups is extremely good workout. You can do it both at walk and trot. Staying in two-point position with and without stirrups is also very good exercise, and you can do it as your horse walks and stretches down for either warmup or cool-down. I don't know what riding discipline you participate in, but I know when I started doing dressage, each lesson drained me out completely, because you are not only working to keep your balance as the horse moves, you also give an aid to your horse with almost every step! I also don't know how well you can keep your balance on the horse, and if you've never done no-stirrup work before, start slowly, few strides at a time, and then build up to minutes in a row.
Horse riding is a sport that requires a lot of stamina, balance and strenth, and people don't realise how draining and tiring riding can be. When I'm on a horse, I never feel the fatigue, but as soon as I get off all the muscles in my body are tingling!
To comment on weight loss part, despite horse riding being such a good work out, 2 hrs a week is really not enough to be loosing weight. According to new USDA guidelines, you need to be active 90 min/day to see weightloss. With time it takes to groom/tack/untack/rub down and cool off your horse, you're probably moving around 4-5 hrs a week. But you need to move 10 hrs in order to actually start loosing from work out only. So, I would recommend working on cutting out 100 to 200 cal/day or increasing riding to 3 times/wk.
As a personal example, I've gained 15 lbs in 1 year while riding 2 times/wk in lessons AND spending 8 hrs a day every Saturday mucking stalls, feeding and watering horses, all because I had been overeating about 200-300 calories a day. Even with hard exersize and activity, if what you're eating is more then you're burning, you're not going to loose weight.
Best of luck, enjoy your horse!
Horse riding is a sport that requires a lot of stamina, balance and strenth, and people don't realise how draining and tiring riding can be. When I'm on a horse, I never feel the fatigue, but as soon as I get off all the muscles in my body are tingling!
To comment on weight loss part, despite horse riding being such a good work out, 2 hrs a week is really not enough to be loosing weight. According to new USDA guidelines, you need to be active 90 min/day to see weightloss. With time it takes to groom/tack/untack/rub down and cool off your horse, you're probably moving around 4-5 hrs a week. But you need to move 10 hrs in order to actually start loosing from work out only. So, I would recommend working on cutting out 100 to 200 cal/day or increasing riding to 3 times/wk.
As a personal example, I've gained 15 lbs in 1 year while riding 2 times/wk in lessons AND spending 8 hrs a day every Saturday mucking stalls, feeding and watering horses, all because I had been overeating about 200-300 calories a day. Even with hard exersize and activity, if what you're eating is more then you're burning, you're not going to loose weight.
Best of luck, enjoy your horse!
HI!
Thanks for your answer!
Yes, we do no-stirrups trot and galop as well as bending forward and backwards and sideways and all sorts of other stuff like touching your right toes with your left hand and so on. So, sometimes the exercise does get very physical for me not for the horse. I always sleep after the execise, because it`s really tiring.
I even jumped a bit and we`ll probably start jumping again later on. Just about 10 inch up - that`s enought for me right now, but there is no greater feeling than fly over a barrier with you horse, I suppose there is only one thing greater than that - parachuting. Nothing else can excite me more than a ride on horseback!
Oh! I love it... during summer I do ride more often! I also get field rides just for pleasure! I also jog during summer, and I do enjoy walking!
Even thought I don`t have enought time for it because my work.
But I keep trying!
Thanks for your answer!
Yes, we do no-stirrups trot and galop as well as bending forward and backwards and sideways and all sorts of other stuff like touching your right toes with your left hand and so on. So, sometimes the exercise does get very physical for me not for the horse. I always sleep after the execise, because it`s really tiring.
I even jumped a bit and we`ll probably start jumping again later on. Just about 10 inch up - that`s enought for me right now, but there is no greater feeling than fly over a barrier with you horse, I suppose there is only one thing greater than that - parachuting. Nothing else can excite me more than a ride on horseback!
Oh! I love it... during summer I do ride more often! I also get field rides just for pleasure! I also jog during summer, and I do enjoy walking!
Even thought I don`t have enought time for it because my work.
But I keep trying!
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You can still be active 90 mins a day and still gain weight...NothinToLose said:
As an example... I burn about 3,000 calories a day to live... If I take in more, I'm going to gain weight, if I take it the same, I maintain my weight, and if I take in 500 calories less (NO MORE THAN THAT), I will lose 1 pound per week if I eat taht for 7 days straight....
So... Let's say I eat 3,800 calories - 3,000 = I'm +800 calories so I'll go ride a horse/workout
... I only burn 500 calories... So my net intake for the day is +300 calories... "But I worked out, I'm going to lose weight"... WRONG!It's all relative to you and how many calories you burn a day... The USDA recommends that more so just to 'maintain'... I have a couple clients that work out twice a week doing just cardio and have lost 8-11+ pounds, BUT they followed THEIR metabolic rate...
NothinToLose
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DEX - totally agree with you. Its all calorie vs. exercise balace (as I gave my example, I was exersizing and gaining weight because was eating too much).
I forget what language exactly USDA used, but smth like "if you are eating right and neither gaining nor loosing weight on your food intake, then if you start doing 90 min/day, then you will start loosing weight w/o cutting calories", at least that's the meaning I got from it.
Terii - I Love to jump too! It is amazing feeling of floating through the air on a horse, and feeling totally balanced and together like one being! Sounds like you are on the right track. I'm doing baby jumps too - 18''. Once you have solid basics over small jumps, progressing to larger ones can happen very fast. It is safer to learn on small ones. A tiny mistake on a large jump can cost a lot in health and broken bones!
I forget what language exactly USDA used, but smth like "if you are eating right and neither gaining nor loosing weight on your food intake, then if you start doing 90 min/day, then you will start loosing weight w/o cutting calories", at least that's the meaning I got from it.
Terii - I Love to jump too! It is amazing feeling of floating through the air on a horse, and feeling totally balanced and together like one being! Sounds like you are on the right track. I'm doing baby jumps too - 18''. Once you have solid basics over small jumps, progressing to larger ones can happen very fast. It is safer to learn on small ones. A tiny mistake on a large jump can cost a lot in health and broken bones!
NothinToLose said:
Yeah! That`s right!
Actually I meant 10-15'' last time, not 30'', of course (I jump 30-50 centimeter high), that`s pretty enought for me.
Dex, yes, you are right, of course, but if I take less food I feel hungry all day, which is very inconvenient and distracts me from work. That was why I thought of Hoodia diet pills that woul make me feel full all day and allow to take only really needed amount of food.
Well, we really don't want to depend on pills all our lives (unless you want too)... so what you need to do is take your RMR/BMR-500 calories and then take that and divide by 5... and that's how many calories you intake for each of your 5 meals...Having 5 meals a day will keep your metabolism burning, so the body doesn't think it has to hang onto fat because it doesn't have anything else to burn... Plus I'd rather have a nice sandwich, vegetables, low cal crackers than a pill
NothinToLose
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Sorry, Terii, I don't have any information on pills except for I know that some of them can have undesirable effect on health and some of them don't work at all, while others help only for short period of time. Personally I'm trying to stay away from pills for those reasons. But, I've also known someone who did use a pill as a supplement to a very healthy diet and tons of exercise and it helped them to loose weight faster. They used it until they got to their desired weight, and then sustained the weight loss with diet and exercise. My only word of caution is to research pills very well (not only what seller is saying about them) before trying, and pick who to believe.
I definitely understand being hungry. I hate being hungry too. I cannot concentrate at all when hungry.
Before you decide on a pill and get it in the mail, try cutting out calories very gradually, like make your portions 1 or 2 table spoons smaller, you won't feel like you've eaten much less then usual. Also, keeping log of everything you eat and counting calories really helps to know exactly what you're eating. If I don't do this I tend to forget, come dinner time, that I had few extra crackers at snack time and extra cup of tea, but even that little food adds up very quickly, and may prevent weight loss that would otherwise happen. It also helps to calculate exactly when to expect to loose anything and don't worry about it until that time comes. (Like if you plan on having 500 calorie deficit each day, don't worry about checking your weight until after whole 7 days have passed).
All the best!
I definitely understand being hungry. I hate being hungry too. I cannot concentrate at all when hungry.
Before you decide on a pill and get it in the mail, try cutting out calories very gradually, like make your portions 1 or 2 table spoons smaller, you won't feel like you've eaten much less then usual. Also, keeping log of everything you eat and counting calories really helps to know exactly what you're eating. If I don't do this I tend to forget, come dinner time, that I had few extra crackers at snack time and extra cup of tea, but even that little food adds up very quickly, and may prevent weight loss that would otherwise happen. It also helps to calculate exactly when to expect to loose anything and don't worry about it until that time comes. (Like if you plan on having 500 calorie deficit each day, don't worry about checking your weight until after whole 7 days have passed).
All the best!
NothinToLose, thank you so much for all your understanding and support I hope I`ll manage to slim down without pills.
I`ve read so much about them by now! I know all the possible side effects!
Got all the infor from dietpillsnews.com hm...
But I`ll be trying to be well without any pills first - that`s for sure!
I hope I`ll manage to slim down without pills.I`ve read so much about them by now! I know all the possible side effects!
Got all the infor from dietpillsnews.com hm...
But I`ll be trying to be well without any pills first - that`s for sure!