routines and troubles.

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afjl

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So heres my routine.. I usually try to exercise about 4 days or 5 days a week. With life sometimes there isnt time to exercise 5 days a week lol.
I try to do 30 minutes of cardio, and then crunches. I do the cardio on an eliptical machine, because I have access to an eliptical and weights at home. Since I am a 18 year old female, who is soon to be starting university.. Money is deffinately an issue so gyms are out of the question for now.

Anyways back to my routine.
Cardio
30 minutes on eliptical

Weight lifting
Arms - 3 sets of 16 (to burn fat and build muscle)
5lb weights on both sides - shoulder shrugs.
5lb weight lifted from behind head upwards
5lb weights lifted straight out to the side
same weights except lifted towards the front
Bicep exercises, arms at 90 degree angle lifted in.
Abs - 3 sets of 25
Crunches on exercise ball
Lower ab exercise - ex laying on back and lifting your legs together up and down while holding abs tight.

So this is what I have been doing if you can try to understand it.. I am not farmilar with names of exercises lol. I mainly found out all these exercises from friends, and online doing research. I have been really trying to drop down back to 135 lbs. I am 5'4 and currently weigh 146. The problem is that because this is sooo many exercises to do it takes atleast an hour and a half. I need a exercise that burns fat, I mainly have fat mostly on my stomach. I'd appreciate any advice you would have for me. Its somewhat difficult to keep up with trying to have a healthy lifestyle sometimes. I have mainly had many of my friends getting angry and making comments and calling me completely obsessed because they have noticed I have been trying to include exercise in my life. So I thought I'd give these forums a try with other people who have the same interests.
Anyways tell me what you think!
Thanks
 
First, welcome to the forum.

Second, don't let your friends hold you back. They're usually quick to be negative when someone is doing something good for themselves b/c it shows their own inadequacies and fears. Be a role model.

Third, weight training doesn't burn fat. You can't 'spot reduce' the fat off a particular part of your body. For instance, if you have fat on your belly, doing a billion crunches isn't going to do much of anything in terms of the fat. Or if you have fat upper arms, doing a bunch of bicep and tricep exercises is pretty futile. We, as humans, lose fat in a predetermined, genetic pattern and there's not much we can do to alter that, unfortunately.

The elliptical work you're doing is fine, as it will burn a good bit of calories.

The weight routine you are doing is really bad, to be blunt.

I suggest you spend some time reading the stickies found at the top of the various sub-forums.

When it comes to weight training while dieting, you want to do just enough of the right things to preserve as much muscle as possible. This will go a long way in giving you that fit and trim look at the end of the 'day' when all the fat is gone. Remember, you aren't doing these things to 'burn the fat' as you put it.

So what's the 'right things?'

You should be focusing on exercises that call on the greatest amount of muscle to execute. For legs things like the various forms of squats, lunges, and deadlifts are great. For the back there's a lot you can do from pushups and pullovers to the various rows. For bench there's pushups and various presses.

These are the things you want to really focus on.

Your current routine is full of isolation work which really doesn't correspond well with your current goals.

You might want to check out this link too.... it has a nice database of exercises you can do given the equipment (or lack thereof) you have at your disposal.



If you have any questions, feel free to speak up.
 
I did suggest exercises. Did you read what I wrote?

Did you check out the link I provided?
 
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