Cardio and fat burning question

[MODAPHUKA]

what's your diet?

A lot of rice and chicken/churraco/beef steak. Red beans. I know I got some bad habits I need to cut. Like eating late. And I dont drink much water.

[MODAPHUKA]

Invest in a nice pair of running shoes and start jogging.


Perhaps you can limit the time you spend watching basketball and catch the highlights on a few days? More time to work out.

I hate running. I've done it. I've tried it three times. I think the longest I did it was for a month. It bores me to death. I am not willing to give up my basketball for it.

I'm thinking the days I don't play basketball I can still get on the bike and do a bit of exercise and they days that I do play I can get back home and jump on the bike and burn a little more.

[~AK49~]

A lot of rice and chicken/churraco/beef steak. Red beans. I know I got some bad habits I need to cut. Like eating late. And I dont drink much water.

More/most importantly is knowing how many calories you are burning, and how many you are consuming. You can do all the cardio in the world, but if you are eating more calories than you are burning, you wont lose weight.

25 lbs in 3 months is definitely doable.

[jas]

A lot of rice and chicken/churraco/beef steak. Red beans. I know I got some bad habits I need to cut. Like eating late. And I dont drink much water.

Brown rice > white rice

Chicken > beef - chicken has less saturated fat.

Red beans - good.

Eat above foods 2-4 hours before workout . Too soon to workout = improper digestion.

Eat above foods right after workout.

[MODAPHUKA]

Brown rice > white rice

Chicken > beef - chicken has less saturated fat.

Red beans - good.

Eat above foods 2-4 hours before workout . Too soon to workout = improper digestion.

Eat above foods right after workout.

Thanks for the info. Haven't watched the videos yet. I'll check them out when I get home.

[Facade]

More/most importantly is knowing how many calories you are burning, and how many you are consuming. You can do all the cardio in the world, but if you are eating more calories than you are burning, you wont lose weight.

25 lbs in 3 months is definitely doable.

What Ak49 said.

Are you able to jump rope? Perhaps you could do a HIIT-routine?

[7Akira]

I work @ an MD's office and I know a Physical Therapist would recommend wall pushups to people with torn rotator cuffs out of surgery and older patients. I hope you don't take it the wrong way, I'm not saying you're old or weak but the purpose of this is that it stimulates blood flow to those areas and strengthens you at the same time.

Work up to 150 wall pushups. Like 3 sets of 50. Even when that is easily accomplishable you'll still feel a burn in areas that you didn't feel before and it's excellent for your tendons too.

I know your injury is a pectoral muscle tear and not the shoulder but pushups target those areas anyhow and this will definitely help you with conditioning that muscle in a low impact way and help your elbow tendons tremendously. Hope this helps and best of luck on your recovery!

[bugsybairan]

What happened to your elbow? Hyperextended it? 2 years ago and it still bothers you? Sorry, I'm worried cause I'm injury prone and I don't wanna stop boxing hahahaha.

Anyway, you can start running, just invest on a decent pair of running shoes. Or you might wanna try biking. Best way to reach your goal is proper diet. Goodluck mate

[Grimgash]

- you can't spot reduce fat around your gut. you will lose fat all over your body.

- doing ab exercises will increase metabolic rate in this area, making it easier to lose fat.

- interval training.

- which machine? for me, elliptical because i can sustain fast high heart rate for longer because my legs aren't strong enough to sustain high heart rate in cycling. elliptical is way more expensive.

- non-machine cardio you can do in your living room that are all over the internet e.g. burpees.

- if you like to eat, eat a lot after your workout. this period is the anabolic period where your body needs food and can carry more of it. eating in this timeframe increases your insulin sensitivity for up to 8 hours after which is a good thing. try not to eat fruit with your meal and there are also other food groups except greens which cannot mix with other food groups.

- your gut could be fat but for some people its bloating caused by things like excess fibres or protein or carbs which your digestive tract cant cope with or lordosis or weak TVA muscle.

could write a bunch of stuff but getting bored and gotta watch lara schooling trout replay.

Highlighted important parts I wanted to comment on.

Firstly he's 100% right you can't spot burn fat on any area of your body. The body doesn't work that way...You can never do abs and get nice looking abs by only lifting weights. As a male the waist has a different type of fat though so while it burns body wide it's LESS likely to burn from your waist. It's going to sound silly and might look dumb...but use those wraps they make for women (which are fairly useless for them) around your waist which will cause you to sweat more and increases body heat in that area. Being a different "type" of fat in that area the increased blood flow due to constriction will help burn more evenly.

As for which machine to use I actually dislike the bike or elliptical. Cross trainer or treadmill are the best. Stair stepper too but for me that's a lot of effort for little full leg useage.

Also as for eating right after you workout...to burn fat or build more "lean" muscle I would suggest not. More recent studies show you want to workout on an empty stomach and wait about an hour or so after you workout to eat. Your body is producing more natural hormones in that time because it's lacking the calories to support it. It's similar to intermittent fasting which would help (but its NOT fun and hard to maintain forewarning before you look into it).

The MOST important advice I can give you is this...don't do cardio hardcore. If you're doing cardio to burn JUST fat not lose overall body weight and get a more CUT look that's not from your genetics....keep your heart rate lower and make sure you can have a convo or sing while doing it. If you're at home sing while doing cardio to keep that in check. Once you get past a certain point your body will indeed eat some muscle on top of fat and youll lose more weight, but you won't lean out. It's all on your personal cardio level though, some people can run for four miles and be fine, while some get winded at half.

That's the advice I can give you, it's based on the more modern principles and they do have multiple studies to back them...look into them if you want and if you try them I hope they work out for you.

One last thing to leave for you. Not everything works for everyone. Get a lot of advice from multiple people and TRY THEM YOURSELF. I tried training a friend how I personally do, mostly lifting, and he got weaker and didn't get the same results while seeming "softer". While my girlfriend I gave my routine to and she leaned out got a lot stronger and looks great. It comes down to you and what your body can work with. So advice is great, practical application is best.

[Grimgash]

I work @ an MD's office and I know a Physical Therapist would recommend wall pushups to people with torn rotator cuffs out of surgery and older patients. I hope you don't take it the wrong way, I'm not saying you're old or weak but the purpose of this is that it stimulates blood flow to those areas and strengthens you at the same time.

Work up to 150 wall pushups. Like 3 sets of 50. Even when that is easily accomplishable you'll still feel a burn in areas that you didn't feel before and it's excellent for your tendons too.

I know your injury is a pectoral muscle tear and not the shoulder but pushups target those areas anyhow and this will definitely help you with conditioning that muscle in a low impact way and help your elbow tendons tremendously. Hope this helps and best of luck on your recovery!

This is another good point for recovering muscles. Some workouts target those other areas as well which some people don't know. Also your body is a cog and works together cohesively. You can train other muscles to help with the support of your injured ones reducing the load or stress on them.