Comments on: Why Why Why??? It’s Your Own Fault Your Still Fat

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:02:59 +0000

TaylorR,

I agree with most of what you say in this article, however I disagree with one thing in your reply to Joncravefit. You state that you have to get your heartrate down to a resting rate, or its not interval training. This is simply not true – it is one form of interval training, but not the only way to do “interval training”.

In fact – one of the hardest, and most beneficial interval training types is the “Tabata Protocol”. This type of interval trianing is set to a 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off setup, for a total of 4 minutes. I tell you what, if you are doing Tabata intervals properly, your heartrate will only go up the entire time. This is very advanced training, however you can build up to it safely ina reasonable amount of time.

Please keep up the spread of good information, I enjoy reading yours and other articles on this site!

By: TaylorR

TaylorR — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:08:03 +0000

Thats great about your sister! I hope she keeps her new lifestyle up so she never has to go through the rut of diet again. As for your gf… your first best tactic would be to try and be active together. Ask her if she will workout with you because working out is important to you and you want both of you to be the healthiest possible! Or if thats too forward ask her to go do active dates… walk at night, go hiking, biking, whatever. These can be fun things to do and of course promotes a healthy lifestyle. Try to turn the tables… don’t tell her she should start eating healthy but say that you want to start watching what you eat because you’ve felt sluggish or something lately this will help her eat better too! The point is make it a “couple program”.

By: DanielM

DanielM — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:48:12 +0000

I agree that, though I am a man…many thicker-bigger women I have dated ALL have the same excuses…(I don’t like to exercise, I like my body the way it is, this is me, take it or leave it…but the women I’ve seen think they’re super attractive when in fact they’re not and I’m not really sure how to get my point across to them without hurting their feelings and getting them to see and understand that the way they are living is unhealthy…I’m an active person and like to eat and live healthy so it’s important that whomever I decide to be with has a similar view on things). My sister, ex-roommate and I started doing P90X…prior to starting my sister looked like she was 7 months pregnant….in 3 weeks with following the diet and exercise program to a “T” she was completely flat and toned with a 15 lbs loss…though it is a 90-day program, she achieved her goal in only 3 weeks…my goal was to gain weight and I actually gained 25 lbs of muscle in 3 weeks…still working on more

Does anyone have any advice on how I can motivate and help my g/f to understand that though yes I love her I foresee problems in the future with my physical attraction towards her as she continually eats junk food and actually laughs when I get irritated about it.

By: TaylorR

TaylorR — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:17:22 +0000

Wow Joncravefit… great response! Intervals rock, I def agree with you! It is awesome to make your way through the interval, I feel dead at the end bu so accomplished, much more than if I just spend 45 minutes jogging! In 20 minutes I feel like I just ran 5 miles! haha. It is important though that during those lower rest periods you lower the rate to an actual “rest” to allow your heart rate to go down otherwise it’s not true intervals. Thanks for the response, do you ever run outside for sprint intervals? My favorite is doing stadium sprints at the local high school.

By: Joncravefit

Joncravefit — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:41:08 +0000

Couldnt agreemore, intervals are becoming the wave of the future, In my experience with interval training, which I have been experiementing over the last two or so years with, have fun with it, it gives you the opportunity to switch it up keep it interesting and best of all benefit the whole time. I am probably cinsidered a gym rat, so as for doing interval training inside, I switch a lot between the stairs and elliptical, and treadmill. The more I personally switch it up the less of a chance it gives me to come to a drastic conclusion in my head like : I’m bored, tired and want to go home!!! switching keeps my mind moving and my body cranking, the key is truly to make it hurt, the harder you work the better the results… Lots of high intensity followed by smaller slower pace movements, keep the intensity up and keep those higher intensity levels longer then the slower….I can again only say from my experience, but it feels amazing to comete with myself everytime I am in the gym….the most important thing is to do it for YOOU!!! compete with yourself, play mind games with yourself, it sounds crazy but it works, start telling yourself your going to beat your last cardio effort, or your going to go at that high intensity for another 20 seconds longer than you were originally scheduled to kick it back down to the slower interval…..just have fun and the results will follow…good post thanks!!

By: TaylorR

TaylorR — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:11:31 +0000

Thanks Karen... but i hate to be the bearer of bad news but yes it's true. Running requires energy if you're doing steady state (running the same speed for a bit) so after a while it turns to your muscle. Your muscle is your metabolism burner so if you lose muscle you lose metabolism. The best way for running (because I love to run too) are intervals... I actually just finished a DVD to help you (it's free) so maybe check it out it goes into much more detail than I can go into right now! Let me know what you think. Cardio DVD

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:27:40 +0000

So true. So many people seem to be in denial when it comes to weight loss. I can’t tell you how many of my overweight friends follow either Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig, but don’t excercise…and wonder why they can’t maintain a healthy weight. I am new to running and was a little surprised by your statment “take for instance running, sure you will gain endurance and lose weight but you will slow your metabolism, lose lean muscle mass and not get what you want.” Is that really true? I thought running would speed my metabolism and make my legs more muscular. Bummer if thats true