what is best to get into shape? fasting/ gym? excercise/ cycling/ running?

[schooling123]

I have got a membership to the gym but wanted to ask general advice what si best to get to shape? fasting/ gym? excercise/ cycling/ running? I work full time so would need to do some at home and some in the gym. Please advise

'Training your body' to gain its energy from different food sources is utter bollocks. It comes naturally to your body. What avoiding combining food groups actually does is limit you to one high energy food source instead of a combination. So it naturally limits your cals. Fine as a calorie cutting strategy, but no pseudo science needed.

Going to the gym got me through my divorce, better than therapy. I literally don't care what it costs because I don't smoke, drink, take drugs or eat take always really, so the hour a day of me time is priceless

When you say "do weights", would something like a body pump class 2-3 times a week work?

One you enjoy. Ideally, one you can build into your life so it no longer feels like 'exercise'. Cycling or running to work are perfect for that.

Eat less - exercise more.
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Hey as long as you aren't fannying around with 2.5kgs on the les mills bars, it has to be a challenge

Body weight seems to be the way to get going but once it feels easy and it will quickly if you're blasting 20 mins a day, then it's weights time and you'll see the results.

But the thing is wlth bodyweight training you work to your ability and make it harder by increasing reps/modifying the exercises (e.g. Going from normal press-up to decline press-ups). And surely if you just keep increasing the duration/intensity as well it won't becone 'easy'? Or am I missing something?

Yeah I'm sure you're right, I haven't got past the being about to do a press up stage yet lol

Yes, you can definitely make bodyweight exercises as hard as you like. And I still find doing, say, leg presses with fairly heavy weights easier than doing proper press-ups (which is why my trainer keeps making me do them. Evil woman.)

Re time for the gym, I try to go before work a couple of times a week and then once at the weekend. I find it's great for clearing my head and stopping the ould whirly stress brain, which is probably why I keep doing it - I don't think I'd keep up exercise I didn't enjoy. That and the fact that I can see the results.

I'm another one for weight lifting. I generally do 25 minutes of intense cardio (usually a 5k run) followed by 40 minutes of full body weights/core exercises 4 to 5 times a week.

I don't follow a diet, I just try to eat healthy foods and listen to my body about when it's hungry and when it's full.

Weights/ strength training -
Walking
Callanetics - great for toning
Increase the amount of protein
I feel strange if I don't exercise .

I eat fewer calories for weight loss, cardio for heart/lungs/happiness and heavy lifting for shape/strength/confidence

In my personal opinion body pump is more cardio than weights and the speed means I don't get correct form.

Totally agree Red

this is from Bodypump, twice per week.

Nice Katharina

What I want to know is, all these bodyweight-HIIT people who keep popping up on my Facebook - Emily Skye, Kayla Itisines, Joe Wickes body coach dude - those types - do they get their amazing physiques from just doing that or are they weight training too? I'd love to know. If they are weight training this tells us that what they are plugging isn't quite sufficient, is it? (I am assuming their diets are exemplary.)

Wow! Impressive!!

I'm looking at joining a gym and wanted to do body pump but they don't do it.

Now due to injury I can't do impact, so no HIIT, no step, no insanity, no 30 day shred, no jumping up and down doing star jumps, etc.

They do these classes, would any of these be similar to bodypump?

Body attack
Body combat
Cxworx

They do other classes some of which I know I can't do like HIIT and stuff I think I can do like body conditioning which I think is pilates type stuff and then spin and yoga

Not sure what those three there are like though. I might have done combat years ago, kind of martial art stuff? Why don't they do bodypump?? Is it a bit old fashioned now?

Don't do body combat if you can't do inpact. It's a cardio class with loads of jumping up and down. I love it but it doesn't sound suitable.

no, those classes are not similar to pump. Attack is high impact and CX is core work. Ask your gym what else they have - often there's something like 'muscle work' instead of bodypump

80% diet and 20% exercise unfortunately unless you're Michael phelps you can't out train a bad diet and bad in those terms means a creme egg per year I think

This is timetable from three different days. Might just have to do weights, yoga and swimming.

ask what the total conditioning is, that might be suitable

Great, will ask about that. Thanks.

Check out the Les Mills website for video overviews of the different Body classes.

When I started weight lifting I used Strong lifts 5x5.