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Advice re online exercise course

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theDudesmummy · 25/10/2020 10:08

Hi, I put this in Exercise but got no replies so am posting here for more traffic, forgive me. It is about health but also style as I can no longer wear most of my clothes because of weight gain...I look awful...

I am hoping for some advice. I am a woman, in 50s (post menopause), unfit but no specific musculoskeletal problems, a little overweight (tummy fat a problem). Recently diagnosed as slightly hypertensive and need to get fitter plus lose about a stone. The diet bit I don't need help with, I have lost weight before (mainly through low carb and cutting back alcohol) and I can do that again. But this time I want to also improve my fitness. I want to join some sort of structured exercise programme online. By this I mean something that is pre-planned out for me and not just a YouTube channel where I can pick what to do (because then there is a good chance I will pick to do it tomorrow, not today!). It doesn't need to be free, I am happy to pay for it, if it is good, and safe for someone my age. I am not looking for an impossibly skinny twenty year old girl in lycra telling me to get a beach body... just a sensible but hopefully not boring exercise programme to get me moving a bit.) Can anyone help?

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hopeishere · 26/10/2020 07:31

Following with interest!

havanka · 26/10/2020 07:54

@justanotherneighinparadise

Any freebie sites or videos people can recommend?

Also the Les Mills recommendation, do they do spin classes?

Don't know if it's exactly spin as I don't do it, but Les Mills has two indoor bike programmes, Sprint and RPM

for the OP, Davina McCall has a programme called Own Your Goals. Again, I haven't tried it, but when I was in your position around seven years ago, I started with her DVDs and found them excellent to kick start my fitness regime from home.

12in21 · 26/10/2020 10:21

Les Mills online gives you things to do on each day.

woodhill · 26/10/2020 10:28

Pahla B is aimed at over 50s and does lots of workouts. She is good fun and has a timer.

theDudesmummy · 26/10/2020 10:43

Oh wow, so many options! I had to start somewhere so yesterday I signed up for a four-week Fat Burning programme on Fitness Blender. I am looking into all the others too, though. Thanks so much everyone.

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