Nice to see this thread bumped, I've been in the habit of going to the gym lately and I do about 3 miles on the treadmill daily. When I started in early October, my main goal was to lose weight and get healthy, because I'm trying to get into firefighter recruit school when the next session starts up around January. I'm doing a combo proper diet and fitness routine, when I started I was at 243 pounds, and as of today I'm down to 232.
I stick to my diet 6 days a week, and so far it's going pretty well. I eat 3 meals a day, not including snacks (mostly nuts like walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, pistachios) and the occasional piece of fruit, and as for meals in the morning I eat 2 scrambled eggs, 2 pieces of bacon, and 1 piece of whole grain toast. The only meat I eat other than bacon on my diet is grilled chicken, I grill it all about once a week now and just throw some spice on there to give it some flavor, and then I split my lunch and dinner between a salad with grilled chicken and brown rice with grilled chicken.
I don't really have an idea of what vitamins my body needs, but since I don't have health insurance atm I just take one of the men's one-a-day and hope that's enough lol. I only drink water on diet days and some Gatorade G2 after a workout, and I've established a nice workout routine. My workout routine is Mon-Fri, I don't do it on the weekends (Saturday is my non-diet day), and it's working pretty well for me. I start on the treadmill, do 3 miles (walk the first 10th, then run for 4/10ths, then repeat till I hit 3 miles), then I do 40 crunches per set, then I hit the triceps machine (I haven't been very strong since I left my warehouse job over 15 months ago) and do about 30 reps per set at 25 pounds, then I hit the biceps machine and do 30 reps on that at 50 pounds. I alternate between the ab flexing machine, riding the bike (usually do a couple miles in a little over 8 minutes), and doing leg pushups.
Since I've never been an established member of a gym before I'm kinda feeling my way along, but so far it's going pretty well. I figure if I stay at this pace I should lose another 20 pounds in the next 2 months, and I really think I need to start taking muscle building vitamins to go with my workouts so I can gain strength while shedding fat simultaneously, but I don't know nearly enough about it to make an informed decision yet.
Anyways, long post aside, it's nice to have goals and having a daily purpose, so I'm not short on motivation
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