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I have been going to the gym for a while now....

I have found now though that i really enjoy doing free weights... Is this a bad thing for weight loss, should I be concentrating on that before doing lots of weights...

 I also do 15 mins of boxing, 20 minutes on the treadmill at 9.5km/h and then either 30 on the bike or Cross trainer...

Should I just do light weights with more reps or continue with what I am doing...

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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" MICHELANGELO

Weight training in itself isn't too bad, it's how you do it. Rather than doing the usual 3 consecutive sets of 10 reps, try doing a weights circuit, rotating between chest, back, and legs, without a break in between. Do about 15 reps and go through the circuit about 5 times.

 

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SO doing 3 sets of 12 reps, waiting 1 minute in between won't be as beneficial then.... I will try the circuit thing this week and see how I go.... If I am doing 15 reps probably best that I drop the weight a little bit.

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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" MICHELANGELO

the body building people will tell you its all about the weights, diet and minimal cardio

 

 

Well tried what you said Ray, with the circuit.... Doing it that way really makes you sweat, the only problem I had though going from machine to machine was that people would cut in a wreck my momentum......

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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" MICHELANGELO

Lol, you're right m0rgan but very few of them would've ever had any success with that method. It's a long tedious process and most people will give up before they see too much benefit.

Ray

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m0rgan:

the body building people will tell you its all about the weights, diet and minimal cardio

 

But don’t elite body builders have such poor aerobic fitness that they would struggle to run 200m?

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hey but they have low bodyfat ...thats what counts

Perhaps they have different ideas on what is healthy that what I do.

 

Personally I would prefer to be able to run for 2 minutes rather than have magnificent muscles but each to their own.

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i agree completely, its fun to run

I'm a huge free-weights fan, Ludacris.  My "cardio" sessions usually involve a couple of weights I can change around.

If you're dead-set straight that your form/posture is correct - grab a <long bar that you stick weights on> stake out a little area.

Go Squats, Lunges, Bent over rows, bicep curls and <things where you lift the bar from your shoulders to the ceiling with your elbows not locked out> in a round, rather than set/rep set/rep

You get into a rhythm for the first "round" then go at half speed with a bit more weight for the next, then less weight and more reps the next etc...

Anyway, thats how I do it.. the machines get a bit crowded and I end up cramping all over the place. Not to mention I'm too short for some of the arm ones.  I made dad buy me a weight bench for birthday/christmas present.. so I can do it at home now.

But I get off to the gym to do their bodypump classes.  The only problem I have is giving myself a day of rest, my poor muscles. I tone it down and go for walks.. but even then I vamp that up with weights (despite several people advising walking weights don't add to intensity and are bad for people with high blood pressure -eg, me-, it suits me fine and accounts for some of my kg loss)

-Em

excuse my non-technical terms, I'm sure you get what I'm talking about 

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Just continue what you're doing, but at least concentrate on your targeted parts. Hardest part is the abdominal part