Newbie to Training would like some advice - Training Plan and Thermopure

[rosaclare]

Okay,
Ive been on SW (well known weight loss group) for a good few moths and decided to up the ante by joining the gym.

I'm looking to loose weight and tone up - not bulk up!

I now train monday to friday (one day in an excercise class) with alternate cv / weights days and have sat and sun off. (Plan done by a PT at my local Gym)

My first question is.... can I mix my CV days with my weights days? Im finding I'm doing an hour and a half on CV days (ish) and only around 45 minutes on a weights day and wonder if this is enough?

The second question is Ive seen a suppliment on here called Thermopure, and the benifits of this looked tempting. For the kind of training i'm doing is it worh using?

Please help, Im totally ignorant when it comes to things like this.

[Just a Girl]

Are you a female? If so, you are going to find it hard to gain muscle so there is absolutely no way in hell you are going to bulk up just from lifting weights.

With that aside, why on earth are you doing 90 minutes cardio? There really is no need. If you are looking for fat loss, HIIT is your friend. Over in 20 minutes, no fuss.

If you wanted to do steady state cardio on weights days then I would recommend doing it after you hit the weights. If you are doing HIIT, I prefer to do it on separate days to my weights as I am only fit for vomiting at the end of either session.

I can't recommend anything about the thermopure as I've never taken it and don't know anything about it so I'll leave that for someone else.

Welcome to the forum

[dope540]

top advice from jag. she has achieved amazing results, have a look on her blog and see.

i personally do tabata. 4 minutes and its over.

[rosaclare]

Hi Thanks - yes female.

I really am a novice when it comes to this so you'll have to excuse the thickness! lol

my plan was given to me by the PT
10 -15 mins warm up - Tread Mill
15-20 mins sit down bike thingie
20 ish mins cross trainer
1000 mtrs in 5 mins @ resistance 5 on the rowing machine
5-10 mins cool down on the Tread Mill again.

then stretches to cool down

The weights I do are Leg Press, Seated Row and the arm thing the other way round.

I'm sorry Im so vague. Im litterally only in my 3rd week - I was a swimmer years ago but never paid any attention to the gym.

And I'm sorry but i dont know what you mean when you say HIIT.

Thanks for your help though and sorry i'm so dizzy! lol

R

[dope540]

HIIT means high intensity interval training. you do a short bout of high intensity stuff, then a little bit of a rest, another bout of intenseness, bit of a rest. an example of this can be on the bike.

go all out for 30 seconds, then then next 30 seconds slow it right down and cruise for a bit. when that 30 seconds is over, repeat. so another 30 seconds pedalling as hard and as fast as you can. rinse and repeat till the target total time is up.

training for females shouldn't be any different from males. the general acceptance of training with free weight will make you big is a myth. to get big, you would need to consume a LOT of calories and have hormonal enchancers (testosterone) as the levels in females aren't high enough to get you bigger.

[technoloops]

if you run outside, try sprinting for 3 lamp posts then light jog for 3 lamp posts and so forth.

[rosaclare]

Thanks lol - dont really do running though - my body isnt made for it, I'm more of an incline walker!

Slightly annoyed though. Weigh in last night, 5 days out of 7 at the gym, on plan with my food and maintinated my weight! I know, I know, muscle is heavier than fat, but doesnt stop you feeling a bit disapointed! lol

[technoloops]

"Slightly annoyed though. Weigh in last night, 5 days out of 7 at the gym, on plan with my food and maintinated my weight!"

lol, only a woman would be disappointed! :P I'm the opposite, i've lost about 3/4 stone in fat but have managed to keep my strength up and even upped the weights the deadlift (i strength train, not bodybuild). I less bulkier but not cos i've lost muscle mass but fat. Well at least you now know that your diet at the mo is providing the perfect calorie needs for your regime, so now you can tweak your diet to promote weight loss. good luck.

On the thermopure, i've tried it and it works great, take a bit getting used to but it really energises you and you feel like you can go on forever. you'll also sweat buckets so drink lots of fluid.

[rosaclare]

Cheers Technoloops

Maintained is OK - at least I haven't put on - but I'd prefer to be loosing!
When you say tweek my diet, you mean as in eat less or different things or ???

Is there any downside to the thermopure?

TA

[technoloops]

Hi,

Regarding what i meant by tweaking is that consider your diet and look to reduce or remove white carbs (potatoes, white pasta, white bread, white rice) and prefer to eat brown carbs (brown rice, brown pasta, wholewheat seeded bread). Even with brown carbs, reduce your intake of that and replace with with lots of fresh veg cos veg is a source of carbs but not a high GI carb. Since you're reducing your cals from reducing/changing your carb intake you'll want to eat more protein, depends on what you like but cost effective protein like tinned tuna and egg whites are good with the odd egg yolk. The extra protein will give you the extra cals which is lost from reducing carbs from your diet but excess protein cals won't get stored as fat. I've done this and have found it has made a marked difference and add Thermopure, it has helped me reduce my fat but maintained my strength and shape (although the mid rift fat seems bloody stubborn! sigh...). Thermopure is great IMO, the first time you use you may feel a little naucseus but it will pass and you'll get used to it soon and you may get rhaspberry burps! But thats the extent of the drawbacks tbh. I've not felt any other untowards effects from it. Be prepared to sweat alot though which isn't a bad thing so be warey of drinking lots of water while training and drinking lots after. You'll probably find that you feel more energetic on Thermopure too. IMO looking at your diet will be more beneficial to reducing fat than just taking Thermopure, Thermopure just gives the fat reduction an extra kick. I maybe vain and update my avatar pic Looking at that picture and comparing to what i look like now is quite a marked difference in bulk yet i'm actually alot stronger now than back when that was taken a few months ago.