Fitness Fridays Health Club #4: Move It & Lose It!

[My Peanuts]

Well, Christa and Buckner, you were right. A lot of my leg pain was from my shoes. Not all, but a lot. I got new running shoes and I walked faster than I have with a higher incline than before without pain for 30 minutes! Last night I worked on my legs. Less weight and more reps (which is what I read women are supposed to do) and I was on the elliptical trainer for 30 min and walked for 30 min.

[christa]

Less weight and more reps (which is what I read women are supposed to do) and I was on the elliptical trainer for 30 min and walked for 30 min.

Depends on who you are and what you read.

If you're wanting to work on endurance - less weight, more reps.

If you're wanting to work on strength - more weight, less reps.

Personally, I am working on strength. I lift as heavy as I can and usually try to do around 8-10 reps. And I'm seeing fantastic results! BUT, I am past my weight loss goal and now am trying to build muscle and am not concentrating on so much fat loss. You may want to concentrate on endurance. When you do more reps, your heart rate increases and you are more or less getting a cardio workout through lifting. It's an awesome effect.

And then again, if you do want to build your strength, you could always switch it up.

[Toby's my baby]

I just got a chance now to check in. I had weight training and basketball practice today. As soon as I got there (8 AM) we ran a couple laps, and then warmed up. For the warm up we did a couple leg exercises, a few push ups and crunches and some other stuff. Then we hit the weight room. I had a BLAST, I LOVE weight training!! I did pull downs, bench pressing, squats, and a BUNCH of other stuff but I have no idea what it is called. After about an hour and fifteen minutes in the weightroom we had basketball practice.

All of this took place at our new school, where I only knew about 2 people. Everyone was so nice, and helped me out, and the coach watched my form so I did everything right. I'm very excited about this, I hope I get "ripped". lol


I've heard in several different places that muscle weighs more than fat. So if I am working out, and gaining muscle, am I going to see a weight loss difference? Or is it going to be more of a muscle replacing fat??