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longer excercise
| Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:57pm |
So I was watching the Today show yesterday and they were talking about women's heart health. The two speakers said that women who are trying to lose weight should excercise 60-90 minutes a day rather than the 30 minutes a day that most people suggest. SO what do you all think? I am working on about 60 between cardio and weights, but there are days missed in there for whatever reason. Oh and I have seriously seen the link between strength training and weight loss. I have not been doing weights for a few weeks because of sick kids and this and that and my losses were all less than a pound per week. I went back to faithful weight training this last week and have lost 3lbs!

I was exercising about 30 mins a day, and I have worked it up to about 60 mins. (3 days a week 45 mins cardio and about 20 mins weight, 2 days 60 mins cardio.)
I'm hoping it will help, because I haven't really lost anything lately.
I am definitely meeting the 60-90 minute guideline each day, but----if all you have time for is 20 minutes, then doing 20 minutes is better than doing no minutes.
I think its easy to get into the 'all or nothing' way of thinking - if 'they' say do 60-90 and I can't, why bother? If I ate unhealthy this afternoon, I might as well eat junk for supper...and then you're off plan and off track and feeling bad about yourself...
For me, this journey has been about a huge number of small, consistent changes. I started with exercise three times a week, once for an hour, twice for 30 minutes. To sustain the weight loss, I've had to keep increasing the duration/difficulty of what I am doing, but it gets easier and easier to do things that are actually harder. In fact, no matter how hard I try, I can never get to that level of pain of the first six weeks...
Good for you for getting back to strength training - I love how my arms and legs feel after lifting, and I actually have a pretty well defined set of muscles in those areas - plus I can lift things that I never thought possible.
So if you can find the time to exercise 60-90 minutes on some days,go for it - if you can only find 10 minutes three times a day - go for that...it will all add up.
Best wishes on your journey!
SJ
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