I just can't get my waist down!!! I AM FRUSTRATED!

"Dally" wrote in message
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Brad Sheppard wrote:
Hi Healthy,

I'm in the same boat as you - i've lost 18 lbs but no inches off my
waist. All I can say is try more exercise, fewer calories - hang in
there. You can look better by maintaining good posture - situps may
help with that. What is your waist size Healthy? 40 inches is obese
for men (mine's 38 inches, I'm 5' 8" 158 lbs).

Brad, I haven't mentioned this in a long time because you're a grown-up
and you're the one most capable of making decisions for yourself...

But I've long thought that you were exercising wrong.

Or your long-slow cardio might be good for your heart, but it does
diddly-squat for fat storage.

If you want to really get at the fat storage you need to ditch the 60
minute treadmill workouts or million-lap swims and go for high intensity
interval training, weight-lifting and lots of cross-training.

Your goal shouldn't be to rack up calories burned with exercise, your
goal should be to change the way your body calls for energy out of
storage. You want to turn into what Covert Bailey calls a "better
butter burner".

HTH

Dally
you're a smart lady, Dally!

Dally wrote in message ...
Brad Sheppard wrote:

Your goal shouldn't be to rack up calories burned with exercise, your
goal should be to change the way your body calls for energy out of
storage. You want to turn into what Covert Bailey calls a "better
butter burner".

yes your interval-training suggestion is well-supported by practice.

Only by pushing the body will it respond, and just doing the same
thing every day (like what I'm doing) isn't really pushing it.

I made the mistake of putting on some nifty new touring tires onto my
bike, and now my rolling resistance is so low I've got to start
looking for some hills to climb...

Heywood

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Dally wrote in message ...
Brad Sheppard wrote:

Your goal shouldn't be to rack up calories burned with exercise, your
goal should be to change the way your body calls for energy out of
storage. You want to turn into what Covert Bailey calls a "better
butter burner".

yes your interval-training suggestion is well-supported by practice.

Only by pushing the body will it respond, and just doing the same
thing every day (like what I'm doing) isn't really pushing it.

I made the mistake of putting on some nifty new touring tires onto my
bike, and now my rolling resistance is so low I've got to start
looking for some hills to climb...

Heywood

232/192/182

I agree with you all - but there's one problem: I already do
high-intensity training. I use the Hard-Easy routine of Dr. Mirkin -
Hard one day, easy the next. On my hard days I get my pulse up to 90%
of its max.

(Heywood Mogroot) wrote in message . com...
Dally wrote in message ...
Brad Sheppard wrote:

Your goal shouldn't be to rack up calories burned with exercise, your
goal should be to change the way your body calls for energy out of
storage. You want to turn into what Covert Bailey calls a "better
butter burner".

yes your interval-training suggestion is well-supported by practice.

Only by pushing the body will it respond, and just doing the same
thing every day (like what I'm doing) isn't really pushing it.

I made the mistake of putting on some nifty new touring tires onto my
bike, and now my rolling resistance is so low I've got to start
looking for some hills to climb...

Heywood

232/192/182

(Brad Sheppard) wrote in message . com...
I agree with you all - but there's one problem: I already do
high-intensity training. I use the Hard-Easy routine of Dr. Mirkin -
Hard one day, easy the next. On my hard days I get my pulse up to 90%
of its max.

I suppose any fat you've got then is going to be where it is now,
until it is burned off.

Makes sense. The core belly fat is a bit different from other fats,
more wired in or something.

Brad Sheppard wrote:

I agree with you all - but there's one problem: I already do
high-intensity training. I use the Hard-Easy routine of Dr. Mirkin -
Hard one day, easy the next. On my hard days I get my pulse up to 90%
of its max.

A couple of comments on this. (Please don't take this as flaming or
criticism, just a bit of brain-storming because you mentioned you
weren't getting the results you wanted.)

First, the max heart-rate thing is usually bull****. It's probably a
better idea to use the Borg Perceived Exertion scale. Frankly, I use
the "I'm not dead yet so I have a bit more in me" version of the final
sprint. In fairness, my early training was as a long distance runner
and I grew up thinking that you were SUPPOSED to feel like throwing up
when you finished.

Second, if you've been doing the same thing for two years (and my memory
says you have been) then you're due for a big change. Our bodies get
used to any routine.

How about you post what you already do and we suggest what we'd tweak?
Post your stats again, too, if you would.

There's a guy who's frequently at the gym when I am, always walking for
an hour on a treadmill. I've watched him for years - he never gets any
less tubby. I'm sure he's one of those "fit fat" people, i.e., has a
healthy heart, but I've always wondered why he didn't change something.
If you're going to spend an hour a day in the gym you may as well get
a good body out of it, IMO.

Dally
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