Fat 2 Fit #71 – Tips and Tricks from the Forums
Written on August 5, 2009 – 12:00 pm | by Russ Turley
Summer schedule continues this week with a show founded in the forums over at Fat2FitSupport.com. This week we talk about the tips and tricks the listeners and forum goers find helpful. If you contributed to this thread, then you might hear your tip in this episode.
In the e-mail and comments section, Tom wrote in about our body’s ability to become more efficient at a given exercise. The engineer in Tom was taught that a predetermined amount of work is required to perform any given task. This can be seen in running 5 miles and walking 5 miles. You expend the same amount or energy…or do you? Jeff has a very lengthy answer that should convince you.
In the Web Report, Russ shares some more workout suggestions. This time it’s 3 different types of interval workouts. We’ve talked about interval workouts before in a general sense. On a past show we even let you peek under our skirt here at the podcast and brought you on a workout at the Fat 2 Fit Radio gym. It’s a good time. Jeff has a visual news story that shows how many minutes you have to work out at a given exercise to burn off the foods that you eat. If you drink a can of beer, prepare to walk for about 24 minutes to work it off. If you eat a Big Mac and fries, you’ll need to do approximately 200 minutes of yoga to get rid your body of those calories. Be sure to check out the link to see the graph.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
Interval Workouts
Wheel of calories and workouts
Fat 2 Fit #29 – Interval Training
Recipe of the Week:
Three Bean Salad
Homework:
The goal of the homework section is for everyone to be able to do something specific after each show that will help them along with their fitness journey. The homework this week is to take 3 of the tips that we mentioned earlier in the show and apply them to yourself. I know that most of these tips that you heard today probably sounded like really good ideas, but they will have absolutely no impact on you if they just stay as ideas. Choose 3 of them, and then follow through.
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One Response to “Fat 2 Fit #71 – Tips and Tricks from the Forums”
By terry on Aug 31, 2009 | Reply
I just wanted to say that weight loss methods can sound really complicated, but you can keep it simple and still get noticable results. Simply knowing what a portion size is and limiting what you eat to those amounts will do a lot to keeping your calories where they need to be. And then, as the day goes a long and you want something more to eat, just check in with what you haven’t eaten from the Food Pyramid. If you want a snack, for example, and you haven’t had any dairy that day, then go for something dairy…or if you’ve only had one serving of fruit so far, then go for the fruit. The trick is to have eaten the correct number of servings from the food pyramid. Here is a link to a page that helps you know how many servings you should have from which food groups every day http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx
The same is true for exercise. I’ve been hiking the same trail for years (briskly with a nice steep stretch) and it has served me well for controlling my weight. My recent weight gain came when I had a fall injury that dramatically took over my life, so I hiked much less frequently. You will still see reasonable results (and get the many benefits of exercise)if you stick with certain activity that you really like and/or have access to without fretting over whether your body has acclimated to your routine.
It is true for most of us that we are able to be more consistent with getting our exercise if we vary it a bit, and especially if that variety allows us to adapt our routine to external factors like the weather and time constraints. A little variety helps to avoid boredom too. But it doesn’t have to get complicated.