Starting a fitness plan?!
Question:
Starting a fitness plan?
I have joined a gym, signed up to a t-bow class and want to remodel myself.
I used to be slim (endless gorgeous legs) and very very fit. Even taking into account that I am ten years older and have had a child, there is a lot of room for improvement.
I have given my personal trainer at the gym four criteria for my fitness plan:
1. loss of two dress sizes from a uk 12/14 to a uk 8/10.
2. improvement in general aerobic fitness
3. strengthen both my back and knee muscles both damaged
4. Improve my general body condition
My trainer was fine with those, but wants me to decide what I mean by two dress sizes, in kilos.
So what weight loss am I after to achieve a 2 dress size loss?
At present I weigh 66 kilos, am 1m65 and am pear shaped.
Answers:
To lose two dress sizes just because is really no criteria. Glad your trainer pointed that out by asking information on a weight measurement.
You should not worry so much about weight or dress sizes. Your weight ratio according to your height is not bad (165 cm to 66 kg.).
According to the Brocca scale, you should lose about 6 kg. About 14 pounds. But this scale, as all others, is just an estimate for the "average" person (who and how is the "average person????)
The thing is you need "good weight". Muscle weight, and to loose "bad weight" fat. How that adds up in the scale or dress size is secondary. We know muscle weights more than fat. And your dress might get tighter on some places and looser on others depending on you body composition, form, fitness, etc. If you lose your pear shape, but gain good forms, what those the dress tag mean to you?
Just get fit, healthy. Get a good body fat to muscle ratio; improve your general aerobic fitness, strenghten your back and knee muscles, improve your general condition, and then you will wear the dress size you need to wear according to you healthy and fit body, whatever the number in the tag says. That is all there is to it. Do not get obsess with size numbers.
Best of luck to you with the fitness plan.