Will doing this give me results?!


Question: Will doing this give me results?
Saturday: Lift weights (Upper body), Elliptical Trainer

Monday: 30 minutes+ elliptical trainer (Morning)

Tuesday: Same as Monday

Wednesday: Lift Weights (Lower body), Elliptical Trainer

I am a 15 year old girl. Just want to tone body. 5'3 and 113-114 pounds (:

Answers:

You are at a good weight 114 for 5'3 girl is very good anything less than 110 comes in under weight category. Yeah the routine is simple enough but want to say one thing..try to do your exercises on alternate days because for Thursday and Friday (back 2 back) you are idle.
So just try to do the exercises on alternate basis if you can't manage them on the regular basis...add jogging to your fitness regime to keep your body in tone.



I think you need a better plan.

What do you do on Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays?
Upper Body once a week and Lower Body once a week won’t get you toned., even if you push yourself, feel the burn, get sore and then heal stronger...you would lose your brand new muscle mass within a week.

If your goal is toning, you should concentrate on weight training and do aerobics whenever you’re not weight training, allowing rest days whenever you need it, so you’re flexible. According to my experience, you can never stick to a rigid schedule. Depending on what you eat, how well you slept and other factors, some days you’ll be full of energy while other days you’ll want to rest. Your body does not care what day of the week it is.


You need at least a day or two of rest between weight training sessions (in your 20s and younger), two or three days (in your 30s), three or four days (in your 40s), four or five days (in your 50s)…and so on. The older you get, the longer you have to wait for DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) so you can repair stronger and not interfere with your healing.

You do not get stronger while just doing weight training, you get stronger doing weight training AND eating healthy (lots of carbs for the exercising as it is anaerobic and fat burning shuts down, and lots of proteins for the repairing stronger) AND pushing yourself just a little bit beyond your strength, feel the burn, so you damage your muscle fiber and THEN you have to rest to repair stronger, providing that you rest long enough between sessions, but not too long or you'd lose your brand new extra muscle mass in a couple of days after the soreness is gone (muscle mass is a “use it or lose it” system as well as a “you need more, you’ll get more” system). If you do it right, you should be able to add a couple of reps each session, for the same physical effort, until you need to add more weights and lower the reps.

Listen to your body. Go gentle at first so you get an idea of your body’s capability and from there, you can go up (in weights, reps or frequency) until you reach a comfortable level of progression that fits YOU. Some people like to push harder, get more soreness, but then, they need more days to heal. Others don’t push so hard, get mild soreness, heal faster and have to do it more often.
The whole process has a lot to do about your pain threshold.


Do whole body weight training, doing calisthenics and using small weights. Do not separate your Upper and Lower body. Only bodybuilders should do that when they spend hours on weight training.


Anaerobics:
Get 2.5lbs, 5lbs and 8lbs dumbbells and some wrist/ankle weights like 1.5lbs, 2.5lbs and 5lbs adjustable (1 to 5).
Do only ONE SET to failure and rest at least every other day.
For the weight training, do calisthenics (regular and reverse crunches, lunges, squats, push-ups, heel raises…) and use free weights (leg extension, butt/hip extension, back left lift, dumbbells curls and other arm/shoulder/back exercises). Make sure that you eat well so you get a good blood sugar level since your body cannot use body fat doing anaerobics (not enough oxygen, since it’s too intense).
Squats are the best (quads, hamstrings and gluteus – Lower Body) but also do lunges (quads – Lower Body), push-ups (chest, triceps and shoulders – Upper Body) and any exercise you feel that you need…dumbbells curls for biceps (Upper Body) or using a ThighMaster for hip adductors (inner thighs – Lower Body).

My personal whole body workout is push-ups (Upper Body), lunges (Lower Body), back strengtheners (UB), door squats (LB), shoulder lateral raises (UB), leg extension (LB), triceps extensions (UB), ThighMaster (LB), dumbbells curls (UB), side leg lifts (LB), regular and reverse crunches (abs) and heel raises (LB). It takes me about an hour but I stretch a lot between exercises as I stretch the muscle I am about to train to “unlock” it and avoid injury and then I stretch it again after I trained it as it tightened, to help in workout recovery, reduce soreness and loosen it up to restore good joints mobility. So between two exercises, I will stretch the muscle I just worked out and the one I’m about to work out. But you’re young and might not need all that stretching, just a whole body stretch before (after your warm up) and after your whole session.

Then, if I have an extra half an hour, I do more regular and reverse crunches (abs, which are the only exercises I do twice) and upright row (UB), butt/hip extension (LB), arm kickbacks (UB), back leg lifts (LB) and seated rows (UB).


Aerobics:
Choose 3 main activities to avoid boredom and challenge your body in different ways (I walk/jog, swim and bike).



If you want to lose weight.. you have to burn more calories than you eat. So balance your food first and then think about exercises.




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