Wouldn't working out make you lose more weight???
Hello
This is my first time over on this board. I am hoping you guys can answer a question for me.
At the beginning of October I finally broke through a plateau. I lost 6 pounds the first week and and 5 pounds the second week. I guess the euphoria of finally losing weight again motivated me to step up my exercise routine. Before I was just walking 30 minutes a day/ 5 days a week. Now I go to the gym I warm up for 10 minutes and then go on the treadmill for 40 minutes (5 minutes of that is cooling down). I also started weight training. I don't know the names of the machines so you will have to bear with me. I work on my legs and arms one day and then the next day work on my chest and butt. I do 3 reps of 25 at a low weight ( it's not too low I still feel the burn in my muscles). I do this 5 days a week.
This week will be my first full week with my new routine. Today weighed in and I lost nothing. Why wouldn't I continue to lose weight now that I am working out? What is going on with my body that it now stops losing weight when I start working out.
Thanks for any help or advice you can give me
L.
Gary
They will give you a more acurate result than the calipers or the scales
Here is some info on the hydrostatic dunk testing for body fat
http://www.getdunked.com/home/default.asp
The first time you do something - It's going to be a personal record!
For example, my clothes are fitting looser and today I was able to zip up my wet suit myself because I'm smaller. But my weight is exactly the same on the scale as it was a few weeks ago. And it's actually higher than it was at my lowest weight even though I'm as small as I was at that weight, smaller in some parts of my body.
But, one the opposite side of the scale, last year, during the off season, my weight stayed the same but my clothes all got tighter. I was working out less and losing muscle and gaining fat.
HW - 225 SW - 191 GW - 132 CW - 122
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