Good work. I’ve been taking it a bit easy on my weightlifting while I wait for some new shoes that should give me a bit more stability. They are on board to arrive today so I can go back to increasing the weights again. I’m noticing some nice body changes too - I’m maintaining the same weight, but am losing some size still, especially around the tummy - I actually have a waist that goes in instead of out! 🤣
My basic plan for now is to keep focusing on the weightlifting for a bit while maintaining my weight, then switch to maintaining the weightlifting level while I focus on diet and losing another 5kg, then go back to slowly increasing weightlifting levels and incorporating some HIT style cardio. Then repeat with an alternating diet/exercise focus, incorporating flexibiity/balance exercised, then longer cardio. By which stage I should be at a stage to just focus on maintaining both weight and fitness levels as a permanent thing.
It’s been working well so far, I think breaking it down into achievable chunks has definitely been the right call. Losing 35kg and increasing fitness from couch-based slob is a massive undertaking, and it felt far too daunting to start when I looked at the whole thing. But 5kg? Seems achievable.
I hear you on the whole breaking it into chunks thing. It’s why I chose to start with one 10ish minute workout per day. Otherwise I wouldn’t have succeeded in getting this far. I really need to lose weight but I’ve focused on the basic goal of simply getting into a doable and enjoyable routine first. Did your shoes arrive?
Good work. I’ve been taking it a bit easy on my weightlifting while I wait for some new shoes that should give me a bit more stability. They are on board to arrive today so I can go back to increasing the weights again. I’m noticing some nice body changes too - I’m maintaining the same weight, but am losing some size still, especially around the tummy - I actually have a waist that goes in instead of out! 🤣
My basic plan for now is to keep focusing on the weightlifting for a bit while maintaining my weight, then switch to maintaining the weightlifting level while I focus on diet and losing another 5kg, then go back to slowly increasing weightlifting levels and incorporating some HIT style cardio. Then repeat with an alternating diet/exercise focus, incorporating flexibiity/balance exercised, then longer cardio. By which stage I should be at a stage to just focus on maintaining both weight and fitness levels as a permanent thing.
It’s been working well so far, I think breaking it down into achievable chunks has definitely been the right call. Losing 35kg and increasing fitness from couch-based slob is a massive undertaking, and it felt far too daunting to start when I looked at the whole thing. But 5kg? Seems achievable.
I hear you on the whole breaking it into chunks thing. It’s why I chose to start with one 10ish minute workout per day. Otherwise I wouldn’t have succeeded in getting this far. I really need to lose weight but I’ve focused on the basic goal of simply getting into a doable and enjoyable routine first. Did your shoes arrive?
The shoes arrived. They are good but a touch small, so I’m still deciding if it’s bad enough to return them for a larger size or just keep them.