I need to vent a bit, I guess. I’ll try not to ramble, but there’s a fair amount of backstory concerning my fitness experience and concerns.
Turned 20 recently. My metabolism slowed way down this past year, so I’m no longer a lean green bean. I’m getting a bit of a belly, and I’m around 175lbs.
For a while, I got it in my mind that I wanted to bulk up and gain muscle, but recently I’ve been thinking that I’d like to lose weight and tone muscle more than build extra muscle.
Alright, now I’d really like some help losing weight through exercise. Here are some of the main concerns I’ve had with fitness recently—if you could help me address these, that’d be awesome!
1) I’ve heard many conflicting pieces of advice upon starting to do workouts, and I’m confused. Cardio isn’t too great on its own, but yet people slim down from doing marathons? Granted, they likely do more than run to prepare for those... but then I get easily overwhelmed I guess.
2) The bug kahuna—I have trouble with consistency. I really can’t make myself go to the gym (especially now) regularly for more than two weeks without something throwing a wrench in it. I think it’s often merely my mindset—I don’t see results in two weeks, so I don’t want to continue. I really, really, really want to lose this belly. I calculated it, and I think it’ll take me till October if I do everything right. So, I guess my question is: how do I know if the exercises I’m doing are working? I lose faith doing stuff when I feel silly doing it. Take, say, incline push-ups (using the Fitbod app) or some other exercise. The form doesn’t feel perfect, but I have nobody telling me that I’m not going down quite far enough, or I’m going just a bit too far—and then I quit because I don’t know if I’m doing a good job. I don’t know, and I can’t know. But personal trainers are out of my pay-grade, so... I hear form really matters, so I want to be sure I’m doing ok. And then there’s squats. I try to imagine that I’m sitting down; then, I lose balance a little bit when I go down; then, I wonder if my feet are in the right place; then, I wonder if my spine is staying straight; then—on and on. Good thoughts on some level, but too overwhelming.
3) Will bodyweight workouts alone, since that’s all I can do right now, get me to my weight loss goal (150lbs or so) by October? How should I think about this?
4) Should I run everyday? Should I run a little bit? Should I run a mile each day? Does that tone up my legs? Should I care if it does? Should I have being able to run 3 miles without slowing be a goal, for example? Argh.
5) Sometimes the app has me doing like 2 exercises of 3 sets of 15 pushups in a superset (on beginner) but I feel like I can barely do 5 pushups. Is it normal to be so weak when you’re out of shape? This leads to all sorts of fun self-esteem issues and more getting in my head.
6) Should it burn? Sometimes I feel like it just burns to run half a mile, for instance—should I power through, conquer my pain, and overcome, and such? Or should I listen to my body? This kind of relates to form in that I’ve heard there’s this way it feels when you know your form is right—is that a lie? I never feel 100% certain and good and comfortable.
I’ll stop it there for now. As you can doubtless see, my mind is kind of infernal. Let me know if you spot any hypocrisy or bad thought patterns—I want to grow! Please call me out!
And thank you for any help. I want to lose this belly, but I’m so overwhelmed and frustrated that I keep losing my streaks. I’ve never been this out of shape, and it’s hurting my self-confidence. I want to look hot and thin, but maybe that in itself is a problem, somehow...?
If it helps your mental picture at all, I have a year-long subscription to Fitbod, which conjures up workouts based on fresh muscle groups, and I have asthma (aside from which, I’m just really out of shape).
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