<p>During college. I really don't want to gain too much wait. I did find this as a possible way to keep my upper body in shape but I need some tips for the rest of my body.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.shakeweight.org/%5B/url%5D">https://www.shakeweight.org/</a></p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>avoid all the obviously bad foods. my logic is this: colleges are pretty much buffets with so many types of food at your disposal. there is really is no excuse to eat food that isn’t good for you when healthier options are literally right in front of you. ive always been lean but in high school i used to pig out because of my fast metabolism and the fact that it was kind of hard to eat healthy every day. college makes healthy eating entirely possible.</p>
<p>It’s more about how much you eat, as opposed to what. Obviously avoid sugar (except fruit). Other than that, count your calories, get enough protein/good fats/vitamins and go to the gym. You can be fit eating pizza (although possibly not as “healthy”) and you can be fat eating tuna and oats every meal (if you eat too much).</p>
<p>I’m a serious lifter with a very strict diet (count my calories to a T every day) and I managed even with six 3rd year engineering courses.</p>
<p>and taking 1 look at that “shake weight” thing I can tell you that it’s garbage. Preventing fat gain is basically diet (exercise isn’t even really necessary, although it does help). But swinging around 2 lb dumbells for 10 minutes a day is a waste of time. In their ad they even state the “long lean muscles” as opposed to “bulky muscles” myth. What a joke.</p>
<p>The exercises done with that dumbbell look very odd.</p>
<p>Considering that you wanted to go on this so called “routine” I’ll assume you’re female. When I go to the gym, most of the girls who tend to be very fit stick to the cardio machines (treadmill, elliptical). I also see many go to the pool and just do laps. Sticking to a good diet is vital to staying in shape, as other posters have mentioned. If you can adhere to these two things, maintaining a fit body should be very manageable.</p>
<p>Doesn’t your school offer a fitness center for students? Or do you just start topics hoping to send others to links you supply. One CC poster said there was money to be made by doing that.</p>
<p>Go for the inexpensive meal plan and buy wholesome food from your local grocer (like fruits, vegetables, etc). This will reduce the amount of ultra-processed food you eat. Also, make sure you eat some lean protein every few meals. </p>
<p>Stick to the three basics: water, juice (not from concentrate), milk. No sodas or other sugary drinks. Alcohol is fine intermittently. </p>
<p>Walk everywhere, no exceptions unless you’ve broken/strained something. This is the best tip I can give you. </p>
<p>Go for walks/runs/jogs with friends. Spend your time outdoors doing physical things. The gym, at least to me, is boring and frankly lame, which just makes it so I’ll go once and then dislike it so much I don’t go back for a while. Just do outdoors stuff.</p>
<p>Play a sport. It can even just be an activity, but have it be something with your legs. Pick-up soccer, hacky sack, etc are seriously fantastic ways to stay in shape.</p>
<p>Did you just say that hackysack is a seriously fantastic way to stay in shape? You have to be kidding me.</p>
<p>definitely try and eat a healthy as you can, its w/e if you wana eat a lot as long as your not eating junk all the time… from time to time theres nothing wrong with eating somethin thats not the healthiest for you lol you gota live. but yeah just stay active … shouldnt have to force yaself to go to the gym everyday find some kinda activity you like and stick wit it !!! i play football and run track so im always stayin active therefore i eat like a monster lmao 6 meals a day but i run often, lift weights, play ball, football with friends etc so you know STAY ACTIVE Madu.</p>
<p>Just run every day. If you do it right, you’ll stay in great shape.</p>
<p>Getting fit isn’t as hard as the media portrays it to be.</p>
<p>I power walk everywhere - going to class, go to store, and I take the routes with hills. With the extra weight of my backpack I feeeelll theee buurrrn every time I walk. But I just naturally walk really fast.</p>
<p>Check whether you can exercise for credit. Even prestigious schools have 1-unit dance or physical classes.</p>
<p>My private LAC actually requires 3 gym classes and a health and wellness course (that can be subbed with running or swimming). Most schools have similar courses ranging anywhere from scuba diving to beginner tennis to tae kwon do. And most schools have good workout facilities with different classes you can go to or a place to put your name/phone number to find a workout partner. </p>
<p>Doing it with other people always helps. I played a sport in high school that had insane amounts of training (4+ hours/day) so I have trouble working out by myself because I either get bored easily or stressed because it’s hard for me to just casually work out. Which is why I always find others to work out with because it’s fun and takes the stress for me out of working out.</p>
<p>please don’t use the shake thing, i with Muscle7 here, that is a load of crap. It is really easy to stay in shape; as long as your not planning to compete in some sport, all you need to do is have some self control and not eat too much. And go for no more than 30 min jog 2-3 time a week, and the other 2 days, just go to the gym and use the cable machines at low weight high reps (this will give you strength, and also sculpt your muscles)</p>
<p>Lol Muscle 7 is hardcore.</p>
<p>(This started off as one paragraph, but ended up as a “All My Fitness Tips” type of post. Enjoy.)</p>
<p>There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. Toning. PERIOD.</p>
<p>What most people think of as toning is really fat loss, which makes the muscle stand out more. And not in a bulging OMGIAMSOBUFF way, but in a hey-look-I’m-not-made-of-skin-and-fat way.</p>
<p>High weight w/ low rep = build stength. Build muscle.
Low weight w/ high rep = virtually cardio. Endurance.</p>
<p>Cardio = You are keeping your heart rate elevated for a specific period of time, while also working a muscle group. It helps in the utilization of all those calories you have taken in that day. i.e. not let them sit un-utilized and stored as some sort of far. Cardio teaches your body how to utilize oxygen better, and build ENDURANCE.</p>
<p>Never do strength training for consecutive days. Not like upper body Monday lower body Tuesday. No. Do MWF strength, TThSat cardio. And by cardio I don’t mean run on a treadmill for 30 minutes. If you have other options, use them! Swimming is excellent. A lot of people get tired to swimming laps. What keeps me going is that I simply think about how doing this will make me look better and stay healthy. That is all the motivation that I need.</p>
<p>Never do cardio right after doing weight lifting (or any other strength-building exercise like a great deal of pushups, etc). Cardio requires your body to use some sort of energy source. If you ate a big pasta meal a few hours before, that’s a great source of energy. BUT if you just lifted weights your muscle will not be able to build if it can’t get the energy that you are now taking away from it by doing cardio. You won’t shrink your muscle, but you did just waste all that time doing strength training for nothing.</p>
<p>Speaking of food:
Carbs - Quick <em>GOOD</em> energy
Protein - Endurance
Fat - Your “second wind”</p>
<p>Eating 100% your daily value of fat is a good thing! Just get it from meats and nuts and milk and stuff, and not Snickers, Ice Cream, or even Cheez-Its. Fat is what allows you to get that “second wind” after you have been swimming laps for 15 minutes and take a rest. Fat is what allows you to continue.</p>
<p>Oh, and also: The “fat” label on food has NOTHING to do with body fat. It’s just that fat contributes the most calories per gram/ounce to the total calorie content. If you ate a lot of low-fat chicken and non-fat dairy, and sat watching TV all day, you would still gain weight/bodyfat from protein!</p>
<p>Regarding energy - energy drinks/shots are NOT good for this AT ALL, they are not healthy energy, neither is caffeine, cut that out of your diet ASAP. And all carbonated drinks, diet too. I stopped drinking diet soda (which I had drank for YEARS, all my mom ever bought, i.e. no regular soda) about a year ago. And while I did not lose weight (I wasn’t trying to), I swear that it made my exercise more effective since I didn’t have all those chemicals and crap floating around in me. I am no super-naturalist organic hippie, I just like to know what’s in my good. </p>
<p>Speak of which, High Fructose Corn Syrup. STAY AWAY PLEASE. If it’s the first ingredient in anything (like some ‘Maple’ Syrups) don’t even THINK about it. Don’t listen to random people who say that it’s okay and natural and stuff. It’s not. Sugar is way better, and perfectly fine in moderation. HFCS is not okay even in moderation. Check all foods before you buy, and spend the extra 20 cents for the peanut butter that doesn’t have it. Your body will thank you.</p>
<p>Well that was quite a rant. That’s about all I can think of right now.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh, also. No junk food. Want some Cheez-Its? WHY? What nutritianal value do they provide you with? Virtually nothing! And with the trade offs of being useless, comes empty calories. Why waste food on something like that? Same with like baked pretzels(crunchy, in a bag) or pretzel sticks. They aren’t BAD for you… but they aren’t GOOD for you either. If it doesn’t benefit you nutritionally –> DO NOT EAT IT. I don’t care if it’s delicious. Do this for over 40 days (habit forming time frame) and you won’t feel a need to eat cake anymore. It won’t look ANY more appetizing to you think a piece of bread. Seriously. This is true for me. I’ve only been doing this for about a year and a half now. I am well fit, athletic, and I eat extremely well. Not all-organic stuff well (since some of that is still junk/useless), but a nothing-but-nutritionally-beneficial-things well.</p>
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<p>You have no idea</p>
<p>Yes, I did. It is great exercise that has nothing to do with gyms. It’s both social and incredibly engaging, thus far more enjoyable. And it is extremely good for you, as you are lifting and flexing your legs (which is basically lifting “weights”), your back and core muscles are under lots of tension and use as you’re constantly having to stabilize yourself. You can wear whatever you want, the only think required is the purchase of a $5 sack, and it doesn’t feel like exercise until you start sweating.</p>
<p>That’s a bit like saying DDR is a great workout. Yeah, it’s a great workout compared to sitting on your butt and eating ice cream, but it’s nothing compared to actually getting up and walking around or playing sports.</p>
<p>The famers market movitates and excites me to buy veggies and fruits. I get excited to see what new stuff they have each week. I just make a lot of my own foods because I am scared of the things that are put in food. I like to know whats in my food.</p>
<p>MissSilvestris - I didn’t offer it as an alternative to sports, I simply listed it among other physical activities that are engaging, social, and work well to get your blood moving. I did offer these things as an alternative to the gym when it comes to staying in shape.</p>