Well I am 24 years old and have been 220 pounds at 6 feet for the last 3-4 years. I have decided to become more healthy and get back into highschool shape.

In the passed six weeks I have been eating a ton better and exercising and am now down to 204. My goal is 175.

I used to eat out fast food AT LEAST once a day. Now I am eating much less and I am eating things like grilled chicken or turkey roll ups with cheese. A lot of carrots and apples and water.

I have been either playing basketball with friends for a few hours or walking/jogging/running for 1-2 hours 4-5 days a week (time allowing).

I am looking for any more healthy eating tips or exercise tips any of you have out there. So far I am dropping weight at a steady pace but I am not gaining any endurance with running or playing basketball. Thats what I am really looking to improve on. I want to be able to play full court basketball for more than 5 minutes before I start to puke.

Any suggestions?

 

Diet? When I see food, I eat it.

Exercise? The only exercise I get is walking to the fridge and back. When I get the urge to work or exercise, I sit down until it goes away.

I'm one of those lucky people that can eat what they want and still stay skinny. **** yeah!

 

well from my experience with the basketball thing I played in high school and I learned that the more I played and the more I pushed myself the better the endurance became over time. So my advice is to just keep at it and it will come over time.

 

Sounds like you might need a little better conditioning, which is something that I have struggled with forever. Only thing that works for that is to run or get the heart rate up somehow. I enjoy running on an elliptical, my target heart rate is 180, and I just keep it there for as long as I can go. I normally run two miles on an elliptical. My legs hate treatmills.

 

Try running around a track, but sprint on the straights and then jog around the turns. See how many laps you can do of this and then each time try and go another half lap, or lap. When you get to the point where you can't sprint the full straights anymore, stop there and just keep trying to beat it.

 

you'll be amazed at what interval training can do for you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-in...erval_training

 

Nice! I just started a new diet, and about to start an exercise plan..but mines a little different.

I lose weight when I don't work, mainly due to not eating as much and no physical activity. Normally I weight between 145-155, I weighed myself the other day and I was down to 127..

So, 5-6 meals a day, things like chicken, pastas, lean meats, fruits, etc.. my workout won't include nearly as much running yet until I pack on more weight..

As for your endurance, its something thats built over a long period of time, and as you're already doing, cardio, along with some light lifting.
Things like L-Glutamine, Fish Oil, and your daily vitamin will just help your overall health as well, glutamine helping burn your fat, not your muscle..

 

Holy ****, you're thin. You weigh all of like 17 or so lbs more than I do!

 

Lol yea, kinda sucks *****. As I type this, I'm eating meal #3 of the day.

 

I gained almost 18lb since the summer. Fuuu. I started back on my water only / no fast food diet 3 weeks ago but have yet to go anywhere. Need to start running again.

 

I've dropped down to 185 from 200 since February. Mild exercising with resistance bands, and portioning my meals.

 

Im just like you. I eat everything and can't gain weight but I am very athletic. As some of you know who have met me I'm 5'10 130lbs and I hate it being so small. So about 2 weeks ago I started my daily routine of eating a lot more food thats high carb high protein and going to the gym everyday. The only thing that sucks is that I really love my cardio workouts vs lifting that I really need but I have really been able to adjust and keep it leveled out. I run only for a mile and a half that takes about 10min and use weights for about 45min to a hour. So far I have gained 7lbs lol. Not much but a milestone for me.

I wish I was like all of you and had weight to my body. I wish i was a fatty! haha

 

haha..im starting to eat more healthy as well. I am 5'8" and 225 lbs. I am training for something called Tough Mudder.

www.toughmudder.com

check it out...pretty amazing stuff. the one im competing in is 12 miles long and 19 obstacles in wet November weather. i am also competing in a 10k with about 7 different obstacles.

goal weight is about 190 for me and roughly 7% body fat

 

If its your lungs/heart and not your muscles you need to work on, getting on a bike can be a great thing. Find out your max heart rate and try to go at a speed that keeps it at 70-80% that will work on cardio, keeping it at 50-70 will burn fat, but not help your endurance as much. Biking also keeps stress off muscles and joints, because now it may not bother you, but running on hard surfaces everyday will take it's toll on you. Work on setting a target time and increasing it every week or so.

I get most of my exercise at practice. Yay for track!

 

I had the same problem... 6'4" 155, I did P90X for a little while and gained 10 pounds of muscle in 2 weeks, then I got of the program because I had a few crazy test weeks and never really got back on it.

 

wanna sell your P90X stuff?

 

P90x you can download on piratebay zig.

 

You can get all of the sheets free for it online (thats what I did). Then you just need someone that knows how to do the stuff or find the videos.

 

virusbay...no thanks.

I need the videos...if you have them, and want to sell them, lemme know.

 

I got them from there too. If you have a decent virus program it should be scanning any files before you download them anyhow.

But I am the opposite of most of you. I am trying to gain weight lol. I was heavy in high school playing football being 230lbs at 6'1 and then I dropped down to 201 lbs my freshman/sophomore year of college. I have been lifting and working out hard for 5 years and I am 227 pounds, but much much leaner and way stronger then I ever was.

Best thing I ever did was get the Modern encyclopaedia of bodybuilding and read that thing two times. I workout hard, eat good, drink water, and stay away from the bullshit. I do drink on the weekends, but i cut it back to one maybe 2 nights that's it and no more pounding beers when I am out. Hardest part is controlling what and how much you eat.

 

send me that book

 

I'm about to go pick up Papa Johns... Anyone want some?

 

Carbs, protein, veggies, fruit. Enough said, lol

 

**** I paid $28 for that book 2 years ago and I still use it. It has great workouts in it too. Honestly if you want to get in shape this book is a must read. It covers diet,workouts,muscles, etc.. I mean everything in the body and what to do, how to recover from injuries you name it.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Encycloped.../dp/0684857219

Buy it, Read it, Live it.

You don't have to want to be a built monster like Arnold to use the info. I do it for strength and to stay fit. I am not into trying to have 5% body fat and go to competitions.