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Originally Posted by catherine20  I've been reading a lot of debate about how much exercise is enough and at what rate, etc.
In college P.E. I was told a something that keeps being contradicted on this site: You shouldn't do above what you're conditioned to do. For instance, I'm 5'6" and 222 lbs, I should not be trying to RUN or do INTERVAL TRAINING b/c I could seriously hurt myself at this stage (knees esp.!). In this class we created sample exercise programs based on our stats and mine (15-20 pounds ago...) was to start with WALKING and LIGHT resistance training with, of course, stretches and stuff for flexibility.
Here, I've read stuff like you HAVE to do interval training to lose fat, etc.
Was the info I recieved in P.E. outdated or something? I understand that science is always changing... |
To lose
fat you simply have to create some magnitude of calorie deficit. That can be achieved through
diet alone - i.e so in theory, you never ever have to use
cardio or resistance training in order to lose
fat.
However, if you're a newbie, and you opted to take on
cardio and weight training as well as
diet changes to lose
fat, common sense would suggest you would simply start off easy.
Take
cardio for example - depending on what sort of cardiovascular shape you're in you might start with walking, then a combo of walking & light jogging, light jogging, jogging, jogging with mild / moderate intervals, jogging with hard intervals and then
HIIT of course. So in that context, "
You shouldn't do above what you're conditioned to do "makes a lot of sense in my view.
In the case of
HIIT, I think it is ill-advised for anyone on this forum to suggest anyone else undertake
HIIT unless they know they have established some sort of solid base of aerobic
fitness first - but that's just me.
