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Originally Posted by wantanewme
btw i'm glad someone asked this because i was just coming to ask myself. i'm back doing ip (maybe with alternatives, not sure yet) after a 2 month detour. i started working out with a trainer twice a week for hour-long sessions a month ago and would like to continue working out. at this point between the trainer, cardio, and at home dvds, i'm working out 7 days a week. i want to scale back a little but continue my workouts. don't want to stress out my body too much or slow losses though. so i'll be back to hopefully see more responses. thanks in advance
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The first time thru p1, when I did the training at the end, we started with conditioning (maybe after a month you are past that point?), and I had IP drink before and after. I was using the mango pre-made (which is higher in calories and protein) and chocolate drink mix, my favorite. Both body fat and lean mass went down at a similar rate to pre-exercise, I believe, possibly a little too much LM because it really wasn't enough calories. My last 10 pounds were 130 to 120. I (at 53 then) was working out with my young teen daughter (of 14 then). We did 5 days at the gym, an active day (like take a hike or walk) and one rest day. We were pathetically out of shape to start and hit the salt often (no passing out and no throwing up).
With the reset (2 weeks p1, 1 week p2, 1 week p3), it is just me at 55, looking at 4 days per week with 3 days lifting and 1 day with the trainer. Dietwise, I've done it wrong. The results are body fat % down, but lean mass went down too. More fat lost than lean mass, so for 8.9 lbs lost, 6.1 fat and 2.8 lean (per calipers), the ratio is about 2.17 fat for each lb of lean which isn't that great. I didn't do the extra packet like I should have. Bioimpedence looks like 7.4lbs lost, 5.51 fat and 1.89 lm, or about 2.9 to 1. I think it is thought that we would lose 1lb LM for each 4 lbs weight, so I'm arguably OK. I physically feel great and am so much stronger than when I started, and a lot more comfortable in the gym.
Do consider at least 1 rest day, and alternate your cardio days and weight training days or however you sequence it so you have at least a day between working the same body part again. You can do cardio the same day as weight training, you just don't want to do, say, squats every day but you can do lower body one day, upper body the next, then back to lower, etc.
Let us know how it works out!