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Originally Posted by mkroyer
while supersetting MAY be appropriate, especially for the OP, one must remember it is Not ALWAYS an appropriate way to train..... no one way works for everyone, in other words. If I, meself personally, do a *metabilic* type workout wth supersets, my body gets extrememly stressed out (hormonally) and will not allow me to lose fat...... In fact, it may be th last thing a smaller conditioned female wants to do if trying to lose weight.
As i said above, this is NOT the case with the OP, and is really a good idea--- i just dont like it when people thik that working out, in any style is a one-size fits all approach, ya know?
TOTALLY agreed. IDK which post you were referring to but my 1st post answered her question about doing only weights. Somewhere in here I had posted that I noticed fat gain after my job required me to lead the metabolic classes, leaving me not enough days in the week to recover from weight training. So I had to give that up. I had a different demand for my body and I ate more. I'm trying to remember if I ate more on purpose or if I was just hungrier. Either way, I ate more. I have been adjusting my diet for a couple of weeks now and I'm back to what's normal for me.
One thing I want to point out, too, is that while not every way to exercise gives everyone the same results, if you're burning more calories than you're honestly eating, there will be a weight loss. Lifting weights will undoubtedly increase your muscle percentage while burning calories which in turn, causes you to burn more calories.
I sometimes question the long term value of metabolic work out. If, after 3 months of NOT doing heavy weights but religiously all-out doing metabolic only, and I see negative results, I have to question this. Why is this so? Like I said, I ate more. Now that I have that adjusted, I am back to being an experiment in progress and will know the answer in about 6 more months!
And mind you, the answer will be mine alone coz every body is different.