Yay I have been hoping for a weight lifting thread. This is awesome!
Here's my story:
I first lifted weights way back in high school. That was for a varisty sports P.E. class. Ever since I have been a yo yo weightlifter. After highschool I started running (I think I need to feel like I was still being an athlete although sports in highschool were not going ot be sports in college). When I started running, lifting kinda became secondary to my gym time.
I always felt that fat loss was linked to cardio and though weightlifting was about shape. But since I never felt I had lost enough fat to see thew muscle, although I lifted once in awhile I was never consistent and never followed a heavy lifting program.
Then I lost weight super fast in 2010. We decided to put new floors in our home and in order to save money so we could afford it we decided to do alot of the work ourselves. In our kitchen and dining area we had linoleum floors and under them was a particle board that was glued, yes GLUED to the floor. It had to be chipped away by hand! It was exhausting and since I work night and was anxious to get our kitchen back I did much of the removal myself during the day while my husband was at work. I had to use a masonary chisel and a hammer. It took almost a week to remove it all. In that week I was sore everyday. My legs from getting up and down and arms from hammering, as well as back and chest. It was a total body high instensity workout and in a week I lost 8 lbs! I looked and felt good and could scarcely believe it. (I didn't however make real changes after that and have since gained it all back plus).
This lit a light bulb in my head. I have spend countless hopurs runniong and training for and completely many half marathons in my life. And in the years of running I have slowly gained weight over time. But doing hard physical intense muscle bearing exercise? Well with that the fat melted off of me.
Eventhough I made that realisation almost 2 years ago now it took me time and a willingness to actually commit to finally have a good, consistent, heavy lifting program underway.
My problem is I thoght I could just wing it. Just go to the gym and lift. But I have learned that without a set of exercises and reps laid out in front of me my lifting becomes very half a$$ed
I am now in day 7 of Jamie Eason's Live Fit program, and while its still very early, I love how every workout so far leaves me sore, eventhough I have been lifting weights relitively consistently for year (though I have barely made gains in how much I can lift over that time).
Anyways I am a true believer that diet and lifting shape your body and are key to fat loss. I will always enjoy running, but the body adapts and while I know its good for my heart, running wont solve my fat issues. Weightlifting and clean foods are it, and I' so excited to finally be working at it the right way.
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