Category Archives: Weight Loss Progress

Well I have been training for a few weeks now and was suprised to find that my weight has hardly changed \-)

I have been consuming about the same amount of food and drink yet I seem to have barely lost a kilo in weight. This at first seemed crazy since I must be burning a lot [...]

So which is best for burning calories?

Running
Walking
Swimming

I think running is the highest rate calorie burner, because you are moving your whole body weight along without much support. And, of course it is hard work while you are running and you can easily elevate your heart rate up to it’s maximum potential. But because it is hard, [...]

Now I am under 100Kg in weight. I have been alternating between weight-training and jogging i.e. I either weight train or I jog on each day of the week.

At first I felt weak doing the weights but now it is no problem and I may have to look at purchasing more weight.

For the jogging, I have [...]

In an earlier post I showed my home gym setup. It’s pretty simple comprising an adjustable incline bench, some dumbells and a mat.

These are the exercises I am doing:

Bicep curl – standing up with both dumbells. As one goes up, another goes down etc.

Shoulder press with the bench in an upright seated position.

Dumbell press with the [...]

So what method am I going to use to lose this weight? The idea is to burn more calories and build muscle at the same time. So it’s going to be a mixture of aerobic exercise and anerobic exercise.

By burning more calories and consuming about the same in terms of food and drink, my body fat [...]

Now I moved home to a place with a spare room to install some home gym equipment. I could go to a proper gym but these are expensive and many readers here might be put off such places so I can maybe give you some ideas for how to do it from home?

Here is a pic [...]

I was recently shocked to find that my weight had exploded to over 0.1 Tonnes. Many years ago I hit this weight too and after I took up Kyokushin Karate the weight fell off and fell right down to 83Kg.

So I have done it before and I plan to do it again. But I am a [...]