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Ask Rocco: Fitness answers |
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Written by Rocco
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 |
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 Q: I am a 26-year-old female who is 5’5”, 121 pounds. I am pretty athletic but I want to lose about 5 pounds. I work out 3-4 days a week. I do Spinning mainly and lift a little before I go in. I’m kinda stuck at the weight I’m at and I know I need to change things up, but I don’t know what to do. Any thoughts?
Cari Lee, Boulder
A: The first thing that comes to mind is why would you want to lose 5 pounds?
Five-foot-five and 121 pounds sounds like a pretty healthy weight to me.
Before you go off doing something stupid, I would have your body fat to lean mass ratio checked. (Most certified fitness professionals can perform this task.)
Your body-fat percentage should be between 14 percent and 18 percent. If it already is, forget losing any weight.
Fat, not weight, is what we want to rid our bodies of. So please throw those hunks of metal you keep stubbing you’re toe on out the window. Looking at the scale for results is reserved for absolute idiots, and I know you’re not one of them.
With that said, changing your routine up is actually quite simple.
Before you go into Spinning class, do more than a little strength training (mostly large muscle group stuff) and hit the treadmill for some weight bearing aerobic exercise and you’ll see those pounds melt off like northern Colorado snow in springtime.
Thanks for e-mailing me, keep them coming!
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Rocco Castellano is the co-founder of askROCCO Media, which provides boot camps, seminars, media content and online fitness services at askROCCO.com. He is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and has written “askROCCO Uncensored v1” available at bookstores.
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