Confusion

My personal goal is to get rid of extra weight, specially from upper body. I am not doing strengthening and heavy weight exercises. I do not want bulky body with muscles popping out. I want to develop a habit of doing two sessions of swimming per week and gradually develop potential to swim continuously for longer periods and distances. I want to maintain required flexibility.

But my gym-buddy has been strongly suggesting to start muscle strengthening routines right away. It has been just one month since I started gym. He suggested to develop bench press abilities with 30-40 kgs. His argument is that if I develop muscles I could lose more calories with lesser workouts. Besides, he also suggested, based on his personal experience, to develop biceps and chest as it would be easy at my current age of 27 than after a few years.

But I do not want to go to heavy weights and muscle building routines. I want to just stick to toning and some basic (but strenuous ) workouts like squats, pushups, situps and crunches, apart from ~40 mins of cardio. And then reach a safer weight zone of, say, 175 lbs (78-80 KG) in next 3-4 months and then start off with the heavy weight routines.

Don't know if I should do heavy weights now or wait for a few months !!

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Then do some lighter weights and heavier cardio right now. He's right about the building muscle though. The more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn at rest, so technically you can lose weight with less workouts. But do what you feel you should and adjust your routine if your not getting the results you want. 
2012年 02月 1日 投稿者: Suzi161
Thanks for reply Suzy. I will do this only. Today I started with moderate weights and will stick to that for some time until I feel my body is ready for further weights and in the mean time hopefully I might lose some more weight :P 
2012年 02月 1日 投稿者: mohitgarg

     
 

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