A Question: Workouts?

Okay, I've been working out daily or almost daily for five or six weeks now. And I've come up against a question.

Part of my routine is a good 30 minutes or more of cardiovascular exercise, mainly crossramp - my goal is to burn at least 500 calories each day on the crossramp alone. I've succeded almost every time.

I'm also doing weight machines, doing primary machines on M-W-F and alternate ones on Tuesday and Thursday. That hurts a fair amount, but I know I really need to make the effort. The results have been pretty good, I guess; certainly various muscles have bulked up a lot. Particularly my legs, which were always rather strong. I'm leg-pressing 330 lbs., 12 reps - which seems pretty good to me, although I used to do over 400 when I was in high school.

But I haven't lost much weight.

Teri thinks I should cut back on the muscle-building, and go in for muscle toning. Lower my weights (she says to half) and maybe do more reps. I'd never heard anything about that sort of routine, though, and I don't know if it would be effective.

My primary goal is to lose weight. A distant secondary goal would be to build up my strength a bit, just to make it easier to carry the boy - at 50 lbs, he's getting pretty heavy. But weight loss is #1.

I don't know if anyone on my friends list knows much about workouts, but if you have any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.

A Question: Workouts?

Okay, I've been working out daily or almost daily for five or six weeks now. And I've come up against a question.

Part of my routine is a good 30 minutes or more of cardiovascular exercise, mainly crossramp - my goal is to burn at least 500 calories each day on the crossramp alone. I've succeded almost every time.

I'm also doing weight machines, doing primary machines on M-W-F and alternate ones on Tuesday and Thursday. That hurts a fair amount, but I know I really need to make the effort. The results have been pretty good, I guess; certainly various muscles have bulked up a lot. Particularly my legs, which were always rather strong. I'm leg-pressing 330 lbs., 12 reps - which seems pretty good to me, although I used to do over 400 when I was in high school.

But I haven't lost much weight.

Teri thinks I should cut back on the muscle-building, and go in for muscle toning. Lower my weights (she says to half) and maybe do more reps. I'd never heard anything about that sort of routine, though, and I don't know if it would be effective.

My primary goal is to lose weight. A distant secondary goal would be to build up my strength a bit, just to make it easier to carry the boy - at 50 lbs, he's getting pretty heavy. But weight loss is #1.

I don't know if anyone on my friends list knows much about workouts, but if you have any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.