The Giant Diet

[ThePurpleCobra 0]

Any quick suggestions on loosing 5 or more lbs in about a week or so? Coach needs me to be faster so he's getting me to loose some lbs. Any help would be great. Thanks

[Quintin 16]

Just do exercise for about 45 minutes per day. I lost around quarter of a stone doing that for 3 days with a low calorie diet.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Building muscle goes a long way to being faster than just losing weight and I doubt 5 lbs will make a significant difference in speed. If you have to though, just go with smaller portions of food, avoid fatty foods and sugar.Also lessen your normal caloric intake. Or you could just use laxatives like a guy i know did ( I dont reccomend that though ;) )

[ThePurpleCobra 0]

yeah I will watch what I eat and do some cardio, well if i lost even 10 lbs id be faster because i am considered over weight for my height I guess

[Maka 0]

Just do exercise for about 45 minutes per day. I lost around quarter of a stone doing that for 3 days with a low calorie diet.

What the hell is a stone?

[Alias81 0]

A stone is a unit of mass within the Imperial units system used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and formerly in a number of Commonwealth countries. It is equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois, i.e. 6.35029318 kilograms.

[Maka 0]

A stone is a unit of mass within the Imperial units system used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and formerly in a number of Commonwealth countries. It is equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois, i.e. 6.35029318 kilograms.

Huh. And I, learned something today.

[drisco487 0]

Stay away from the fat foods and I'd say run on the treadmill in sweatpants and a light jacket it helps you lose faster

[toroytorero 0]

ride the snake

[--notorious 0]

Well alot of UFC guys when they need to lose weight quick they use a sauna. Like they excersise inside it and can lose few pounds in the two hours they have.

[Alias81 0]

You'd find alot of weight loss would be water and would come straight back if you use the sauna method, just stay hydrated whatever you do and stay healthy, don't try and starve yourself because you think it'll make you skate faster, take your time loosing weight.

[ThePurpleCobra 0]

This is all good info thanks guys

[Datsyukiandeek 0]

Even if you do loose the weight its not gonna make you faster. If anything, not eating enough and working your ass off with extra exercise will just make you more tired for your up coming game. I mean I lost 50 lbs over a summer when I took up roller hockey, averaging about 5 lbs a week but I wasn't "Healthy". I got really worn down but in the end it worked out pretty nicely.

[Nov101775 0]

One losing 5 lbs will do minimal good (like everyone else said).

Second to lose more than about 2 and a half pounds a week max is unhealthy.

If you try and cut your calories you eat per day, you would have to be very careful and make sure you eat enough protein to make sure you don't lose muscle, which is counter productive to your goal of being faster.

Not to mention that all the quick ways to loose weight usually result in some form of dehydration. Dehydration will make you much slower than the weight loss will help. Not to mention how you can throw your body off with trying to loose wight while trying to get/stay in shape.

so cutting calories, and increased cardio will work, but it takes time, especially if you want it to stay gone, be healthy and not waste all the work you are doing in practice.

Losing weight is a marathon, not a sprint.

(yeah sorry about the spelling, I'm a caveman)

[Bazan110584 0]

Do the cardio workout like these guys are suggesting. Running is one of the best ones, in my opinion (though others will tell you various machines. If you really want to do a machine, use an eliptical)

5 pounds in one week is NOT healthy. You'll probably just end up putting it back on soon enough, and them some. In fact, I guarentee that you will. A healthy weight loss is 1 to 2 pounds/week, MAX.

Best way to lose weight is to weight lift. It's counter-intuitive at first, but it works. Reason is, whenever you do a cardio/aerobic workout (running, elipticals, treadmills, Nordic-Track, etc.) you burn calories while you're working. For example, for every mile of running, you burn about 100 calories (yup, that's about it, hate to burst your bubble ) But when you lift, you not only burn calories while lifting (albeit, not as much), but you also burn calories while rebuilding your torn muscles. Additionally, muscle tissue burns more calories while you're at rest than fatty tissues (which is why gym rats eat 5-6 small meals/day, or 3 large ones). So, you'll gain weight initially (muscle), but it's good weight. Eventually, you'll probably drop a few pounds (fat), though I don't know your body composition (obviously). If you've got a lot of fat, then you'll lose more weight than if you've got no fat on your body (which is, by the way, quite unhealthy).

Since you're planning on getting faster, use low weights with high reps, and a good number of sets. Take, for example, the chest press (a good exercise, but people think it's the be-all-and-end-all of exercises. It ain't). My 1 rep max (how much I can lift once, and only once) is around 200. If I'm going for high reps, I'll only lift a bar that's, say, 115 pounds, and do 5 sets of 12-15. The end result is that my muscles don't grow so much in strength as in endurance. I won't be increasing my one rep max, but I'll be able to do that motion for much longer. Of course, if I wanted to increase my strength, I'd put heavy weights on with low reps. For example, I'd start with a warmup set of 135, doing it 12 times. Then go up to 155 x 8 times, 175 x 4-6, 195 x 1 (2 if I can manage), then that's it.

If you're going for strength, lift the muscle 1-3x/week. This will allow the muscle to rebuild itself. Any more and you won't allow the muscle to heal, and therefore it won't gain strength/mass. Endurance...4x/week, MAYBE more, depending on your routine.

Training high reps/low weight will increase endurance, but not strength or mass, while low reps/high weight will not increase endurance, but will increase strength and muscle mass (up to what you can genetically put on your body, and what your frame can hold. I'm telling ya right now, you won't have muscles like a running back in the NFL, since all of them (and the rest of the NFL) are freaks of nature in how large their muscles can grow. Just like the players in the NBA are freaks in their height.

Anyway, hope that helps. Good luck!

[drisco487 0]

When you lift weights you dont lose weight you gain it, but in a good way because your gaining muscle

[Alias81 0]

That all depends on reps and amount of weight your lifting.

[drisco487 0]

ok someone wants to go out and get stronger and bench and do weights ur gonna gain pounds dude

[Alias81 0]

I don't remember him saying he wanted to get stronger, he said he wanted to loose weight he also said nothing about benching or doing weights.

...dude

[drisco487 0]

i wasnt talking to him about that i was talking to you about it

.........dude

[Bazan110584 0]

His coach wanted him to get faster. That can be done by losing weight, or through strength training.

And as for gaining weight, it all depends on what kind of lifting you're doing, lifting for mass or lifting for endurance.

[Chadd 916]

either reduce your caloric intake or increase your caloric expenditure, or both. The last option is probably the best.

[Perry94 0]

Or you could do what everyone else does and throw up after you eat. I mean, I do it, so it's GOT to be normal...

[Quintin 16]

Or you could do what everyone else does and throw up after you eat. I mean, I do it, so it's GOT to be normal...

Geez, go to a therapist.

[g0o0nshow 0]

When doing running though be sure you have a good cross trainer/running shoe its one of the hardest excerize on your knees and ankles. The eliptical machine is a good alternative along with the just riding the bike.