Health & Exercise

Gym-weight routines?

I'm sort of new (not to the bump, but to this board I guess)

LO is about 9 months old and I'm still carrying around all of the weight I gained during pregnancy. I've been trying to make it to the gym 4 days a week- I'm sort of a SAHM, but LO is in daycare because I'm a full-time student. I pretty much can only muster the energy to use the elliptical for about 20 minutes. I do make it around to some of the weight machines, but they don't seem like they're doing anything.

I know basic "moves" I guess, with dumbbells and such, but I'm not sure what to do when and how often and stuff.

Do any of you know of any good websites that build a routine? I've checked SparkPeople, but they didn't have what I was looking for. TIA!

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Re: Gym-weight routines?

  • The best book ever on the subject is "New Rules of Lifting for Women". It's got a weight lifting plan for about 6 months worth of workouts.

    General principles: don't work the same muscles two days in a row. Lift enough weight that the last couple reps are difficult to complete. About 10 reps and 3 sets of each exercise is a typical workout (rest for 45-90 seconds between sets). I like full-body workouts, so I do at least 1 exercise per major muscle group (quads, hamstrings, chest, back, shoulders, abs/core) each workout.

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