For gymnastics you need the best weight to strength ratio possible, so while you don t want to lose muscle, losing weight will make the moves easier. To practise for a sport the best thing to do is that sport.To lose weight you should concentrate on reducing your diet and not bother about cardiovascular exercise. Cut down on carbohydrate foods, consume a higher proportion of vegetable fats and proteins in your diet, but make sure that you reduce the overall amount of your diet. Eating half size portions is one of the easiest ways without having to change anything else about your diet. If you can t hack that, eating three bowls of salad is still less calories than 1 portion of potatoes or pasta, so eat as much salad and vegetables as you like. Replace rice or pasta or potatoe in some meals with (non starchy) vegetables, carrots, spinach, soups, salads.While running helps for most people, gymnastics helps more.A high intensity gymnastics class will burn as many calories as steady state long-distance running, but you also build more muscle as a result. This means that between classes you burn more calories so I recommend doing gymnastic conditioning rather than running, for better results.There are a lot of power and explosive moves in gym, and a lot of strength training. You should do lots of sit-ups, press-ups, squat jumps, lunges, tuck jumps, toe touches, back ups, and very short sprints. Harder but more effective conditioning drills are bunny hops, burpees, walking on hands, and straddle presses if you can do them. (See this youtube vid for a straddle press http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVhGtVH2C�� ). Stretching won t hurt either and will keep your muscles from getting too bulky. Also most gymnastic moves can t be done / look bad if you have poor flexibility.By summer with a diet and conditioning you should easily lose the weight AND be fit and strong ready for gym. If you decide to do a weedy diet and lots of cardio instead you will be disappointed when it comes to the power moves in gymnastics which require a lot of abdominal and leg strength.Good luck!
Go running as much as you can, eat at least six small meals a day and never consome more calories than you will burn. I joined a health website a long time ago that tells you what you should do, how many calories to eat etc. If you want the link send me an email if not good luck!! Just move as much as you can and do lots of stretches.
ALL exercises on either dumbbells or barbells:Squatsfront squatsoverhead pressesbent over rows (back parallel to floor)deadliftsDumbbell bench pressesHigh pulls from floorpush pressespre-stretch crunches (http://www.themedicalhelp.com/forum/view�� for how to do these)A variety of pull upsFor running, use HIIT and sprintsFor diet, search the above link for zig zag diet .For info on details, get back to me at zendreams@gmail.com
try running as it is good for all muscles. another exercise proberly the best exercise is swimming ! it works just about every muscle in the body. also try to lay off the carbs and stick to fruit and veg
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NO! do not loose weight. you weigh that much because you are tall and you probly have tons of muscle. muscle weighs more than fat.
