Exercise Routine Advice for Weight Loss

[H-S]

Hi,

I'm a 26 female, 5 foot and 4 inches tall and currently weigh 14 stone and 3 pounds, however I started at 16 stone and 2 pounds and it has taken me 18 months of following Weight Watchers to lose that amount. This was doing very little exercise.

After losing 2 stone I have noticed skin isn't as tight as it used to be and I hope exercising as well as following Weight Watchers will allow me to continue to lose weight but also improve fitness and get 'toned'.

I have a cross trainer and power plate at home along with 3kg hand weights, Jillian Michaels 30 day shred dvd and Josie Gibson's dvd. I enjoy interval training but I have no idea really of what routine I should be doing, how long for and what is most effective to achieve goals. Due to work I can exercise 3 times a week ideally, do I need to be doing more? I like Jillian's dvd because it pushes you hard for 30 mins and I don't get bored then, but that is supposed to be done every day and I can't commit to that. Can anyone advise please?

Thank you

[Boss Man]

What does the other dvd reccomend?

[H-S]

The other dvd is interval training again. I was hoping for some advice regarding a routine that would utilise the cross trainer, power plate and hand weights if anyone could help please?

[Boss Man]

The issue with the hand weights is, you've only got one pair, not say one size and a bigger size, so you'd get more stimulus of smaller muscles than bigger ones, to the point where the percentage improvement on smaller muscles, could be greater than on bigger ones, so some parts of your body would progress a bit disproportionately, relative to other parts.

You could however try this sort of thing, with the other elements.

Day 1. Powerplate

Day 2. Cross Trainer

Day 3. Power plate

Day 4. Day off

Day 5. Cross Trainer

Day 6. Powerplate

Day 7. Day off.

This stops you training for too many consecutive days and keeps the off days split, so you don't fo a couple of days of nothing, possibly eating into progress a bit.