Balancing out weight lifting and cardio????

[LissaJ]

Hello everyone,
I'm TODAY new to the forum, and joined because this seems like a very helpful website. I have a question, hopefully someone can help me. I am 5'3 and weight about 152lbs. I am just starting to get on the ball with working out once again!!!( the story of life). Anyway, I was in really great shape about 2 years ago, I went to the gym 4-5 times a week, and trainer had me on a program where I would work almost every muscle group out a little at a time that same day, and about a half hour of cardio in the same day. So I would be at the gym , an hour to a hour an a half 4-5 times a week, and it work out great for me. I think I explained that right. So now husband, and I want to get back in shape together, so we bought a mini gym set and bumbells for down stairs, so we can do it at home, mind you we have a 5 years old son so its not so easy to go to the gym all the time. Both him and I are on the same routine basically, except for the amount of weights, we do Monday -4 chest exersies, Wed-4 Back exercies, Fri- 2-3 each Bic and Tric, and Sun- Legs, shoulders, and abs. Tuesday and Thur I walk 2.5 miles.
Finally, question is... I feel like I'm not doing enough in one day, maybe because I'm used to doing cardio and weight the same day, can I still achieve good results with this routine as a woman wanting to lose 15- 20 lbs? I am tring to eat right too, keeping cal intake to about 1500 to 1600 cals a day, TRYING !!!!
I am one of those people to where like, if I look at cake I gain, weight. So it's it really hard for me to lose, the only thing I find that really works for me is eating right and exercise. Can anyone fill me!!!!

[swanso5]

- your bettor off with a full body plan 3/week...with a 5yr old you don't have time for little isolation, single joint exercises that really don't do anything (flies, curls, ext etc) and doing 5 exercises per muscle means that's what you'll be doing...each day should look like this:

day 1
conditioning exercise - mountain climbers, tuck jumps, lateral hops, quick step ups, burpees, squat thrusts etc x 20 reps
leg exercise - squat, deadlift or lunge variation x 12
back exercise - row variation x 12
conditioning exercise - different than 1st one x 20
chest exercise - push up or bench variation x 15
stabilisation core exercise - prone ab brace, side ab brace x as long as you can hold

x 2 - 3 circuits

- cal's probably need to be alittle higher at about 1800ish...eat more veggies, healthy fats and solid protein
- wt loss isn't hard for anyone, that's a cop out, if you want it then do it...simple as that and do whatever you need to do to get it (discipline and consistency)