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| quote: | Originally posted by [N]ûk|êû[Z]
kind of a weird request here... im not a fitness freak or anything.. but its high time i started doing something with my health.
basically.. i have drank beer pretty much every night for the last 10 or 11 years since i left school... i dont do any working out or any major excercise anymore. im not fat, but i do have a bit of a beer belly. i used to work out a lot when i was about 16-17 [10ish years ago] i hada great body then, not massively muscular, but a nice set of abs, toned arms, and quite a protruding chest. but since then i have not excercised a lot, and the drink is doing to my body what drink will do, but over the last few weeks i have stopped drinking through the week [which has been hard for me]
my stomach is not big, but theres a little bit of fat around there, also my chest went from being quite muscular to flacid, i dont have manboobs yet, but lets say my chest still sticks out like it used to, but its not hard anymore.
my basic problem is.. i have panic disorder, and one of the things that sets an attack off is not being able to control my heart rate... if i DO do excercise i.e treadmill or something, my heart rate goes up, and it feels like i cant control it, which equals having a panic attack... but i want my fitness and my physique to develope again... so basically im just wondering, what is the best thing i can do, to get back on top of things to trim myself up, and also build up some decent muscle without exsert too much cardially as that gives me problems |
Running long distances in an easy pace is a good way to burn fat. It doesn't raise your heart rate too much, either, if you do it properly. A watch (or any other device) combined with a chest band can be a very useful tool in this.
There are downsides, though:
* You don't start burning fat from mile 0.
* Running slowly takes discipline and patience. It's easy to go too fast.
* It might take a while before your body is adapted to running for multiple hours.
* It doesn't do anything for muscle build.
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