@hawkeyegirl wrote:
I am 65 and have been doing Jazzercise and Zumba plus lots of walking. Have gained a few pounds instead of losing, it is so frustrating. I am careful about eating, and only eat light snacks after 6 pm. Maybe some of it is muscle? But still have the flab. I am 5'4". And weigh in at 148. Any ideas about why no weight is coming off?
@hawkeyegirl
Body weight is only numbers on a scale. It tells you nothing about the amount of fluid/muscle, or fat tissue in your body. It is well known the muscle tissue weighs more than fat tissue. A person that loses fat and replaces it with muscle tissue CAN have higher numbers on a regular scale, but muscle also takes up less space on a human body than fat tissue.
With doing the exercises you mentioned you should at least be feeling better and stronger overall. If a person does the same repetitive forms of exercising over and over again, their body becomes acclimated to that amount of effort, and it performs them with less effort. I personally have always used Interval Training.
Used this in my competitive running days/speed skating days, and also when recovering from my 2 heart attacks and several other major physical recoveries. Used them over the last 4 months to go from my lowest point ever in physical fitness, to now being in the upper 3% of all men in the USA in the 70-80 age category, and I am 78.
Give that a try, a body needs to be given differing types of physical work, or it gets acclimated to the same over and over type of training and exercising.
Sounds like you are doing good to me.
hckynut(john)
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