Hi all,

I recently found out that as a part of my job I get access to a small gym in the building. I think it has your basic cardio equipment and some other stuff for building muscle (but small enough I don’t think there is equipment to do stuff like dead-lifts or whatever in there).

I don’t know anything about working out really, but I could stand to lose some fat, which draws my attention to the treadmill that they have. I am not so concerned about building muscle and everything that involves.

I have mostly neglected going to gyms for 3 reasons.

  • They are usually out of my way
  • I don’t usually have the time
  • I don’t want to spend what they charge

All three of these are now non-factors now that I have found out I have access to this one.

I would be using it twice a week as that is how often I am actually at the location.

So my question is, since it’s not really something I have ever looked at - if I want to lose a bunch of fat, what do I do? I can try to diet first off, and I am glad to take suggestions on what worked for other people in that regard, but more so I just don’t know how long or how fast I should run, what equipment is good for this otherwise, or really anything about using a gym.

Please note that the facility is self-serve and has no staff - they just have cleaners come in each day to clean it, the rest is up to you. I do not have the money to spend on something like a personal trainer, and the location doesn’t offer such things as well given its self-serve nature.

Thank you.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    As others have said in this thread, the single most impactful thing you can do for fat loss is changing a bad diet into a good sustainable diet.

    Nobody has mentioned this yet, keto is the key. Removing all sugar and carbohydrates from your diet will make you lose weight faster than anything else you could possibly do. Every time you eat carbohydrates, you pause your body’s fat burning for about 2 to 4 hours. So if every meal you’re eating carbs, and you’re having a carb snack, you’re pausing fat burning all day, the only time you have to burn fat is when you sleep.

    This is how intermittent fasting works, that’s why people see good results, they’re not eating the carbohydrates during their fasting window, and they can burn fat.

    The good thing about low carb eating is you don’t have to calorie count at all, your bodies normal hunger signals will work properly, just eat when you are hungry and stop when you are not.

    Working out with a bad diet, will most certainly make you gain weight, especially fat. If your diet is carbohydrate heavy, heavy processed foods, heavy in sugars, when you get hungry after working out, you’re going to eat more of the bad food. Which is going to make you fatter. You need to fix the diet first

    The gym is great, it’s great for your overall health, it’s great for longevity, but it is not the key to fat loss. You can’t out exercise a bad diet

    If you can swing it, get a continuous glucose monitor, and monitor your glucose all day, keep that number as low as possible. It’s great immediate feedback for every meal. Of course you can go to the gym! Just cut the carbs