Good exercise for someone overweight?

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CHUB91

Posts: 76
9/20/11 4:42 A

Swimming is pretty great, low impact but it ends up being a good workout even if you don't feel it

BUFFEDSTUFF--

Posts: 2,483
9/19/11 11:07 P

Walking was what got me started, at the time it was about all I could do. Good luck on your journey to better health!

MOTIVATED@LAST

Posts: 12,390
9/19/11 9:27 P

For most people, weight loss is 80% nutrition, and just 20% exercise. So just watching your intake is a good place to start even without exercise.

Cycling (either stationary or real), the elliptical and swimming/water walking are all great zero-impact exercises.

Low to moderate impact exercise can help strengthen your joints and adjust your body for higher impact activities. Low impact DVD's can be fun workout. And walking is a great low-to-moderate impact exercise as well.

M@L

MRSSCLAUS

Posts: 303
9/19/11 4:10 P

2.5 years ago when I was in such bad shape I started out marching in place. Not original, but it was free and portable. I did it during commercials and progressed to doing during whole shows.

Besides walking, I would think that doing things in water such as water aerobics would also be easy on the joints.

DIDS70

Posts: 4,644
9/19/11 3:35 P

Walking is one of the better ones out there. It's free because you can do it outside. Start with about 15-30 minutes and build up from there. Once you feel more in control, you can start adding strength training.

KOZMOE6

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9/19/11 3:26 P

I have heard that being overweight is hard on your body, joints, knees, etc. What is a good exercise to start with to get some of the weight off before trying higher impact exercise?

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