Im an 18 year old hs boy. I lost 50 pounds in about 4 months from 195 to 145. Its been a year since ive been 145. Im around 140 atm and 5'9. However i still have quite a bit of loose skin. Im pretty sure its not fat because i eat fairly healthy and i run about 60-70 miles a week. I wanna know if there is anyway to get rid of this skin. I am pretty weak(i can only bench 110) so i was wondering should i try and build more muscle or should i do insanity?
Im an 52 year-old former hs boy. I lost 50 pounds in about 8 months from 200 to 150. Its been a 7 years since ive been 150. Im around 140 atm and 5'9.
It's a lot harder at my age. I think weight-training will help a lot but make sure that you get supervision when you start as bad form can really eff you up.
Also watch your diet. You're very light for your height. Make sure you are not under-eating. If you are running 40 mpw you should be getting at least 2800 calories a day.
Randy Oldman wrote:
Also watch your diet. You're very light for your height. Make sure you are not under-eating. If you are running 40 mpw you should be getting at least 2800 calories a day.
What are you smoking? A 5'9", 18-yr-old, 40-mpw guy who wants to maintain his weight should be eating around 3500 calories per day, if not more.
I dont really wanna gain weight i mean id like to get rid of the skin but performance on the track is the biggest priority
jamin wrote:
Randy Oldman wrote:Also watch your diet. You're very light for your height. Make sure you are not under-eating. If you are running 40 mpw you should be getting at least 2800 calories a day.
What are you smoking? A 5'9", 18-yr-old, 40-mpw guy who wants to maintain his weight should be eating around 3500 calories per day, if not more.
I did say at least. But you're right.
I cant eat more than 3000 without barfing
Short of surgery, you're not likely to get rid of all of the slackness of the skin, but you're lucky: for a younger person, the skin is more likely to rebound. (As an older weight-loser--I've dropped about 1/3 of myself in recent years--I've accepted that my "draperies" are here to stay.)
Insanity, as I understand it, won't do much for the slack skin. A bodybuilding-type lifting program may pick up *some* of the slack, but a) how are you going to put on 20 pounds of muscle in your midsection, and b) if performance on the track is important to you, a lot of bodybuilding muscle will seriously affect your strength/weight ratio.
[Nevertheless I do recommend lifting to you, but the kind that's appropriate for a runner: heavy weight (after you've developed a sound technique with light weights), low reps (3-6 range), and just two or three "work" sets per exercise (you may also need one or two warmup sets for a given exercise).]
Given that that you dropped the weight really fast--but you're young--I'd expect that you'll see the skin tighten up some over the next couple years, no matter what.
jamin wrote:
Randy Oldman wrote:Also watch your diet. You're very light for your height. Make sure you are not under-eating. If you are running 40 mpw you should be getting at least 2800 calories a day.
What are you smoking? A 5'9", 18-yr-old, 40-mpw guy who wants to maintain his weight should be eating around 3500 calories per day, if not more.
This is definitely not true for me. At 40 mpw mid to upper 2000's is all I can have. Running 70 mpw I would start to gain weight if I was eating over 3500 a day.
K whatever ill just be patient and let time take care of it. No point in compromising my running
Talk to your high school distance coach or nutrition teacher about creating a nutrition plan to compliment your exercise routine that will help you this fall when you are in college and making your own decisions.
College students are not in class from 8 to 3.
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