Hello fellow rebels!
I've seen some posts about getting into the Academy or not but I have found none of them answering my questions.
Few months ago I decided to change my life and lose some weight. I found a nutritionist, set up meetings and started loosing weight pretty fast (I'm ~30lb down from 250, yay!). Later, I found a personal trainer and started exercising with her twice a week, 35 minutes each time. After some time I noticed that she uses pretty much the same set of exercises every time. Instead of being fun, it became a chore. Moreover, it was crazy expensive. She tried to move me to a group training, which is a little bit cheaper, but I resigned instead.
I considered getting a new trainer and focus on weight lifting but it's even more expensive so instead I made a bet with myself. I'm going to set aside money I'd spend on personal trainer and every week, if I met my goals (exercise twice a week for now, three times later), I'll put it back in my "spending money" budget. Otherwise, I send them to savings account and forget about them until retirement
I have a bike and plan to bike to work once a week, I live ~8mi from work so even if I do it one-way, it'll be a good exercise. There's a swimming pool nearby, I loved swimming as a kid and plan to check if the feeling is still there. But I don't want to completely resign from weightlifting, however I'm not sure how to start with that. I did some overhead presses and deadlifting once with my trainer but nothing really serious. We spend more time on step-ups and squats (with a kettlebell, so way more fun) than with dumbbell, and I haven't even touched a barbell with plates so I'm pretty anxious before going to that side of the gym.
My goals are pretty simple:
burn more fat, to get my bfi lower (it's ~25% right now, I want to get to 24%)
assist weight loss with exercises
get stronger, way stronger
Here's what I'm looking for:
exercise plans, especially with suggestions how to modify them on my own to get desired results
instructions how to exercise properly, without hurting myself (I'm super afraid of that and I have friends who harmed themselves with a wrong form)
some theory about how exercising works, how to use different types of exercises together (i.e. would swimming help me with getting stronger? or rather make it harder?)
Can Acedemy provide me this information? Would it be useful? I also consider just going with stronglift 5x5 program but it seems to be a very poor resource-wise.
I don't really need the nutrition part as I'm still over watched by my nutritionist, the mind module would be nice, maybe, depending on what it focusses on.
Thanks for your help!
