After the 6 months training of the book?

[frifri]

How can I maintain the results obtained after the 6 months of training described in the book NROL for Women? If I do the training, effectively loose the weight I want to loose (not much but still) and gain a bitter stringer (not mutch since I am already but still), how do I do that? Do I need to keep on doing specific exercises at the gym or will cycling/running/body pump classes will do the job? And what about the nutrition program with either 5 or 6 meals? Shall I keep doing this even if I don't continue stressing my muscles the way I did during the 6 months-program?

[Cynic]

The best way to maintain appearance is to maintain a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

[Lou Schuler]

Hi Fanny,

I don’t know how much you can maintain if you stop lifting altogether. I’d continue to devote at least one day a week to fairly serious lifting, although I think two days would be better – maybe one day a week with fairly heavy weights and low reps (4-6 per set), and one day with medium weights and medium reps (10-12 per set).

The physical changes you gained from six months of Alwyn’s workouts will only be retained with some type of training that resembles Alwyn’s workouts. The key is to do your strength training in both weekly workouts with weights that exceed 60% of the amount of weight you could lift for a single repetition in each exercise.

Running, cycling, and body-pump classes are all fine types of exercise, but if you like the results you get from six months of strength training, then your best bet is to keep doing that as your primary exercise system.

[Cynic]

Originally Posted by Lou Schuler

Hi Fanny

I'm trying to figure out how you know her name. Are you psychic?

[Lou Schuler]

She emailed me with the exact same question.

Plus, my doctor told me I'm psychic. (Or was that "psychotic"?)

[Cynic]

Originally Posted by Lou Schuler

She emailed me with the exact same question.

That is what I had thought. But jokingly, I was going to accuse you of padding your popularity by having friends and family post some softball questions for you.

[Lou Schuler]

I was going to accuse you of padding your popularity

It sounds so vulgar when you say it like that. I prefer to think of it as "profile enhancement."