i have hip dips, how can i reduce the appearance?! can be hard exercises but i dont have access to any gym equipment plus no gym near me, so preferably something i can do on my carpet

I intend to begin going to the gym for the first time. I would really appreciate tips to help me, thank you

Hi everyone

First off, thanks for taking the time to read. I’ll keep it short and simple. 33 year old male, 5 ft 9, 200 pounds. With my genetics from my dads side, I seem to store a ton of body fat in my chest. This results in this odd looking pouch of fat right under my armpit and of course, the man boobs. While I understand that you can’t target a specific area of the body with fat loss, is there anything you guys might recommend aside from daily cardio / lifting that might help? I do NOT want to bulk. Just looking to get rid of this excess fat and feel better about myself. One thing I do struggle with is eating saltine crackers at 1am when I can’t sleep. While I only have a few, I can’t help but think this is holding me back. What do you all think?

I am wanting to purchase a mini under the desk elliptical or pedaler. My goal is to get the blood flowing more than anything. Something to combat sitting with blood pooling in the feet for hours on end. Not looking to bulk up my legs or workout like in the gym, just something to elevate the heart rate a bit and get the blood flowing and prevent blood clots. Any ideas which would be better for this specific goal? The elliptical or mini bike pedaler? Thanks!

Hi Guys. A quick disclaimer, a lot of you won't believe the things in this post, but I'm being absolutely genuine and I need advice. Consider it like a tiebreaker between a friend and I.

I started working out in August 2024(minus sports played as a kid like lawn tennis and messing around with calisthenics here and there), and I've always been super naturally strong. Within my first three months of lifting, I could already bench 315, OHP over 200, lat pulldown 220+... etc etc at around 202 lbs BW.

Here's the issue: A super nice guy I met at the gym noticed me lifting around when I started training and offered to train me for free, and while he is definitely very knowledgeable, we disagree on volume and rest times. I feel like I recover slowly (5-6+ minutes between sets) and whenever I do a hard set I'm gasping for air, and I can barely do 2 good sets before I feel super weak on the exercise. At the moment, I do 2 full-body workouts a week(Monday and Friday) and I feel like it's enough cause I've gained a LOT of muscle in the past 3 months. Right now, he's trying to lower my rest time to "2-3 minutes" and and add more sets until it's like "4 per exercise" and saying I'll adapt to it and I'm might be making excuses/underestimating myself and making the workouts unnecessarily long.

I've done research online and it seems to say that longer rest might be a good thing and that stronger people generally fatigue easier(hence why I mentioned my numbers) so don't need as much volume. Do you guys think I need to rest less and add more volume?

In about 8 months I’m going back home to the Philippines and I want to impress my family and I’ve been fat for all my life and I want to change

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For me personally is my mental health it used to be i want to get stronger physically but nowadays is more about my mental health more than physical health personally I have a lot of mental health issues and exercising is one way to control my moods thoughts from getting too overwhelmed walking jogging cycling I must get at least 10k steps everyday to maintain a good mental health.What about you guys what is your personal reasons for exercise?

Yeah. So I lift 26 kg weights 40 times a day, 20 times in the morning and 20 times in the evening. I’ve been doing it for a few months now, but I am just wondering if it is a ridiculously low amount and it isn’t doing anything for me.

And if so, what should I up it to?

I‘m currently on a weight loss journey and try to do 40-50 minutes of cardio on a stepper/crosstrainer machine, 4-5 times a week. Due to personal circumstances I simply do not have more time than that. Does a higher heart rate always mean mire calories burned? According to my apple watch I burned 350 calories in 50 minutes with an average of 140 bpm, and another day 430 at an average of 150 bpm (same time). I would think that heart rate depends on a lot of other factors beyond exercise intensity, like fatigue, general stress level, caffeine consumption etc. Can I trust my apple watch here? Does higher heart rate always mean I burned more calories and did a higher intensity workout?

I keep injuring my wrist when I go for heavy bench press weights, any suggestions with wrist exercises that can strengthen my wrists ?

I think I experienced endorphins from an exercise for the first time. Something beyond The Pump. I was doing prone hamstring curls, and suddenly the pain became pleasure. I don't mean feeling the pain and getting pleasure out of that, but the pain itself vanished and was replaced with Heaven. It's like I was having sex with a woman and coming with each curl. My face did this contorted creepy smile that I'm glad wasn't visible, because I was getting the feeling of coming in front of 50 people, it was terrific; like I was in Heaven.

Hello, I am looking for some workout advice. Due to some health issues I am unable to do most forms of cardio as they exacerbate my symptoms. Running is 100% out of the question. Things like biking, swimming, and walks would be dependent on the day but i'm trying to figure out something that I'd be able to do more reliably. Right now my workout routine consists of easy pilates and a very small amount of weight lifting (i'm talking like 5 lbs lol) and I still have to skip days frequently. My day to day life pretty much consists of sitting in bed, going to the grocery store and cleaning my house once a week and even then I still sometimes skip those which means i'm spending all my time in bed. Anyways, i have a decent amount of health anxiety and being very inactive makes me nervous to develop a heart condition lol so i guess im just asking for advice. What would you do in my situation?

Ok, so I was a pro athlete/entertainer until I was 38. A couple car accidents later, I tried running, was never great but did several half marathons and some 200 mile relay races. Since 2015, I have completly let myself go! But, now I am back in the gym and working on getting myself back into...? Overall I have no major health issues. I am willing to put in the work. What are my best outcomes at my age? What can I expect? Right now I am 5'8 and 236, only 4 pounds lost so far, but I am starting to feel better.

Fairly new to all of this. Got a sitting job about a year ago and realized I need to exercise. On glute/leg day I’m in the shed going at it for roughly an hour and a half or more doing about ten different exercises. My question is how many exercises should I do on glute/leg day and how long should I be working out for? What’s the average amount of time people spend? Is ten or more exercises excessive? I have no friends and I don’t exercise around others so I don’t know what’s normal and what’s not. Any helpful tips are appreciated. Thank you

I (29 F) weigh 150lbs, 5’6. I’m chest heavy, but I want to grow my booty. Slim waist, thick thighs, flat tummy, big booty are my goals. I have been told that, to reach my goals, I need to gain weight i.e more fat. I have a bit of a tummy currently. What exercises would best benefit me for what I’m working towards? I understand this type of body doesn’t happen overnight and I’m willing to work hard for it. I currently exercise 3 days a week at my local gym. I usually speed walk for 30 minutes-1 hour on the treadmill, then use an abs machine (kind of like doing crunches), a legs machine, and a butt machine (sit back and press a device with your legs chest level.) My current workout routine takes me about 2 hours max. I don’t have a set amount of sets that I’m doing. Any and all advice would be welcome!

Ps. I go to a smaller gym so they don’t have the “latest” equipment, but they still have plenty of variety. Apologies I’m a bit of a newbie so I don’t know the names of any of the machines besides the treadmill. Thanks in advance!

I'm 18F, I already have a toned core but I mainly want a toned back/legs (specifically quads). I'm 5'7, 145lbs and workout 5 days a week (I do both legs and back twice a week w/ some intense-ish cardio).

Currently I am eating 2000-2050 calories a day and 130g-150g of protein. Is this an appropriate diet for my goals?

All advice is appreciated.

Hi everyone! I am doing research for a friend. They want to create the perfect health snack bar for people who do lots of sports/fitness/ and want healthier ingredients, more energy etc.

any answers will help me so much to understand what you're looking for in a snack bar/protein bar. Thank you allll!!!

1. What matters most in the ingredients (like organic, low sugar, high protein)
2. Do you buy protein bars in bulk?
3. How often and where you buy healthy foods (online or in stores)
4. Any struggles you have with eating healthy regularly
5. Types of info that help you choose (like recipes, reviews, or health tips)
6. What makes you stick with a brand
7. How much you’re willing to spend on a good snack bar

8.Do you snack more before exercising or after?

I (31f) have been doing some light dumbbell and calisthenics exercises for months now, but not much cardio (mayyyybe a 20-minute walk once a week). My energy has improved slightly, but not a whole lot. Now I’m wondering if I should replace most of my workouts with a walk to see if I can improve my overall energy levels. I like the mild muscle definition I’ve developed, but I’m now more interested in FEELING better as opposed to looking better. Thoughts? Does one type provide better outcomes than the other? And as much as I’d like to do both, I’m just not set up in life right now to spend that much time on myself.

Not even a second on there and my legs feel weak like they’re about to crash and my vision gets weird like I can’t see anything and I can’t think and my legs are in so much pain I try to stay aware but it’s hard to This is mostly elliptical but not just elliptical, it’s most cardio even sometimes walking and especially standing up I can’t think and my vision blocks everything out I’ve been to the doctor and got bloodwork and they all said it’s nothing what can I do to prevent this

I recently overwalked and it got me a foot tendonitis, but now I have no idea on what simple exercise I can do in my room to burn calories, any idea? Anything that does not involve walking or even standing because it's too painful

So over the summer we got our treadmill up and working and since the end of June me (F25) and my bf (M40) have started adding that to our workout routine. We lift twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening and then do our respective runs, I’ve also implemented a set of sit ups to my daily routine (200 a day split up into two sessions, or 10 sets of 10)

I don’t have a problem with motivation, I’ve been very consistent but I have found that throughout the rest of my day I’m very low energy. I would like to fix this without changing any of my routines or adding too many calories to my diet. We’re consistently losing weight and I would like to keep things that way but also not feel super lethargic for the rest of the day as well. I suppose what I’m asking is does anyone have any suggestions for things that could give me a little healthy energy boost.

I'm agoraphobic and live in an area that isn't safe for lone women to go out alone.

Does anyone know any good exercises I can do in my room? I can't really afford to get a gym membership. I would if I could.

I miss exercising so much, but I just can't bring myself to leave my home right now. (I couldn't anyway because my car doesn't really work right now, either)

I just tried CrossFit today. I usually work out weight lifting and running and some football, but separate of each other.

I found the workout fun, and I like the social aspect of it. But I cant help to think that CrossFit feels suboptimal. It tries to focus on both strength and cardio and I kindof feel that I dont Get neither of them 100%. I certainly dont Get the strength training.

As of now I want to try a few more rounds. But I will still maintain my weight lifting on the side and kind of treat the CrossFit workouts as cardio.

I was also surprised to see a lot of them, saying they had been working out there for years. But their overall fitness didnt necessarily look very athletic. People were stopping 5-10seconds before the clock rang. Tbh I was a little disappointed.