Help for "bottom heavy" friend

[FitnessGoddess]

I am trying to convince a "bottom heavy" friend that she needs to give up SOME not all of the 5 hours a week of cardio she is doing. She lost a great deal of weight a year ago when I started being "accountability partners" with her & convinced her to try Cathe. She started lifting weights for the first time in years. Yes, she was still doing cardio. Since loosing the initial 20 lbs, she has been at a plateau for more than 8 months. She keeps increasing cardio & reducing weight training.

She is 5'2" (if that) & weighs 135 lbs. MOST is in her hips.

I have given her almost everything I can find & have had saved on reducing cardio & increasing weights but she just isn't getting it. She thinks the information I am giving to her is only for people "built like you (me)," 5'6" and weight carried proportionately.

I tried to "challenge" her to reducing her cardio for 2 weeks but she won't do it. I am to the point that I'm ready to tell her that if she wants my advice, then she needs to listen to it or quit asking me for it. I'm DONE!

Is there ANYONE here that can provice me with before & afters of someone built like her that has had success with less cardio & more weight training?

 

[rcook]

RE: Help for

Well I am 44 yrs young, and also 5'2", and I started out about the weight she is right now, cardio was ok for a few months, then I discovered Cathe's weights, then things started to change, it wasn't drastic of course a couple lbs a week, but now I am at 105 just where I wanted to be....... please tell her weight lifting helps soooo much...... I did 3 work outs a week for many months with ab work and cardio maybe 3 times a week........... hope this helps .... Rhonda

 

[naughtoj]

RE: Help for

Deborah...

I have no advice to give but I can sympathize with you! Oh man, if I could tell you how many times I just want to give up on giving advice. No one ever listens anyway!

With your luck, you would tell her to cut out the cardio and she would start eating like a pig. Then she would come back and say it was all your fault! Plus, she could end up getting fatter if she is not the type to give 110% to her workouts. Some of my workout partners never change, but they are not nearly consistent enough and their idea of "going heavy" is really a joke.


Is she willing to work, or does she just act like it but never does much? Most people never really appropriately challenge themselves, as I am sure you are well aware! Tell her if what she is currently doing is not working, what exactly does she have to lose by trying something new?

I would love to find someone who would be my workout partner that would be as intense as I. I spend most my time being frustrated by people who ACT like they want to get healthy and change their body. I am done designing workouts for everyone else. Now, it is only me that matters! Of course, until someone starts paying me $30.00 an hour to start caring!


Janice