Gym on Yik Yak | Recently been helping my overweight friend get into the gym and cardio is like our biggest problem rn. He does fine on lifts but I tried to get him started on incline walking and it was a little too much. Gonna try intervals for it. Anyone got advice?

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Gym 1w

Recently been helping my overweight friend get into the gym and cardio is like our biggest problem rn. He does fine on lifts but I tried to get him started on incline walking and it was a little too much. Gonna try intervals for it. Anyone got advice?

Anonymous 1w

For referenced intervals are like 5min normal no incline walk at a moderate pace and then like 3 mins with an incline a little faster

Anonymous 1w

Depends how overweight. If it's overweight to the point of medical issues then you'd need to start lower. More on the line of just normal walking then after a couple weeks advance to 5 min walking 2 incline at like the smallest incline

Anonymous 1w

I wouldn’t increase incline AND speed. Each variable introduced is going to have a compounding effect on difficulty. Fine for someone who is already in it a bit, but I wouldn’t recommend for that level of beginner.

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#1 1w

Basically got him going on that rn we rolled it back to just 10k steps a day for consistency in movement and diet control