“I taped ’20 Minute Workout’ on my machine and played it back at high speed so it only took 10 minutes. I got a great workout.”

Thanks :) I have somewhat successfully incorporated a bit of running into my weekly routine at the moment, but I keep it very light and only go out at most 3 times a week, and never more than 4 kms. The biggest problem I had was that I didn't know how to warm up properly beforehand, and learned the hard way that you can very easily hurt yourself that way. And when you do you can forget about trying to run again for several weeks.
Right now I try to do some cycling/tae bo before I go for a light jog, which I've found does an excellent job of warming up my legs so that I don't hurt myself.

By the way, what do you mean with "you need time for your body to cool down" ? Is that before you start going again, or when you've finished your jog? When I've finished my route I just kind of stop and collapse in my chair (sometimes preceded by a few stretches) :P

Is this purely about excercise? Or about weight loss?

I came to the same conclusion about myself as you a few months ago and decided to try and lose some weight. I own a home trainer, which I can roll into the den so I can watch movies or play games while excercising, but I I only started significant weight loss after I started changing my food patterns. Over the last 3 months I've lost about 24 pounds and I think it had much more to do with the change in eating than the extra physical activity.

Perhaps you could check this article that was written two months ago:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories

The gist is: physical activity is important and has lots of benefits; lower blood pressure, less cholesterol, the whole nine yards, but significant weight loss isn't one of them. (though it can augment the effects of a diet) That's because only 10 to 30% of the calories you burn each day is burned by physical activity. While 100% of the calories you take in is through food (which you control), only 20% of the calories you burn is controllable.

The physical activity you have right now should be enough. Instead, take a close look at your eating habits. Do you drink soft drinks while you could be drinking water? How many snacks do you eat a day? Do you eat a lot hi-carb food, lots of highly processed food or even lots of pasta? WHAT you eat is more important than HOW MUCH you eat. Starving yourself is counter-productive, you can actually eat quite a bit of "the right food".

Take some time to look into what kind of food you should avoid and what you can eat. Oh, and keep at it, even if the process takes longer than a week or two.

If you're taking a 1 minute breather than no you don't have to wait before jogging again, you can probably resume jogging immediately because you're still in a higher gear. However stopping suddenly and not giving your body time to cool down can make you pass out, not sure if there's a or worse though. This is why after doing a run say doing laps that you walk the last lap which is time while you're not fully jogging, you're still active and your heart and body can calm down to a level where you won't pass out and hurt yourself.

A lot of exercise regimes incorporate warming up and cooling down with stretching, which is good since you aren't bored or wasting your time.
Soft drinks... Ugg... If you listen to your body and really listen, often it will tell you what is good for you and what isn't. If you HAVE to have something that's not straight water, you might go for something like Crystal lite (or equivalent), or even sun tea (hold the sugar)

As of late I've also been making a stew on a near daily basis, takes about 10 minutes of prep time, 1-2 hours of cooking, and it's a full day's meal for like a dollar in materials. Two dollars if you include meat. :P Add a bit of bread for dipping, and it's something you can eat daily and is good for you for weeks at a time.

Cool thanks :) I'll remember that for next week when I'll have to get rid of all the lasagna I'm planning to eat this weekend :P

Cut down on everything that contains sugar especially high fructose corn syrup, if you believe Robert H. Lustig it's as bad as drinking lots of alcohol. Cut down on alcohol too if you're consuming it and quit smoking if you're smoking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y

Keep exercising, simple exercises like situps and backups each day and maybe a do a jog around the block twice a week as it makes the blood flow more than cycling.

With no gear: shadowboxing and body-weight exercises.

With some gear: a punching bag, or a pair of dumbbells - they are cheap, easy to store and let you do a whole bunch of exercises.

For something more unusual, start with a weapons-based martial arts style, go to class once or twice a week and practice at home for the rest: Eskrima, Iaido, Haidong Gumdo, Kenjutsu and others.

Obviously some degree of research is required before starting with anything new.

I've had very good experience with replacing the pasta in the food I prepared with quinoa. It's quite filling, yet it's low-carb at the same time.

Taking portions into account helps too. When I visited the US, two things immediately caught my attention; eating out is very popular in the US and the portions they serve in most places are giga-fucking-huge, to the point where I was left wondering if anybody ever actually finishes their damn meal.

And here from my military background, I'd almost think pushups and situps were the way to go... Well, as long as you have a good pad to do it on so you don't hurt yourself (a foam mat i wouldn't really qualify as gear, as you can also do this in the backyard and get it as good; Although the thick foam mats are really really comfortable to lay on).

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Read this: http://www.aworkoutroutine.com

EDIT: There is lots of noise in the thread, so I'll remove mine. The above is all I have to say!

The best motivator is the progress itself.
Write what you do and when you do, for example: 20160603: 40pushups@2m1sec. And write and monitor the stats, which you set for the goal, like weight or control exercise. There is nothing more motivating than noticing the progress, and it happens if you put big priority on consistency.

Calories alone is not sufficient, its quantity. But quality also is important. Calories are energy measurement, amount of heat fuel produce. But they don't indicate what kind of fuel is burned. Like burning crude oil and fruit tree logs - big difference. Some fuel burns VERY fast, other fuel burns slow; some fuel triggers more fuel consumption; some fuel damages when it burns.

The biggest fat builders are high carbonate fast burning food, like refined sugar (burgers, white bread, beer, cola, etc) Burns fast, pushes insuline causing hunger, has no healthy elements, easily transfers in the fat. And fat produce estrogen (women hormone) causing laziness and lack of motivation.
Cola and alcohol due to carbonates also cause loss of liquid, the thurst easily causes more consume. It loops. The perfect thirst quencher is plain water. Best foods: salads, cocked meats with very little of spice, brown rice etc.

There are lots of opinions and "scientifically" produced systems for workouts, but if you cut through it all the jargon and boil it down to simple terms you end up needing just two exercises, a push and a pull. For upper body you have things like push-ups, dips and handstand push-ups on the push side then pull-ups, chin-ups and rows on the pull side. These are simple exercises that don't require a lot of fancy equipment, I do dips on my washer and dryer and body-weight rows by laying flat on my back under the dinning table, grabbing the edge and pulling. As far as a routine, start with one exercise from each category, one push and one pull. Do as many of the first exercise as you can while maintaining proper form, this is important because your body will build muscle memory based on the quality of your last few reps, then rest 1-3 minutes before doing a second set. then repeat for the second exercise. In the beginning, since you are only using your own body weight, this can be done every single day. Once you get to the point where you can knock out 50+ push-up or 12-15 perfect pull-ups (no kicking your legs or flopping your body around) then you might want to cut back to allow one day of rest between workouts and start doing two push and pull exercises each. This is a simple and relatively quick routine, you won't end up looking like Mr Universe but you'll be in good shape.

Very much this! Even a daily brisk walk helps. That was the extent of my exercise when I was losing weight.