<p>true or false?</p>
<p>It really depends on the person.</p>
<p>It can be caused by drinking more, eating fast food instead of mom’s homecooked food, not getting enough sleep, and stress.</p>
<p>Just have things in moderation and take care of yourself and you should be fine. Most colleges have gyms that are open to students, so use them. You might have the freshman -15!</p>
<p>work out and eat decent food. I haven’t gained weight at all ( I’ve actually dropped and then went back to my HS weight)</p>
<p>I gained 25 pounds freshman year because of all you can eat cafeterias and binge drinking, but after eating right and exercising Sophomore Year I’m back to HS weight.</p>
<p>Join the college wrestling team, you’ll probably lose weight in college.</p>
<p>Through starvation and dehydration, not something logical like working out.</p>
<p>yeah you’ll probably gain weight cause of more partying, drinking, and eating, and a lot more work which might cause you to have less time to exercise.</p>
<p>I gained around 15 pounds or so in college, then lost most of it after I graduated. I never got back down to my HS weight, but that may be a consequence of working out in the meantime… I’m not sure.</p>
<p>However, college can be a VERY easy time to gain weight.</p>
<p>Yea, everyone I know gained weight. I gained something like 14 pounds but I started losing this holiday …
just don’t eat too much fast food and go to the gym at least 2 times a week</p>
<p>2 times a week??? LOL that’s ridiculous. More like once a day, 6-7 days a week
Come on, are you seriously going to tell me you can’t take 2 hours or an hour out of your schedule everyday to do something for yourself? If you really want to be in shape, you’ll find a way. (For me that meant waking up at 6am everyday for this past semester, but I still did it).</p>
<p>Going 6 to 7 times a week may actually be counter productive, depending on your views. Some believe it’s best to give the body a day here and there to rest. It’s probably more reasonable to go 3 to 5 times a week.</p>
<p>6-7 times a week is excessive. Three days a week is fine. Really, whatever you are comfortable with is best. You don’t want to overdo it…especially if you’re not used to working out a lot.</p>
<p>I personally am trying to gain, but I haven’t seen a change in my weight.</p>
<p>i lost weight when i went to college…i was always taught to eat healthy, so the thought of fast food like McDonalds etc kinda turned me off in the first place. and at the dining halls, i almost always tried to make myself a lean (i.e. minmal/low calorie dressing) salad on top of the other foods i would eat.</p>
<p>that and i try to hit the gym as often as possible (free for students), which ideally is 3-4 times a week.</p>
<p>6-7 times a week is counterproductive if you train the same muscle group each time. You’re right, you should give a days rest between each time you train each muscle group, but that doesn’t mean you can’t train a different part of your body each day. You can work that into 6 days, and then leave a seventh day solely for cardio training.</p>
<p>megaman123,</p>
<p>Perhaps this is my difference in age talking, but I think that very few people can go 6 times a week and be healthy.</p>
<p>My friend who is a current freshman in college, lost over 20 pounds his first semester in college because even college food was better than what he was served at home…so I guess it can go both ways.</p>
<p>6-7 times a week does start to look obsessive, unless you’re going in for less than 30 minutes. Ideally, work out 4 times a week, 30 mins, at moderate velocity (i think that’s the term) meaning that it’s pretty easy for you to talk, etc. If you want to lose weight, work out five times a week, vigorously (meaning it’s kind of difficult for you to talk, breathing heavily), for 30 min-1hour. 1 hour is the best, as many doctors are now changing the whole “just work out for 30 mins” to “just work out for an hour”. It’s a good habit to get into and will help you gain focus and just make you better at managing time. </p>
<p>Furthermore, if you don’t want to gain weight, don’t just lift weights. It’s much wiser to focus more on cardio which helps you lose weight, build lean muscle and healthy heart! Of course, you need to build some muscle mass as weight training will actually build the muscles that burn calories while you aren’t running/biking/swimming/etc. I spend 45 minutes with a mix of running/cross training/bike/swimming/whatever and then 15 minutes doing some weights/crunches/etc…I’ve lost weight…</p>
<p>Sorry for the lengthy explanation o-o</p>
<p>I’ve gained almost 20 pounds after about 1yr of college</p>
<p>I’ve gained about ten pounds as a freshman, but I think it’s more a case of filling out than getting fat. In HS I skipped meals and didn’t work much. In college I eat three solid, fairly healthy meals a day and work out. </p>
<p>But yes, unlimited continuous dining is a dangerous thing.</p>
<p>“But yes, unlimited continuous dining is a dangerous thing.”</p>
<p>Let me about it! lol.</p>
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<p>You sound like you’re going in the right direction, but I want to clear up a misconception about cardio and weight loss:</p>
<p>People who lose weight doing cardio and not enough weight training tend to look disgusting - it’s called “skinny-fat” because they are slimmer but still look bad with their shirts off. </p>
<p>The reason for this is that focusing on cardio without proper strength training will indeed cause you to lose weight, but it’s going to be a lot of muscle that you lose - ideal for your body, because muscle is easier to break down for energy than fat, but not ideal for your appearance. Many people think that any pounds off are a good thing, whereas you’re really going for less fat and more muscle (which can cause you to gain weight, because muscle weighs more - think of all the ripped football players at 225.) </p>
<p>In order to lose fat, you need to boost your metabolic rate. Solid-state cardio (aka running for 45 minutes) isn’t a very good way to do this. It burns a pitiful amount of calories, doesn’t get your heart going that fast, and doesn’t even start burning fat until about 25 minutes in (it goes through your muscle’s glycogen stores first). </p>
<p>Starting a good weight-lifting program and keeping your weights low while maxing out reps and minimizing time between sets (for example, doing 3 sets of 15 squats at 135 with 60 seconds of rest between each one) will cause your heartrate to skyrocket, boosting your metabolism for the next 24-48 hours. Do the cardio after your workout and do the same thing - run/bike as hard as possible for 60 seconds and jog/pedal slow for 2 minutes, for as many times as you can.</p>
<p>If you need proof that interval training is far better for one’s physique, just take a look at your average track team. Compare the cross-country guys to the sprinters. XC folks tend to be lanky and underdeveloped - efficient enough to maintain a steady pace for hours on end but incapable of doing anything else (sorry to all the XC people on the board). Sprinters, on the other hand, tend to have well-developed muscular structure with a low body-fat percentage - the result of constant metabolic boosts combined with progressive weight training.</p>