Audiobooks are great for treadmill, and I use podcasts while hiking.

Good to have a workout partner for the treadmill too.

Not quite, compound lifts are ones that use multiple moments of inertia. Basically in terms of the body joints. You'll never really get a lift that only works one muscle group, they'll focus on one, but you'll hit other things.

With squats you've got moments around your hips, knees, ankles and if you're not doing it right at the feet as well. Chin ups, you'll typically have moments at both the elbows and the shoulders.
It's actually not a bad activity for a date.

im 97 kilo's for the moment, so yeah, im fairly heavy, 213 lbs :( no matter what i do, it dosen't seem to drop very much. ive changed my diet, started jogging and ive only lost 0.7 kilo's so far. (3 weeks)

If you're just starting jogging (3 wks in?), start slow. Injuries for new runners tend to show up at 4-6 weeks. Most common are shin splints, and they can be frustrating (!!!!!)

Keep your goals long term. Stay active and don't sweat daily weight - it can bounce around. I like to give some of my friends with personal trainers grief, but they have been a genuinely good influence in some cases. Some gyms offer a free PT service. Just make sure they have good reviews. Might help you if you're looking for a significant change, which will take time.

YMMV.

For treadmill, a brisk walk at a steep incline birns far more calories than a run at a level.

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Me and my brother and his wife have dedicated the last year or so to fitness and running, and I can say we are all becoming rather in shape! It's pretty awesome, as me and my bro were both nearing almost 300 LB's at our worst. Now he's almost at 200, and I'm at a nice 180 and working on muscle.

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Agree. It's important to find a routine which you are comfortable with and motivated for in the long term and which actually works for you, i.e. leads to desired results.

As for aerobic exercise I can highly recommend high-intensity intervals as an efficient way of improving your maximum oxygen uptake. This is an important variable which is connected to a number of physiologial properties, including your ability to burn fat also when you're not doing any exercise. Doing some type of work (i.e. running, cycling etc.) at 85-95 % of your maximum heart rate over time is one way of doing this. Be sure not to start off too hard or overdo things, though. Listen to what your body tells you.

Yesterday, I climbed the tallest point in this city. I'll tell you this... it was the difficult for me since I was not accustomed to it but I managed to reach the top under an hour. This was good for me mentally since this encourage me to keep at it. My goal is get to the top within 30 mins so I'm going to hit it up few times now.

I've been taking running class and it's awesome except...... I can barely keep up with the leading pack so I've been running more often to build up my endurance.

Where did you find out about that? I use my treadmill a lot, I'd be interested in the info.

There's a formula, that escapes me at the moment. I think every. 5 incline on a standard treadmill equals 1 mph of speed. We played around with it, and at 15 incline we can walk at 3 mph and burn 1,000 calories in under 50 mins.

That sounds maximally efficient for calories, is it recommended for joints and whatnot? I thought varying incline was better for knees and feet? I'm getting older and my joints don't take the abuse they once did without complaint:)

Obviously, work up to it. I always stretch my achilles first. To ease into it, use the "hill climb" setting if you have it. Otherwise, alternate between walking with incline and jogging at a level.

So I went to the docs today for my yearly checkup and found out I'm 230lbs >.< (We have no scales in the house) I have never been this heavy in my life so it's time to lose some weight (and hopefully alleviate the apparent sports induced asthma I've developed) Since I'm currently paying for a wedding and am unemployed I can't join a gym as much as I'd like to but there are some nice long orienteering routes in my local park...

But to get to the actual point of this does anyone have ideas for what I can do on a hugely restricted budget and/or good websites to keep my motivation up.

There may be at least one good reason to prefer running outdoors to indoors, though. Maybe I've mentioned it here before (even in this thread?), but running/walking outside jogs your brain (hippocampus) because unlike on treadmill, you'll need to use your spatial awareness. Good reason also to switch off GPS while driving, unless you desperately need it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40138522/ns/health-mental_health/t/gps-addict-it-may-be-eroding-your-brain/

I saw also another study where they were comparing people who train indoors (lifting weights in a gym) to people who walk outside, and found the same "shrinking hippocampus" with the people training only indoors, but they didn't make the link to spatial awareness. In fact, they concluded (IMHO wrong) that the reason for this is aerobic (walking outside) vs anaerobic (gym) exercises, but in order to make such a conclusion they should have had a third control group doing aerobic exercises indoors.

I personally prefer e.g. swimming (indoors) though, especially now when it has been rather cold in here. I swim 2km every Saturday, on top of MA exercises that's pretty much the aerobic exercise I get (and need, frankly). I guess my hippocampus is shrinking fast as well, not much spatial awareness needed in the pool. Maybe I should take a second job as a taxi driver.