What is the best exercise to start your first workout?

I usualy start out on the treadmil or cross ramp

SEX!!!

Of course If i relied on that I would still be 330 pounds... lol.

I always do my weights first, followed by hard cardio. By the time I am finished I usually need help getting to the car.

What is the best exercise to start your first workout?

start easy.. I've been on walking, 2.5mph, since april. don't try to do heavy weights, even at weights you could handle last time you were a gym bunny.

don't feel you have to run or otherwise kill yourself -- you will only end up going less often unless you're a masochist. the first goal is to develop a gym habit. invest in a music player (zune, ipod, whatever) and load it up with audio entertainment of your choice (mp3s, radio, aubiobooks).

One exercise I enjoy, is a great exercise and was fully endorsed by my Dr. is swimming. It's highly aerobic, low impact and uses all parts of the body. I join the gym I belong to largely based on their having an olympic length pool so I can swim laps.

One exercise I enjoy, is a great exercise and was fully endorsed by my Dr. is swimming. It's highly aerobic, low impact and uses all parts of the body.

And is a great way to start into SCUBA :tt1:

For your first exercise I found the treadmill the easiest but my knees would kill me so the trainer switched me to the elyptical...I could only do 5 minutes at first but now it ranges from 45 to 60 minutes per day and much easier on your knees.

I would wait 2 to 3 months post op before beginning weight lifting. Some people say that weight lifiting may cause you to not lose the weight as fast and get discouraged and I did wait about 6 months before hitting the weights.

My current work out schedule is below as an example:

Day 1 - Cardio and upper body strength training

Day 2 - Cardio

Day 3 - Cardio and lower body strength training

Day 4 - Cardio

Day 5 - same as day 1

Day 6 - Cardio

Day 7 - same as day 3

For your first exercise I found the treadmill the easiest but my knees would kill me so the trainer switched me to the elyptical...I could only do 5 minutes at first but now it ranges from 45 to 60 minutes per day and much easier on your knees.

I would wait 2 to 3 months post op before beginning weight lifting. Some people say that weight lifiting may cause you to not lose the weight as fast and get discouraged and I did wait about 6 months before hitting the weights.

Ironically, elliptical machines make my knees hurt, while the treadmill I can keep going on. I keep telling people to check your footwear -- switching mine made all the difference.

Regarding weight training: I would *expect* weight loss to slow down if you're working to *keep* muscle mass. The important thing is not how much weight you lose, it's what weight you're losing. You want to lose fat, but keep muscle; you'll lose both as you drop weight, but you can influence the balance of what's lost. I'd expect a physical trainer to be able to take a reasonable measurement of your body composition to point out that, while you only lost 10 pounds the past month, 8 of it was fat, rather than 5.

About 8 weeks after banding I joined a gym and pay extra to attned a group weight loss program. 3 x a week exersize and once a week nutrion councling. The group of 5 to 6 people and a trainer has gotten me into the habbit. The trainer mixes it up, mostly cardio with and without weights and lots of other "Fun" Things. My weight has not droped as I would had hoped but I have been eating a bit too well. Not bad prob too much. I feel so much better, much stronger can move much better etc.

Do get someone to put together a plan for you and look into a trainer or group fitness plan.