It's possible but very difficult to do so. Much like everyone else, you're looking for stability before fat loss which shouldn't be the priority. I don't have any pictures of you or any stats on you but I think it's fair to say you're a bit overweight if not obese.
It all starts with your diet. Like I tell my obese father (I harp on him all the time cause he's run into a bunch of health issues), you don't have to completely restructure your diet, you just need to rethink/revise your eating habits. You're not going to lose weight if you max on some fried food after a workout on the treadmill or hitting up a weight circuit.
Chances are you don't have any core strength at all so you shouldn't have to overload the core. Your priority should be to keep moving at a fast pace with high intensity. Focus on low back strength. Sissy squats or partial squats will engage the core well enough. People who are overweight have a lot more weight that they need to move around which takes a lot of core strength in its own right.
When overweight, it's ten times harder on the joints than a normal person. The first month or so may be difficult on the joints as you'll be subjected to joint injuries due to your lack of exercise lately.
Compound exercises will lead you to success. Just make sure you be safe with it and are cautious. I wouldn't want my advice to turn into an injury.
Diet is vital. Start with gradual exercises to get yourself moving while watching what you eat. I'm not saying starve yourself or don't treat yourself to a nice dinner with the family every once in awhile, just have some sense.
I'd give you more advice but frankly, I'm not getting payed for it
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Hope some of this knowledge helps..
ViolenceIsGolden said:
God you guys on this thread really know a lot about working out with weights. I just stick to lots of curls with a 25 pound dumb bell and one of those rubberband stretching things where I hold it in a curl postition using my foot for 5-10 seconds with all five bands attached. I do this quite a few times but I won't ever wear myself out with this because that's what the curls on the dumb bell are for. Every once in a while I lift on the bench at home but I don't have anybody to spot me so I have to be really careful. I usually go no more then 165 pounds because I like to be able to do more then one rep at a time.
My cousin is a legend in the gym or he calls himself one. He's not in good shape at all and is quite obese but he's huge. The guy lifts 300-400 pounds. The most he's ever was over 500. He makes jokes that if anybody else in his gym tried to do the weight he did they'd kill themselves immediately, the bar would drop on their throat. He's a funny guy.
Lol. Sounds like a couple of guys I know. Ever wonder why there's weight classes in powerlifting? It's because a 155 lb guy can't and shouldn't be able to throw around the same weight as a 275 lb individual. Physics at its finest.
I wouldn't think too highly of an individual who is benching his bodyweight @ 300 lbs. I bench 2x my bodyweight but it may never be that amount of weight as we all have different body types, ya' know?
Surely would not look down on someone who thinks they're the shit like your cousin seems to believe, I'm certainly not implying that.
Fact of the matter is: hell yeah, 300-400 lbs is a lot of weight! I wouldn't look at him with pure amazement though.