Can anyone recommend a fitness program for balanced cardio & muscle building?

I’m thinking of doing couch to 10k and a general program like squats/sit-ups concurrently. 

fatfithealthy:

As difficult as it can be to always push your limits, I will admit, it always feels so amazing to surpass your own goals. I set my limits high, even sometimes to a point that may be unreachable for myself on a given day, but I do my best and put in 100% effort every time. I would much rather…

fatfithealthy:

Helping others has made my life so much more amazing and has truly enlightened me. It is so energizing knowing how much good you can do for another human being simply by being kind and even saying as little as one sentence. It you truly want to be a better person, move toward your personal goals…

I think I’ve found the best way for me to eat as healthily as I can, especially during the day. Make my lunches the night before I’m meant to eat them. In the mornings I don’t have time or motivation to make something healthy so I’ll just grab some money and get a meal deal at tescos, with all the fat and salt content you don’t want, but in the evening just before I can plan something healthy, stick in the fridge and then wake up knowing that I’m not going to be wasting money the next day. I’ve done this the last two days and it’s genuinely making a difference to my diet - I mean, I’m still far from perfect, but if you consider the diet comments in day 25/26 to 1-24, you’ll notice I’m a lot happier about it, if nothing else.

The other thing I’ve found really inspiring in terms of diet is following a load of healthy food blogs - the way in which they present this vibrant, healthy food has genuinely inspired at least 3 meal choices in the last few days. I have frozen yoghurt-covered strawberries in the freezer waiting for me at some point.

The downside to my diet of Day #26 is the fact that I’m going out later - however, it’s KFC and then a houseparty, and I’ve said no to the KFC on both money and health reasons, and I’m feeling pretty proud of myself for making the healthy choice there.

In terms of exercise I went for my second run in the 26 days today, intending to do 15 minutes of jogging. However, 5 minutes into the jogging I started having pain in my lower back so I decided to walk for 5 minutes before jogging for the last 5 again, and though this isn’t perfect it was much better than just giving up, I hope you’ll agree.
I also watched half of some bogus ab building video that was trying to sell me something, and I got about 10 minutes in and the guy hadn’t delivered the health tips he was promising in the video so I clicked off. One thing he said, that the best way to build abs is to eat clean (or something) rather than do ab exercises has stuck with me though. I’m doing my best to eat clean but I’m still not 100% I even know what it means. This has brought me back to thinking about having Caitlin as a personal trainer, as it’s just an obvious go-to for things like this. I wouldn’t have to worry about writing my own programme.

The last thing I’ll say is that if anyone follows any male fitness blogs or is a male fitness blog, please can you reblog this/send me an ask? I want to follow more, as I’m mostly following females at the moment and whilst that’s still good, I’m aware there are some fundamental differences in fitness aims.

Thanks!

Danielle Neuman (fatfithealthy.tumblr)

This is one of the best fitness blogs I follow. Danielle is lovely, supporting and her story is genuinely inspiring. If any of my followers (all 8 of you, lol) are looking for any blogs to follow, I can’t recomment fatfithealthy enough.