Overweight Wife Workout, Limited Equipment?

finally after almost 6 months my wife has decided to start training again,
and she asked me to make a program for her. i will propose to her the following:

2 rounds of with 2 min of rest between rounds:
20 crunches
20 sec plank
20 sec hollow rock
5 x (5 body weight squats 20 reps row)
12 reps per side of front foot elevated split squats with kettle bell
12 reps per side of rear foot elevated split squats with kettle bell
6 reps of dumb bell or kettle bell dead lift
20 reps of dumb bell curls
20 reps of dumb bell shoulder presses
20 reps of lateral raises

Dude - lots of complicated.

My wife does
5x5 goblet squat
5x5 one arm row
The super sets dumb bell deadlifts with press ups
5x5

We started with 10kg for squats and deadlift. Now at 27.5kg.
5kg one arm rows now at 15kg.
Press ups started with 5x5 sissy and added as many good press ups every week as we could. We are now at 4 each set. So 20 combined.

She’s lost 9lb in 10weeks

Just concentrating on big compound moves and getting stronger works.
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Getting stronger is not only good for you - it’s easy to plan and measure progression.

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I started doing something with my wife that actually has paid great dividends for her so far.

I tried the programming for her and all that but she stopped because she wasn’t enjoying it.

You have to enjoy whatever ā€œprogramā€ you are doing.

So I told my wife to just do 1 thing. Go to the gym or living room and turn on the timer for 30-60 min depending on how you feel for that day. But for those 30-60 min you gotta bust ass. I don’t care if it’s weights, cardio, HIIT, yoga, a walk etc. My wife is already down 14 lbs since she’s used this approach.

I think when someone is pretty overweight the top 2 things are food choices and just getting active. I think that will take care of a good chunk of the weight before you really need to dial in and have a more specific plan.

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My wife needed a clear lesson on ā€œ bust assā€. Which is why tracked progression worked for her. The numbers do not lie!

I second everyone.

Granted it’s flipped for me. I’m the one who trains and my husband doesn’t.

He isn’t completely clueless, but he’s all over the place most times, and can’t really transfer much to the movements from how he envisions it in his head.

When I first met him he was pushing 265-270, now he’s slimmed down to a decent 225-235.

It really isn’t even about paying that much attention to how over weight someone is, let having fun, spending time together, seeing who can beat who, friendly competition, and taking it one day at a time be the driving factor for stuff like this. Typically there’s some mental things that need fixing as well. Focus on that first. A good amount of the time, the overweightness is more or less a symptom of something much deeper. Be it sadness, or illness, or whatever else.

My husband didn’t even really step foot in the gym. Most of what we did, was just doing goofy young people crap.

Seeing who can race who the fastest across the parking lot, jumping in a lake and swimming around when we weren’t supposed to be trespassing anyways, walking the dogs, walking at the park, grappling matches in the living room, running out of gas, and having to push someone’s car because we’re incompetent like that sometimes, moving stuff around, getting lost on foot or while biking, etc.

Make it fun dude. And perhaps work on some self confidence, and developing some sort of dedication and discipline for exercise or keeping in shape, because that too takes work.

Not saying my husband has it down pat, shit, neither do I, but he does small things that have been building up over time. He walks in the morning a couple times a week when he gets off work, cuts out the processed bread and what not, drinks more water, gets more protein in during the mornings before he sleeps, eats more veggies, etc.

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well her training session went well and she has asked for more, so i have concocted the following for her

2x20 sec push up position
2x20 sec cable pulley pallof press

2 rounds of:

20 reps of cable pulley face pulls
20 reps of cable pulley curls
20 reps of cable pulley push downs
12 reps of body weight back step lunges per side
10 reps of bar bell shoulder presses (10 kg proposed)
20 reps of rear delt flies (dumb bells 2 kg each proposed)
1 min rest
12 reps of bar bell dead lift (40 kg proposed, her max is 85 kg)
1 min rest

she has completed a couple of more sessions. she repeated the session from 7 days ago and did one session she found online:

3x12 20 kg plye squats
3x12 glute bridge
3x12 band side walks
3x12 split squats 6 kg (the session actually prescribed stepping up on a chair but that felt like a bad idea)
3x12 6 kg dumb bell row
3x12 20 kg kettle bell dead lift