I don't have a fitbit or Garmin - but I do have a Galaxy smart watch which my wife has been telling me to use too. I just have to remember to wake it off before the steam room. Also gotta find out if it tracks calories or if any apps are available for that. I know it tracks heart rate, daily steps & all that jazz - and can also setup various workout things in addition. --Damn though, my wife tried to push it all on me and I shrugged her away. Now I gotta crawl back weeks later and ask for help, or figure it out myself.
All very good advice and I truly appreciate it. Certainly not looking for a 6 pack, just hoping to build cardio just for my general health & perhaps a good sweat & to try and lose a little weight overall and get in better shape for myself. But really couldn't care less about big muscles or showing crap off or whatever. You read my food changes and yeah, the idea is to eat better overall and remain beneath or equal to what my body needs. I actually have had an easier time than I expected by eating less AND eating better (and wifey helping of course). Only time it sucks is like 10pm-11 or so when not far off from bed - my medicine makes me hungry and I feel like eating an entire pizza! But I have only snacked on some healthy granola bars, Oatmeal and such things.
Trying the yoga is an interesting idea, but that will only happen if I watch at home and partake.
Pullups and pushups I haven't started just yet. I know I'm good for a large handful of pushups and can do multiple rotations, but I don't think I've tried to pullups in like 30 years.
Hopefully I'll do better than Gomer Pyle from Full Metal Jacket. "Are you shittin me Pyle, you can't even give me one damn pullup"
Oh, I'm exrcising now, just that the trainer will be for 6 sessions only and the rest is on me. Equinox has an awesome clean gym! Everything remotely possible is there 'cept a pool. So it's really learning the exercises for when there, and then doing them. Then adding in stuff to do at home for other days. And while I also take care of the other body parts too, but overall concentrating on diet, losing like 10lbs as things progress in the beginning & then doing like you said and shooting to limit the belly and not shooting for a weight lifters body!
Gonna print out what you wrote as suggestions to keep near me. Hopefully the trainer will somehow help me put something together that he has already taught me and will. My brain is like the old Z 286 microprocessors - it's called LIFO and FIFO - and mine is the LIFO - last in, first out. In other words, I'm not retaining half that crap just yet, too many of them. The alternative is the LIFO, which is how most things work - last in and first out. My brain has that too, but the space on that hard drive is full I think. Gotta purge some of that data and make room for exercises.
Thanks!