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Hey everyone, my name is Dave and I am currently 18 years old. I'm a pretty easy going, open-minded person that enjoys discussion and helping someone out in need. Lifting is one true passion that I will follow for as long as I possibly can, I just have a love for it. I also enjoy music, hanging out with my friends and overall, having a good time and getting the best out of life. Please, if anybody has a question about fitness, nutrition, or anything for that matter, dont hesitate to ask, i would be happy to help anybody out.
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i would like broaden my shoulders . does any know exercise , pilates etc for it
There is a wide variety of shoulder exercises that you can perform to broaden your shoulders. However, your shoulders are made up of three muscles, all together known as the deltoid. These three parts are the anterior deltoid, which is the "front" buldge in your shoulder. The lateral deltoid is the biggest portion which is the middle of your shoulder muscle, and the posterior deltoid is the rear potion of deltoid. What you want to focus on for a broader shoulder span is the LATERAL deltoid. An excellent exercise is the upright row which can be performed with a barbell of dumbells, in which you lift your arms to a curve while keeping the dumbells or barbell parallel to the floor. (http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/DeltoidLateral/BBUprightRow.html)
It is good to work out the anterior and posterior deltoids as well as to keep everything porportioned. However, you can target the lateral area greater to reach your goal. Check out some of the other exercises on the website I posted, they have some excellent visuals and descriptions to aide you in your workouts. Just keep a well balanced, high protein diet and work your shoulders every other day three times a week (a break in between each day to rest your shoulders and give them time to regrow and regain) and you will get your results! I wish you the best of luck! :) Dave
Does the Jillian Michaels Fat burner pills really help? Is there a difference, besides in price, in buying them from Walmart or GNC? Or any other pills that help lose weight, with the help of working out. I am 123 and 5'3 if that helps.. would like to shed some pounds.
The best fat burner i've found on the market today is by far the heavily marketed Hydroxycut by MuscleTech. Bodybuilding.com has some of the cheapest prices for supplements, so if it's possible for you to use a credit card to order things online I highly recommend their website. The shipping only costs about $4.99, and it arrives in two days or in some cases, even one depending on where you're located. Give that website a shot for your options, they have alot of great working fat burners! I've never heard any praise about the Jillian Michael's series, but i'm sure with how popular they are they are effective. If you REALLY want results though, go with Hydroxycut, it's almost guarenteed to burn body fat! I'm glad to see you're planning on working out because that'll definitely aid you in achieveing your goal. :) There's nothing wrong with getting a little help from a fat burner, in fact it's exciting to await the results! :) Good luck to you and hopefully you select a great supplement for yourself! Dave
Kay.!
Well in 3 months im going to my dads and he lives in a different country and we are going to the beach and all and i want to loose weight.!
like im skinny and all its just my belly is like big and my thighs are big.!
so do yall have any ideas that i can loose wwight in 3 months..
and ohh yeah my parents wont let me lose wiehgt because they think that i dont need it but i really do so anything so that my parents wouldnt find out.
Thanks:)
The fruits & vegetables fast diet is incredibly effective at helping you loose weight in a fast time, all while keeping your body nourished with plenty of vitamins and minerals fruits and vegetables have to offer. The diet sounds exactly how it is; fruits and vegetables, and nothing else, (other than water of course). Water is an extremely vital key to weight lose, and you should consume as much as possible. The more water you drink, the less will stomach will hold, therefore, the less you want to eat. With this F&V diet (we'll call it that), you'll want to have fruits in the morning, and vegetables at night. This diet is going to be broken up into six small meals per day. Breaking your meals up into smaller ones such as that as opposed to three large meals a day, allows your metabolism to always be firing off calories that you take in. With a three meal a day diet, your metabolism isn't going as strong as it would be with this method. The fruits are going to be supplying the majority of your energy, since they are high in natural carbohydrates. With that being said, I wouldn't reccommend doing fruits more than two meals a day. Eat fruits only in the morning, so for breakfast as soon as you wake up, have some peach slices (not canned peaches! There is a motto, if it has ever been canned or frozen, don't eat it) and some water. Then for your second out of the six meals, have a banana, or a fruit of your choice. It doesn't sound like you're eating much, but at the end of the day, you are going to be eating a good amount of healthy fruits and vegetables. With the addition of water too as I said before, you won't have to eat as much to keep you filled up. When you are trying to loose weight, nutrition is at least 70% of it. Excersise however is very important in aiding your body fat loss. Cardiovascular activities, such as running, swimming, biking, or anything that gets your heart pumping and your body breathing, are key to burning off the fat. It is not reccommended to lift weights to try to loose body fat; weight training just isn't nearly as efficient as cardiovascular activity in loosing body fat. I would say that would be the quickest, safest way to loose weight in a short amount of time. Whatever you do, do not try to starve yourself from eating. It is probably the worst thing you can do to try and loose weight, because as you starve your body, it goes into what is called "starvation mode" and anything that you eat once it has begun is packed onto your frame as body fat to try and conserve what you are eating. Just keep on eating those fruits and veggies, and you will complete your goal. I wish you lots of luck! Dave.
I want to join a gym but don't know if to join a woman's gym or a Co-Ed gym.........
People tell me to join a Co-Ed gym since I might meet some guy friends but this one woman's gym offers a very good deal.........
Any suggestions?
To be honest with you, having a gym membership is about one main thing; going to the gym, and getting into shape. If you would like to join a co-ed gym to meet men as well as women, there is nothing wrong with that at all. Just ask yourself the personal question, "Why am I going to get a gym membership?" Only you have to know the answer, and you don't need to explain it to anybody. If you simply just want to get in shape, it would probably be a wise descision to just go with the better deal on the women's gym. If you want to make friendships as well as work out, then it depends. There are plenty of places to meet new men and women, places that you don't even need to pay for. You must ask yourself if the extra bucks will be worth it. You must also take into account that even if you join the co-ed gym, alot of the men there will be working out; sometimes into it too much that they won't even realize you're there. However, i'm sure there are quite a few that go to the gym solely to meet women, as well as do the occasional two pound dumbbell curl. You just never know until you try the gym out I suppose. See if you can get a visitors pass to experience the gym first hand, and see if you could see yourself there. A good majority of gyms nowadays offer limited time free trials because they figure if you try it, you will essentially buy the membership. See if you like it and go from there. One more consideration I would take into account is conveniance, or, would it be realistic to go to this gym everyday to work out? If you have to drive 10 miles to go to one gym, and walk a block to the other gym, which one seems to be a better choice? Plus one gym may be closer, but you may walk in and see nothing but dumbbells and free weights, when all you want to do is a run on the treadmill. Make sure you look into what you are buying before you buy it! I hope you make a good decision and that everything works out for you! Dave
ummm... Well iam 15 and iam very vainy in my whole arm area when i raise my hand up the vaines go away but when i put my hands down they show up again. There not just small blue vains too their big and pop up like you can touch them. by the way iam a male.
So what's your question? If your asking how to get rid of them, you can't. Veins are genetic, unless people take supplements such as nitric oxide to make them appear bigger (such as bodybuilders.) The only way I know of that you could make them appear les visible is gaining body fat, somthing that I really wouldn't suggest you to try and do. Don't worry about it though, to most people, large veins are seen as a gift, mine aren't too large, but I wish I had bigger ones that protruded more. Hope everything works out for you man, Dave.
I was just wondering.. because i feel like i weigh a lot more than i look.
oh and i cut out my face just so i dont get stalked :] haha.
thanks!
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Now I can't tell how tall you are, and that will make a big difference in my guess. BUT I will say that you look like you have a very fit form. I wwould say anywhere withing the 120-134 region? I might be wrong because of your height.. but I don't know.. haha :p You're in great shape though, don't worry about a thing if you are the least bit concerened about your weight! Hope I helped you out! Dave
So,
my thighs are pretty athletic looking, and therefore are really muscley...but the thing is that it's bulky muscles that make my thighs look really fat. Is there any way to lengthen the muscles in my thighs so they look skinnier? It runs through my family that we don't have the skinniest thighs, but is there a way for me to reverse that, like, can I make my thighs relatively lean?
My number one problem is that the front of my thighs is like a bump of muscle, so they look really big from the side, any way to get rid of/ lengthen the muscle there??
Any additional info is greatly appreciated :)
Thanks
Sadly, the way your thighs appear are entirely genetic if you have noticed other members of your family having similar-looking ones, and if that's the case, that's just how you are made. However, since you do say that they are relatively muscular with a layer of body fat on them, you can continue to do cardiovascular exercise to trim down that layer covering up your muscle. As long as you run, jog, even hit a punching bag, anything that will get your heart beating, your pulse going, and your body breathing more rapidly, your in the process of burning body fat. Another thing that should definitley make you feel good is that as long as your only doing cardiovascular exercise such as running, and eating a low calorie, low carbohydrate diet, it's IMPOSSIBLE to gain more muscle mass underneath the layer of body fat. In order to do that, you would need to do weight training and eat a diet consisting of high carbohyrates and calories, otherwise known as bulking. So with that being said, if you stick to cardio on a normal basis, the layer of body fat should reduce itself and your and your thighs in turn, will appear slimmer. Once you do this for awhile too, your legs will be looking very toned, quite obviously because you have the muscle there, but you won't have the body fat covering it up. I'm almost positive that if you do what I said, you will get the results you're looking for! Wish you the best of luck! Dave
Ok. I've been trying to loose weight and I have a big problem doin so in my stomach area and under arms...Im 17 and a female..If u can be specific on wat to eat, wat kinda exercise machines to use or watever please do so! I need help to look good for the summer! =) thanx so much!
Ok, so you want to lose some of your body fat, you have the will. Believe me when I say that is MORE than half the battle in doing so. In order to burn fat however, it is impossible to "target" where you want to burn body fat. In other words, you can't do a ton of routine leg exercises if you want to lose body fat in your legs. For some reason (and we have not technically found out why yet) every single person on this earth distrubutes their body fat differently than everyone else. In some, it may go right to one area, in others, it may interpret it evenly and distribute it to every limb of the body. The only way you can burn this body fat is to do cardiovascular exercises, which are anything that speeds up the heart, gets you breathing at a rapid rate, and gets your body sweating. Running is the most phenomenal cardiovascular exercise, it's just so intense that it provides your body with a rich, invigorating workout. If at first you can't run for great distances, just walk! Walking is also a form of cardiovascular exercise, just not as aggressive as running. Then gradually, as you find yourself become adept to the walking, begin to go faster and faster, until you can run. To burn body fat, stick to almost all cardiovascular exercise and little to no weight training whatsoever. Many people think it's a good idea to lift free weights as well as run, to burn fat. This is NOT the correct answer to burning body fat. Burning fat requires a very low calorie, low carbohydrate diet, with extensive cardio and little to no weight training, where as bulking (gaining muscle) requires a high calorie, high carbohydrate diet, and intense weight training with little to no cardiovascular exercise at all! With that being said, stick to a diet consisting of little carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are made up of two branches, simple, and complex carbohydrates. Simple is another word for sugar bascially, and would consist of most candies, sweets, and things we essentially call "junk food." Complex carbohydrates are a form of malodextrin, and involve things such as grains, pastas, etc. Any carbohydrates that you do consume, try to keep them complex. For drinking, TRY to stick to water only. Water is an amazing component to becoming fit. It fills us up, it naturally cleanses our bodies, and it hydrates us, providing various forms of energy. Soda is an absolute not. It contains HUGE amounts of sugar (simple carbohydrates) and artifical colors and chemicals. In recent studies, diet soda (in some ways) can be even worse. YES it does not contain any sugars or calories, BUT it does contain an ingredient called aspertame. It may sound far-fetched, but aspertame is literally a poision to our bodies. For one, it turns into furmuldohide in our digestive system, a poisionous chemical. The worst part however is it's mind altering affect it has on us. It isn't actually sweetining the food or drink we are consuming, it is actually TRICKING our brains to believe that what we are consuming is sweet. If you have a sip of diet soda, then lick a lemon, believe it or not, it will taste sweet because of the aspertame still present on your tongue! This means that this can make your brain crave more sweet things, such as chocolate and candy. Try to stick to water, and a low calorie diet in general, and do mainly cardiovascular exercise to burn the body fat you want to get rid of. I really wish you the best of luck! If you have any more specific questions about this, please don't hesitiate to ask me at all. Good luck! Dave
I keep getting muscle cramps in my lower calf.
It happens at night, like recently, it's been every night :\
I wake up due to killing calf muscle cramps, like they almost make me cry.
What could be causing this? :\
Thanks!
Ahh, could be a sign of a stretched or slightly torn muscle. (And I use the term slighty very lightyly because if it was a serious tear, you would definitley see/feel it.) Have you been doing any physical activity recently? Make sure that if you do, you always do wholesome stretches to your legs before AND after, to prevent any injuries. When I started lifting weights three years ago, I didn't stretch nearly as much as I do now, and I ended up tearing a muscle in my bicep. :\ If you do tear a muscle, there is ussually a nasty looking bruise where the pain is. If it keeps bothering you, try to do some stretches to both legs and see if it helps the pain go away. When you do a stretch, don't "bounce" while your doing it; hold a firm, solid stretch and inhale and exhale deeply while you do so. This helps the oxygen to travel throughout you and get your muscles limber. For your calves, and great stretch is to simply stand up straight with both feet pointed forward, and a simple lean forward until you touch your toes (or as close as you can get.) If your pain doesn't seem to go away, try to ask your doctor about it and see what they say, but I believe it should only be a temporary thing! Hope this helps! Dave
so I'm 16/f and i go to the gym. i'm starting to go regularly. I eat normally and in small amounts so that's really not an issue. i want to tone my legs and make them slimmer. but i don't know whether the treadmill could do a better job at that or whether i should grow muscles on the workout machines instead. what burns fat faster? running or stretching/lifting weights? same goes for arm flab. sometimes i don't have enough time to go and lift weights..so i run instead.and i dont know whether or not im wasting time when i could get a more effective workout by lifting weights instead.
thank you :)
When it comes to burning fat, it is impossible to "target" where you want to burn it. In other words, if you do nothing but abdominal exercises, you might still burn more fat in your legs than your abs, just because that's how your body might interpret it. We all interpret and distribute our body fat differently, so to get rid of it, the same rule still rules. To answer your question though, if you want to burn the body fat, you should mainly stick to nothing but cardiovascular exercise (Anything that speeds your heart up, makes you sweat, and makes you breathe at a faster rate.) If you think about it, to gain muscle you have to eat high calories, and do little to no cardiovascular exercise with extensive weight training, and to burn fat, you eat little calories & carbohydrates and do all cardiovascular exercises, with little to no weight training. For you, I would most definitley stick with your running. Once you burn the body fat off too that you don't wish to have, THEN you can start doing some toning with free weights or lifting equipment. Keep of the great work and best of luck to you! Dave :]
Okay so I'm motivated, because I really want to shape up my body, but like I'm not motivated enough to actually work out everyday. I'm getting kinda lazy, SO how do i change that? How do I get into a routine?
thanks for you help!
When it comes down to it, if you aren't motivated to work out everyday, you TRULY don't want to shape up your body. In order to have that want, you must crave working out on a daily schedule. A good way to think about it is by looking into the future and visualizing how happy you will be, and how great you will feel once you finally achieve the results you are looking for. When it comes to working out though, some are simply turned away because they just don't know what they like to do. How can you find out what you like to do? Experiment! Try running, hitting a punching bag, lifting weights, etc. until you find out what you really enjoy doing. Experimenting with working out won't hurt, and it can be very progressive. You just simply have to desire the results in order to lose the weight, which can be very tough. Trust me, you can overcome it, just give it some time! Wish you best of luck! Dave :]
I would like to tone my stomach as much as possible in 2 weeks. I'm getting a navel piercing so I would like to tone it down a bit. I've been doing knee to elbow lifts and whatnot.. some aerobic videos too. Would Dance Dance revolution actually help if I do it for an hour or two? I really need to get into shape anyway so I'm trying to make it as much fun as possible. How long should I work out a day to get good results? I'm not expecting WOW i can totally see a difference results just enough to feel comfortable in my jeans again. I'm not sure what to do for eating. Someone told me to drink a lot before I eat so it fills me up or something? I dunno, any tips?
In order to tone your stomach in the matter of two weeks, you need to do some serious eating and exercise advances. For the nutrition aspect of it, you should try to minimize your caloric and carbohydrate intake, and the carbs that you do consume, try to make sure they are complex and not simple. Simple carbohydrates (otherwise known as sugar) burn up quick and don't fill you up as a complex course would. All in all though, minimize carbs as much as possible. WATER will most definitley be your best friend through the course of this time. Not only does it fill you up, but it has no fat, carbs, or protein, the three fundementals that make up calories. Not only will it help you nutritionally, it will have a positive effect on your body to keep on exercising by providing energy. Do not drink any soda, whether that be diet or regular. Regular obviously because it has massive amounts of simple carbohydrates, and diet because it includes an ingredient called aspartame. Aspartame tricks the mind into thinking the food you are consuming is sweet when it really isn't. Why is this bad? It makes your brain crave sweets! For beverages, you should consume nothing but water. Even fruit juices are high in sugar and preserves! As for your excersising, do everything and anything you can that will help. Dance dancee revolution? A great cardiovascular workout! it makes your body sweat, your heart beat faster, your breathing increase. All in all, these are the components that burn fat. In order to recieve the toned look your looking for, the body fat must be at a minimum. Stick to extensive cardio excersises like running and even Dance Dance Revolution. Just try to have fun with your exercising and make your eating a challenge, that you desperatley want to beat. Just have fun with your workouts and stick to your diet, and you WILL achieve the results you are looking for! Best of luck to you! Dave :]
Okay let me tell you my situation. I'm 5'3, 110lbs.
I know I sound quite thin but I'm storing fat on my stomach (ESPECIALLY on my love handles, which in turn makes me look big when looking at me from the front or back) I'm also storing fat on my back (which I find gross).
Here's what I want to do:
- Tone my arms, legs & butt (hopefully something that's going to make my butt muscles bulkier, therefore making my butt bigger, not smaller)
- Lose stomach fat & lovehandles
- Lose back fat and maybe work on my back muscles too.
(I know you can't spot reduce fat, by the way). I don't have access to a gym or to any weights or anything so bare that in mind.
Anyone know some exercises I can do (other than crunches, I'm doing those anyway) and foods I should stay away from?
To start off your plan, take in the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to build muscle while you are burning fat, as it is likewise impossible to burn fat if you are trying to build muscle. Burning fat involves vigorous cardiovascular exercise, and a reduction of calories and carbohydrates that you intake, while bulking up to build muscle involves little to no cardiovascular exercise, and high calorie, high carbohydrate and high protein intake. However, since your planning to tone your muscle, this can be accomplished while doing cardiovascular exercises to burn the body fat. Running is quite possibly the absolute best cardiovascular exercise available. If you would like, you can start out doing walking shorter distances, and with time your body will naturally adapt, making it possible to handle higher speeds and longer distances. In terms of cardiovascular exercise to burn fat, try to do anything that makes your heart rate increase, gets you breathing heavily, and gets your body sweating. Boxing is also an idea to keep in the back of your mind if running gets dull after time. If you have the money, a heavy bag is a great investment that you can access from your home, which will provide you with a great workout. As far as dieting goes, to burn fat, stick to low carbohyrates in your foods, and low fat. Each carbohydrate contains 4 calories per gram, as each gram of fat contains 9 calories. So all in all, watching your calories will tell you how many carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are in your food. To truly burn fat, you should be taking in less calories then you are burning off. Some foods you should really eat regularly (as you probably know) are fruits and vegetables. Vegetables such as celery are actually known as "negative calorie" foods, and actually burn calories when you consume it. Soda and sugary juices should rarely be consumed, if ever, which also includes rarely drinking diet soda too. Most diet drinks contain aspartame, which literally has a druglike effect on your brain telling you that what you are drinking is sweeter. If you take a sip of diet soda and eat a peice of lemon immediatley after the sip, the lemon will taste sweet. So what does it all mean? Diet sodas actually make you CRAVE more sweet tasting food and drink, which will lead to you being even fatter. Plus, aspartame is actually considered toxic after it reaches 98 degrees because it undergoes a chemical process, turning it into formaldehyde. Not somthing that i want in my stomach anytime soon. :\ When you are trying to burn fat, it is said to be 80% dieting that leads to body fat loss. As long as you diet properly, you won't need to kill yourself trying to exercise incredibly, although it definitley will help you alot. If you have any specific questions, please don't hesitate to ask me. Really wish you alot of luck! Dave :)
has anyone seen results in running in the stomach region? how much did you run and how many weeks did it take you to see results?
In reality, no person could accuratley tell you how long it will take for you to lose body fat in your stomach region. Everybody's body interprets fat differently, which includes the storage of it in more places than others, and burning it in some places faster than others. Some could run for a month everyday, and burn fat in their legs but they might not see a reduction in their stomach area as fast as others. It all depends, but to answer your question, running will reduce the body fat on your stomach. The time will differ from others, but it will happen eventually if you continue to follow through it. Eating is a huge part in burning fat though, as youu must eat well AND run if you plan to lose body fat effeciently. Running is a form of cardiovascular exercise, which is a great fat burner. It gets your body sweating, your body breathing hard, and causes your fat to burn. Some other great forms are kickboxing and boxing, which really get your body breathing heavily. If you can purchase one, a heavy bag would be a good investment in burning fat. If you want to do it most effeciently though I would suggest running to burn your body fat best. You can always start somthing simple such as a nice, easy jog for a mile, and thhen begin to work your way up to faster speeds and greater distances as your body begins to get into shape. To sum it up for you, running WILL burn body fat in your stomach region, so if you stick to it, you can do it :) Wish you lots of luck! Dave
i am not fat. i know that. however i have what my mom likes to call a "buddah belly" which is like the area where my belly button is a bit big. ive tried crunches and ab work outs. is there a certain diet i should start? or a specific work out that will make my stomach flat? i would really love to get in shape before summer =] thanks so much !
One side note I must cover before I give my advice is that abdominal exercise alone CANNOT create a six pack. You must be doing extensive cardiovascular exercises too, which in turn burns the fat covering your abdominals. Dieting is said to be 80% of your overall formation of a firm six pack, when trying to define them.
I've said it before and i'll say it again, everybody's body interprets fat differently, and stores it where it wants it. In your case, your stomach, probably the most frustrating area to have body fat. However, there is many exercises you can do to tone this region, so many in fact that i know if you eat properly and commit to cardiovascular exercise as well as defining exercises, you will be able to see some difference by summer. I agree with the advice below about getting rid of any poor junk food in your diet, mainly because this is probably what is causing a fat building on your stomach. Once you commit to exercise and diet, your body fat will begin to decrease and your muscle definition will increase, especially because this is in your abdominals, an area very suseptable to definition. If you do abdominal exercises that will tighten up your abdominals, they will begin to protrude more so, and cause the "buddah belly" effect to decrease, especially if you are burning body fat as well. More lines will begin to show and it won't look like a region of body fat. Some good exercises to begin with are decline and incline crunches (decline for your lower abdominals and incline, for your upper. If you want to tighten up your obliques as well (the muscles directly left and right of your abdominals, perform many "twisting" exercises that make your torso rotate. A nice example would be somthing as simple as a broom twist, where you hold a broomstick or a barbell behind your neck with your arms on either side, and rotate your waist left to right (slowly to prevent using momentum to help you.) I'm sure there are dozens upon dozens of sites that will appear if you type in "six pack" on a search engine that will aid you in abdominal exercises. As far as fat loss, you cannot lose fat where you want to directly, you only lose it as a system. In your case however, you say your body mainly only stores fat in your stomach area, so i believe that it will minimize with your proper dieting and exercise. Wish you best of luck at getting the body you want before summer! Dave
i want my butt so strong and big and nice shape, i do have nice and big butt, i want to look so sexy and shaped, how i do that?
Well one thing I can think of that you could try out is free weight training, using light weights but doing more repititions. When you use a small amount of weight and do more repititions, you tone and define your muscle rather than using heavier weight and less reps, which makes your muscle bigger. However, you can use heavier weight for awhile to make the muscle larger, and then use smaller weights to tone it up nicely. If you're looking to do your legs and butt, squats will certainly do the trick for you. When performing a squat, don't arch your back and use your legs and butt to raise the weight instead of your torso. Lunges will also work pretty nicely to help define your legs. My best advice to get shaped would be the use of light weight, and more reps, but remember, if you want to enlarge that muscle, use heavier weight and less reps. If you use heavier weights, just use caution not to injure yourself. Stretch before you start any exercise. Wish you great luck!
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ok so i am trying to get into shape before swimsuit season.
1.)what are some excersises that i can focuse on my thighs, bottom && stomach
i have a home gym and i do crunches
but its there anything else
please dont say go to the gym... because for some reason i feel so uncomfortable for people to watch
2.) what are some things i can try for diets
how do you stay away from sweets
i drink diet pops
i LOVE fruits
and i do not eat pork
please what are some things i can change about eating
me working out
please help
thank you in advice
and yes i do rate
It seems so far that you are on your way to slimming down in time to wear a bathing suit. First of all, do plently of cardio to get your heart beating, get yourself sweating, and burning unwanted calories. Also, since you like to do your exercising at home, (by the way, I do all my exercising at home too as well :) you could invest in a punching bag so you don't have to run outside. Using a heavy bag is actually a fantastic cardiovascular exercise because it gets you breathing well and definitley makes you break a good sweat. A treadmill is also another indoor option, but that is definitley a more pricey peice of equipment. Since you want to tone your thighs and bottom, you could try doing some free weight exercises. Lunges are great for defining your glutes, as well as your legs. To tone your legs, don't use a heavy amount of weight. Use lighter weights, and do more repititions, to define your muscle instead of building it bigger. With cardiovascular exercises being executed in twine with your toning routine, you should start to see yourself shedding some body fat and showing your definition. Dieting is a massive aspect to losing weight and toning as well. Diet pop is definitley a thumbs up in comparision to regular pop, but it still isn't a great thing for your body. It's still a carbonated beverage that contains aspartame, a potentially toxic artificial sweetner. It actually creates a drug-like effect in your mind that makes the drink taste sweet, when naturally it really isn't at all. Try eating anything with a diet pop and you'll notice the aspartame even makes the food taste sweet, regardless to what it is. So what does it all mean? Diet soda's make you CRAVE CARBOHYDRATES. Hence you will be more tempted to eat sweets while you are trying to diet. Fruits and vegetables are quite possibly the best things you could take in to lower your body fat. Use this rule of thumb. If it's ever been canned or frozen (with the exception of some frozen vegetables) don't eat it. That is a great rule of thumb for minimizing body fat. If you have any more specific questions or anything, just let me know and I will help you out :) I wish you great luck in achieving your goal!
i need ways to stay on track, idk why i cant.
like i start to lose weight, then i gain it back because i just like eat abunch of stuff.
idk why i do it.
i need ideas to keep my motivated.
and really good songs for working out, that get you pumped and keep you going.
Right now I think this is more of a mental situation than a physical one. Alot of people go through this actually, it is almost as if it is a reward-type deal. Some people percieve it as "I lost five pounds, so I deserve that peice of cake." In reality this is a negative way to think, and people who do it will most likely do it more than once, eventually leading to that lost weight being gained once again. When you have a craving for food just think back to how hard you had to work your body until you lost that weight, and how easily it gets put back on just because your mind wants to feel the pleasure of tasting good food. Pleasure recieved from food just won't last. I used to think this way somewhat, but then I realized how much pleasure I get from seeing what i've done to my body. When you see youself beginning to lose weight once again, try to think about how your hard work is paying off and how it is showing. I'm also glad you brought up music in this too! :) It all depends on what type of exercise your doing too. For somthing you find challenging, put on some alternative rock or somthing that makes you feel somewhat "angered" inside. Physchologically it does make you angry for a short period of time, enabling your body to do what it needs to do to get that particular exercise done. If your doing some cardiovascular exersices such as running try listening to some Hip-Hop or Rap, or somthing that has a good beat that you can try to run with. It can actually be fun to play a game and try to get your steps to match up with the music! All in all, just experiment with your music as you exersice and find out what you enjoy best. Always remember, if your giving somthing, you almost always will recieve somthing in turn in some way, shape or form. All of your hard work and determination will pay off, you'll see! :) Wish you lots of luck!
I have a local GNC near my school and i was wondering what one would recomend for a highschool football player in the sense of protien shakes. I was thinking cell-tech but after some research and seeing the price i decided to forget that idea. I don't want any creatine or drugs, i want something with protien, vitamins, and that works. any ideas?
If you want to start out with protein shakes, GNC carries a brand called Optimum Nutrition. When I first started lifting this is what I purchased, and I still use it to this date more than two years later. Each serving is loaded with balanced amounts of essential amino acids, giving it 24 grams of unadulturated whey protein. It is a very top quality product, and with that being said it doesn't run cheap though. They sell two pound containers which are around $30-$40 dollars each, and five pound cases which run about $65-$70 dollars. The five-pounder has 77 servings though, and will be worth your extra money if you are serious about building muscle. The two pound cases provide 28 servings, so you are getting more for your money with the five-pounder. Although I don't really buy it for this reason, Optimum Nutrition however has some pretty good tasting shakes. They have a good consistancy and aren't chalky, and generally mix really well in water or Nonfat milk (I'm sure they mix well in 2% and Whole milk as well, but I wouldn't suggest drinking it with that because of the high saturated fat it contains. Nonfat milk still contains the protein that its counterparts of 2% and Whole milk do, without the saturated fat) GNC also carries a GNC Pro Performance brand called Mass XXX, which i'm pretty sure will still run you the same price. I'm pretty sure that I can safely say I won't use much other than Optimum Nutrition when it comes to whey protein. It has many added benifits to it also, such as HYDROWHEY, which makes the protein faster acting once you take it. My advice to you is to go to the GNC near your school, and just browse around for a bit. Try to find what will benifit you the most out of your training regime. Best of luck to your lifting man and I hope you find the right protein for yourself!
Can ankle weights slim your thighs? or do they just make them bulkier?
As Mulva said before, you cannot pinpoint areas of the body that you want to slim down. Everybody's body interprets fat differently, so it will get stored on certain areas more on others than say it would your own body. The only way that you can "slim down" certain areas, is by working your whole body. Eventually your body will minimize fat in all regions if you are persistant and determined enough. A little insight though about using ankle weights. Be VERY cautious when you use them, because most people actually don't know ankle weights can do your body more harm than good. Over an extended period of time, ligament damage can occur. If you are planning on it, don't use them back-to-back all day long. Only use them if you are planning on exercising, and for only some specific exercises. I wouldn't recommend that you do any sprinting with them, or many other forms of running. Ankle weights aren't all bad though, they can increase your foot speed and attributes such as power for kicking. Many soccer players wear ankle weights and yes, it can improve their performance. If you aren't planning on playing a sport, I don't see a reason to put yourself at risk for injury.
To sum up the answer of your question, ankle weights do not slim your thighs. If anything, it would make them larger or more toned depending on which weight you have selected. I wish you luck at making your decision!