|
Toning Results
17/f
5'1 115 lbs
I've recently started speed walking (speed of 3.8 on my treadmill) for an hour to an hour and 15 minutes and using a resistance band doing 3 sets of 25 reps to tone my triceps and biceps.
How long would you estimate that it be before I start seeing results in my legs and arms?
Thanks :)
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Health & Fitness category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Fitness?
EDIT: Where in your post do you mention gaining muscle? You used the word tone, which is never used as a synonym of hypertrophy. Thanks so much for rating me down for your own mistake.
The short answer to that question, is that absolutely none of your training is suited for muscle gain (which I believe I actually did answer below).
Hey there,
In fitness, the word "toned" (which is used by every piece of exercise equipment targetting women) does not really have a good definition. Basically, fat can be lost or gained, or muscle can be lost or gained. Toned is some sort of mixture of fat loss and muscle gain- which are two radically different processes.
So I have to split the two efforts since they depend on different factors.
1. Losing fat depends entirely on your calorie balancce. How quick you will slim down therefore goes hand in hand with what you eat, and anyone that gives you an estimate without this info has no idea what they are talking about.
Also, since fat loss cannot be targetted through exercise, fat cells are burned from all over your body during weight loss. Genetics determines if one or more areas are more "stubborn" than others- so there you have another impediment to being able to predict results.
2. Gaining muscle by contrast depends on a calorie surplus. If you are a beginner though, you will probably see some limited effect within the first few weeks even without a proper diet.
In general the muscle gain effect depends on what kind of training you do. Your rep range is not ideal for this purpose since it is high (and hence the resistance is too low). You will of course still see some effect for your biceps and triceps, it will just be slower than if you trained heavier.
Now, all this being said, you obviously exercise a lot. So getting a calorie deficit for weight loss should not be exceedingly difficult. Chances are that you will probably begin to see some effect within a few weeks... its just that with the wrong diet that answer could just as easily be never.
]
More Questions: |