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12 Year Old Female Excersize Routines???
Hello fellow Advice givers!!!
So I really would like to shed off a few pounds. Yes, I am 12, but I just would REALLY be happier weighing less.
I know what you're thinking... "You're too young!" Well, I want to do this for myself; not for anyone else. My best friend is just so skinny, and I want to be that way too (Well not skeleton bone skinny, I just want to shed off a few pounds).
I know the whole "diet" thing. I got that covered. But I'd enjoy excersizing more(No, this isn't me saying that I'm not going to not do the diet). I want to lose weight really fast!!
I want to lose weight mostly on:
-Stomach
-Calves
-Face (Like the chin and cheeks. When I smile, it looks like mountains on my face - no lie).
Those are the parts of my body i'm mainly focusing on to lose weight. Do you know any excersize workouts that will shed off pounds in those areas?
Thanks for taking the time to read :)
-Nicole, 12/F
P.S. It's hot outside right now, so i'd appreciate excersize routines for indoors! And please no saying "Don't worry about it". Thank you!
P.P.S. I don't have a personal trainer or anything and my PE teachers can't help :(
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Okay time for the grandpa in me to step in and answer this question. Yes I am that old.
The reason anyone will tell you not to diet and loose weight at your age, unless you are truly overweight is simple.
You are 12 years old. Just entering your puberty years. There is such a thing as baby fat. Thighs fat will this fat will diminish and redistribute as the hormones produced by puberty kick in. As a female your body will go through more changes in the next year or so than a males does during puberty. You will develop the curves that all females develop and your body will start to shape itself.
Exercise to tone and define your shape is a good thing. You will replace some of the lost body fat with toned muscle but you will most likely gain some weight as muscle weighs more than fat. You will though look skinnier as you will tighten your stomach leg and thigh muscles which is what I believe is the look you are looking for.
As for an exercise routine? I suggest you consult with your physical education instructor at school. Your instructor can assist you in developing a routine to get you the body shape you are searching for with the added benefit of having the teacher monitor and assist you in reaching your goal. It would be as if you had your own fitness trainer that cost you nothing. There also may be the added benefit of gaining one of the credits you need for an elective towards graduation.
Now you instructor may request and I wholeheartedly support this: That before you start any exercise program that you have a complete physical and be cleared by your doctor to exercise. This is a valid precaution to take.
To bring this to a conclusion. Unless you are overweight to a point your doctor is telling you that you need to diet and exercise to loose wight you should not be looking to loose weight at your age. You should be consulting with your doctor to see what your optimum weight should be. Your doctor will tell you it is far worse for your health to be 10 pounds under weight than 10 pounds over weight.
Exercising is always good. Supervised exercising is the best way to exercise and you have the benefit of a physical education department at school to take advantage of so do so.
We are all different in how are bodies are made up. Your friend may be under weight or she may be the proper weight for her skeletal size and metabolism. Only her doctor knows for sure. Only your doctor can tell you for sure what is the best weight for you to be. Do not be jealous of what other girls look like as this will only get you in trouble health wise if you try to look like them and you are not providing your body with the proper amount of nutrients it needs.
Before you write off what I have written remember this. I don't know you. I have no reason to lie to you or tell you anything I do not believe to be true. My only goal in answering this question or any other is to help and to keep young people like you healthy and safe.
PS. Your PE teachers can help that's is what they get paid for. Should they refuse talk to your principal or better yet have your parents talk to your principal. Physical fitness is a national goal and PE teachers are paid to lead that charge. If yours are not doing so they are not doing their jobs and could lose their jobs if they refuse to have such a program.
Student physical fitness is a goal of the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness.
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