Looking for the proper exercies to do to lose weight
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Looking for the proper exercies to do to lose weight
Hi, I'm a 20 year old female girl and I'm wondering which exercises I should focus on to lose weight on arms, and stomach.
I just started doing sit ups, arm circles, and some lifting to try to work under arms.swanso5 wrote:i love those female girls...
before exercise you need a better food plan i'd say...
post your current exercise and eating habits
also go to diet section and read "before posting..."
I'm asian so i eat a lot of rice with everything basically. I eat lots of meat like steak and chicken. A lot of fast food. I been trying to cut down food portions. I need couple suggestion it's first time being out of shape. I was about 115 lbs I'm now at 137 I REALLY want to get to 120 lbs
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I don't know how much you know on this subject. But judging from the goals that you stated and the exercises that you are doing it sounds to me like you are trying to spot reduce your fat.I just started doing sit ups, arm circles, and some lifting to try to work under arms.
http://flatsexycore.comDo stomach exercises like crunches give you that flat sexy core you want? Not usually you see you already have washboard abs. But if you can't see them then it's probably because they are buried under a layer of fat. Doing things like crunches or sit ups do not burn fat! So many women think that doing these exercises will make them skinner but they won't.
Many women also think that they can control fat loss and lose fat in certain spots instead of others. This is called spot reduction and you can't do it. Your body has a natural order that it will follow when you are losing fat. Think of it like someone taking water out of a pool. You can't just decide that you want one end to be deeper than the other so you are going to take the water out of that end of the pool. No matter where the water is taken out of in the pool it will replace its self in a certain manner. You can lower the level of the pool but not in one specific spot
So women need to burn fat and they can't just lose fat in their hips or thighs or stomachs. And crunches are going to strengthen your abdominal muscles but they won't burn fat and so all you will end up with is a strong, and fat stomach.
Doing the exercises that you are doing will burn a little bit of fat, even using the TV remote enough will do this. But these particular exercises aren't going to burn a lot of fat. Eating right is the first step, after that you need more intense exercises or lifts that work a larger portion of your body.
I like dumbbell swings, squats will also work a much larger percentage of your muscles then the exercises that you are doing.
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#1) Just to get this out of the way: There is absolutely no way to "spot reduce" your fat. Your body will lose fat in a way predetermined by your genetic makeup. No lie. There is nothing you can do about it.
To get 6 pack abs or tight arms etc, you have to lower your general %, doesn't matter how many situps you do or how many times you curl. This will only build muscle mass (which is a good thing for both genders, but it won't "spot reduce" or locally burn the fat)
What I am trying to say is:
Exercise will always come #2 to a proper diet plan in terms of getting leaner.
What do you want more? The junk food you mentioned that you like, or to reach your weight loss goals? Clean up the diet to lose the fat, hit the gym to build the muscle.
To get 6 pack abs or tight arms etc, you have to lower your general %, doesn't matter how many situps you do or how many times you curl. This will only build muscle mass (which is a good thing for both genders, but it won't "spot reduce" or locally burn the fat)
What I am trying to say is:
Exercise will always come #2 to a proper diet plan in terms of getting leaner.
What do you want more? The junk food you mentioned that you like, or to reach your weight loss goals? Clean up the diet to lose the fat, hit the gym to build the muscle.
I've occasionally heard different. Also Spot reducing is more Hormonal if at all. If you used something like Cortisol blocker, how would you increase or maintain Cortisol induced Fat deposits on the Stomach?Nicaraguan wrote:#1) Just to get this out of the way: There is absolutely no way to "spot reduce" your fat. Your body will lose fat in a way predetermined by your genetic makeup. No lie. There is nothing you can do about it.
You wouldn't, so the reverse could possibly happen in theory, where the Stomach Fat alone got removed. Assuming your diet and exerxise regime, were not yielding any weight loss, the Stomach under a condition like that would catch up, as the body would probably attempt to try and source some remaining At to burn, before reaching its peak, where it could burn no more.
If all it could find was Abdominal Ft it would take that.
The body can reverse pretty much anything up to a point. Build muscle, lose muscle, gain FAt, lose Fat, reverse mild Liver damage and Lung damage etc etc. Stands to reason it must somehow be able to reverse Cortisol induced Fat deposits on the Stomach, as I would think those are almost certainly not the byproduct of disease, (when solely Cortisol induced), or a byproduct of an inflammatory response, or by Necrosis of living tissues, so if the body can cause it, it must be able to reverse it you would think.
Very ever so slightly possibly, through exercise somehow, but I would think mainly through so kind of hormonal response.