when at the gym avoid the cardio machines and do exercises that focus on the body as a whole, not crunches and similar abs work. either do squats or use the leg press machine dumbell chest press pull down machine or pull ups on an easy station would be even better dips on an easy station or on a bench
if you're feeling 'ard then grab a bench and some dumbells and do the following as a circuit squat, shoulder press, bent over row, deadlift, bench press these 5 exercises hit all your muscles and by doing them back to back you'll keep you're metabolism ramped up, burning tons of calories and giving your heart and lungs a good workout too.
Cardio works muscles that 1 add little to your shape 2 burn very few calories per minute of exercise 3 burn even fewer calories the more frequently you perform the exercise
Muscular works muscles that 1 emphasises your natural shape and body lines (tones in other words) 2 burns a lot of calories per minute of exercise 3 continues to burn calories up to 18 hours after your actual exercising finishes* 4 is easier to increase intensity and measure
*assumes you are performing exercises that are actually challenging!
Can you ask Charli and / or Rach? I'd rather have people over earlier, and you finishing at 5pm means, realistically, 6pm arrival not 4pm...could you come over in your car later? Heck, I could even zip over to do a pick-up and you could take 'em home...?
1) Walking. Walking is excellent. I dropped a stone through walking about 4 miles a day over the course of a couple of months, combined with carefully watching food intake. That's a little excessive, but a couple of miles a day is really easy and provides gradual toning.
2) If you do sit-ups, do the sideways ones as well. That works the whole lower abdomen and helps tone the edges, the 'love handles' :-) It doesn't shift fat as much as cardio and so on, but it tones up the muscles underneath which then show.
3) Swimming is good for a full body workout and for weight loss, as it works a whole load of muscles but without the strain and potential damage of weights or jogging.
4) Did I mention the walking? :-) Free and easy, and really good!
sit ups do not shift fat at all. 250,000 crunches will shift a whopping 1 pound of fat. wow, really worth the effort. and abs are better trained by using whole body exercises anyway.
don't disagree particularly with the rest though ;-)
I am merely speaking from years of experience. Don't forget that women store fat differently from men, and what works for one person doesn't mean it'll work for another. Caz asked for suggestions, so I gave her what worked for me. Weights did nothing for me except mess up my joints some more. Doing straight forward crunches combined with obliques with feet raised builds core body strength and therefore tones the muscles, making the rest of the body stronger and posture better. And good posture can have the effect of making a person look a dress size smaller!
oh and fitness stuff no advice except make sur eu do the excercises right and don't concentrate on beating your prev score on stuff like rowing machines cos then you don't do your back in and have ot miss your best friends party cos u can't walk (not that it happened to me or anything..)
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either do squats or use the leg press machine
dumbell chest press
pull down machine or pull ups on an easy station would be even better
dips on an easy station or on a bench
if you're feeling 'ard then grab a bench and some dumbells and do the following as a circuit
squat, shoulder press, bent over row, deadlift, bench press
these 5 exercises hit all your muscles and by doing them back to back you'll keep you're metabolism ramped up, burning tons of calories and giving your heart and lungs a good workout too.
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1 add little to your shape
2 burn very few calories per minute of exercise
3 burn even fewer calories the more frequently you perform the exercise
Muscular works muscles that
1 emphasises your natural shape and body lines (tones in other words)
2 burns a lot of calories per minute of exercise
3 continues to burn calories up to 18 hours after your actual exercising finishes*
4 is easier to increase intensity and measure
*assumes you are performing exercises that are actually challenging!
btw you're looking very good at the mo ;-)
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1) Walking. Walking is excellent. I dropped a stone through walking about 4 miles a day over the course of a couple of months, combined with carefully watching food intake. That's a little excessive, but a couple of miles a day is really easy and provides gradual toning.
2) If you do sit-ups, do the sideways ones as well. That works the whole lower abdomen and helps tone the edges, the 'love handles' :-) It doesn't shift fat as much as cardio and so on, but it tones up the muscles underneath which then show.
3) Swimming is good for a full body workout and for weight loss, as it works a whole load of muscles but without the strain and potential damage of weights or jogging.
4) Did I mention the walking? :-) Free and easy, and really good!
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250,000 crunches will shift a whopping 1 pound of fat.
wow, really worth the effort.
and abs are better trained by using whole body exercises anyway.
don't disagree particularly with the rest though ;-)
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oh and fitness stuff no advice except make sur eu do the excercises right and don't concentrate on beating your prev score on stuff like rowing machines cos then you don't do your back in and have ot miss your best friends party cos u can't walk (not that it happened to me or anything..)
kisses - see u 29th sweetness.. xx
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