The only question I heard today from numerous clients and potential clients is,
“How do I lose weight, tone-up my stomach, but not get bulky?”
Where to start…basically this is how I respond to that question.
1. To gain huge amounts of muscle to make you bulky takes time. You also have to eat to gain muscle and create a muscle building atmosphere with in your body. That means eating over a gram of protein per bodyweight. Along with protein your body needs to be producing testosterone to help build muscle. The average person does not eat that much protein to build lots amounts of muscle. For women, you have lower testosterone levels to start with, so it’s that much harder to build huge bulky muscles! To sum up, you can lift heavy (8-15 reps) and not gain crazy amounts of muscle.
2. No matter how hard you try, you cannot spot reduce! You can do 3000 sit-ups a day and your stomach will be just as big as it is now. To lose body fat in any area of the body, you have to lose body fat as a whole. General body fat loss will lead to body fat lose in the stomach over time.
3. Now to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you eat, through dieting and exercise. Long bouts of cardio are okay, but to keep off the weight you lose, you need to gain quality lean muscle mass while reducing body fat. How do you do that? A strength training program coupled with a cardio program. It takes more calories to sustain muscle than body fat. So, as you gain muscle, you raise your metabolism, helping to burn off more calories. Sounds easy, right!
So to review, a quality exercise routine full of strength training and cardio will lead to overall body fat loss. Overall body fat loss will lead to general reduction in the stomach area. Since you where strength training as you lost body fat, you are actually defining your muscle to look great once you reach your goal weight (toning-up).
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