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Exercise
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What exercises can you do to lose upper arm fat?
If you have not already, you may need to alter your diet and overall activity level. Your first step is to get your body into a state where it is burning fat, essentially raising your metabolism. They way to do this is 1.) Eating a substantial number of meals per day 2.) Eating the right food at each meal 3.) Adequate exercise 4.) Eating BREAKFAST which many neglect. It may seem opposite to your goal of losing weight, but instead of starving yourself, you need to eat at least 5 times per day. Calorie intake, depending on your activity level, should be about 2000 calories per day. Eating 5 meals a day (I say meals but most are more of a snack) effectively keeps your body in a state of burning calories, whereas starving oneself will SLOW the metabolism because your body believes it is no longer receiving enough calories and works to conserve its own mass. Each meal should consist of a slow to semi slow digesting carb, or complex carb, and a protein source. Also, healthy fats such as the ones found in nuts and fish are literally indispensable, as they maintain skin and internal organs. Do not cut out all fat. HOWEVER, your fat should not come from twinkies or ho ho's. That's what we call bad fat. Examples of complex carbs are whole wheat breads, whole wheat pastas, brown rice, fruits (which also contain fructose, a fast digesting carb), SWEET potatoes/ yams (regular potatoes, like red potatoes, russet, anything you would call a baked potato are fast digesting carbs. Seems opposite but is true),oatmeal (NOT the little packages of half sugar oats, although that is still better than fruity pebbles), and the list continues... Then a lean protein source, such as low fat cottage cheese, tuna, lean beef, lean steaks, chicken breast, turkey breast, lean ground turkey, other fishes, protein powder is very convenient, and lean dairy. Each meal should consist of 15 - 30 g protein and 25 - 50 g carbs. Adding vegetables and fruits to each meal supplies the body with all needed nutrients. The only reason for the lesson in diet is without diet, you will lose fat nowhere.General cardio serves well enough to burn calories, but if you really want to kick off fat burning, use interval training, high intensity for an interval and low intensity for an interval. Cardio should be done at least 4 times per week for at least 30 minutes, or more if you really want to lose fat fast.And finally, to lose fat around the arm and shoulder area, you will want to do exercises related to those areas, such as bicep curls (alternating dumbbell curls, barbell curls, EZ bar curls, preacher curls, even hands turned towards the body pull ups will work the biceps), tricep extensions (tricep kickbacks, lying dumbbell extensions, lying barbell or ez bar extensions, standing cable downward presses, overhead dumbbell extensions, close grip bench press, bench dips, regular tricep dips) and shoulder raises (front raises, lateral (side) raises, cable lateral and front raises, cable crossovers (pulling a cable started at shoulder if possible or low cable across the body using a straight arm and using the rear shoulder to pull the weight), overhead presses, dumbbell and barbell, wide grip upright rows dumbbell and barbell). The key with these exercises to tone up and lose excess fat is to keep reps HIGH. Low reps will tend to build muscle size and strength. Keep repetitions above 15, and as high as 30 to 40 reps. This will be difficult at first but with time will become easier. Do 3 - 4 sets of each exercise, and at least 2 to 3 exercises per body part. Keep time between sets down to 30 - 90 seconds, or as close to this as possible. Train these parts 2 to 3 times per week, giving adequate rest and repair between training days. Do not train a sore body part. I realize that compared to the question this is a very thorough and intense response. However with the combination of all these factors, and dedication to the cause, your goals will quickly be realized, and you will find it easy to achieve new higher goals for yourself and your body. Good luck.
What is a good way to lose the lower ab fat?
People say, "Why can't I lose weight easily?", but even more importantly than that, you should ask how CAN I lose weight easily. For that question, I do have an answer. Less sugar and fewer sweets for starters. Watch the portion size on your meals. Try five to six smaller meals per day, as opposed to three big ones. This will keep your metabolism up high all day, making it easier for your body to burn fat. The idea is to burn up your daily calories, plus calories that are stored in your fat.
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1. Perform interval cardio workouts -- A lot of people make the mistake of performing long cardio workouts at a steady pace. This is a mistake. Doing interval cardio training burns off a lot more fat and also works the abdominal muscles which also helps with those love handles. Interval cardio is done by alternating between a few moments of intense cardio, like running at a fast pace, and then slowing down for a few minutes to a much less intense segment like power walking. Repeating this sequence a few times each workout will burn off maximum body fat and reduce your love handles. 2. Do complete strength exercises -- Many people make the mistake of avoiding working out certain areas of their bodies. Performing full body strength and resistance exercises will increase your overall muscle mass. More muscle mass burns off more fat each minute (because muscle mass burns the most calories in order to sustain itself). Full body workouts will also get your heart rate way up and will get those fat deposits to melt off. 3. Watch what you eat -- In order to lose those love handles, you need to cut down on your fat and empty calorie intake. Cut down on sugary sodas, pastries, fast food, fried food, and fatty dishes. Lowering your fat intake will get your body to burn fat deposits like those that are making your love handles. 4. Work your abs -- You need to work your abs, especially your obliques (the abs muscles that run down both sides of your abdomen). Increasing abdominal muscle mass will make it appear firmer and slimmer. 5. Drink enough water -- You need to drink 8-10 glasses of water each day. I know it may seem difficult but having enough water causes your body to function better and burn off more calories. It also prevents water retention. 6. Sleep at least 7 hours each night -- Our body develops muscle mass while it sleeps; more muscle mass means more burned off calories and fat. Do you see where I'm going with this? If you don't sleep enough, you will not develop the maximum muscle mass and burn off less fat. Incorporate these 6 steps into your routine and you'll be fast on your way to being rid of your love handles.
What is the body fat percentage you have to have to get your period at age 12?
1. why the hell hell do you want to bleed 5 days straight every hellish month?
2. it depends on genetics, not body weight, ask your mum when she had hers and you will get a idea
How many pounds do you need to lose for the ideal body fat percentage?
depends on how much exercise you do each day.
Ways to burn fat or become lean?
Eat a balanced diet (lots of fruit and vegies, grains, leans meats, proteins etc). have 5 smaller meals a day instead of 3 big ones(this will help your body burn fat instead of muscle and will also help to burn the unwanted fat).....avoid to much fatty and sugary foods like cake and lollies and chips.
Exercise at least 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes
Drink at least 2 litres of water everyday.
Have breakfast as this will help kickstart your metabolism after having no food for several hours.
What is a risky way to lose weight?
Self Starvation--Anorexia
Eating then vomiting--Bulimia
Overexercising--Exercise bulimia
Dieting is a temporary way to lose weight. Talk to your doctor about a diet plan that is right for you.
Can sucking your stomach in while working out help during a workout?
Essentially, yes. You should pull in your abdominal muscles to the point where you feel them tense up, and then proceed about sit-ups normally. Good luck.
What do you need to eat to lose weight?
You need to eat a variety of foods in order to keep a balanced diet. In terms of losing weight, stay away from any foods that are high in sugar, sodium, ect. Eat more protein and lots of fiber! Dont forget what you eat is only 50% in losing weight, the other half is exercise. Good luck!
Can you lose weight walking down flights of stairs?
Look at it this way... To lose one pound of weight, you must have a total NEGATIVE intake of 3600 calories. Stair-climbing does burn more calories than walking on a flat surface, but while burning calories doing this you are building muscles (heart, in your legs & buttocks, etc), which is good. Also, the exercise should be over at least a 20 minute period, several days a week primarily for your cardiac workout... But you've got to burn that 3600 calories in order to lose the weight, and do it so that you lose about 1/2 pound a week (women) or 1 pound a week for men. If the total intake of calories is greater than you expend, then your weight will go up correspondingly.
What is the best exercise workout to lose weight fast?
It's not that simple. It is possible to lose weight by exercise only, but the high calorie foodstuffs that we have available today makes that approach really hard. Something like a single cupcake will take about 45 minutes of dedicated workout to use up - so in reality, you really have to start by controlling your intake.
The amounts of calories that you use up is closely related to your heart rate, so the best exercise to lose weight is the one that strikes the best balance between getting your heart rate up and letting you keep it up for, say 45-60 minutes or so. Exactly how you're exercising is far less important.
Suppose exercise A boosts your heart rate with 100 beats/minute, but you're only able to keep it up for 5 minutes. That's 500 extra beats, not much to brag about.
Then there's exercise B that boosts your heart rate with 80 beats, but you're able to keep it up for 30 minutes. That's 2400 extra beats, a far better deal.
Which exercise that's the "best" is impossible to say, as it's dependent on your fitness level/swimming skills. Any exercise that you can do hard enough and long enough to get that sustained elevated heart rate required for a good calorie burn will be the "best" exercise.
How many calories burned per hour during a netball game?
Your calorie needs depend on the intensity and duration of your training and competition, as well as your age, gender, height, and weight. A 130-pound volleyball
player uses about 8.4 calories per minute of vigorous volleyball play. A 180-pound athlete burns about 10.4 calories per minute of play.
Hopefully this will help your cause.
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Ammad
Ideal weight 30 year old female 5'3?
For a medium frame allow 100-102 lbs for the first 5' in height and then about 5 lbs per inch after that.
So for any 5'3" female, ideal weight is 115-117 lbs.
For life and health insurance purposes the range is much broader.
Can you lose thigh and belly fat on the elliptical?
An elliptical increases the heart rate and any exercise that does this will burn fat. You will ultimately lose fat in your thigh and belly area, but depending on your genetics and diet you might not lose in those areas first.
Sensible exercise can be a safe and productive undertaking for both a pregnant women and her fetus?
True :)
Can you lose weight by swimming?
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Kinda-sorta.
The main driver behind weight loss and weight gain is calories eaten vs calories used up.
If you eat more calories than you use, you will gain weight.
If you eat less than you use, you will lose weight.
I'm not saying it is easy, but it is that simple.
Now, all physical activities that gets your heart rate up above your resting level will make you burn more calories, so according to that, swimming will "help".
Also, the more muscle you get, the more calories you can burn in a given amount of time, which will "help" too.
Trouble is, it only helps a little bit.
First of all, you need to be fairly good at swimming before it'll give much of a sustained raised heart rate, so you're not burning that many extra calories at the start.
Secondly, calories are so much faster to eat than to burn that even if you do high-intensity cardio, you just can't exercise hard enough and long enough to burn off enough calories to lose weight through exercise alone.
Any serious attempt at weight loss has to start with a change of eating habits. A lifestyle change really.
A single cupcake can take one hour of mid/high intensity exercise to burn off, and then you're just back to zero for that day. To actually lose anything, you'd need to keep going.
Yes, swimming is an excellent exercise.
Remember, you lose weight by using more calories than you eat.
Certainly! Any sort of aerobic exercise will burn calories and increase the metabolic burn rate of the body. Combined with a sensible diet, regular exercise is the best way to lose weight. And swimming is an excellent exercise, burning many calories and it is very difficult to hurt yourself while doing it.
Swimming can help you lose weight, but you have to have a routine. A routine is where everyday you go and swim for maybe an hour and then stop. Do this everyday for two weeks and you most likely will see an improvement. But remember: be patient, it may take some time. Try this and see if it works. I wish you the best of luck!
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How can you tone your tummy and lose love handles without losing weight anywhere else?
You can't target fat loss to a certain part of your body. Yes you can focus more on a certain part, like doing crunches and other ab workouts to focus on your belly region, which will strengthen your core muscles and help you lose fat faster. But, if you're losing fat from that area, then you're losing fat from other areas of your body as well. If you have unwanted fats in your body, try losing it and build muscles instead.
How much weight will you lose if you didnt eat and only drank water for a week?
Fasting is a very inefficient weight loss method. Whatever pounds you lose while fasting you are most likely to put right back on as soon as you start eating again. You're far better off sticking to a sensible diet and a sensible time plan for your weight loss goal..
What exercise should you do when you are trying to get rid of fat on your thighs?
Any cardio exercise combined with a good diet. This includes: biking, spinning, rowing, swimming, running, etc. Avoid diets that tell you to eat less than 100 kilocalories a day. And don't exercise longer than 45 minutes.
How do you get rid of cellulite in the hamstring region?
Try riding a bike,or running for a couple of miles every day till your happy it... it works for me..
do stiff leged dead lifts if u dont know what they are look' em up on google
Contrary to popular belief, doing specific exercises do not target the fat around a specific area.
There is absolutely no way to target specfic areas of fat. Period.
For best results, you must do aerobic activity, weight training and proper diet to lose fat. Your body burns the fat as a whole, not from specific areas.
I got back from a vacation or two of heavy boozing, eating and sleeping poorly, not getting enough sleep and not drinking my usual amount of water--with cellulite! I have it on the backs and fronts of my thighs.
For the past three weeks, I have been doing cardio 3-4 times a week, strength training classes that focus on the legs twice a week, steam baths alternating with cold showers (my gym's steam room has a cold shower in it--you can also just take alternate hot and cold showers at home) to increase circulation, and lots of vitamin-enriched moisterizing and massaging of the skin. Massaging the skin all over is important too, not just the cellulite areas. I also have been brushing my skin with a dry brush or loofah once or twice aday for about five minutes. I have been following all the advice I could find on the web, because I find cellulite so alarming !
It looks a lot better now... Oh, and vitamins. I have been taking a good multi-vitamin with soy lechithin, and anti-oxidants (A, C, E). The theory is that collagen breakdown in the skin is part of the cause of cellulite. Yes, it is just fat, but if the skin is strong enough, it should be held in place, not shift and pucker in bulges. All-over good health and nutrition is important, because it helps the body rebuild collagen, especially vitamin C, and prevents further collagen breakdown.
Also, my skin all over my body looks great in general, much better than before. But you must moisterize, because with all the friction from brushing, and losing water from exericing and steaming, you'll need the extra fluid retention offered by a good vitamin enriched cream. Drinking 100 oz of fluid a day will also help in this regard.
But you have to work on every aspect of your body, inside and out, for your hamstring cellulite to improve. Even my facial skin looks great now, and it's the only part that I don't really treat differently. It all works together.
But yes, dead lifts and squats and lunges won't hurt!
The best way to get rid of cellulite is to eat a healthy diet low in saturated fat ... and begin strenghthening the area with weights. If you build the muscle underneath eventually the cellulite will be less visible ( and muscle burns fat)
Many people believe that "Cellulite" is a different kind of fat and can be removed differently, unfortunately, the cottage-cheese effect that shows up on thighs is just ordinary fat. It's dealt with the regular way, diet and exercise. Burn fewer calories than you eat and exercise to build muscle tone. Well toned muscles not only look good, they help you burn fat since muscle is the part of the body that actually USES calories, you can burn more by getting the muscles in shape.
Cut out white flour from your diet. white bread, pasta. just replace those things with wheat based items. That will get rid of cellulite and help you shed a few pounds too.
Can you lose weight by running and eating only pasta?
if that's how you want to go about it then YES ... you can lose weight any way you like ... so long as you burn more foods eaten then you eat ...
What kind of exercise should you do to grow in height?
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Can you lose weight by not eating for 4 weeks?
If you are anorexic, don't worry about your food for the coming week. Seek help as soon as possible; you risk your life every day you hurt your body. It's time you went on the web and started to learn about your body. We all need to eat and drink at lease eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day. Starving yourself will force your body to consume itself, and by exercising while losing weight you are heading for a heart attack! Seek help!
What the average heart rate is beats per minute?
Your heart rate will depend on what you're doing and your physical condition. If you're running or doing other strenuous exercise, your heart rate could be 150 or even higher. At rest, the "average" person has a heart rate of between 60 and 70. For long-distance runners in excellent shape, their resting heart rates can be in the low 40s.
