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After going through this and seeing a physical therapist for them ... Both.

Here is what I was told

First rest, not just from the gym, but stay completely off of your feet. This was difficult to do. After the first day may pain increased becasue the muscles were actually able to work at healing themselves and not working as normal. They need the time to focus on the healing. I sat for 3+ days. I would walk to get food or other such neccesities, but it payed off.

Second start stretching the muscles out (there are lots of sites with suggestions that would be similar - runnersworld.com - After a week of doing stretches build those muscles back up with resistance bands. Again look online for exercises. So for 2-3 weeks not exercising but working directly to the muscles.

Now start back into exercising a little. I couldn't go that long without activity, and was told biking moderatly was ok, and the elptical should be too.

Through all of this icing is imperitive. After 3 or so months I was running again with no pain, but I am still stretching and working those muscles, and even from time to time icing.

If the pain does not subside see your doctor you may have stress fractures, this is a bad thing and you will need a doctor to help.

Ballroom dancing gives you a great all-over cardio workout.

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Lighter weights, but more sets. Reps should be at a good pace.

Bodybuilders very seldom do cardio. They focus almost completey on the weights. So if you ever make a bodybuilder mad you have a good chance at running away.

Typically about 3 months out from a show they will begin doing cardio up to usually about 2 and a half hours a day split into two sessions. Though it does depend on the bodybuilder. However throughout the rest of the year cardio is kept to a minimum or not at all.

Probably not, unless you do too many of them. You need to allow your muscles to heal in between workouts. Most people work their abs (sit ups) daily. Arms and chest are usually done every other day, but a good warm up or light workout every day shouldn't be a problem.

I don't see how. In basic training, I can't even begin to estimate how many push ups I did on a daily basis. Are we talking about 50 before you go to bed or multiple sets of multiple exercises??

Eat more than you usually do & more fatty foods then go right to sleep . Do some squats , leg lunges to tone your thighs and butt .

== == I took Stacker for awhile and lost about 20 pounds in 2 months. But the key is that you need to eat! If you do not eat while you take these pills you will get nauseated, your stomach will hurt and most of all you will probably pass out. That's just my advice because that's what happened to me.

You can lose a ton of weight. But you'll be losing muscle as well as fat. And when you go back to eating like you did before (and you will) you'll gain all that weight back and more. Only this time you'll regain all the fat and replace all the lost muscle with fat too. Find another diet. South Beach, Weight Watchers, The Zone. Taking pills and not eating is NOT the way to go. Trust me on this.

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Perhaps you are not eating right. Exercise will mean nothing if you are eating too much or too unhealthy.

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In that scope of time the only thing that will work is liposuction. Apart from that the other option is dieting for a general weight loss.

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Yes you can. As I do get them with working outside.

well im 19 (and male) and today I did a mile in 6 minutes, bang on.

you will see some improvement. you will be more tone and more firm. but you should increase your numbers after a week or so.

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yea that's pretty good I'm 13 and i can bench 160

Well its good but it also depends on how much you weigh. If your 200 lbs benching 275 its not that impressive. but say ur 130lbs then yes that's good. like i am 135lbs and bench 280lbs. that's more than double my body weight. and i sqaut 475 which is more than 3.5 times my body weight. So base your answer on how much you weigh.

Yes, but only indirectly. In fact, during strength training, your blood pressure may temporarily rise.

What will lower your blood pressure and cholesterol is losing body fat. Since muscle burns many more calories than fat, one of the best ways to lose weight is to increase your muscle mass (lean muscle tissue). The best way to do that is by strength training. You can prove this to yourself by losing 10 or 20 pounds of body fat and getting your levels retested.

(This does not mean that you need to lose 10 or 20 pounds of body weight! If you lose 10 pounds of fat and gain 10 pounds of muscle, your body weight will be the same but your blood pressure and cholesterol levels will decrease.)

Because they dilate, to increase blood flow.