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2006-10-29 05:25:40 · 9 answers · asked by tmhangel 1 in Health Diet & Fitness

something that i could do at home, i have some weights, 8 pounds i think, cant really do water arobics

2006-10-29 05:35:44 · update #1

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walking

2006-10-29 05:26:38 · answer #1 · answered by Jennifer L 6 · 0 0

You get your heart rate up to a certain point and keep it there (ask about that at the gym). Any muscle toning excercizes like squats and sit ups (the AB lounge is awesome) will do the trick. And for the booty try this: stand with your feet apart like just wider than your shoulders. Bend you knees and stick your butt out. Now sway it in a sideways figure eight pattern, or infinity if you will. This is a silly looking excercise, and it isnt very painful. But then later youll be sore as hell. Great for the thighs and especially the gludius maximus.

2006-10-29 13:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Run on an elliptical rider for 1 hour a day 4-5 times a week.

2006-10-29 13:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by LadyDeathStryke 4 · 0 0

Bikram Yoga. Works just as well, or better, than running. Best part, no running.

You will sweat, tone and lengthen muscles, great for core. i do all kinds of exercises and activities, and nothing gives me the results Bikram do. And not just me, Ive gotten a few other ppl i know to try it and they all rave about it.

2006-10-29 13:41:00 · answer #4 · answered by Craig S 1 · 0 0

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


Aloha

2006-10-29 13:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

early morning aerobic exercise (any type ) after good warm up for two weeks gives good results

2006-10-29 13:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by red rose 5 3 · 0 0

Water aerobics is the best

2006-10-29 13:26:53 · answer #7 · answered by tracey s 3 · 0 0

thighs-squats with weights
stomach-MAJOR crunches or situps (with legs in the air)
butt-cant help you with that lol

2006-10-29 13:28:41 · answer #8 · answered by RUNnSHOOT. 3 · 0 0

try running on the beach.. sand i mean.. it burns more calories than usual.. but.. its a tough one..
enjoy..
:)

2006-10-31 02:28:37 · answer #9 · answered by smelly_ducks 2 · 0 0

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