For me, no matter what I do, without exercise I cannot stay fit for very long. I hate food restrictions and I hate going to fitness centers and waiting in line or just having someone run after me to tell me how I should do things.
I also feel I'm wasting time when I exercises - unless I play sports, which is different. So I either need to watch TV or read a book while exercising, not thinking about burnt calories. If I use the bike 30 minutes, out of those 10 are those I use thinking about what I am doing (5, for warm-up, at the beginning, and 5 minutes to reach my kilometers, calories, or minutes count, at the end). I use the other 20 watching TV or reading.
This week, even though I am low on money, I went to buy an indoor bike (magnetic is what i wanted) and I bought a Kettler Vento for 250 bucks. It's worth it. Actually, I wanted a bike (similar to the elliptical below) that works out your arms too but those had no seat so the chances of reading and working out were dim.
30 minutes on such a bike can help you burn 300 calories, medium difficulty, medium pace. It's not only the calories you burn, it's working out the muscles. You can see the results the next day. Honestly.
For the upper body I do push-ups and I have my own weights so I exercisea few times a week, a few minutes and all's going well. As for stomach - I don't have a problem with losing weight there - I have built muscles there in the past so a few pillates plus crunches plus other funny exercises, 5 minutes a day, 4 times a week, help me enough to be stay satisfied.
How are your muscles? Do you have flappy arms? Well, you can always change that. Losing weight on your upper arms and raising your breasts is a lot easier than losing fat off your bum or upper legs.
How doyou do it? Push-ups and crunches help. So does Winsor pilates or swimming. But if you want something very quick and painless, buy dumbbells. I prefer the neoprene dumbbells.
Here is an example found on FitnessGiant.com. I suggest 3 and 5 lb sets.
How to do it?
1. Standing up, let your arms rest near your body, normally, then lift them horizontally, to your side, until they are a continuation of your shoulders. Do as many as you can, until your muscle hurts a bit. Alternative: bend your torso forward while standing up, looking forward, until your chest is parallel with the ground. Your arms are hanging down holding the weight. Now lift your arms horizontally again, as if you were trying to hug someone.
2. Arms bent at your chest, holding the weights towards you, in front of you neck. Now simulate this: imagine you reach up for a branch and try pulling yourself up. With this image in mind, practice this move with the weights.
3. Punching an imaginary punchbag. Imagine you are a boxer and you are punching someone. Do the moves slowly, one hand at a time. Doing it fast is dangerous for your wrists and for the elbows.
4. Remember the classical move you see in movies when a guy is working out its biceps? Standing up, arm hanging down, the eight in your hand facing opposite of your body. Bend you arm from the elbow, so the weight reaches your shoulder. 15 for each arm is enough. This is good for your breasts as well.
5. Standing up, place your arms in front of you, straight, palms facing each other and holding the dumbbells. Now, imagine something is pushing your palms appart. Bring them slowly back until they become the continuation of your shoulders, horizontally.
5. Let's take care of the back of your arms, the flappy part. Standing up or bending forwards, arms next to your body, palsm with weights towards your body. Bend them completely and unbend them until straight. You should feel the back of you arms being worked out.
How often do I workout? Once every 2-3 days. It's enough.
If you want to keep your muscles and build any new ones, do some of the moves faster. But be extra careful about some of them.
Or try pushups. Fast ones. Or semi-pushups, where you push up only the upper part of your body, lower part remaining on the ground. 30 like this every 2 days should do the trick. However, these moves work out only a part of the muscles in your arms. They are good however for raising your breasts (if you lost the sustaing muscle there) and they are very good as well for your tummy, because it builds lean long mucle.
Proteins Essential to Build Muscle and Lose Weight
First of all, like I said, diets that are low in proteins will cause you to lose muscle. Losing muscle causes you to lose pounds on the scale but also to burn less fat. There is a direct relation between proteins and muscles. If you exercise but you're on a diet that uses little protein, there is no wonder you cannot build muscle. Because protein is essential to develop and maintain healthy muscle. Protein is broken down to amino acids which are turned back into proteins.
So, if you want that fat to disappear and nice lean muscles to appear, eat proteins! You can find proteins in milk, eggs, tuna, cheese, yogurt, beans.
Losing weight and staying healthy is easy, when you care. Forget famishing yourself: there are other ways.
Since I was 15 I've been obsessed with healthy diets, losing weight, sports, and everything included. I read books after books and I collected articles on staying fit and healthy. Even now, 12 years later, I am still reading everything I find on the subject.
I will share with you, step by step, everything I know. Free advice.
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