When they reach the age of thirty, many women are dismayed to find that some areas of fat seem almost impossible to get rid of.
For women who want to know how to tone up, searching through the mass of confusing and often contradictory information about the different workout routines can be both time-consuming and frustrating. Leave ten experts in a room and they’ll come out with twenty different opinions. It’s no wonder most women are confused about about what they should be doing.
There’s plenty of debate about which type of exercise is the “best” way to get in shape. Some argue in favor of aerobic exercise. Others contend that resistance exercise (such as lifting weights) is the right way to do it.
If you want to hold on to your muscle, boost calorie expenditure and shed fat faster, a combination of cardiovascular and strength training is the best approach.
Traditionally, strength training is not considered feminine. That’s in spite of the large body of evidence showing that it’s a highly effective way to lose fat.
Most women are pleasantly surprised by the results they get from a proper program of resistance exercise, such as the routine described in Visual Impact For Women.
Resistance exercise allows you to sculpt your body so that it looks the way you want it to. It’s almost impossible to change your shape with aerobic exercise alone. If you’re shaped like an apple, cardio by itself is just going to leave you looking like a smaller apple.
Rather than getting larger, replacing fat with muscle will leave you looking leaner and more shapely. You’ll go down a dress size or two. Not only will your thighs shrink, they’ll also take shape.
Of course, these changes will not happen overnight. But in a few short months, and people are going to notice the difference.
I believe that weight training is one of the best ways to deal with the inevitable frustrations life throws at you. A good workout gives you a tremendous feeling of accomplishment. You won’t feel as anxious. As you gain strength, you’ll also build confidence and independence.
You will, of course, build some muscle. Which some women find concerning. However, the amount of muscle you’ll put on is not as much as you might think.
It takes years of dedicated training and an almost religious dedication to nutrition and training to develop the kind of muscular female bodies you see in the magazines. Ask any guy, and he’ll tell you that building muscle is extremely difficult. It takes hours of training in the gym, eating a lot of food, and getting plenty of rest.
On the subject of nutrition and weight loss, it’s incorrect that you need to eat small meals throughout the day to drop the weight and tone up. The vast majority of research shows that eating three or six meals a day has no effect on weight loss whatsoever.
