When they reach the age of thirty, many women are dismayed to find that stubborn pockets of fat take a lot longer to get rid of than they did just a few years ago.
For women who want to know how to tone up, wading through the mass of confusing and conflicting information about the different exercise routines can be very, very frustrating. Leave ten experts in a room and they’ll come out with 20 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 experts prefer cardio. Others contend that resistance exercise (such as lifting weights) is the right way to do it.
If your goals are to preserve muscle mass, boost calorie expenditure and shed fat faster, a combination of cardio and resistance exercise is the best approach.
Most women don’t think of weight training as particularly feminine. That’s despite the wealth of research showing that it’s a highly effective way to lose fat.
The majority of women will like the results they get from a proper program of resistance exercise, such as the routine described in Visual Impact For Women (see this Visual Impact For Women review for more).
Resistance training gives you the power to sculpt your body the way you want it to look. It’s very difficult to alter the shape of your body with aerobic exercise alone. If you’re pear shaped, with cardiovascular exercise, the best you can hope for is to look like a smaller pear.
Rather than getting larger, replacing fat with muscle will leave you looking leaner and more shapely. You’ll probably drop several dress sizes. Not only will your thighs shrink, they’ll also take shape.
These changes won’t happen overnight. But give it a few months, and people are going to notice the difference.
Strength training is also a highly effective way to handle the frustrations that life puts in your way. Putting in a good workout can give you a real sense of accomplishment. That gnawing sense of anxiety will disappear. As you gain strength, you’ll also build confidence and independence.
You will gain 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 hard work and an almost religious obsession with exercise and diet to build 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 lifting heavy weights, eating a high-protein diet, and getting plenty of rest.
While we’re talking about diet, it’s not true that you need to eat six small meals a day to drop the weight and tone up. The vast majority of research shows that eating three or six meals each day has no effect on weight loss whatsoever.