Quite often we have someone show up at our personal training studio saying “I just need to lose this!” as they point to their rear end, big belly, or jiggle under their arms. Then they say, “Can we do lots of abs today because I just have to get rid of this, I can’t stand how fat my stomach is.” Are you one of those people who go to the gym and make a beeline for the abs class or the adductor/abductor machine to work you inner and outer thighs with the intention of whittling the fat away through exercise? You keep saying if I only do 1000 crunches everyday I will have great abs like that girl on the fitness magazine cover or if I only work my huge thighs more they will get smaller so I can fit into my favorite jeans.

Unfortunately, still to this day many, many people remain under the assumption that working a particular body part will get rid of the fat in that area and somehow make that problem area smaller. Not sooooo….in fact you will probably push your fat out more if you just so happen to put muscle in that area from working it, before you drop any bodyfat. Then you will look bigger in your problem area….. (at least momentarily until that muscle goes to work for you). Uh oh! So then how do you lose that big belly, big butt or jiggly arms or cellulite?

There are three components to transforming a flabby, sloppy out of shape body into a firm, strong and healthy body. The first component and perhaps the most important is how and what you feed your body. Are you eating junk with no nutritional value and expecting an incredible body? Do you eat live from the earth as God made it food or are you slamming McDee’s every morning? These are important questions that have to be addressed before anything else. What you eat, how much you eat of it, when you eat it, how it’s prepared and so on is such a big topic that it is definately a topic for another entry. Suffice it to say that you should be eating 5-6 small meals through-out the day. Every meal should have a quality protein source and carb source and of course veggies and fruits should be part of your meal planning.

After you have your healthy eating under control your next focus will be weight training. So you want to be firm and strong….well then weight training it will be. You can not get muscle without actually working that muscle out. So you must lift weights or do some kind of resistance training to challenge your muscles to grow. Your muscle is a big factor in your metabolism and probably is still one of the most misunderstood parts to getting fit and healthy. In a nutshell, it will help you to lose the unwanted fat by speeding up your metabolism as in more muscle, more calories needed to support that muscle. Bigger muscle groups have more potential to grow alot bigger hence require alot more calories to sustain them, unlike abs which are a small muscle group and will only grow so much and never require a substantial amount of calories to keep them their size. That is why many, many fitness people often say…”ABs are made in the kitchen.”

So here you have all this unawanted fat and you decide to try to get rid of it as Fit Transformations recommends so you start watching your food intake, start lifting weights and you WILL start noticing some small changes but to take in to the next level and speed things up you must add your third component which is cardio. Cardio on its own, even without looking to drop bodyfat as a goal, is so important for a variety of reasons. Cardio is great for your heart, blood pressure, to relieve stress and on and on it goes… and it’s a must to lose the big butt, oversized thighs or jiggly arms. So get out there and work up a sweat doing something, anything you enjoy because you will burn some calories and in turn lose some bodyfat.

There you have it…the basic elements or three components to getting a firm, strong body versus a large, fat and flabby body. So what are you waiting for? Make your plan using these basics and you can achieve anything…

Always interested in your comments or thoughts….

God Bless You,
Evey

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