Shed it Now Blog
You can train anywhere and maximize your resistance with your own body weight. Check out this quick upper body blast and core circuit. If you don’t have a pull up bar, you can buy the door hook on www.fitnessanywhere.com. Get your next workout in with the TRX!
How do you lose belly fat?
It’s a simple recipe with tough ingredients!
There is no magic pill or exercise that gets the excess abdominal fat off your midsection. It takes hard work and it takes a combination of the most important ingredients.
1. CARDIO is key. You must be consistent with your cardio exercise. At least 30 minutes or more each day. The most effective way to tone your midsection with cardio is to RUN HILLS. If you can’t run, then SWIM! If you can do both, then alternate them and be consistent!
2. Do CORE exercises every day. You can do them in the morning, night, or before or after a cardio workout. Core strengthening will pull your abdominal wall in and give you a tighter looking midsection, not to mention stronger. It’s the first step in looking leaner throughout your midsection. The best way to tighten your core is to perform PLANKS, Pilates Rollups, and Sidewinders. Forget about crunches! They fail to tighten your transverse abdominals the way planking does.
3. Eat GREENS! You have to eat a healthy diet. Eliminate heavy starches and heavy dairy. I love cheese too but cheddars and port cheese will make you bloated. Try goat cheese and greek yogurt over other brands. The only way to truly lose the excess abdominal fat is to eat right and exercise.
Adding these 3 ingredients will help you win the fight against Belly Fat! It’s not easy but starting today would help your chances for a win!
Stretching is highly under utilized by human beings! So many people walk around with a hunched back, shoulders rolled forward, and low back tightness. Most have no idea that their poor posture is due to tight muscles such as chest, shoulders, hip flexors, hamstrings, glutes, and many more. Whatever your condition may be, tight muscles in those areas are making it impossible to get better.
WAKE UP PEOPLE! It’s time to stretch. Your body is your daily machine. It gets you to work, runs all day so that you can breathe, eat, and think. Then it works extra hard to exercise, elevate the heart rate, burn calories, and use muscle. This machine that helps you live and thrive each day needs “Tune Ups”! A “Tune Up” for the body is stretching the muscles, tendons and joints. Using a foam roller to release tightness in the muscle tissue from a build up of repetitive movement. When you neglect this “Tune Up” for months at a time, it will be like a late oil change; It only hurts a new car a little, but as that car ages and continues to get late oil changes, it will begin to run poorly.
Stretching and foam rolling once a month is not good enough! Your body is your machine for life, no replacement! Lucky are some, who will get a new heart, kidney, or liver if that someday fails. There is no replacing your spinal muscles, quads, hamstrings, and gluteals. People can now replace their knees and hips, yet it is painful for many years before that happens and your quality of life is compromised.
Be good to your body, it’s good to you! Stretch!
Health and Happiness,
Anna