Archive for February, 2010
Many women—and men for that matter—want to get a well-toned body but are afraid to lift weights lest they get bulky. Despite these fears, weight lifting is, in fact, the best way to get long, toned muscles. The key is that you have to know how to train and what body toning exercises are most effective.
If you are lifting to tone, you should be working with low weight and high reps, regardless of the exercise. This type of training keeps you in an aerobic state and works to burn fat while not building excessive muscle mass. The best toning exercises are those that utilized multiple muscle groups in the same movement, such as squats, pull-ups and the bench press.
How Many Calories Should I Eat to Lost Weight?
Contrary to what you may think, there is no secret formula to losing weight and you are not eternally cursed by their genetics. In actuality, losing weight comes down to a simple math equation: eat less calories than you burn. Of course, the key to knowing how many calories I should eat to lose weight hinges on the amount of calories that you burn. The FDA suggests a 2,000 calorie diet, but there are a myriad of factors that can skew this number, including: age, gender, muscle mass, metabolism, etc.
The easiest way to figure out how many calories should I eat lose weight is by keeping a food diary of everything that you consume for a week and computing a daily average. If you have been gaining weight, you are not burning that number of calories; if you are losing weight, you are burning more. In order to lose weight the answer to simple: you either need to decrease the amount of calories you intake or increase the number of calories that you burn.