Monday, September 1, 2008

Why You Should Tone While Losing Weight

By Robert Kaufman


Nowadays it seems that everyone is trying to lose weight with a different product being for each person. While most will promise weight loss success with weight loss secrets, only a handful may end up being successful and help you achieve your goals.

No gnormous weight loss secret or expensive bottle of magic pills is needed to lose weight. Basically, eating right and watching what you eat are the keys to the kingdom. If it takes 3,500 calories to gain one pound, it stands to reason that you can also LOSE the weight by reducing your intake by 3,500 calories. So simple! So easy. I feel your pain.

However, many people have lost a great deal of weight by practicing just such a plan. Some people reduce their calorie intake a bit more aggressively to lose the weight even quicker. Other people reduce their calorie intake a bit less to lose just a couple of pounds a month. And even others add an exercise program to their diet to lose weight even quicker. Any way you cut it - the 3,500 calories that is, will count towards your ultimately weight loss and you will reach your goal.

In truth some people may have dropped a couple pounds without notice. This is discouraging because your body still looks the same to them. You may have less body fat, but because your body is not toned, the results are not noticeable. You can button your collar with comfort but that too is not noticed.

It is a good idea to tone your muscles while you lose weight. If exercise is something you haven't done in a while, start slowly and pace yourself. You cannot help but reach your goal. Once you find the right combination of diet and exercise you as well as others will begin seeing the results.

Walking is just one simple way you can start toning your muscles while you lose weight. You need nothing but a nice day and a pair of sneakers. Begin by walking about half an hour three times a week. Increase the distance and time you walk as your endurance improves. This will not only tone your lower body, but will help lose additional weight. Walking is simple and requires no complicated equipment. Almost everybody can do it without any training at all.

You can also work with light weights to tone your arms. You could do some leg exercises like squats and lunges to help tone the muscles in your butt, legs and thighs. Crunches can do wonders for abdominal muscles. As recommended earlier start slowly. Do about 10 repetitions of each exercise at a time.

It's also important to know that when you are working on toning your muscles while you loose weight, you should alternate the days that you work on certain muscle groups. For example, do abdominal and arm exercises one day, and the next day do leg and butt exercises. This allows each muscle group to rest and repair for a day, which further aides in building muscle.

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