iWorkouts: Redefining Thigh and Belly Dimensions
Among various other factors, one is time that makes most women turn away from exercises. So far, it was a daily game but recent studies showed that intelligent, short-span (but not intense) movements thrice a week bring better benefits than mindless, once a day, rigorous workouts.
The new approach also eliminates the word ‘diet’ – it sounds pretty negative. Growing a well-structured and healthy food habit is far more motivating; so getting rid of stubborn fat from the belly and the thighs through appropriate movements serving as abs and inner thigh exercises just turned a lot easier. However, it shall require knowing what you are doing and why. It helps to focus better, magnifying efforts and the resulting benefits.
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a. The use of weights is alright as long as you have perfected the movements. Wrong movements at higher intensity often results in a lot of agony.
b. The movements must be slow and to be sustained over a definite span for better results. Short, intense bursts burn fat and add lean muscle mass; they don’t tone or shape. The logic is simple; muscles can be given the desired shape through medium-to-slow paced calculated movements and intensities.
c. Shapely thigh and abs muscles indicate the amount of fitness in a person and influence greatly the waist-to-hips ratio. Thus, thigh muscle exercises must be coupled with belly fat exercises.
It’s a strange psychology that most women start with a lot of enthusiasm and drop-out after sometime. The cause behind is a lot of exercise (i.e. vigorous, intense and long sessions) and the body giving away; the psychological setback received because of ‘no-difference-even-after-a-week’ also stays responsible. So, parity must be present; it’s a psychosomatic problem that must be overcome by fooling the body.
The best is 15 or 20 repetitions in each set of exercises starting with a single set and reaching 3 sets by the time the week ends i.e. taking a set up every alternative day (e.g. Mon – Wed – Fri). Therefore, the following Sunday shall have 4 sets to do and the following Tuesday 5. Start with the front thighs and then move over to the full body exercises and don’t forget the warm-ups.
So, the wall squat shall come first, followed by the standing dumbbell squats, lunges, thigh stretches, split stretches, butterfly, hip twists and leg pulls. But this is where most stop and complaint about not receiving any further benefits through means that worked so well so far.
This is what people call the plateau; the body starts anticipating the directions of the blows and adjusts automatically. Thus, after individual movements have been perfected, it is time to do all the exercises in one single sweep (for each set), with one movement transforming to another, without any breaks in between and occasionally, the order of the movements rearranged. Fooling the body is the best way to keep it from gaining weight and that applies with the associated foods as well. That’s a different story; however, to be narrated soon.
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