Fitness Factor question

A question I have for fitness factor that noone has really given me an answer to.

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Howto & Style

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• fitness
• factor
• diet
• exercise
• weightloss

[blackscorpiontube]

All right, you're gonna have to patch my comments together, I've ordered them by number and letter, 1a, 1b, etc.

My disclaimer is simple. DON'T DO WHAT I SAY. That should cover it... :O)

There's no shortcuts. You either want this or you don't. If you're looking for shortcuts, you don't want it bad enough. I'll give you one last tip. Don't spend hours doing cardio. The most efficient way to lose weight and get in shape is weight training.

Good Luck

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3 e)Remember it's your shoulders that are lifting up - think of the spine going from flat to curled up (a slouch). Imagine you're making your shoulders get closer to your hips. Do as many as you can. Rest for a minute. Repeat. Do three of these sets every other day. Once they become easy, try crossing your arms in front of your chest. When those become easy, place your palms on your ears.

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3 d)The easiest and best exercise for this to lay flat on the ground with your feet up on the couch and knees bent up. Get your butt right up against the front of the couch (or chair). The angle at your knees will be 90 degrees - or square. Now place your hands at your hips, and while keeping your head straight (don't dig your chin into your chest), lift your shoulders up off the ground. That's it - easy exercise.

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3 c) Think of the abs as a band of muscles that connect the bottom of the front of your rib cage and sternum to the front of your hips. The function of that muscle band is to basically bring down the bottom of the front of your ribs closer to the hips - hence the "crunch" or sit up. Think of sitting on a chair, and you're going from sitting up right with your shoulders back to an extreme slouch. Remember that motion.

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3 b)To tighten the abs, you need to make them contract as much and as often as possible. Try to NOT stretch them (such as doing the classic yawn stretch while your sitting on a chair - you know, arms up and you start leaning back?) - don't do it. So keep the stretching of the abs to a minimum - and start squeezing them frequently. Even when you're sitting around, consciously flex them.

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3 a)Ah yes the poochy belly. That is caused by the abdominal muscles being stretched out by having the bulk of the baby pushing them out for 9 months. Also, to some extent by body fat in front and behind that muscle. You can tighten up the muscles again, and that will help. To address the body fat, since you can't do it in one localized area like that, you'll have to do a full-body workout, and eventually, you'll lose fat in the tummy, along with other places.

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2)There's many sources of info on the effects of caffeine on the internet. Look them up. I'll tell you right now, caffeine is just like any other stimulant - It's bad, in my opinion. If you have to, don't drink any past noon because it might affect your sleep that night. I don't drink any at all. Same goes for any other stimulant out there like ephedrines (anybody remember the fen-fen nightmare?). Keep it natural, sister.

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1 b)Quit trying to find the easy way, and commit to eating healthy, small meals every 2-3 hours. One of the most important keys to speeding up your metabolism is to NEVER feel a hunger pang - isn't that nice?

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1a)You can't destroy your metabolism with crash dieting. HOWEVER, the fact that you do extreme diets means you're probably feeling hungry often. Guess what? When you feel hungry, you trigger a primitive response in your body to prepare it for a possible famine or shortage in food. So it responds by slowing down your metabolism in order to hold on to as much of your fat as possible (since fat is a long-term source of energy).

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I'm going to try and answer these questions, but due to a limitation of the length of comments, I'm going to have to split it up. Let's see if this works...