Improving Body Shape: Focus on seeing not getting...

A fitness magazine cover headline caught my eye the other day...

It was a popular men's edition...

But the message relates to anybody...

Obviously the cover titles have to be very attention grabbing to get you to read or even buy the magazine ...

Usually with regards to any weight loss, it's very hyped, such as - "lose 10lbs in 2 weeks...

Or "diet secrets of famous actor or actress revealed"...

But for once I liked the wording of this one;

It was a June edition of the magazine that stated; "See your six pack by August"

Aimed very much a younger male audience, but the message is relevant to anybody who wants to lose weight and improve shape...

For most of us our objective is to wear the clothes we want to wear and be healthy but the science is the same...

Over the course of time I have been asked constantly for specific exercises to work a body fat storing hotspot, stomach, bottom, legs...

If you go back to the title article words, it says "see" your six pack...

Meaning it's already there, we can improve mid section strength through exercise, but the shape of our toned muscle is already there...

What is obscuring our shape is our body fat...

How much our body fat obscures our shape, depends largely on our lifestyle...

I wrote it in my book, we have to "reveal" our shape ( a little ebook I wrote called: 100 Point Paleo Inspired Checklist to Permanent Weight Loss, available on Amazon UK :))


Once we decrease our body fat, our shape improves, becomes less obscured and more visible...

It seems unfair but we can't just do specific exercises for the troublesome areas...

We need to get our bodies to use body fat for energy...

Our eating habits accounting for most of this...

Exercise also increases metabolism which helps and improves health...

But improving shape comes down to our overall lifestyle rather than doing many specific targeted exercises...

( back in the mid 90's as a 19 year old my programme of 20 crunches before bed whilst enjoying too many Chinese takeaways each week, surprisingly didn't work :))

Any questions, please use the comments section...

Thanks,

Ed.




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