Your Gym Routine

[Will]

Originally Posted by Will

Excessive fat below the belly button is excessive cortisol, love handles are owing to insulin, and thighs, chest and hams are owing to and oestrogen imbalance. If you look into addressing those issues they'll help.

Following on from that a good way of lowering the fat around the hips, legs and chest believe it or not (oh and the bum) is as follows and is all due to oestrogens (there numerous oestrogens) imbalance:

Must Supplement to help:
Take DIM (http://www.dimfaq.com/site/toc.htm). The lower limbs on ladies is estrogen dominated but affects men too believe it or not.

Specific Exercises:
6 sessions of Lunges (BWx12 reps, then add DBs), then 6 sessions of Split Squats (3-4 secs eccentric, BW first then DBs), then repeat like that.

Lunges will hit the lower glutes more, and Splits will hit the inner thighs more (plus the rest of the legs, but the 2 aforementioned areas are the top ones).

Other Exercises:
ATG Front & Back Squats, RDLs.



I'm sure Roberta will have some comments/suggestions. What do the girls think of that? I asked some friends at the gym what their other halves did exercise wise to hit "trouble" spots which I know a lot of ladies seem to have issues with.

Please don't take this comment as anything but advice it doesn't imply I mean anything - just trying to help.

Similarly with the love handle and bellow the belly button fat is insulin/cortisol affected so taking supplements which counter act those two will help, and that's for men especially.

[Roberta]

To be honest I've found the best way to lower fat in all areas is running. I would definitely balance that with a good weight training programme though, and the exercises you've chosen are what I would have picked too. I'd also add in some core strengthening moves (plank, sideplank, prone swimming, swandive and scissors in particular) as I'm big on core work.

[Piggymon]

5K PB, now 35:30 ! Also got my 2.4K PB down to 15:27 this week ... I've knocked 10 mins off the 5K and 5 mins off the 2.4K since starting training with Rich

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!! \o/

Going to buy some 14oz gloves for boxing today

[Belmit]

Just weighed myself after the gym. 60.2KG! That's a half stone lost in the last three months. Started back on resistance training on Monday and boy have I been aching this week!

[Will]

That's good going Chris Well done!

[SidewinderINC]

Originally Posted by SidewinderINC

My entire arm is only 12" around, that's just depressing heh.


No other stats for now, maybe later

Since posting this, I'm now up at 13.5"

[BBx]

Three weeks of holidays and no exercise come back to bite me on the ass!

In those weeks I tried my best to eat healthily (to a certain extent not easy though with so much yummeh foods!) and I went swimming twice and the gym once (my cousin has a gym and roof with infinity pool at her condo... AMAZING!!!)

So now I have a month to my next holiday which is a proper sunworship hol so am back on it!

Going to aim to run at least three times a week, go to body pump and either combat or attack once a week too. Eating as much salad, fruit (after my holiday I realise how tasteless the fruit is here ) and not so much carbos.

We are also looking for a Kickboxing class... my gym used to do a social one, but no longer... darn it!

Anyway thats my update... thank goodness for lighter evenings - its quite nice to run outside instead of on a sweaty treadmill (even if it is polluted London).

BB x

[Pheebs]

I haven't been to the gym this week due to being a complete moose pie with my burnt legs (could barely move them without wincing - let alone run/squat etc!)

I am going in again in a min and gonna work my buuuuuuuttocks off!

Speaking of buttocks, mines smaller I am sure. Not by loooads but I can tell in different clothes I can also feel the difference around my waist I should probably measure it all and see what differences there are.

*yaaaaaaaay*

I think I'm on the same level of what I do as you Mei mei! Running and gymming 3 times a week, walking the dog everyday for 30-40mins (when I say walking I proper pace it out and run about and things - I'm generally more knackered than she is half way through!) and healthy eating! Nom nom nom nom! So happy strawberrys and melons and pineapples are about

[Matblack]

I've done my HIIT for the last three mornings and been eating much much better, more but smaller meals and moving from white; bread, rice, pasta to brown versions which are much better

And its having an effect, the weight is coming off

MB

[Roberta]

My strength is coming up! I can now do a basic Flag. This move is easy for men due their greater upper body strength but hard going for women!