How to Lose Fat Legs? Here's the Truth
- By Magrietha Du Plessis
- Published 04/22/2009
- Wellness, Fitness and Diet
- Unrated
With summer coming you are probably wondering how to lose fat legs. It is so easy for the fat to quietly build up under all those winter clothes. Now you are thinking about the summer, swimming and the beach. Does the though of appearing in you swimsuit send shivers down your spine? Well, help is here, read on.
What you have to keep in mind is, there are a few basics to the whole process:
* To lose fat legs you will have to lose weight all over
* You will also have do some exercise
1. Dieting to lose weight all over:
You cannot expect to lose any real amount of weight without following a diet. It is not possible to spot reduce when it comes to diet, that you will be doing with exercises. Unfortunately only exercises will not do the trick if you really have legs that need to lose a lot. If it is only a little, yes I agree, than you can do it with only exercises. For the rest of us, we have to diet!
2. There are a few things you have to keep in mind when you choose a diet:
Remember, in how to lose fat legs, you are going to have to do exercise. This implies that you should not try and follow a diet that forbids exercise. This may sound strange to you, but there are fad diets out there that are so low in calories that it is actually dangerous to do exercise. These diets contains so little calories, there is only enough for vital body organs and none to exercise. Please do not follow these diets, however desperate you are. Stick to a good one and you will see results in the end.
3. Suitable exercises:
The exercises that are needed fall into three gr
oups:
* Cardio training
* Resistance training (weights)
* Draining of lymph blockages
i) Cardio training:
This is actually very easy, anything that sends you heart rate up can be considered a cardio exercise. There are those that will do it faster than others, but it is more important that you enjoy it so you will be able to keep it up. Doing cardio exercises helps your body to burn fat and that includes your legs, of course!
Suitable exercises:
* Walking
* Running
* Cycling
* Rollerblading
* Any sports you enjoy
Look for ways you can easily add some of these activities to your daily routine. You have to make sure that you do at least 30 minutes a day. Try and send your heartbeat up to about 60% of it's maximum and you will burn more that when you press harder. This is very important to keep in mind. Killing yourself with the cardio is not going to speed things up; you may even lose valuable muscle.
ii) Resistance training:
Here you will be building muscle, and as muscle burns more energy than fat, it will speed things up a lot. Once again there are a lot of things you can easily do. Buy yourself a cheap set on ankle weights, and do some calf raises with them on. Change your walking to walking on an incline it you will be targeting the leg muscles at the same time you are doing your cardio.
iii) Draining of lymph blockages:
To drain all blockages and get thing flowing, the mini-trampoline is the best Jump on it for 2 minute bursts. The best is while watching television. An ad is normally about 2 minutes. Do this at intervals up to a total time of 20 minutes a day and you will not have to ask how to lose fat legs again.
What you have to keep in mind is, there are a few basics to the whole process:
* To lose fat legs you will have to lose weight all over
* You will also have do some exercise
1. Dieting to lose weight all over:
You cannot expect to lose any real amount of weight without following a diet. It is not possible to spot reduce when it comes to diet, that you will be doing with exercises. Unfortunately only exercises will not do the trick if you really have legs that need to lose a lot. If it is only a little, yes I agree, than you can do it with only exercises. For the rest of us, we have to diet!
2. There are a few things you have to keep in mind when you choose a diet:
Remember, in how to lose fat legs, you are going to have to do exercise. This implies that you should not try and follow a diet that forbids exercise. This may sound strange to you, but there are fad diets out there that are so low in calories that it is actually dangerous to do exercise. These diets contains so little calories, there is only enough for vital body organs and none to exercise. Please do not follow these diets, however desperate you are. Stick to a good one and you will see results in the end.
3. Suitable exercises:
The exercises that are needed fall into three gr
* Cardio training
* Resistance training (weights)
* Draining of lymph blockages
i) Cardio training:
This is actually very easy, anything that sends you heart rate up can be considered a cardio exercise. There are those that will do it faster than others, but it is more important that you enjoy it so you will be able to keep it up. Doing cardio exercises helps your body to burn fat and that includes your legs, of course!
Suitable exercises:
* Walking
* Running
* Cycling
* Rollerblading
* Any sports you enjoy
Look for ways you can easily add some of these activities to your daily routine. You have to make sure that you do at least 30 minutes a day. Try and send your heartbeat up to about 60% of it's maximum and you will burn more that when you press harder. This is very important to keep in mind. Killing yourself with the cardio is not going to speed things up; you may even lose valuable muscle.
ii) Resistance training:
Here you will be building muscle, and as muscle burns more energy than fat, it will speed things up a lot. Once again there are a lot of things you can easily do. Buy yourself a cheap set on ankle weights, and do some calf raises with them on. Change your walking to walking on an incline it you will be targeting the leg muscles at the same time you are doing your cardio.
iii) Draining of lymph blockages:
To drain all blockages and get thing flowing, the mini-trampoline is the best Jump on it for 2 minute bursts. The best is while watching television. An ad is normally about 2 minutes. Do this at intervals up to a total time of 20 minutes a day and you will not have to ask how to lose fat legs again.
Magrietha Du Plessis
Get hold of a good diet and you are halfway there already. Add the exercises and you will get rid of fat legs in time for this summer. Have a look at Magriet's site How To Lose Weight Calories for all the info on a good weight loss diet.
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