Well besides my tummy which I am working on with diet cardio and crunches my arm's are the 2nd thing that are in poor shape.I bought me a ton cuite muscle shirts when I start walking the floodwall when it get's hot and basicallt just to wear,but I am telling you the back of my arms are very flabby in a bad noticible way and to draw more attention to the back of my arms/underarm I have 2 moles there that eventually I will have removed.
But I feel the need to work on them as well as the rest of my body.
I do squats and lunges for my inner thighs yep another place I don't like.I just feel walking alone will help tremndously with weightloss but not to get rid of arm,thigh,tummy problems??? Tammy
This is what I was getting at.
You can't train a certain area of your body with weights and expect it to improve. Let me try and explain this.
Fat does not turn into muscle. There is no such thing as toning. Weight training either builds muscle or it doesn't. Fat will always lie on top of the muscles. If you want a thinner arm or you want to have that defined look, you must lose the fat. If you want to lose the fat, you have to be in a consistent energy deficit.
Why train with weights? Well, this serves the function of muscle maintenance. Ya see, when you create an energy deficit through exercise and nutrition, your body makes up for this deficit by expending (catabolizing) tissue (muscle and fat). However, you want to hold onto as much muscle as possible during an energy deficit. To aid in muscle maintenance, we train with weights. Follow me?
So many people do what you are doing. They say, my belly is fat, so I am going to do a lot of crunches and ab work. Or my arms are flabby, so I am going to do a lot of tricep work. Or my thighs are fat, so I am going to do tons of leg work. Why though?
The fat is what you don't like and weight training really doesn't play a role in losing that fat directly, at least in the sense that you are thinking. Weight training works your musculature.
My best advice I can give you is ditch these types of exercises and start doing compound exercises that involve multiple joints and muscle groups. Think squats, different variations of deadlifts, bench press, rows, pulldowns, standing overhead dumbbell press.... these are the exercises that are going to give you the most bang for your buck and aid in muscle maintenance most optimally.
Am I making sense to you at all?
I should also add this. You don't get to pick where your body loses fat from. It does it for you in a genetically predetermined manner. Sad, but true. And normally your problem areas, the areas where fat accumulates first and the most, is the last place it will come off. I like to say, last on, first off. First on, last off.
Awwww your a sweetheart! All's I can say so far it's only been a few day's and under my armpitt's are sore lol. I guess after a week or so I will hopefully notice but for now I can say sore is the key word.
