Question About Toning ^-^

CeriseDelice

CeriseDelice

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Hi! I am a little bit concerned with something. In most of my workout videos, all of the females are super toned and have lots of muscle definition. That's exactly what I don't want! I want to stay firm and nice of course, but I want really minimal muscle definition. I've started doing the Kettlenetics (the instructor, Michelle Khai is SO muscle - y! :s), but I'm worried that the kettlebell will make my arms too defined :s I want to look slim and soft <3
 
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Hi Cerise

Firstly I want to wish you all the very best for your training program and weight loss.

At the stage you are on your exercise program (if it your current ticker is correct) I wouldn't worry about have too much definition.

With the diet you will be on you will be having a calorie deficit, so that you will lose weight. The fact you have this deficit means that you wouldn't really be able to build much muscle, as for muscle building you would need a calorie excess. (This is why body builders eat so much food, to turn it into muscle).

You may wonder why you are doing weight training in the first place. The reason is two fold. One is that it is an exercise that will burn off calories. The other is that by weight training you will stop your muscles being consumed by your body, and instead the body will take your fat.

I hope that helps a bit. I'm not an expert but do like to read up about this things.
 
Oh! I don't need to build any more muscle, lol :s Doesn't fat burn off before muscle after the glycogen stores are expended or something like that?
 
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If you have a layer of fat at your ideal weight, you won't see the muscles the way you see it on the instructors. Truth told it is a pain in the butt to get that kind of definition, and if it happened to you by simply getting to your ideal weight then you have the kind of genetics people would want to pay for ;)

Or in other terms, don't sweat it! The reason they are so toned looking isn't because they built up lots of muscles - it's because they got rid of most of their fat. Keep the layer of fat and you won't see the muscles underneath.
 
Remember that to get muscle definition, you need to achieve a very low fat % that average people will never achieve in their life unless their genetics gave them that very low fat retaining frame. That is, even if you lift relatively heavy weights (i uses sometime 25 and 30 pounds for short series), you will never really be define. Girls in the DVDs are always so skinny, no wonder why we see all of their muscles (think about Billy Blank's daughter Shellie).

Good luck on your weight loss

Jen
 
Okay! I'm really happy all of this is true! I just assumed that because the video instructors are so extremely defined, it would just happen, lol. Whew!
 
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