Exercise for Muffin Top

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites

Answers to Diet Bites Health Quiz, Burning Fat & Creating Muscle Via Exercise : CORRECT!

Making Muscles to Fight Unsightly Muffin Top

Exercise burns calories and creates muscle. It takes more calories to support muscle than fat - therefore the more muscle mass that you have, the more calories that you can consume to support such.

While the ability to eat more calories is certainly a bonus, so are those spectacular muscles. They can work to rid the body of 'Muffin Top' - that unsightly 'overspill' that flows over jeans, skirts and other clothing when the bottom of the body is girthed to hide fat.

Excess body fat is much like a push-up ice cream bar. When apparatuses are used to flatten the excess fat, what isn't in the apparatus spills over it. Thus, Muffin Top.

Tips & Exercise to Reduce Muffin Top

Losing weight will be the best method for not only reducing the appearance of Muffin Top issues - but will also erase it completely. The same applies to Love Handles. Wearing dark colors as well as clothing that doesn't bind are also great solutions for hiding Muffin Top.

The best exercises for this area include: situps, and doing windmills [where you bend the waist and touch the toes]. If you haven't exercised in quite some time, start out slow and build up or risk being very sore the following day.

Methods of Hiding Excess Fat Have Been Around for Ages

Up until the late 1900's girdles were advertised on television as a means for flattening the tummy. Beauty queen Jane Russell was the spokesperson for the Playtex Living Girdle. I remember every female in my family having one at the time. I was only a kid, yet I wanted one too.

Before the 'living girdle' there were corsets which penned-down the fat. Because these were worn on the top part of the body, they actually did more to conceal Muffin Top than the more modernized girdles.

And in today's world, American women have become so fat that body suits which conceal excess body fat are being sold.

Exercise Burns Calories, Creates Muscle & Faster Metabolism

Exercise is extremely vital, extremely beneficial to our overall health. However, not many people who are into the exercise craze can eat anything and everything they want.

Exercise and daily diet work together to balance body weight.

Calories into the body equals energy; calories burned amid activity and exercise equals energy spent. But we can only burn so many calories per day through activity and exercise.

How do the excess calories get processed when they do not exceed our recommended caloric intake?

They get burned by the body as it works to complete our daily functions. When we walk we burn calories - when we talk, rest and even sleep we burn calories. The body is in continual need of energy (calories) in order to survive.

Exercise & Activity for Weight Loss Results

Although exercise helps tremendously with 'the energy burn' it cannot possibly burn off thousands of calories per day, something that an average person could achieve if they were so inclined - particularly amid the holiday season.

A few slices of pie here, a few chunks of candy there, a glob of cake there - not to mention all the holiday meal fixings like turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes and candied yams.

While one food may be innocent in caloric content - or hold minimal caloric content, when combined with many food choices, including healthy food choices, weight gain is the response by the body when caloric intake exceeds caloric needs for current weight.

Other benefits of exercise and activity include a toned body. If you have a substantial amount of weight to lose, exercise can assist in alleviating or lessening skin sag.

Exercise also creates a stronger metabolism which can speed the rate of weight loss when working at full efficiency.

How much should you exercise for healthy benefits - as well as to reducing Muffin Top issues?

If you have more than 50 pounds to lose it's wise to get your doctor's approval before starting an exercise routine. You may think, "Why? I'm just sitting most of the day as things are and by moving I'll be improving my health. How could moving possibly be worse than sitting all day?"

Because the body isn't used to activity it may feel strained and over-taxed at the beginning of the activity routine. In addition, hidden health conditions may be lurking.

While an unhealthy heart worked fine at rest, when activity is added to the equation it may be too much for the heart to handle. And of course, the more an individual weighs, the higher the risk of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and all those other lovely diseases that are just waiting to get us.

Therefore, it's also wise to seek professional guidance and to rule out hidden conditions before going full steam ahead.

Starting out slow and building as time goes by is also essential for developing an exercise routine that will produce steady results without over-taxing the new dieter. With patience and respect for your body, you'll soon be moving at full speed ahead!

Anything that is worthwhile in life is worth investing a little time into, isn't it? And that certainly applies to losing weight - and to accomplish such in a healthy manner equals a plus to your state of health rather than a negative which is always associated with plans that attempt to pull off those pounds too quickly, leaving the dieter in poorer condition than their pre-diet phase.

 

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