Your Path Towards A Firmer Figure
Any dedication to a healthier lifestyle and a more disciplined approach to how you treat your body is to be applauded. However, if you’re targeting specific goals, then you need to get specific with how you reach them, as well. If you’re looking for a firmer body, one that’s a little more toned and tight, then there are strategies that can help you get there. Here are just a few of them.
It’s not just about weight control
You might think that you have a toned body waiting under what layers of soft fat you have on the surface. However, if you only lose weight, you might just get skinnier. To be toned means that you have to work on toning your muscles. You don’t need to lift weights every day to achieve this (though that can certainly work), you can tone your muscles just as easily with body weight and resistance band exercises you can do in your own home. However, if you neglect your muscle, you’re never going to get the tight, supple figure you’re looking for.
Make cardio more intense
Cardio is still important, even if strength training is vital. If you haven’t been exercising for some time, then be sure to take it easy and gradually increase the amount of exercise you get each week with the help of an exercise tracking app. Once you start to get used to steady cardio, however, you should start to move towards high-intensity interval training. This is both much more effective at burning fat and at building the muscle of the areas affected by the workouts, too.
Taking care of the sag
As we get a little older, one of the things that can stop us from being as toned as we like is sagging areas of skin. There are various ways to approach these. Retinol creams and lotions that use ingredients like hyaluronic acid can be very effective when used consistently over the long-term and short-term approaches like a breast lift with augmentation can help you target specific problem areas, too. Gravity is always going to win out, but the tips above can help you prolong that fight.
Getting lean with your diet
There are a few important approaches to your diet when it comes to trying to tone your body. It looks a lot like the kind of diet you might need to lose weight, but with a few key differences. If you’re trying to build muscle, you still want to reduce unsaturated fats, sugars, and simple carbohydrates. However, you want to make sure you eat plenty of lean protein, as well as fruit and vegetables. Typically, you want to eat more calories than you would to maintain your weight, you just want to make sure those calories come from the right places.
There are several approaches to getting toned, and hopefully, the tips above can help you find the strategies that work for you. You don’t need to break your back at the gym nor eat only one lentil a day, but some changes to diet and exercise will be necessary.
