More free personalized fitness advice from MikesFitness. com!
More free personalized fitness advice from MikesFitness. com!
(PRWEB) September 6, 2005
QUESTION: Dear Mike, I want to know the best way to get rid of muscle on my arms and legs. I look like a have a mans body. Can you tell me also what to eat that would also help. I heard turkey helps. Please help
ANSWER: Since you're a woman it's very very unlikely that what you have is excessive amount of muscle. Instead you almost certainly have significant amounts of fat on upper legs and arms covering the muscle. You can test for your self -- flex the muscle and see how much soft tissue that you can pinch is on top of it. All that's soft and pinchable is fat, not muscle.
So your objective should be to lose all that fat. Your two biggest allies in losing that fat are a good diet and the muscles themselves!
A good diet means more than just eating one healthy food. Even if turkey was the greatest fat-burner known to man, by itself it would do nothing if the rest of your diet was junk. So you need to start thinking in terms of your whole diet, not any one food. Check out the 'How to Lose Fat' section of my Fitness Tips or, for a complete daily diet suggestion, fill out the Fitness Guide specifying 'Lose Fat' as your goal.
Besides having a good diet, the best thing you can do to help your body lose fat is engage in heavy whole-body weight training. Don't get scared that it'll make your muscles even bigger! As I said your problem is not in your muscles, but in the fat around them. And heavy weight training by itself will not make your muscles bigger AS LONG AS YOU'RE LOSING WEIGHT! That good diet I described before should ensure that you're losing weight, around 1-2 pounds/week. Do that along with weight training and you'll see the extra fat disappear and instead of having a big man's body you'll have a very feminine body with slight muscle tone. It's not going to happen overnight, of course, but in a few months the progress will be obvious and in a year or perhaps two you will have achieved the kind of physique you truly want.
So once again, change your whole diet, not just one food, and strongly consider starting weight training. The Fitness Guide will suggest a gym-based weight-training program and you can choose from it or from two programs you can do at home with minimal equipment that you can find on www. mikesfitness. com. Those home programs won't give you quite the results of a gym program, but they're certainly much better than not exercising at all. Good luck!
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