Look Like a Lady, Train Like a Man
Part 2: Fixing Stubborn Fat Areas
The majority of people in the world, are struggling to reach their fitness goals. I believe throughout one's dieting journey, the average person will try over 3 fad diets. Whether you choose low-fat diets, low-carb diets, or the Twinkie diet highlighted by Mark Haub, a professor at Kansas State University, you have probably tried it all and gotten nowhere.
Displacement in Weight Loss
So many of us have struggled to keep our weight where we want it. We go on diets for a few months, only to rebound and get right back to where we started or even further behind. The issue may be further than how much you are putting in, but what specifically.
End the Back and Forth
Specific hormonal imbalances can not only lead to the weight gain, but can also determine where you store the majority of the fat. This is a difficult issue to understand because the way hormones interfere with each other in the body.For example, the effect of insulin in the body when catecholamines (neurotransmitters that stimulate adrenaline and dopamine: common sources coffee, green tea, and dark chocolate) are present. If insulin is high and so are catecholamines, insulin's effect can be blunted. However, if insulin is high while catecholamines are low, the effect of insulin can act unhindered.
Belly-Fat
Cortisol: High cortisol levels can stimulate your body to store more fat in your belly, this is often diagnosed as metabolic syndrome . Counter: To counter the effects of cortisol, you should make sleeping a priority, increasing to at least 8 hours. Other factors that can benefit this are cutting down on alcohol, and implementing consistent resistance training, keep it short, and intense. Please Please, avoid long bouts of cardio.Lower-Back and Love Handles
Insulin: This area is most often attributed to the mismanagement of carbohydrates and glucose. Counter: Obvious remedies for this are cutting down on carbohydrates, but on a hormonal level it is wise to pair this with a strength training regimen to improve insulin sensitivity. For more on improving insulin you should look to either carbnite or carb backloading made popular by Kiefer.Store Fat in your Lower Body, or Tricep Area?
Estrogen: This is an area that few men, outside of the obese suffer from. However, this is very common in women. Estrogen has a way of storing extra fat on women, mainly on the back of the arms, in the legs, hips and in the chest area. Not the chest area you want either, mainly in the side pec to armpit area. Counter: For women, this is a very tough area to reduce, due to your role in nature, your bodies have adapted to holding on to more fat for childbirth. You can see these areas improved with stimulation of testosterone or growth hormone. Ways to improve growth hormone secretion are fasting in the morning, lactic-acid training (slow-reps) and getting plenty of sleep.
Growth Hormone Side Note:
Growth hormone is released when you sleep, but only when your blood glucose is back to a stable level. Using Carb Backloading can help you use G.H. and proper insulin management to bust through fat loss plateaus and into a much leaner physique.
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Information Gathered from http://www.metaboliceffect.com/hormonal-body-fat-signatures/
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