Your Eight Week Summer Slim down! Get Started!

This eight-week Summer Slimdown is designed to work. It's not difficult to follow, but you will need to make some adjustments in your lifestyle. Exercise and eating healthy food play a major role in this program. Getting accustomed to changes begins in week one. Are you ready? Good. Let's get started!
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How Much Should I Lose?

Research has shown that it's generally considered safe to lose two pounds per week when on a weight-loss plan. Losing more than two pounds will put you at risk of losing muscle tissue, which you do not want to do for at least two reasons. Depriving yourself of too many calories and causing a loss of muscle tissue is not healthy.

The fancy or technical word for that is called starvation. Never follow a plan that boastfully claims you can lose more than two pounds per week. If you drop five pounds in one week but waste away three pounds of muscle in the process, what good is that? Fat loss should be the goal. Not muscle loss.

The second reason for keeping your muscle intact is that the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn during the day-even while you're resting. In other words, extra muscle speeds up your metabolism so you can eat more during the day without extra weight gain.

To effectively stimulate muscle toning, progressive resistance training should be implemented. That means you need to lift weights about three days per week. Train your upper body one day and rest the next.

The following day, train your lower body and abs. Rest another day and then repeat the cycle.

Keep your workouts between 30 and 45 minutes. Train at a quick pace with minimal rest in between sets. Pick two to three exercises per bodypart and perform about three sets of 10 to 12 repetitions. If you can do more than 12 reps, the weight is too light. Add weight. Don't baby yourself and just go through the motions.
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