Question by : is there a such thing as the contour ( ab belt ) thats for .00 ?
So someone tells me that this belt a workout belt for abs called the contour only for 20 bucks but i don’t think so… So do you know of any other belt to work out abs similar to this one that is 20 bucks?

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Answer by Betty B
I can’t believe that scam is still going on.

I fell for it 30 years ago! I should have given my money to a beggar; at least it would have made me feel better for a minute instead of just feel stupid for the rest of my life.

You want abs…do crunches, those are free. If you can’t see them, lose the fat on top of them.

Abs belts are the best scam because even if they don’t produce any results, you still feel like they’re working because you get a minimal gentle electric shock, big enough to feel your muscle contract and give you the impression that something is happening and you’ll get toned.

It’s like somebody with sagging skin, pulling it tight, releasing, pulling it tight again and then expecting tight skin!

To build up muscle mass, you need a connection between your brain and your muscle, then you need to go beyond your limit (just a tiny bit) until you feel the burn, then you need to rest long enough (1 to 5 days) in order for your muscle to repair stronger.

The little electric shock of abs belt is just a joke and will never make you sore, for sure.

If you want to look like the muscular models, who really spend hours on gym weight machines (it’s their job), then you need to spend hours on gym machines.

When I got rid of my useless Slendertone and gave it to charity, they even gave me that look…the “we’re not a garbage can” look! It is one thing to have people spend $ 100 on a useless piece of crap (I got the top of the line), but it’s another thing to try to raise money and sell it for $ 3 to poor people because a gallon of milk would have been more useful to them. I learned my lesson with a lot of money and my discarded junk enabled somebody living in a trailer to learn her lesson for $ 3. It’s the same lesson. Everybody needs to learn from their mistakes.

I think there is a special little place in Hell for all those athletic models, working out all day long at the gym and then getting a gig to advertise a useless piece of exercise thinamaging…Even naturally very thin girls, not even athletic are advertising for weight loss pills. I remember once about a mother going on a rampage and killing diet pills models because her daughter died trying to look like them.

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For the contour, $ 15 or $ 20 is just for a “free trial” that covers the S&H for a month. Then you have to cough up $ 199.80 (not quite $ 200, haha). As P.T. Barnum said…“There’s a sucker born every minute”.

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Question by : Should I do upper body workout if Im still sore?
Okay. I did an intense upper body workout monday morning and its tuesday evening. Im still really sore, especially my pecs, biceps, triceps, and abs. Im wondering if I should go into the gym tomorrow and go at it again or give it another day. My goal is to build muscle, not necessarily be comfortable.

thanks!

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Answer by Drew
you shouldnt over workout your muscles, they can take up to 5 days to repair, what i would suggest is to workout different parts of your body like your back and legs, but dont always constantly workout the same parts, if they arent sore the next day it should be fine, but if you overworkout when your sore you can damage your muscles and it will take them longer to repair

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Question by Ben: Check out my workout and help me out..?
We’ll me and my brother workout every single day for the past couple months.. We’ve pretty much perfected our workouts.. He’res our workout schedule

BEN – Monday – Chest Triceps Shrugs – Dumbell Bench, Dumbell Flys, Incline, Decline, Flat… PUSHUPS.. Tricep Bench, Tricep Pulldowns, Dips and Shrugs

NICK – Tuesday – Shoulders Back Biceps – Pullups, Pulldowns, Dumbell Press, Crosspull, Curls for the girls, Sitting right there and do those pullback things

BEN – Wednesday – Legs Abs – Squats – *Hamstrings – Calfs – Crunch Machine – Obliques – Ab Straps – Leg Lifts.

6:00 AM – Every Day

Sundays – OFF

I just copied and pasted our schedule.. Ben And Nick just means who’s day it is to wake each other up. So, i’m 15 my brothers 18.. I drink way protein after every singe workout.. Sometimes Muscle Milk..

Anyways.. The point is i’ve gained muscle.. My veins are popping out allot more.. But i’m still over weight around 10 pounds i’m 5-11 – 6ft. Weigh 175 pounds and i’m 15.. Apearentley im suppose to hit like 6-4′.. Anyways i wanna lose those 10 – 12 pounds.. So.. I’m going vegan for 30 days.. No dairy no meat.. No animal product.. I cut out all dairy except for my protein.. And i have rice protein i might use..

So… Do you think in those 30 days i can lose 10-12 pounds.. Vegan diet.. No offense i don’t care about the animals.. Just what i put into my body..

Plus i have allot of family that are vegan.. Aunts.. One sister an uncle..
The Schedule just repeats itself Thur, Fri ,Sat
Dude, comon you make it sound like im retarded my buddy who’s a trainer.. I work with him.. He has proven results.. And yes my muscle’s are still sore…. After the couple days not always.. And our mod-do is. ‘Go until failure’ .. And i do cardio everyday i run one mile everyday.

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Answer by use my shoe
Not bad. Better–Go with that chest and tri monday, move the legs to tuesday, do back and bicep wed, do only cardio thurs, do your shoulders and arms fri, do legs and abs sat (maybe). The only problem i see is that you shouldn’t be ready to do a workout on the same body part twice a week like that (unless you’re supplementing with steroids which is horrible, don’t do that.) and, you’re not doing any cardio? you should do cardio to condition the cardiovascular and that will improve your weightlifting too. if you’re doing the workouts right, you should be too sore for a couple of days afterward to get another effective workout in. no pain no gain isn’t really true, but you should work your muscles until they can’t go any more at all, and then your brother should help you pump out a couple more reps after that—it’s the overload that makes your muscles grow. and after you overload, you should feel it for a couple of days. you shouldn’t workout unless your muscles are rested and ready to go. you two are young, so don’t go wasting money on all that crap—protein supplements or muscle milk. you boys have plenty of testosterone at your age, you don’t need anything else. the only thing you need after a workout is a glass or two of milk. but don’t go crazy on protein. it produces a toxic byproduct when it’s broken down, and your body can’t use extra amounts anyways. it’s like saying, “gee, i want bigger, stronger bones, so i’ll take 100000milligrams of calcium every day and it will make my skeleton grow!” that’s ridiculous, you will get kidney stones and other horrible side effects. same with protein. some is good, too much is not better, it’s way worse. i don’t know when or why people started thinking that increasing protein increases muscle mass, i assure you it does not. no one who knows about nutrition would tell you to increase your protein just because you’re working out a lot. they would tell you to increase carbs because carbs provide more usable energy, and the byproduct of glycolysis isn’t toxic like the ammonia that comes from protein that’s broken down. people who tell you to supplement with anything are trying to sell you something you don’t need. you need milk. it has casein and whey, the two best proteins for muscle building, but you still only need 15% of your kcalories in a day to come from protein. any more is a waste and actually harmful, i can’t stress that enough. good luck!

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Question by Big Bob: Is it ok to work out your abs if they are still sore from the last ab workout?
I’m on the P90X workout program and it says to do the ab work out every other day. I worked them out on sunday and now it is tuesday and they are still sore. Is it ok to still work them out?

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Answer by Katie
Yeah, aslong as you give them atleast a day of rest, be sure to stretch really well every day of the week, before exercise and on the rest day as well to help loosen up the muscles so they arent so sore.

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Question by Adam: Summer Workouts For Teenage Men (Abs)?
You’ve seen this question a million times I’m sure, but if you could please help a clueless guy out!!!

I want abs! Doesn’t everybody?

Here is my information:

Age: 15
Height:6 3′
Pounds:157

I do work out for an hour in the school fitness center, but that equipment wont be available during the summer.

Okay, I have 26% body fat, now I’m not asking for abs by the end of the week, but by the end of the summer I would like to have a flat stomach.
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I drink Pop about 3 times a week.
I drink mainly water or Milk (blue cap, whatever that is)
I don’t eat breakfest, I have small Lunches, and an average dinner.
Another problem I feel I have is that I’m always munching!

What do I do?
What do I eat?

How do I workout? When I ask this people say do this and that with reps.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!

How many sit ups and crunches should I do, can you give me a step by step workout?

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Answer by B
your to thin, dont drink pop, always eat breakfast, munching is very good.
reps are the number of times you go up and down in an exersizes. say you do 10 pushups, then it was 10 reps. say you do 20 pullups, then it was 20 reps. say you do 10pushups, take a break, the break could last seconds or hours. say you do 10 pushups, take a break for 20seconds, then do another 10 pushups, then take a 3min break, then do another 10 pushups. that would have been 3 sets of 10 reps.

Measure your food and make a food journal. At least do it for one day. Make a chart, write down each food, how much calories was in it, fat, sugar, sodium… for the amount you ate. Then at the end of the day, add up all the fats, sugars, sodium, calories… to see the total for the day. Don’t count the sugar in fruits and veggies, only count added sugars.
45 to 65 percent of your calories should come from complex carbohydrates, 20 to 35 percent should come from fat, and 10 to 35 percent from protein.
Eat healthy varieties of 2cup fruits, 3cup veggies, grains (make ½+ of your grains, whole grains) 4-8oz, meats/raw nuts/beans 6.5oz, dairy3cups. 6+ meals, 2-3hours apart. Eat 1gram protein times your body weight. So if you weigh 100lbs, you eat 100grams protein daily. Drink 2+cups water per hour.
Added Sugar= no more then 10 teaspoons (40grams) of sugar at 2000cal diet per day. No more then 15teaspoons (60grams) of sugar at 2500cal diet per day. 1teaspoon=4grams and 16 calories of sugar.
No more then 2.3g salt a day. (2300mg)(1 teaspoon of table/iodized salt)
Fat= 20-35%of calories. 73g 2200cal diet, 93g 2800cal diet. Multiply day’s cals by .30 for cals from fat/day. 2200cal times .30=660cals from fat. Divide cal from fat per day by 9(each gram fat has 9cal) to get g of fat /day. 660cal from fat divide by 9=73. Total fat 65g for 2000cal/day. 80g total fat for 2500cal/day.
Saturated fat less then 10% of cals. 20-g for 2000cal/day. 25-g for 2500/day.
Cholesterol less then daily value 300mg/day on nutrition facts.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/ =this will help you for things you eat that don’t have nutrition facts.

http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/index.html

Lift heavy weights 3 days a week. Different muscle group each day. Cardio 3-7days a week. Warm up 5+min. then, stretch 5+mins, then do high intensity cardio(like sprinting) 1hour, or heavy weights/intense body weight exercises, for 50min-1hour, then stretch for 1+hour. do sets until failure, do bout 2-10reps and bout 4 sets, if you can do more then you need heavier weights. If you are unable to do full range of motion in the exercise, then the weight is too heavy. Increase intensity for each workout. Eat pre and post workout meal, each of 250+cal.
Its good to have sore muscles the next day, the pain may last a week+. Work the muscle hard one day, and then give it a week to repair and grow. If the muscles are not in pain, then work it. If the muscle is in pain from the previous day-week, then don’t work it. Warm up 5+ min, then stretch the sore muscles, along with whole body, 1+hour a day, but don’t do intense exercises that would over work the sore muscles.
Do at least 5+min of cardio/warm up exercises per hour. Don’t lock your joints during exercises, keep knees slightly bend, do exercises slowly and focus on form. If you feel joint pain, then stop, recheck your form, if you still feel joint pain, then stop and give yourself a rest.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/tools/calories-burned tells u how many cals to eat. add 100-500cals to gain muscles, subtract 100-500 to loose fat.
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc doesn’t count bmr
Bmr http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

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