subject: Eliminate Your Cellulite Now - 5 Impressive Exercise Routines [print this page] If you are one of the many women (and men) who have gained a couple of extra pounds due to over-indulgence in festive goodies, don't feel lonely. Unfortunately, those 5-10 lbs are pretty apparent, in the form of cellulite. Nonetheless, there exists a few tested methods of minimizing the ugly dimpled appearance of your skin. There are various methods to eliminate the cellulite problem and among them physical exercises are found to be extremely effective. In just four short weeks, you can actually notice visible improvement by following a predesigned exercise program that targets your cellulite problem areas; such as your thighs, belly and buttocks.
Most folks don't really enjoy exercise, which is regrettable, because it is such a great way to support good health, to boost your stamina and get rid of those unsightly cottage cheese look of cellulite. No matter what your activity and fitness levels are, there are numerous toning, strengthening and aerobic exercises which could be tailor-made for you because you endeavor to rapidly eliminate your nasty cellulite. Here's why:
1. In general, strength training and stretching workouts are effective as cellulite exercises as they strengthen, tone and increase your muscles, which has a smoothing effect which can camouflage dimpled appearance of cellulite. This includes moderate weightlifting, resistance training and yoga, among others. Aerobic exercises, like hiking, biking, swimming and jogging, help to minimize cellulite by burning the extra fat stored under the skin layers.
2. Physical exercises which effectively target the areas of your body where cellulite accumulation is predominant include step workouts, knee and leg lifts, chair-hip lifts, inner thigh movements, and bend over exercises. Cellulite on the arms can be attacked successfully using weight lifting exercises, which is done in conjunction with movements like tricep lifts, extensions and kickbacks as well as bench dips. Aerobic physical exercises are comprised of swimming, jogging,hiking, biking, step dance routines, and various running sports like tennis. The most basic cardiovascular cellulite reduction activity is walking. The efficacy of walking routines can be maximized tri-fold with the application of interval training techniques.; which will be further defined later on in this article.
3. Cellulite exercises for the butt area work the largest muscle groups in the human body. The buttocks, aka gluteal region, are typically characterized by large fat deposits - aka cellulite fat. Therefore if you are looking for ways to remove cellulite from your body then you need to work on these muscle groups, since these will burn the most fat and affect the most visible results. The gluteal muscles are also critical to assisting other muscle tissues in the hips and outer thighs to work properly. The greater your efforts in strengthening and toning this muscle group, the better your overall success will be in minimizing cellulite from the hips and thighs. The best exercise which targets the gluteal muscles is gluteal lift. Lie down on the floor facing the ceiling with one leg flat on the floor, bend the other leg making sure that your heel is resting on the ground but your toes are pointing up. Push that heel into the floor while raising your hips and straight leg off the ground. Hold and come back to the original position. This needs to be done for up to 15- 20 repetitions, then switch sides. After a couple of days, you might find this exercises relatively easy to perform, so you can add another set of 15-20 repetitions to make it more challenging. Doing this exercises every alternative day for a couple of weeks will show visible tightening, lifting and toning of the buttocks.
4. Simple physical workouts tools such as rubber stretch bands and light dumbbells can enable you to target upper arm cellulite more efficiently, and may be obtained at your nearby sporting goods retailer. Selecting the dumbbells is a very important step where you need to make sure that you are able to perform the exercise in a comfortable manner. Start with 4-5 lbs. You can always increase if that's not a challenging weight. Ask a friend to spot you at first, to prevent injury. Lie down face up on a bench while grasping the dumbbell in and overhand grip. The dumbbells should be held at a 90 degree angle to the floor, making sure that your elbows are straight. The next move is to lower the dumbbells slowly towards your head and you can bend your arms while doing so. As the weight comes closer to your head, move your elbows out of the way to enable the weight to go down behind the top of your head. Hold and get your arms back to the original position slowly. This completes one rep. Repeat the exercise for about 12-15 reps on every alternate days. You can add more sets of repetitions as you get comfortable with it.
5. With the correct physical exercises, you can actually minimize abdominal cellulite and develop a smoother, firmer stomach, just like you've always dreamed of. Interval walking is one of the best ways to reduce stomach cellulite, get rid of extra weight and tone the abdominal muscles. A walking program for cellulite exercises doesn't require a great deal of athletic ability, in fact any person who intends to start with a regular exercises program should start with walking. However, due to the overload principle of exercise science, to be able to get sustained improvement in exercise targets, it is necessary to continually raise the amount of physical stress. So even though in the beginning, you acquire visible results from a moderate pace, after sometime, the benefits from walking seem to level off, unless you constantly raise the stress which walking could produce on your muscle tissues. Your main intention is to burn off the extra calories continuously. To sustain your body in that calorie burning mode and to enhance the effects of the walking exercises further, you need to alternate rapid spurts of walking with moderate and easy bouts. Walk off weight programs involve altering the length of your workout as well. These programs can yield noticeable results in as little as 30 days, and dramatic results after a couple of months of interval training for a minimum of 45 minutes a day 5 to 6 days per week.
If you really want to get rid of cellulite and lose those extra holiday pounds, these exercise programs help you accomplish those goals while increasing vitality and supporting a healthy lifestyle. But, they will only work as long as you work them. If you resume a sedentary or over indulgent lifestyle, your cellulite will return. It is much easier to prevent cellulite than to get rid of it. So plan on following a comprehensive maintenance plan once you've eliminated your cellulite, to keep it off forever!
