I've recently started back training properly and have just gone through the wake up the muscle phase so i will be moving into doing different muscles on different days. My problem is ever since i was young i've always had big quads and more ass than a little bit and no matter how much i train i could never really trim them down.
Now bear in mind i didn't really know much about regimes or specific training when i was younger i just went to keep in shape and keep my cardio up.
Does anyone have any pointers for weight loss on my Upper legs and in particular my Buns.
Thanks In Advance
You can decrease your body fat - through dietary manipulation and exercise and you can lose the portion you desire but you dont have the choice where it comes off as you move forward with your goal, but it WILL come off if your faithful with diet and excercise.
I am going to post this article for you to read to give you an idea.
Source:
Ask the Experts: Can I Spot Reduce During Exercise? on MedicineNet.com
Why cant we spot reduce?
This is an important question and one I'm frequently asked. You need to know a little bit of biology to understand the answer. Here's what you need to know. Fat is stored in special cells located all over your body called adipocytes. Adipocytes grow and shrink as they store and release fat, much like a balloon grows and shrinks as air is blown in and released. You gain weight when you pump up your adipocytes with fat by consuming more calories than you burn (excess calories can get stored as fat). You lose weight when your adipocytes release fat into the blood stream and shrink, either in response to exercise (exercise sends a signal to adipocytes to release fat) or when you reduce your calorie intake to the point where you are burning more than you consume. Fat released into the blood stream by adipocytes circulates to the muscles where it is burned for energy. (A car burns gasoline for energy; your muscles burn fat and carbohydrate.)
Exercise stimulates adipocytes to release fat by increasing circulation of hormones like norepinephrine (adrenaline). When norepinephrine reaches an adipocyte, no matter where in your body it's located, it signals special chemical messengers inside the adipocytes to stimulate fat release, and just like the balloon that shrinks when you let out the air, adipocytes shrink when they release fat. You will keep the fat off as long as it gets burned by the muscle and does not return to the adipocyte for storage. That's one of the reasons why exercise helps control body weight.
The reason that you can't spot reduce during exercise, which is what you are really asking, is that you don't have any control over which adipocytes release fat. Norepinephrine and the other hormones released during exercise do not discriminate. That is, they stimulate adipocytes to release fat wherever they are located. We all have patterns of weight loss and weight gain that tend to repeat (you typically gain and lose weight in the same pattern over and over), and we don't have any control over this.
Give me some information about your likes and dislikes, you goal wants and desires, etc (if you wish to), and I will write something for you in the ChillOut Log. In addition their may or may not be something in the COL that could benefit you now. In addition, you need to obtain all the knowledge you can that surrounds your fitness goals and use these tools appropriately (and learn over time to change some self-perceptions within these goals).
Go here and read on some basic and fundamental information:
Weight Training 101
Nutrition 101
Delaware Consumer Health Information Services (Originally Posted by Wrangell)
Weight Training Technical Articles
How to get abs guide
Go here for some thoughts on the mental side:
Weight Loss Intricate
The ChillOut Log by Chillen
(allot of pages to go through, but there IS good information that may help you if you take the time to seek it)
Best wishes to you!
and,
one more thing,
ROCK ON! Party yourself into being happy and rocken it!
Chillen
