The Summer Dress Workout Plan

With summer drawing near, many of you may be thinking of all the different summer dresses that you’d like to wear over the coming season.  Summer is definitely a time to shed some of that bulky clothing that you’ve been covering up with over the winter months, so by lightening up your diet and making a few adjustments to your workout program, you can ensure that you are right on track.

So what should your summer dress workout plan be?  What moves should you be including into the mix?

Let’s run through how you can create a summer dress workout plan to get started on the right foot.

Perform Waist Slimming Exercises

The very first thing that you should be doing is working to firm up your waist and create the illusion of a thinner figure.  If you want that hourglass look, you’ll want to focus on adding more muscle tone and definition to the upper body, which will then make your waistline seem smaller.

To do this, turn to the shoulder press exercise as well as lateral raises. If you can perform these three times per week, you should see noticeable improvements shortly.

In addition to that, keep all your abdominal exercises focused on the direct up and down movement.  While it may be tempting to add in some twisting exercises to target your ‘love handles’, these exercises are actually more likely to add bulk to the waist and cause you to appear thicker.

If you have love handles that you need to get rid of, look at your diet for assistance there instead.

Tone The Upper Body

Second, another must-do in order to see success is to make sure that you perform plenty of exercises that will tone your upper body.  Since many of the dresses you’ll be in this season are going to be sleeveless, it’s important to firm this area of the body.

Good moves to include will be the shoulder press again, bent over dumbbell rows, chest fly’s to help enhance your cleavage, and tricep kickbacks or overhead extensions to firm up the under arms.

Perform two sets of 15 of each of these exercises. 

Don’t Forget The Calves

Finally, last but not least, make sure that you don’t forget your calf muscles.  Since you will likely be wearing heels or at the very least have the bottom portion of your leg showing, it’s important that you firm this area.

Standing calf raises are great for this and if you want added intensity, try doing them on one foot.

There you have some of the key concepts and exercises to add into your summer dress workout plan over the next few weeks.  It’s always a good idea to add these to other exercises that target the other muscles in the body as well such as lunges, squats, and the chest press for a well-balanced workout that burns calories fast.

How to get the best weight loss results

 When seeking to lose weight modifying your eating habits, eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting your fat intake isn’t always enough.

The best diets incorporate a healthy balance of diet and exercise which work together to effectively help your body to burn fat, boost your metabolism and feel fuller for longer.

However, one of the biggest mistakes many slimmer’s make when trying to lose weight is either eating too little – thus not giving their bodies enough calories to support the functionality of their bodies – or they exercise too little.

Top 3 Weight Loss Tips

To experience the best weight loss results, you need to make a number of modifications to both your diet and your exercise regime. However there are also a number of other techniques you can incorporate which can easily help you to experience the weight loss results you crave.

1.    Eat a healthy diet of carbohydrates, protein, fibre, vitamins and fat

Despite many misconceptions that excluding fat completely from your diet can help you to lose weight quickly, eating no fat at all can in fact have the opposite effect on your body. Without fat our bodies can not function properly. Why? Because our bodies need fats for energy!

For this reason it is essential that you keep a moderate amount of fat in your diet. The most effective diets create a balance between a high protein low fat diet, however it is important that you also make sure you maintain a healthy balance of fibres, carbohydrates and vitamins too.

Many slimming programmes recommend splitting your diet into 40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fats.

2.    Regular exercise

One common mistake many slimmer’s make is focusing on one area of their body or following just one exercise routine.

Weight training in particular is often overlooked in weight loss plans because of its body building implications; however creating more muscle within your body is one of the most effective ways to increase your fat burn.

Research has found the more muscle you have, the more fat burn you will experience because surplus amounts of energy is needed to rebuild muscle after weight training.

However weight training is not enough. It is also essential to incorporate cardio and aerobics into your weight loss programme as these will work other essential muscles in your body.

The best weight management programmes recommend the following:

•    20-30 minutes of weight training, 3 times a week
•    Two 45 minute cardio workouts a week which are alternated with two 45 minute aerobic workouts

3.    Slimming Pills

If you find it hard to change your eating habits, then slimming pills could provide you with the weight loss support you are looking for.

Offering your body an instant metabolic jump start, there are a number of different weight loss pills you can try:

•    Appetite suppressants – designed to manipulate the production of hormones within your body, appetite suppressants trick your mind into believing you are full when you are not
•    Fat burners – renowned for speeding up the metabolic processes in your body, the faster your metabolic rate, the faster your fat burn
•    Carbohydrate blockers – preventing the break down of starch into glucose, carbohydrate blockers stop the digestive enzyme Alpha Amylase from completing its jobs
•    Fat blockers – made of soluble and non-soluble complex fibers, fat blockers bind with fat molecules to form a viscous solution which is too thick to be digested by the body.