SCThornley - 2006-06-28 2:19 PM

so, like,

When you look in the mirror what do you see?

how tall are you?
what is your weight?
from where is your dissatisfaction coming?

Hey SCThornley,

I am not very tall, only 5 feet, 102 lb. General speaking, I look fit and I built up some muscle via my past 2 years cardio and weight training execrises. However, my body shape hasn't reach my ultimate goal. Madano 's body shape is amazing for her age. I wonder how can get same abs and toned arm like hers. I wonder if it's possilbe for Yoga to challeng natural gene. The reason i thought that, because I have similar body shape as my Mom. She has very slim legs and lower body,however her middle waist line and arm are really big!!!!!!!!!!

I worried that I will never change my shape because of that gene. But I saw so many celebrity get an amazing body shape through their hard work. I am very serious about bodyshaping. I am willing to do what it takes. Any good tip ?

Thanks
.

SCThornley - 2006-06-28 3:09 PM

daily exercise and natural diet

don't do anything to excess

but it really sounds like your quite on your way to controlling your figure

and you sound absolutely tiny

i'm around 6'9'' and 270 lbs so you'd look like a munchin next to me

jingjing2006 - 2006-06-28 1:29 PM

Hi everyone here

I am new here and also new for the Yoga. I just seriously started to practice Ashtaga yoga for 3 weeks. 5 times a week. Before that , I have been doing regular vigrous exercise for almost 2 years. Everyday I work out 1.5 hour and I eat very healthy too( I only eat 1300-1350 calorie /day) . However all these efforts hasn't help me to reach my ultimate fitness goal. My body fat percent is around 22%. I would like to be 20% or 19%.

Most of my body fat is around my waist line ,arm and back. Especially my arm size (9.5 inch) is almost same as my leg carf ,therefore I can't really wear any strapless top.
I tried heavy weigh training for 1 year, however it really doesn't work. Many of my friends suggest me to practice yoga for body tonig and weight loss.

Does anyone here give me some tips for changing my body shape?

Thanks in advance.

jingjing2006 - 2006-06-28 1:29 PM

Hi everyone here

I am new here and also new for the Yoga. I just seriously started to practice Ashtaga yoga for 3 weeks. 5 times a week. Before that , I have been doing regular vigrous exercise for almost 2 years. Everyday I work out 1.5 hour and I eat very healthy too( I only eat 1300-1350 calorie /day) . However all these efforts hasn't help me to reach my ultimate fitness goal. My body fat percent is around 22%. I would like to be 20% or 19%.

Most of my body fat is around my waist line ,arm and back. Especially my arm size (9.5 inch) is almost same as my leg carf ,therefore I can't really wear any strapless top.
I tried heavy weigh training for 1 year, however it really doesn't work. Many of my friends suggest me to practice yoga for body tonig and weight loss.

Does anyone here give me some tips for changing my body shape?

Thanks in advance.

MidPack - 2006-06-29 10:00 PM


I am probably more knowledgeable on the first two, but I have a lot of experience with all three and I am still active in all of them (different benefits from each). And I have been through weight loss/body fat plateaus with all three types of exercise. At similar intensity (and that's pretty hard to pin down), the best forms of exercise for weight loss are (in order):

1) Cardio, look at serious runners, bikers, etc.
2) Weightlifting, it does work. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but you said you tried "heavy weight training for a year" and it didn't work. If you mean that literally (ie, heavy weights-low reps), you're not going to lose weight lifting that way. You have to structure your workouts for weight loss OR strength/muscle mass/bulk OR power - different workouts for different objectives.
3) Yoga. Not that it doesn't have it's own merits head and shoulders above the other two, but weight loss isn't a primary benefit of yoga unless you do a lot of a very vigorous style of yoga. You'll get more weight loss benefit in the same amount of time from cardio than yoga. But if you like yoga, do it, but understand you will have to work harder and longer for the same weight loss result.