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Chest Fat/Man Boobs

  • 07-04-2014 6:02pm
    #1
    OzMister
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I have been trying to get my chest in to shape for the last 6 months and getting really disheartened.. Over the last two years I have lost nearly 3stone and my current weight is 12 and a half. I have always been tipping away at free weights dumbells etc. Since last oct I began a cardio normally burning 600 calories, 3times a week. My diet is excellent I think, I don't eat crap food apart from a takeaway on a sat nite for my sanity. I eat a lot of protein foods, fruit and vege and try keep my carb intake taken before 2pm. Now my point being I'm in great shape apart from my chest, my man boobs have shrank dramatically but I'm finding it extremely hard to actually get them in to shape and lean. I'm thinkn dat I need to continue on the path I'm on, maybe up my cardio but I don't want to lose anymore weight. My plan was to lose the weight and get my bmi in check along with my chest, then build myself back up. Any suggestions?..


Comments

  • #2
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,691 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    great work so far! I guess the next step is a specific resistance/weights routine. Something like the Insanity programme can be great and uses no equipment and would more than cover your cardio as well, or else get a bit more equipment so you can do more weight training or the TRX like equipment which isn't expensive a develop a routine around that. Or join a gym for 6 months and have a few sessions with a personal trainer.

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  • #3
    El_Dangeroso
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    You can't spot reduce fat, so there's no way else around it, you have to lose more weight. Keep the protein in the diet up to minimise lean mass loss, that's the weight loss you don't want.


  • #4
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,948 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Increase your weight training? Putting on more muscle should give better definition


  • #5
    OzMister
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭OzMister


    Thanks to ye guys/gals,

    Ya that's what Iv been thinking, lose more weight! Something I don't like doing but I suppose it has to be done, I can always put it on again down the line. Il keep ye posted on the progress.

    Thanks again


  • #6
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,657 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    OzMister wrote: »
    Thanks to ye guys/gals,

    Ya that's what Iv been thinking, lose more weight! Something I don't like doing but I suppose it has to be done, I can always put it on again down the line. Il keep ye posted on the progress.

    Thanks again

    It's not necessarily losing weight. It's about shedding body fat. You could lean up and end up heavier but be in much better shape.


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  • #7
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    Maybe do a little research on hormonal responses to different foods, I don't have answers for you.

    It would seem to me your body is partitioning some of the energy(food) you put into your body as fat around the chest area.


  • #8
    OzMister
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭OzMister


    Hey ford,
    I researched that recently I could not identify with anything really. I know I don't have gyno. They is a drastic size reduction and I suppose I was jus conscious about losing more weight, I am happy with my progress but jus have to go that extra mile, I know I'm nearly there


  • #9
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    It is something I've always found interesting why fat deposits in certain areas in different people.

    In women in pregnancy and as they get older hormones seem to play a big role.

    I've trained with team mates over the years who will have fat deposits in different areas at end of off season. I'm sure somebody has researched it!


  • #10
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,691 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    ford2600 wrote: »
    It is something I've always found interesting why fat deposits in certain areas in different people.

    In women in pregnancy and as they get older hormones seem to play a big role.

    I've trained with team mates over the years who will have fat deposits in different areas at end of off season. I'm sure somebody has researched it!

    its certainly worth looking at glandular wellbeing. If you have adrenal stress, apparently your body will specifically dump fat in your mid region regardless of your diet or exercise routine

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #11
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,510 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Keep your diet in check for sure but defiantly get doing some chest exercises also as they will improve the appearance of your chest. Bench press and dumbbell flys will assist greatly.


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