how long to tone up

lipo starter

can anyone tell me how long as in how many weeks, it would take to tone up all over, if your not very overweight, just around a stone and half over, and doing weights and other toning exercises, 3 times weekly?

Kenmare

Whats your stats? (age, weight, body type etc).

lipo starter

im 39 year old female, 5 foot 3inches, 11 stone, not sure of body type, i dont put weight on quickly, its just that i havent been active for a long time, im a pear shape if thats any help? its lower stomach, thighs, bum, and now..the hips too, my legs, arms fairly toned, never really get flabby, i dont look very overweight but you can see i need toning mainly just the areas above, when im standing stomach looks fine, when i sit...it goes into the tyre roll...

Pen1987

Nearly everyones stomach has a tyre roll, make sure your posture is correct when you sit and it could correct it, cos youre not particularly overweight. I've a flat stomach and could make a tyre roll if I slumped to put it in perspective.

Keep breaking sweat in the gym, get your heartrate you into the 180 range for about 40min a day, eat healthy, avoid o many carbs and you could tone in I'd say about 7 weeks. After 5 weeks you'd look tone wearing clothes though...

lipo starter

i only go up to 160 on an exercise bike, i think i can probably do higher, but was worried that it would be too high cos im 39? whats the highest number i could go too safely?

Pen1987

****e, its late and I wasnt concentrating, yeah, jesus 169 is grand... if you were busting yourself to get to 169 then keep it in the 140 range, you should be in a range where youre sweating after 7 minutes, but can maintain for 45 minutes...

lipo starter

thank god for that!! was kind of dreadin it cos im already sweating and fairly breathless at the 40/50s, will stick at 60 tops then. thanks for your advice

Pen1987

Oh and if youre using the machine itself to measure your heartrate, theyre not very reliable. You can get a monitor and watch set from 20e in Aldi which works great.

EDIT... You should not be sweating in the 40/50s, the machine is definitely wrong... your resting heart rate shouldnt even be as low and 40/50!

lipo starter

oh sorry! i mean 140/150, like you said..its late! yes im using the bike monitor, will get one from aldi, i dont get breathless/sweating until im up the high 40s, and then sometimes it goes over 60, even though i dont seem to doing it any faster, so will get the aldi thing

lipo starter

i meant 160, not 60

Pen1987

haha, jesus, I was getting worried, was about say you need to hit The Matter not the gym!

Best of luck with it. Stick to the task. Keep us updated.

lipo starter

ye im tired but im definitely gone dozy with the numbers!, ok thanks for all that, will get that aldi thing tomorrow, and get proper reading, thanks again:)

matrixroyal

I don't think there is a definitive answer to this as some people's bodies will respond quickly and others more slowly.


One thing is for sure, if you simultaneously :

eat clean
exercise hard (and varied )

you will see results relatively quickly.

Kenmare

What is this tyre roll?

Irishcrx

Well, it was 3 months ago I posted on this site with my terrible burger king diet and skinny arms, I was 5'10 , 9 and a half stone and in bad shape. Since then i've been lifting 3-4 times a week and eating healthy everyday, I'm not a little over 11 stone, my arms are much bigger and in general I feel much bigger and better in myself so if you keep the commitment up and have the right attitude you will feel the effects and never look back.

lipo starter

Kenmare wrote: »

What is this tyre roll?

its when i sit down, the roll that bulges around my mid stomach (flab), just over the waist band area, its not there when im standing, just sitting