Moobs

Dimitri

I apologise in advance if this has been done to death. This situation is this I'm 25 and in my the last year I have gone from well over 90kg down to around 78-82. I've become a lot fitter and I've run 2 marathons. I'm currently at sea and will be for 12 of the next 18 months. Now my meals are cooked for me so I've no say in them but they are usually quite healthy, worst case scenario there is only one healthy option but that is rare. Since I joined the ship three weeks ago I've gone to the gym 6 days a week alternating between weights and cardio Monday to Friday and doing a long run on Sundays, rest Saturday. But there has been one thing bugging since I began getting fitter and losing the bit of weight I've never lost the man boobs or a tiny bit of fat on the stomach but I'm not too concerned about that. Now as part of my weights I do do crunches planks and push ups but I'm wondering is there anything I can do to really and viciously attack that the chest area to go from moobs to pecs?

columok

Unfortunately spot weight reduction doesn't work. The best bet is to reduce your overall bodyfat. Alternatively you could look to build sufficient bulk in your upperbody and chest and the moobs may not be such a problem.

discus

columok wrote: »

Unfortunately spot weight reduction doesn't work. The best bet is to reduce your overall bodyfat. Alternatively you could look to build sufficient bulk in your upperbody and chest and the moobs may not be such a problem.

Pretty much wat columok has said. If you make the muscle bigger underneath the flabby areas - such as your moobs and stomach - your skin will look more taught/toned/defined.

Sorry, didn't read the last sentence of your post, what do you currently do for your chest?

Caoimhín

It might be a medical issue rather than a fitness thing.

Dimitri

discus wrote: »

Pretty much wat columok has said. If you make the muscle bigger underneath the flabby areas - such as your moobs and stomach - your skin will look more taught/toned/defined.

Sorry, didn't read the last sentence of your post, what do you currently do for your chest?

Edit* chest press
2 sets of 20 reps with 10kg dumbells, don't get me wrong in a t shirt i look the right shape these days but it's nagging at me that they are still there, just hanging down, a harsh reminder of a very unhealthy lifestyle! They have been this size for a good while now and even though I'd now consider myself to be quite fit and performing really well at the running (I'm hoping to be under the 4 hour mark for my next marathon) they are just not going away.

discus

Dimitri wrote: »

2 sets of 20 reps with 10kg dumbells, don't get me wrong in a t shirt i look the right shape these days but it's nagging at me that they are still there, just hanging down, a harsh reminder of a very unhealthy lifestyle! They have been this size for a good while now and even though I'd now consider myself to be quite fit and performing really well at the running (I'm hoping to be under the 4 hour mark for my next marathon) they are just not going away.

That's not very much weight for a man to be lifting dumbell-wise. On top of that, 2 sets of 20 reps... doing what exactly?

Frogdog

It could be a case of needing to tweak your diet a little more. What do you normally eat?

What you think is a healthy diet may not exactly be. Post up everything you would eat on a normal day.

Dimitri

As I said above my diet is basically whatever the cooks put on I always go for fish when available I have plenty of veg avoid breads gravies etc have my potatoe boiled, but again not always available, otherwise it is curries with rice. Plenty of fruit but we are on a long passage so all our stores are blast frozen so regardless of what I'm eating it's nutritional value is way down.

Mellor

The type of food isn't an issue, which is good as you can't change it.
to reduce fat you need to reduce calories, this means eating less of the same. Take smaller portions, or actively leave some on plate. (and not just leaf veg, leave some meat or starchs)

siochain

Caoimhín wrote: »

It might be a medical issue rather than a fitness thing.

Yip could be your hormones causing you to retain weight on your stomach and moob development. Might be no harm to ask you doc to check next time your in.

Frank Bullitt

You can try to eat more leafy veg which has anti-estrogen properties, broccoli helps alot.

matamoros1965

I've had them for years. Having just started back trying to drop fat and improve my fitness, from what I've read is that you need to be doing chest exercises to ensure that they skin remains attached to the muscle when the fat drops away. This is a major concern for me so what I am doing is trying to drop fat slowly at the rate of 1kg a week max. and to do sufficient amount of flyes, press ups and bench presses to improve my chest muscles.

Any regular exercisers reading this, I would really appreciate some input on this issue.

BrokenArrows

matamoros1965 wrote: »

I've had them for years. Having just started back trying to drop fat and improve my fitness, from what I've read is that you need to be doing chest exercises to ensure that they skin remains attached to the muscle when the fat drops away. This is a major concern for me so what I am doing is trying to drop fat slowly at the rate of 1kg a week max. and to do sufficient amount of flyes, press ups and bench presses to improve my chest muscles.

Any regular exercisers reading this, I would really appreciate some input on this issue.

You're on the correct path but as you posted above you are only using 10kg dumbdells x 20 reps which is really light.

Increase the weight to 20kg or more depending on how strong you actually are. Drop your reps to 6-8 per set.
Begin working your pecs from different angles using incline, decline and flat dumbell presses.

Also include some shoulder presses which will increase the muscle on your shoulder and neck which should pull the skin on you chest higher which will stretch it out more so you will get less sagging.