CW: 115LW: 93
GW: HEALTHY
I'm just trying to recover from my ed and as much encouragement there is for eds I feel there needs to be for recovery and being healthy. There is a lot of pain, triggering, and tears toward the goal but I'm finally ready. Ask me anything we need to stick together someone to talk to can be a ton more helpful then talking to the voice inside your head. There is only moving forward from here.
Skinny Lush
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The Truth About Muscle Toning by Flavia Del Monte, Certified Trainer and Nutritionist“It is unfortunate to see how many females who fear muscle end up detouring their progress in what should be a relatively easy goal, “toning”.I’ve always found it ironic when I read fitness magazines or hear trainers tell women you can’t build big muscles because you don’t produce as much testosterone as a man (which is true) but then paradoxically say to just use low weight and high reps or go for the burn! Why would it matter if women lift heavy weights and low reps if we don’t have the hormones to produce big muscles? Why do “fitness experts” contradict themselves and perpetuate these toning myths? Perhaps they are scared to prescribe heavy weights and low reps because they are misinformed on “toning”?Here’s what females must understand about muscle toning if they ever want TRULY toned, defined and sexy curves:Relying on low weight and high reps results in spending years trying to achieve what a few months of heavier weight and low reps could potentially bring if the weights were progressed up at a gradual level!The entire, “Drop the weights and go for a burn…” advice is complete nonsense! Here’s why:There are two types of muscle tone: Myogenic muscle tone and neurogenic muscle tone. You need both for a sexy,hard and defined looking body.Myogenic tone can be defined as residual tension in a resting muscle. What this really means is how hard, full and dense your muscles are at rest. An increase in myogenic tone is a permanent increase in the appearance of your muscles. Myogenic tone is affected by the density of your muscles and is improved by stimulation of the contractile proteins using a moderately heavy loads and moderately lower rep training workouts. Neurogenic tone refers to the level of tension in a muscle in a working or flexed state. That is how “hard” a muscle is when you are training it or just flexing it. It refers to muscle tone that is expressed when movements occur (like when you extend your arms to point). Neurogenic tone is improved due to the effect lower rep training [i.e. less than 7 reps] has on improving the efficiency of your central nervous system.Heavy weight training for women increases your myogenic tone through the hypertrophy (growth) of the contractile proteins myosin and actin (myosin and actin are by far the most dense components of skeletal muscle).Lower rep training with heavier weights is by far the best way to get a lean, defined and tight body. This type of training will increase the sensitivity of alpha and gamma motor neurons, thus increasing neurogenic tone when conducting even the simplest of movements (i.e. walking, extending your arm to point, etc).Training with heavy weights improves both myogenic and neurogenic tone. When a body is stripped of much of its fat, muscle density and hardness go a long way to enhancing the attractiveness of one’s physique! If your goal is to have a lean, sexy and defined looking body, then incorporating training with heavy weights and low reps is the next (and best) step to set yourself up for an amazing body.Need proof?Have you ever seen a women in the gym or in a magazine with defined arms? Toned shoulders? Sculpted calves? Trim thighs? The way their bodies are sleek and curved is easy to achieve once you get rid of the “drop the weights and go for the burn” nonsense and begin working out with some heavier weights and lower reps — this is the best way to lean, hard and strong, but not big! As long as you manage your calories, there is no fear in getting big. Remember, muscles grow on calories so as long as you don’t start eating like a bodybuilder, you will never come close to looking like one (thank goodness)!Now that you can see a difference between myogenic tone and neurogenic tone it’s time to use this information to go from ordinary to extraordinary and Curveless to Curvalicious!”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4t1bpz4Ok1qm5hzso1_1280.jpg)
The Truth About Muscle Toning
by Flavia Del Monte, Certified Trainer and Nutritionist
“It is unfortunate to see how many females who fear muscle end up detouring their progress in what should be a relatively easy goal, “toning”.
I’ve always found it ironic when I read fitness magazines or hear trainers tell women you can’t build big muscles because you don’t produce as much testosterone as a man (which is true) but then paradoxically say to just use low weight and high reps or go for the burn!
Why would it matter if women lift heavy weights and low reps if we don’t have the hormones to produce big muscles? Why do “fitness experts” contradict themselves and perpetuate these toning myths? Perhaps they are scared to prescribe heavy weights and low reps because they are misinformed on “toning”?
Here’s what females must understand about muscle toning if they ever want TRULY toned, defined and sexy curves:
Relying on low weight and high reps results in spending years trying to achieve what a few months of heavier weight and low reps could potentially bring if the weights were progressed up at a gradual level!
The entire, “Drop the weights and go for a burn…” advice is complete nonsense! Here’s why:
There are two types of muscle tone: Myogenic muscle tone and neurogenic muscle tone. You need both for a sexy,hard and defined looking body.
Myogenic tone can be defined as residual tension in a resting muscle. What this really means is how hard, full and dense your muscles are at rest. An increase in myogenic tone is a permanent increase in the appearance of your muscles. Myogenic tone is affected by the density of your muscles and is improved by stimulation of the contractile proteins using a moderately heavy loads and moderately lower rep training workouts.
Neurogenic tone refers to the level of tension in a muscle in a working or flexed state. That is how “hard” a muscle is when you are training it or just flexing it. It refers to muscle tone that is expressed when movements occur (like when you extend your arms to point). Neurogenic tone is improved due to the effect lower rep training [i.e. less than 7 reps] has on improving the efficiency of your central nervous system.
Heavy weight training for women increases your myogenic tone through the hypertrophy (growth) of the contractile proteins myosin and actin (myosin and actin are by far the most dense components of skeletal muscle).
Lower rep training with heavier weights is by far the best way to get a lean, defined and tight body. This type of training will increase the sensitivity of alpha and gamma motor neurons, thus increasing neurogenic tone when conducting even the simplest of movements (i.e. walking, extending your arm to point, etc).
Training with heavy weights improves both myogenic and neurogenic tone. When a body is stripped of much of its fat, muscle density and hardness go a long way to enhancing the attractiveness of one’s physique! If your goal is to have a lean, sexy and defined looking body, then incorporating training with heavy weights and low reps is the next (and best) step to set yourself up for an amazing body.
Need proof?
Have you ever seen a women in the gym or in a magazine with defined arms? Toned shoulders? Sculpted calves? Trim thighs? The way their bodies are sleek and curved is easy to achieve once you get rid of the “drop the weights and go for the burn” nonsense and begin working out with some heavier weights and lower reps — this is the best way to lean, hard and strong, but not big! As long as you manage your calories, there is no fear in getting big. Remember, muscles grow on calories so as long as you don’t start eating like a bodybuilder, you will never come close to looking like one (thank goodness)!
Now that you can see a difference between myogenic tone and neurogenic tone it’s time to use this information to go from ordinary to extraordinary and Curveless to Curvalicious!”
WAIT! Befor you binge:
- Have an apple
- Drink a glass of water
- Fold a load of laundry
- Call a friend
- Go for a walk
- State your health goal out loud
- Remember how you felt last time
- Go on tumblr
- Wait fifteen minutes
Now how do you feel? (:
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’Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’’
Every person, has mind of their own, but also a pair of eyes. Unique and being an individual we all have a different view in life. A two years ago I had a possessed and corrupted sight every day. ‘’ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ’’, but I never saw it. I always saw a girl that got made fun of for being chubby, or was embarrassed to be in public in a bathing suit. 100 lbs, that was 100 lbs of imperfection, so I had, I changed so I could finally behold the ‘’beauty.’’ Three letters stood for what I lived and breathed for, since that day A.N.A. It snuck up on me until finally it whispered its tainted thoughts into my head reveling what I had been doing. It was magic I lost a pound a day. Which was a pound closer to beauty and perfection, but in reality it was a pound closer to death, pain, and mistrust. I was never there, always focused on myself and the enemy that was living inside me. Counting calories, crunches, jumping jacks, laps I ran, etc. I never stopped, determined to win the battle inside me vs. imperfection. But what started was questions from everyone counselor, friends, family. I didn’t understand why they thought I looked sick I didn’t look any different in the mirror, maybe just fatter, but they said I looked to skinny, or why was I always in the bathroom, the questions never stopped neither did the voice inside my head. I had a sticky note for everyday saying either 0, 100, or 200 calories, and what I eat to reach that and how much to workout, and pictures of perfection and beauty, my thinspiration of skinny. All of it got discovered, that day was hell, questions only demanded answers, but ‘’Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’’ and my family they saw a sickness, bones, and an eating disorder while I saw myself as fat, ugly, and imperfect, so when the question why do you think your fat was asked I looked at myself and answered because I am. That day, was the end to the path of beauty, instead it would just make me rewind myself to the beginning to the girl who got teased for being chubby. Except it was worse I had to eat till I felt like I was going to explode, being so full so they wouldn’t expect me being anorexic still. They never trusted me since then. It killed so much inside to see everything I lived for turn into fat and broken dreams. It killed me inside knowing my family didn’t want me to be happy.
It is now a two years later, I am 110 pounds of perfection. I behold what most girls cannot see. I behold beauty. One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia, Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia. No matter how much they starve or purge they will never see beauty only a monster that feasts off their body. I have changed because of the love from my family not by myself. But by myself I promised I will not be that one out of 200 instead I will be perfection, unique, and help the ones who aren’t lucky to experience it. I eat, live, and workout to be healthy not skin and bones. ‘’Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’’
-skinnylush
(Source: jules-mae3231, via choosing-life)
