Body Type Exercise

I'm a skittle, too, because I don't have a big be-hind. The other women in my family are more the pear type with the saddlebags & big bum. I would think the same type of exercises would work for both.
 
Thanks for this! I took the iVillage quiz and found that I'm a Ruler. No big surprise there, I guess. I'm psyched to see I can do whatever exercise I want and I love the suggestion of doing my abs at the beginning of my workout. By the time they roll around at the end of B&G, I'm in a complete "doesn't she EVER stop?!?" mode and sometimes blow it off. I'm going to try doing them first now.
 
Oh, I just LOVE skittles!! The sour ones are one of my favorite candies:7 :+

Hey, it makes sense Jennifer Anniston is a spoon. She battled her weight before Friends. She was once pudgey if you can believe it. Anyway, she has been eating a Zone like diet for several years. I'm a spoon and I found the zone like micros are what melt the fat off my body and give me a lot of energy.
I've tried BFL 40/40/20, 50/30/20 and my weight stalls there and my energy is low.
 
Okay, I can't believe I'm doing this but I have to defend Jennifer Aniston: she has said many times that she was NOT pudgy and that the Friends show people just didn't understand that Greek people are just built that way. And I've seen pics of her before Friends, and, in my opinion, she looked much better than she did in those last few years. Her face was never quite as cute again after the Zone diet stuff.

Oy, I can't believe I know this much about a celebrity. Now I'm sure I have no life. x(
 
I loved Jennifer Aniston's body back in the 90's when Friends first started! WOW. That is a woman.:p Now she just looks gaunt in my humble opinion. And they are always talking about how her arms are so "toned".Uh, no, they are just skinny.Bodies were so different even 10 years ago, nowdays if you are not a size nothing, you are "big". Whatever. An bunch of rubbish if you ask me.

Oh and about those gymnasts and ballerina's? They look like that because its their job and that is all they do, up to 10 hours a day. Plus, they are genetically inclined for their sports...not to knock what the poster said at all, I agree they have fantastic bodies.

Anyway, I think you gotta play around a bit with what works for you. I still haven't found my own magic potion, and I have been at it for over 15 years.
 
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>Perhaps you are more of a cone?

My measurements are like 35-27-35, so I don't think I can be a cone, right? I only read a few pages of the book, though, so I can't be sure.
 
According to that quiz, I'm an hourglass and shouldn't add resistance to my workout. But I'd rather feel really strong than worry about exercising for the best figure. Heavy weight training is my favorite kind! In the end, exercise is really more about feeling good than looking good anyway, right? - although looking good is a really nice side effect (and a very good motivater) :).
 
SRP said:
Hmmm. According to the info I found, I'm a spoon. No big surprise there. But it tells me that I'm supposed to avoid all heavy weights and resistance on the lower body, even including high-impact cardio.

I go as heavy as I can with my home weights (free weights), and the harder I work, the better results I see in my legs. If I followed what they suggest, I'd have icky, flabby legs with no muscle tone at all. And I wouldn't be able to do much cardio at all, except walking. So I'd probably wind up gaining weight.

I think this is just another example of how you just can't conform to any one particular workout style. No matter what your body shape may look like, everyone is different.
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Until I took up Cardio Coach that's what I thought would happen but it hasn't. This is what I used to do every week:
-GS 3-day split,
-An additional leg day (B&G)
-Core work 2-3 times per week
-Cardio maybe once a week. Always Low Max because it was the only workout I had that was challenging minus the joint damage.
-I did cut out all fast food but still ate mostly junk at home and my portions were stupid. When I (briefly) prepared my own lunches for work and made an effort to eat clean I lost weight. When I fell off the wagon with my diet I stopped losing (but didn't gain).
-I worked out after getting off work and was often too tired to focus. Soon, it got to where I wouldn't work out for days. And I never knew what time I'd be getting off work (anywhere from 10:30pm to 2:30am).
-I HAD dropped from a size 24 to a size 14 jeans but when my size 14s got too tight in the thighs I despaired. That's when I read posts here about slimming the lower body using Cardio Coach

Now, because I'd never seen significant fat loss off my lower body, I'm doing this every week:
-Upper body split (working each muscle group twice weekly)
-Cardio Coach 3-4 times
-Eating considerably cleaner, lots of fruits and vegetables, reasonable portion sizes... Making a real effort towards planning and following through but not beating myself up - ever. No more giant Symphony bars every night and I haven't replaced my last carton of icecream.
-All my workouts are morning workouts which have, thus far, eliminated the excuses. I just have to watch cutting it so close in the morning so I don't wind up late to work.

Since I phased in the newest changes my calves have really toned up and slimmed down. I started the Cardio Coach several weeks ago and reinstated clean eating (about 85-90%) about five days ago. During those past five days my digital scale has registered a 4.5lb loss. I am THRILLED my calves are FINALLY slimming down because they were almost as thick as my thighs and nothing else worked on them until now. And I really love the definition in my tibialus (front of the calf). Sexy. Still, I've thought twice before I'd finally hit on The Thing that would solve all my body issues and I've learned it's crucial to always make changes to avoid those nasty plateaus that always derail me. I know that, eventually, I'll end up doing lower body workouts again but my big goal NOW is one thing: TO GET THE FAT OFF. Everything I do is in service to that singular goal.
 
nancy324 said:
Okay, I can't believe I'm doing this but I have to defend Jennifer Aniston: she has said many times that she was NOT pudgy and that the Friends show people just didn't understand that Greek people are just built that way. And I've seen pics of her before Friends, and, in my opinion, she looked much better than she did in those last few years. Her face was never quite as cute again after the Zone diet stuff.

Oy, I can't believe I know this much about a celebrity. Now I'm sure I have no life. x(
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Nancy,

I heard a radio interview saying that Jennifer Anniston was a spokesperson for a diet company before she became famous. They said she lost 30lbs before she took on the role of Rachel in Friends. 30lbs on a 5'5" small frame is a lot. She openly admitted she struggled with her weight. She said she lost the weight using Carrie Wiatt's style diet.
She slimmed down further when she began the Zone diet during her marriage to Brad.
 
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"Now, because I'd never seen significant fat loss off my lower body, I'm doing this every week:
-Upper body split (working each muscle group twice weekly)
-Cardio Coach 3-4 times
-Eating considerably cleaner, lots of fruits and vegetables, reasonable portion sizes... Making a real effort towards planning and following through but not beating myself up - ever. No more giant Symphony bars every night and I haven't replaced my last carton of icecream.
-All my workouts are morning workouts which have, thus far, eliminated the excuses. I just have to watch cutting it so close in the morning so I don't wind up late to work."


Which Cardio Coaches are you using? I would really like to try this to see how it works for my lower half.

Beth
 
I actually purchased the Michael Thurman 6wk body makeover and it really did wonders for me. I did the accelerated program consisting of meat/veggies/fruit followed by low intensity cardio and weights, but I would be so drained by the end of the day.

I would consider myself hourglass, being a black female we tend to have more junk in the trunk. What I started doing was lifting heavier w/upper body and low/high reps w/lower body but my legs still wont seem to lean out. People say I have legs like Serena/Venus Wiliams but I know my muscle tone is not as good as theirs by along shot.

I think we need to stick with what best works for us.
 
Is there a more comprehensive test in the book itself? It seems kind of tough to get a conclusion as to what type I might be based on that 4 question test on IVillage. I don't think my type is right after reading the description.
 
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