Weight Loss Spotlight

Nice Curves

Firm & Tone Curves

When shaping your body there are a few tricks you can use to fool the eye that you have more nice curves then you actually do.

First of all when setting your workout goals, be realistic. Don't pick a picture out of a magazine and say that you want to shape your body to look like that. Take a look at yourself and work with what you have that are your stronger assets and body parts. For instance, if you have a wide waist you could shape your arms and upper body to make it look like you had a slim waist if that's what you want.

To create nice curves you should work on your shoulders including front, side and rear deltoids and your hips, glutes and hamstrings to lift your firm butt, and create nice curves.

Work with light weights buy high repetitions to firm and tighten on the legs but use a little bit more resistance for your upper body and your shoulders to build a little bit of muscles. Depending on if your upper and lower body sometimes responds differently to weights you have to adjust your workout routine accordingly to reach your goals. Maybe your legs are your stronger body part and don't need that much heavy work but more of maintenance workout but your upper body is weak and you need to increase the strength in your arms, shoulders, back and chest.

This type of workout is easily created if you split the workout into upper and lower body parts on different workout days. If you have one muscle group that is overdeveloped from sports specific or carrying children or gardening, just train that part light and push it harder on the rest of your body.

To get nice curves in the right places you also need to work your torso muscles or the power-package, which include your abdomen and your lower back muscles. This will get rid off the wrong type of nice curves you might see when turning sideways in the mirror if you abdomen are not strong and tight. When tightening the abs your whole posture changes and if you train your glutes and hamstrings at the same time, you will be able to create some nice curves.

If you are a woman with a large chest you might want to work on that midsection even more to create an already curved body. Work the side abdomen muscle, your oblique muscles to tighten the sides and shrink your waist and give you more shape.

The best shaping exercise for your legs are still the good old walking lounges. This exercise should not hurt your knees unless you already have knee problems in which case you should not attempt to do lounges at all anyway. If you feel any irritation around the kneecap while doing them, take a break and stretch out your quadriceps, which are your front thigh muscles, by grabbing your own foot with one hand and bringing the foot behind you bending your leg, up to your buttocks.

Whether nice curves are something you are aiming for with your workout or not, the overall shape of your body will change when you start to work out and it's up to you to see if you like the changes or if you want to train differently to change the shape of your body a little. Some things like wide hipbones or the curve of your spine but there is also a lot when it comes to your shape that you can change. You just have to take what you were born with, learn to appreciate yourself and do the best with what you got.