Most women will fall within one of the four body types.
The four body shapes or types are: 1.
The Apple Shape 2.
The Pear Shape 3.
The Rectangle Shape 4.
The Hourglass Shape The type of body shape you have determines where you will accumulate excess fat on you body.
For example, the "Apple Shape" will generally store fat in the upper part of her body in her bust, shoulders and upper arms.
The "Pear Shape" on the other hand will accumulate fat on her hips, buttocks, and thighs.
When losing weight, it is important to determine your body type and where you store fat.
This will help you make your weight loss activities more productive by focusing your exercise regimen appropriate to your body type.
Regardless of your body shape, engaging in regular exercise will not only help you lose weight by burning extra calories, but will raise your basal metabolism rate (BMR) so you will burn more calories even at rest.
Aerobic exercise helps to improve cardiovascular health, while strength training increases muscle strength.
Through strength training your muscles will naturally burn more calories throughout the day.
A Practical Fat Loss Diet If you eat in a way that causes you to eat less fat than your body wants to excrete through your bile, you will lose weight without even "trying".
If you were to eat a whole food, plant based diet with no added fats (7-10% calories from fat) you would lose weight naturally.
Think of the traditional Chinese or Japanese diet, rice and vegetable three time daily.
Actually about 60% of the world's billions of people eat a starch centered, plant based diet with very little food from animal sources.
When they come to America and adopt our protein centered, high fat, high cholesterol approach to eating they often become fat and develop diseases like heart disease, and diabetes.
Identifying your body type will help you determine what areas of your body you need to focus on when doing your strength-training exercises.
Not only will strength training help you to lose weight, in addition to the aerobic exercise, but it will help to tone and shape those areas of your body where you need it most.
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The Apple Body Shape Since apple body type develop heavier upper bodies, they will want to focus their exercises on their upper body.
This does not mean, though that they neglect the other areas of their body, because exercising all the major muscle groups will increase your resting metabolism rate causing you to burn more calories every hour.
2.
The Hourglass Body Shape The hourglass body type usually stores fat more evenly over their body, usually with the least around their waist and abdomen.
Women with this body shape will want to focus on more cardiovascular exercises.
This will help you lose fat more evenly from all areas of your body.
3.
The Pear Body Shape Women with a pear shaped body store fat mostly in their thighs, hips, and buttocks.
Exercises which focus on these areas can help to tone and tighten muscles in these areas in addition to burning calories.
4.
The Rectangular Body Shape Women with a rectangular body type will store fat more uniformly though out their tissues and they need to have an exercise program that involves whole body workouts.
Strength training, to develop overall muscular strength, to strength your core muscles will help you to lose and tone muscles over your body.
Acknowledging your body type can help you focus your exercise program on specific areas of your body.
As you lose weight, not only will you become slimmer but a more shapely figure as well.