Dec 14

At home or at the physio, the “muscle machines” will promise a more toned body. The results are to go? The point with Laurent Petit Quemener and Nadia, two physiotherapists.

No body without strong muscles!

From 40 years, the skin loses its tone, regularly: this is normal. To make matters worse, nearly half the muscle mass evaporates between 20 and 80 years! But do not panic, the process slow and gradual, may be limited by strengthening muscles, also essential to find a good quality skin.
In the long run, the muscle relaxation involves a change result of the silhouette: buttocks drop in oil inner pendouille arm, abdomen and thighs tonic little soft. “The strengthening obtained by combining the techniques,” says Nadia Quemener. It occurs on the skin and its support fibers, but also the underlying muscles on a regular basis and a specific period. ”

Machinery and regularity, the key to success
In addition to a cardiovascular endurance (fitness, jogging, swimming …), the ideal would talk throughout the year to maintain results. Ie start with a cure machine, two times a week, gradually spacing meetings once a week initially and then every two weeks and finally once a month.
The results obviously depend heavily on the quality of the skin. “The most mature are more difficult to treat, stresses the physiotherapist. But everything depends on healthy lifestyles and \ “capital \” available at the outset. Several strategies for strengthening can be implemented in a physiotherapist or at home.
At home, electrostimulation

Tailor
Three levels and three in a tiny box. What customize his training.

Special abs
To boost its belly, electrodes dressed in striped summer.

Most Pro
Four stimulating electrodes each zone under a special program toning.

Effective on strengthening muscle and thus the tension of the skin, electrostimulation, however, requires regularity, “says Laurent Petit. And alone, it is not enough.
It is best complemented by real exercises, such as abdominals, buttocks of a job or cardiovascular training. The advantage: its action is very localized. The drawback: it does not work the cardiovascular system and respiratory system. And it does not burn fat.
At home, the movement of gym

Detailed instructions for use by Lawrence Small, physiotherapist and coach.

The interior arm
It must be applied three times a week for thirty minutes, asking two electrodes on each side. To be completed by a ground exercise: lie on your back, knees bent, a bottle of water (1.5 liters) in each hand, extend your arms. Switch them back in squeezing the two bottles against one another, then return to chest height. Make three and then five sets of fifteen movements.

On the belly
It must be divided into three regions on which up six electrodes while two below the navel, two above and two on the sides. It affects different muscles: two big rights and four oblique. Knowing that the area under the navel is the most difficult anywhere, and often less tonic. For a month, make three sessions of thirty minutes per week.
In a second time, this work must be accompanied by a breathing exercise which helps to deflate this sensitive part of our anatomy. Inhale through your nose blowing in the belly for five seconds, then exhale through the mouth into the stomach back out for seven seconds. Go after expiration. The diaphragm is the muscle back and transverse plate viscera. Practiced on a daily basis, this exercise has a beneficial effect on digestion and bloating. Read the rest of this entry »