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Living Fit - Q&A

Q: What can I do to tightened up my tummy and stomach area?
Grey

A: If you want a flat stomach, crunches and twisting crunches are great. If you have excess body fat covering all your hard work, then you need to cut down on fats in your diet, especially animal fat (i.e. fatty meats, whole dairy products, lard). Cutting back on carbs is ok if you over consume them, but low carb and especially no carb eating plans don't work. You need to eat a diet rich in variety. That means a diet with a balance of protein, carbs and fats in the order of about 25% protein, 55% carbs and 20% fats. Eating this balance in five small meals a day also helps to keep blood sugar even and metabolism up.

So if you want a flat stomach, this eating plan and plenty of cardio is the ticket.

Living Fit by David McKeag Long Beach, California
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Living Fit - Q&A

Q: I would like to build on my shoulders to make them look broader. What's is the best workout to broaden shoulder? Can pushups help building shoulders too? How should I position my hand while doing pushups?
Chan

A: For wider looking shoulders you need to work them from all angles. Pushups work mostly the chest, but also the front delts. Shoulder presses with dumbbells will hit just about every part of the shoulder giving it mass and shape. Also lateral raises with dumbbells, front alternating dumbbell raises, bent over lateral raises and barbell or cable upright rows all contribute to fine and powerful looking shoulders.

I also suffer from having narrow shoulders and have made it a priority to develop them to their fullest. keeping a toned trim waist also helps promote the illusion of being wider.

As for hand spacing doing push-ups, the wider the stance the more of the chest included the narrower the stance the more the triceps are recruited. So a variety of different spacing is best for overall development.

Let me know how your progress is going.

Living Fit by David McKeag Long Beach, California
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Living Fit - Q&A

Q: How can I lose the fat on my face specially on the cheeks? I'm a skinny person and I don't know what should I do?
Thanx, Jake.

A: You should have a certified personal trainer take a body composition test with a pair of calipers and let me know what the results are and I might be able to tell you how much room you might have for fat loss in your face.

Living Fit by David McKeag Long Beach, California
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Living Fit - Q&A

Q: I am looking to get into better shape. I am 44, 5'9 and about 155 pounds. I am not overweight (obviously) and I belong to a gym. I try to run still about three miles, four times a week, but this time of year I get a little bored. Perhaps it has to do with going inside to work out, or just that I miss the outdoors. I did purchase cross country skis this year in hopes that I can enjoy the winter here (my second). I guess what I am looking for is more about putting better muscles on my body. I am a commited vegetarian and drug free, and usually use more freeweights than machines.
Robert

Living Fit - Q&A

Q: On your first week back to the gym after your recovery week, do you try to use the same weights you left off with or do you use a percentage of what you used before?
A: NEVER start where you left off. Start light (60-75%) with higher than usual reps to build back muscle endurance. Do so over a period of 1-3 weeks depending on time missed. Then you may start increasing weights to previous levels.

Q: How do I build up my chest?
A: Use basic body building exercises, like...dumbbell or barbell bench, incline, and decline press. Hit it hard and heavy (using proper form of course) using 8-10 rep range for 3-4 sets. Hit chest no more than every 4-7 days.

Q: It seems you can do everything over the net now. Can I keep fit in cyberspace without breaking a sweat?
A: lol, NO! There is no substitute for hard work.


Living Fit by David McKeag Long Beach, California
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Living Fit - Q&A

Q: If I just want big biceps, do I need to do a lot of triceps work too?
A: YES! Since triceps are 2/3's of the upper arm mass, it would only make sense to build evenly. Also building one side over another not only looks funny, but creates a muscular imbalance that could set you up for an injury.
Q: How necessary is it to employ different grips when doing triceps and biceps exercises?
A: It's important for the sake of variety. And since muscle growth depends almost as much variety to surprise the muscle as the amount of weight lifted. It could keep you from plateauing.

Living Fit by David McKeag Long Beach, California
(To get an answer on your questions, you just need to send an email to David)

Living Fit by David McKeag

David McKeag is an ACE certified Personal Trainer with over ten years of experience. He has been refining his body for 21 of his 41 years. David's expertise in weight management includes not only weight loss, but lean muscle building, with additional certifications in nutrition and flexibility training. He is also experienced in training those with limitations and special needs.

To sum up: he is the man to help us with Living Fit.
Just send an email and come back for the answer a few days later.

David McKeag lives in Long Beach, California.