home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!markh
- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- Subject: Re: Low Body Fat Percentage but Spare Tire
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:43:48 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Lines: 12
- Message-ID: <1i2hf4INNbk@uwm.edu>
- References: <2B30F864.2840@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Dec18.154901.1101@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> <1992Dec18.170508.16516@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
-
- In article <1992Dec18.170508.16516@leland.Stanford.EDU> disraeli@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jamie Lara Bronstein) writes:
- >Two years ago I lost 70 pounds, and have successfully kept it off since then.
- >By doing a lot of Stairmaster, step aerobics, walking and swimming, I
- >have gotten down to a body fat percentage of 18 (I am female), but I still
- >have flabby upper arms and stomach (where I used to carry a lot of the
- >extra weight). Is there anything I can do to tighten up these areas short
- >of losing extra pounds?
-
-
- Just firm up the muscles. You're down to 18% already, but nothing you
- mentioned indicates that you're exercising those body regions. So the
- flabbiness is probably lack of muscle tone, not too much fat.
-