Saturday, February 23, 2013

Cardio - How NOT To Lose Chest Fat

Cardio is definitely NOT the way to lose chest fat.

People always tell you that to burn fat, you have to exercise in the fat-burning 'zone'. The best way to do this is through long duration cardio.

Now it may seem a little paradoxical, but exercising in the fat-burning 'zone' is not the best way to lose body fat, nor is it the best way to lose chest fat.

Cardio does NOT help you to lose chest fat. There's more to losing fat than just calories in VS calories out

The trouble is that these people are using too much of a simplistic model of the human body. They look at the human body as a car burning fuel, where the more fuel you burn, the emptier the fuel tank (i.e. your chest/belly) gets.

But the human body is far more advanced than any car (yes, it's more advanced than a Bugatti Veyron), plane, or anything we humans have created.

Unlike man-made machines, your body resists change and adapts to its environment. Believe it or not, if you overeat, your body resists weight gain by increasing your metabolism, lowering your appetite, increasing your physical activity, and producing fat-burning hormones.

When you UNDER-eat by restricting your calories, the hunger center in your brain kicks in to increase your appetite, your metabolism drops like a brick, and you don't feel like exercising so much.

When you burn fat with long-duration cardio, your body does everything to replace that fat. It does this so it can prepare you for that next bout of cardio. If you're involved in a type of activity that uses fat for fuel, then it makes sense for your body to do everything it can to replace those fuel stores.

After a session of working out in the fat burning 'zone', your body replaces those fat stores by activating the hunger center in your brain so you eat more. It also releases hormones that transform as much of the food you eat as possible, into fat, and stores it to help you with your NEXT cardio session.

See what I'm getting at?

By doing long duration cardio, by exercising in the fat burning zone, you are training your body to transform into a fat-storing machine.

I've had my fair share of cardio in my day, and I know how it gets harder and harder to lose any fat as time goes by. The more cardio you do, the harder it gets to change your appearance, and now you know why.

Cardio trains your body to act AGAINST your efforts.

What you SHOULD be doing, is training your body to transform into a fat BURNING machine, by doing the type of exercise discussed here.

When you do the right TYPE of exercises, you signal your body to burn fat while you rest.

Rather than look at the body as a calories-in VS calories-out machine like a car, look at it as a computer - you can program it the way you want it to be. Program your body with the right TYPE of exercise, and it will burn fat for you on autopilot.

Not only body-fat, but the same type of exercise can also help you to grow muscle and lose chest fat.

How To Lose Chest Fat


See, when it comes to losing chest fat, long distance cardio only makes things worse.

Studies have shown that long distance cardio athletes have lower resting testosterone levels than the average sedentary male. They also have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which reduces the effects of testosterone on your body.

We know that testosterone is the main male sex hormone in your body. The very reason you get too much chest fat or man boobs, is because of a high estrogen to testosterone ratio (i.e. high estrogen and low testosterone). By reducing your testosterone levels, long duration cardio only signals your body to store as much fat as it can on your chest.

The good news here is that the same type of exercise that helps signal your body to torch body fat, also signals your body to release MORE testosterone. This stimulates your body to focus more on burning chest fat than fat anywhere else in your body.

I personally learned about this type of exercise from my coach, Garry Davidson. He tells you all about it in his program, How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally.


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Does Gynecomastia Treatment Without Surgery Really Work?

Gynecomastia treatment without surgery may not work for everyone, but in my experience, it does  work for the vast majority of guys.

See, there are just a handful of guys who can only get rid of their man boobs via surgery. These are guys who have developed excessively large female breast glands due to prolonged exposure to high levels of the female hormone estrogen. Over time, these breast glands harden by undergoing a process called 'fibrosis'. When this happens, the only way to get rid of the breast glands is under the knife - through surgical resection.

The good news though, is that most guys either have excess chest fat minus the glands, or they have both excess chest fat and the glands. Guys with just excess chest fat can lose their man boobs completely using natural methods. If you have chest fat with breast glands, then you can significantly reduce the size of your man boobs using natural methods. Once you've flattened out your chest as much as you can, you can then think about having surgery.

But in most cases, losing the excess chest fat is all you need. A little excess breast tissue behind the nipples is hardly an issue for most guys. You can only really notice them when those breast glands are abnormally large.

Regardless of what type of man boons you  have, anyone with any form of man boobs will benefit by learning about gynecomastia treatment without surgery, since even your surgeon will tell you that such methods (which include exercise, diet and weight reduction) are required to prevent gynecomastia from returning after surgery.

Gynecomastia Treatment Without Surgery - Working Tactics

Getting a masculine, flat chest using natural methods alone involves finding and eliminating the cause of gynecomastia.

Regardless of whether or not a medical disease is at fault, gynecomastia is usually the result of elevated female sex hormones, namely estrogen. So if for any reason your body's estrogen levels are elevated continuously for prolonged periods of time (or testosterone is lowered), your body will respond by developing breasts, in just the same way that women develop breasts during puberty.

The reason us guys look different from women, is due to the roles that both estrogen and testosterone play in the body. Normally, an adult male has up to 10 times more testosterone than an adult female. This elevated testosterone (and low estrogen) is what prevents us guys from developing breasts, and instead gives us extra body hair, deep voices, increased muscle mass, and superior intelligence (shhh don't tell any woman I said that).

Sadly, this hormone balance plays far too big a role in deciding our masculine characteristics than we would like. If either one of these hormones is altered, it can quite easily lead to the development of breasts in men.

There are a vast range of different factors that can change either one of these hormones and result in breast development. These can fall into any of the following categories: health-related issues, certain medical drugs, everyday exposure to hormone-altering chemicals, hormonal fluctuations that happen during puberty, unknown causes (25% of cases).

If you really are considering undergoing gynecomastia treatment without surgery I advise you to go and see your doctor to first rule out any serious medical causes for your gynecomastia. Your doctor will also examine your breasts to see if there is any hard breast tissue, which, as I mentioned, may require surgical resection.

Though there's a small chance for a medical cause, it's most likely that your man boobs were triggered by environmental factors.

Before taking medical drugs, or even thinking about having surgery, those guys whose man boobs are not caused by a medical illness would greatly benefit by first attempting to reduce their gynecomastia through natural avoidance of environmental triggers. Addressing the environmental factors that cause hormonal fluctuations leading to man boobs, is still important even if your doctor tells you you need surgery. You must reduce your man boobs first using natural methods BEFORE you have surgery, otherwise your man boobs will just grow back AFTER surgery.

I won't lie to you and tell you that pharmaceutical drugs don't work. They actually do work pretty well, but it’s not the safest nor the healthiest option, since you can achieve a perfectly flat chest through natural methods alone. Many natural methods are indeed more powerful than medical drugs.

In the modern world, estrogen is widely used in almost EVERYTHING. Estrogen-like particles called "xenoestrogens" are commonly found in our water supply (where they are completely unfiltered) and almost all processed foods. They are used in fertilizers and pesticides to treat our crops, used as preservatives to increase the shelf-life of produce, and used directly to promote growth and increased milk production in livestock.

One important aspect of gynecomastia treatment without surgery, is to reduce your body's exposure to these environmental estrogens. It's also important to utilize other male-breast-reduction methods that actively pull estrogen away from your body, and methods that increase levels of the male hormone testosterone.

Such tactics involve the control of your diet and specialized exercises that are known to control the circulation of sex horomones in your body. It's also important to know that there is more to losing man boobs than just diet and exercise. To learn about these methods, I suggest you get yourself a copy of Garry Davidson's How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

How To Reduce Breast Size Naturally For Men

RE: How To Reduce Breast Size Naturally For Men

Learning how to reduce breast size naturally is no easy task. The first step is to understand what causes a guy to develop breasts in the first place...

As a man, you can grow man boobs (gynecomastia) for two different reasons.

First, there's having a high body fat percentage. Second, is having a hormonal imbalance, with high levels of the female hormone estrogen, and low levels of the male hormone testosterone.

The main culprit involved in almost every case of hormonal gynecomastia in teenaged boys is the female hormone estrogen.

Usually, nothing needs to be done if you are still a teenager with gynecomastia. In this case even if your breasts are tender and they seem to be getting bigger, you really don't have to be concerned.

You don't have to worry because for a lot of boys this is just a normal part of the growing process. There is absolutely no reason to believe that you’ll turn into a woman, because the changes you see during puberty are usually temporary. But if you're still not convinced, you can go and see your doctor just to make sure.

If you want, you can also learn and follow a regime on how to reduce breast size naturally, as this will help to increase the speed at which your breasts go away. It will also significantly reduce the chances that your breasts will persist into adulthood.

If your man boobs increase in size after the age of 25 then you'll have to make some changes in your diet, and follow an exercise regime that's designed to reduce breast fat. There are also other methods you can use like taking cold showers and avoiding environmental exposure to estrogen.

Once guys like you and I start getting closer to 30, the metabolism that kept us from growing man boobs when we were younger, starts to slack, and the body fat count creeps up.

Reducing the size of your man boobs and eventually flattening out your chest completely, requires that you stay the hell away from the typical American diet, which is loaded with grains, refined carbohydrates, estrogen-loaded fats, and unnatural vegetable oils and trans-fats. Alcohol is also a common culprit when it comes to growing man boobs.

When it comes to exercise, it's really important to stick to the right type of workouts. The usual long-distance cardio you see everyone else doing at the gym and in the park, doesn't work for flattening out the chest. It's important to look into testosterone-boosting exercises like kettlebell training, weight-training and high intensity interval training.

Although it can be difficult to spot-reduce and only lose the fat on the chest, my latest findings suggest that with the right type of exercise, you can at least prioritize the chest.

The trouble with long distance cardio is, that it doesn't change the shape of your body. With enough effort and enough track hours under your belt, you might get smaller, but the shape of your body will remain the same. If you were a big pear shape yesterday, then you'll only be a smaller pear tomorrow.

If on the other hand, you focus on high intensity stop-start types of exercises, you stimulate the release of male sex hormones, which get to work almost immediately at prioritizing the burning of chest fat. With these exercises, your body transforms from having a female gynoid fat distribution. to a male, android fat distribution.

Inclined bench pressing is a critical exercise that you should incorporate into your regime, because it is great for exercising the muscles in your upper chest.

The feminine look disappears as soon as the fat surrounding the nipples is replaced by tight upper chest muscles. A good regime on how to reduce breast size naturally focuses on achieving just this.

Remember that building muscle mass with a weight training regiment requires fewer reps with greater weight.

You can also mask your man boobs by following an exercise routine that involves building up your shoulders, upper and lower chest, and back areas.
 
Where a feminine chest tends to sag, building powerful lower chest muscles will produce an upright muscular physique like Conan the Barbarian's.

Building muscle in the shoulders and the upper back will also stretch and tighten the skin of the upper torso on the whole, so work on building greater muscle mass up there as well as on your chest.

To find out about all the exercises that are known to effectively reduce male breasts, click the link to get yourself a copy of Garry Davidson's How to Lose Man Boobs Naturally.

How To Reduce Breast Size Naturally For Men

RE: How To Reduce Breast Size Naturally For Men

Learning how to reduce breast size via natural means is no easy task. The first step is to understand what causes a guy to develop breasts in the first place...

A man can grow breasts for two different reasons. First, there's the excessive body fat percentage. The fluctuation in the female hormonal levels is the other underlying cause.

The main culprit involved in almost every case of hormonal gynecomastia in teenaged boys is the female hormone estrogen.

Nothing needs to be done if you are still a teenager with the gynecomastia issue. In this case even if your breasts are tender and they seem to be getting bigger, you really don't have to be concerned.

You don't have to worry because for a lot of boys this is just a normal part of the growing process. There is absolutely no reason to believe that you’ll turn into a woman, just because your nipples are sensitive, we all survived this stage. If you're still not convinced however, you can go and see your doctor just to make sure.

If you want, you can also learn and follow a regime on how to reduce breast size naturally, as this will help to increase the speed at which your breasts go away. It will also significantly reduce the chances that your breasts will last into your adulthood.

If your man boobs increase in size after the age of 25 then you would need to change your eating habits and diet.

Once men like you and I start getting closer to 30 the metabolism that kept us from growing beautiful man bosoms when we were younger starts to slack on us a little bit.

Reducing the size and eventually the disappearance of man boobs requires an adjustment to the regular diet that is presently including excessive sugars, alcohol consumption and the typical potatoes with meat you get from a take out meal.

Commence cardio-aerobic exercises along with a dietary adjustment and you’re sure to shrink the excessive adipose tissue in the breasts.

On reaching certain milestones in their lives men tend to build up excess adipose tissue around the breast area.

Luckily, the body does not target one area when it burns fat but takes a global approach by tackling all areas.

Man boobs can be completely reduced if the fat is quickly converted to energy by exercising aerobically with bicycles, running and cross-country skiing,

Weight lifting, jumping rope and hill climbing are also useful anaerobic exercises to shed the excess adipose tissue in the chest area.

Inclined bench pressing is a critical technique that you should learn and remember to do when at the gym because it is great for exercising the muscles in the upper chest.

The feminine look disappears as soon as the fat surrounding the nipples is replaced by tight upper chest muscles. A good regime on how to reduce breast size naturally focuses on achieving just this.

Remember that building muscle mass with a weight training regiment requires fewer reps with greater weight.

Feminine man boobs are easily replaced when the exercise routine is specific for the shoulders as well as the upper and lower chest and back areas.
 
Grandma’s chest tends to sag but building lower chest muscles will produce an upright muscular physique like Conan’s.

Building muscle in the shoulders and the upper back will also stretch and tighten the skin of the upper torso on a whole, so work on building greater muscle mass up there as well as on your chest.

To find out more, I highly suggest you take a look at How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally.


Friday, December 2, 2011

The Best Upper Body Workout For Male Breast Reduction

Male breast reduction is best achieved when tackled from two distinct angles.  Specific chest resistance exercises like those mentioned below are always well complimented by some form of cardio exercise like climbing, running or swimming.

Exercising the muscles of the chest directly by doing pushups, bench presses etc does not burn much fat in the area.

The right balance of diet and cardio when combined, allows the body to burn fat from all over.

Hence having a body-builder’s muscular chest is best achieved when you put in the extra cardio workout.

Enough said about cardio.  Let me introduce you to a powerful chest exercise for effective male breast reduction

Muscle Building Upper Body Dips

Its common knowledge that the single most metabolically stimulating weight-training exercise is the squat.

Dips are for the chest, as squats are for the legs.

Since dips involve using your body weight, they are not as glamorous as the bench press and have unfortunately lost much popularity in the modern day. The truth remains however, that past bodybuilding giants such as Vince Gironda used dips to achieve huge and perfectly defined chests, many without ever going near the bench press. Vince’s preferences are not taken lightly, since he successfully trained a number of top bodybuilders, including Arnie, Larry Scott and Lou Ferrigno, and also celebrities such as Clint Eastwood, Clint Walker, Cher and Erik Estrada.

In fact, he replaced all of the bench presses in his gym with dipping stations.

Chest dips are a powerful exercise that quickly improves the overall strength of the entire upper torso.

Engaging more muscles simultaneously causes more anabolic hormones to be released, stimulating better growth of muscle than using equipment like the bench press or cable crossovers that would focus on the chest only.

Building a wide looking chest is easy as long as your exercise routine focuses on chest dipping which encompasses a downward motion in the arms which by extension works the outer portion of the largest muscle in the chest area that is affectionately called “the pecs”.

To really get a full chest workout the original chest dipping exercise just has to be adjusted with a small tilt forward while doing the exercise.

Conclusions and Tips for Effective Male Breast Reduction …

There is no better exercise for building the muscles of the male chest like chest dips.

Mastering the correct technique for this exercise will produce excellent results in building chest muscles.

I can tell you that you’ll get a really muscular chest by adding pushups along with bench presses to the chest dipping exercise.

If chest dips are done properly the whole chest is exercised but the stimulation has a bigger impact on the lower chest than on the upper chest.

In order to even things out so you can get bigger square stone-slab-like pecs, it helps to combine chest dips with decline pushups, where you have your feet elevated to target your upper chest.

Rest the muscles of the chest for a few days especially after a strenuous workout.

The chest muscles will continue to grow larger with repeated workouts and these routines should be done every other day at first and then with bigger time lapses between workouts as the muscles get larger and need a greater time for recovery.

Over time, in order to see further gains, it will be important for you to take longer rest-periods, going from every other day, to 3 days per week, to 2 days per week, and finally as an advanced bodybuilder (if that’s what your goal is), just once per week.

Male breast reduction isn't easy, but when you put chest dips into the mix, it's only a matter of time before you're walking around with a perfectly flat, masculine chest.

To find out how to correctly utilize chest dips for losing man boobs, and to learn about other yet more powerful male breast reduction exercises, click the link to get yourself a copy of Garry Davidson's How to Lose Man Boobs Naturally.

The Best Upper Body Workout …

The objective of removing the excess adipose tissue from the area of the chest is achieved when tackled from two distinct angles.  Specific chest resistance exercises like those mentioned below are always well complimented by some form of cardio exercise like climbing, running or swimming.

Exercising the muscles of the chest directly by doing pushups, bench presses etc does not burn much fat in the area.

The right balance of diet and cardio when combined, allows the body to burn fat from all over.

Hence having a body-builder’s muscular chest is best achieved when you put in the extra cardio workout.

Enough said about cardio.  Let me introduce you to a powerful chest exercise for shaping up that chest…

Muscle building Upper Body dips

Its common knowledge that the single most metabolically stimulating weight-training exercise is the squat.

Dips are for the chest, as squats are for the legs.

Since dips involve using your body weight, they are not as glamorous as the bench press and have unfortunately lost much popularity in the modern day. The truth remains however, that past bodybuilding giants such as Vince Gironda used dips to achieve huge and perfectly defined chests, many without ever going near the bench press. Vince’s preferences are not taken lightly, since he successfully trained a number of top bodybuilders, including Arnie, Larry Scott and Lou Ferrigno, and also celebrities such as Clint Eastwood, Clint Walker, Cher and Erik Estrada.

In fact, he replaced all of the bench presses in his gym with dipping stations.

Chest dips are a powerful exercise that quickly improves the overall strength of the entire upper torso.

Engaging more muscles simultaneously causes more anabolic hormones to be released, stimulating better growth of muscle than using equipment like the bench press or cable crossovers that would focus on the chest only.

Building a wide looking chest is easy as long as your exercise routine focuses on chest dipping which encompasses a downward motion in the arms which by extension works the outer portion of the largest muscle in the chest area that is affectionately called “the pecs”.

To really get a full chest workout the original chest dipping exercise just has to be adjusted with a small tilt forward while doing the exercise.

Conclusions and Tips for a Muscular Chest …

There is no better exercise for building the muscles of the male chest like chest dips.

Mastering the correct technique for this exercise will produce excellent results in building chest muscles.

I can tell you that you’ll get a really muscular chest by adding pushups along with bench presses to the chest dipping exercise.

If chest dips are done properly the whole chest is exercised but the stimulation has a bigger impact on the lower chest than on the upper chest.

In order to even things out so you can get bigger square stone-slab-like pecs, it helps to combine chest dips with decline pushups, where you have your feet elevated to target your upper chest.

Rest the muscles of the chest for a few days especially after a strenuous workout.

The chest muscles will continue to grow larger with repeated workouts and these routines should be done every other day at first and then with bigger time lapses between workouts as the muscles get larger and need a greater time for recovery.

Over time, in order to see further gains, it will be important for you to take longer rest-periods, going from every other day, to 3 days per week, to 2 days per week, and finally as an advanced bodybuilder (if that’s what your goal is), just once per week.

To learn more about upper body exercises for losing man boobs, click the link to visit How To Lose Man Boobs Naturally.


Monday, October 31, 2011

Getting Rid Of Gynecomastia Through Exercise

There are two specific non-medical causes of gynecomastia. A high body fat percentage is the most common cause. One may also be afflicted with gynecomastia for hormonal reasons.


Now, the reason boys breasts get sensitive during puberty is because of hormonal fluctuations, particularly the hormone estrogen (or oestrogen).

Getting Rid Of Gynecomastia

Most young people below the age of 20 don't really have to do anything to eliminate their man boobs. Having male boobs at this stage of life is really no cause for concern.

Boys going through puberty naturally experience hormonal fluctuations that can lead to man boobs that later go away by themselves. Trust me, I had sensitive nipples when I was younger, and good god was I scared I was turning into a woman. But I didn't, and neither will you. If you're still not convinced however, you can go and see your doctor just to make sure.

Work on decreasing the size of your gynecomastia with changes in you diet and an exercise plan if there is still cause for concern at age 25

The development cycle of men between ages 25 and 30 shows fluctuations in the female hormones characterized by an increase in the size of their man boobs, that may not have been seen in their youth

It's time to stop with the meat and potatoes diet. Drink less beer, for sure, and stop eating sweets if you want to get rid of man boobs.

Gynecomastia Exercises For Getting Rid Of Gynecomastia

Diet isn't the only thing; if you're serious about getting rid of man boobs, you must start doing cardio-aerobic gynecomastia exercises ASAP.

Female looking boobs on men over a certain age are caused by the excessive fat build up in the chest.

All areas of the human body are affected by any reduction of the fat percentage within it.

Man boobs respond to added aerobic exercise like biking, running and cross-country skiing and are reduced quickly when the fat almost magically converts to energy

Anaerobic exercising is also an effective method of reducing the appearance of man boobs.

The best practice for working the upper chest is to rep-up on the incline bench press machine found at most gyms because of the focus required on this area of the chest.

Building the upper physique of the body is easy when emphasis is placed on increasing the amount of muscle mass as opposed to fat in the upper chest region.

Weight training regimes that focus on a smaller amount of reps but increased weights, quickly builds muscle mass.

You must be prepared to focus your exercise routines on your upper torso to bring about the transformation from man boob to muscular chest.

Your appearance can go from being a present day grandma to a modern day Conan!

Muscle building gynecomastia exercises that include the stretching and tightening of the skin surrounding the upper torso impacts the overall transformed appearance and must also be focused on when exercising the chest.

To learn more, click the link to get yourself a copy of Garry Davidson's How to Lose Man Boobs Naturally.