You were born with a flexible body. Your body is designed to be flexible so that you can easily reach down and pick something up off the floor, or to zip up the back of your dress or reach up for the top shelf at the supermarket. These are all simple activities that most people take for granted and do every day. If you begin to have difficulties in doing these simple tasks, then it is almost past the time you need to do something about it, but,it is never too late to learn!
Let's go back a little... more often than not, cellulite is likely to form, if you are overweight. Fat builds up on different parts of the body, especially the legs, on women. Women have a tighter connective tissue around their muscles, so that the fat deposits (cellulite) are more noticeable as the orange peel effect on the skin, commonly referred to as cellulite legs.
If you are overweight, you may find exercising difficult, even painful and unbearable at first, but, there is another way to exercise and tone your muscles, and start the fat burning process, in a gentel way, then moving up to more rigorous exercise routines, as and when recommended by you and your personal trainer.
STRETCHING
There is nothing complicated about stretching - it is simply extending your body or body part to its full length. You do it, to some extent, in every day activities. The most important thing is that anyone can do it, no matter what their age. Also, it is recommended (under guidance or supervision) for people with physical disability such as chronic back pain. When you stop exercising or stretching any muscle group, that muscle gets tighter with age. For that reason, it is important to incorporate some stretching in every day activities. Or set aside time for stretching.
Exercise Routines
Before you take part in any form of exercise you ought to first go through a stretching routine; and this is more important if you take part in any rigorous sporting activity. This is why you see a lot of footballers and athletes go through a stretching routine such as sitting down and reaching for their toes, to stretch their hamstrings. Martial artists always go through a 10 minute routine before they practise their sport. 10 minutes is actually the optimum time to do the stretching, before engaging in any sport or exercise routine. Do it for any longer and you start to tire the muscle group, rather than stretch it.
However, for those who do NOT take part in exercise or sport, then stretching for longer than 10 minutes actually works the muscle group in a gentle way, and so can be very therapeutic for those who use stretching to build up their core muscle group, prior to going on any formal type of exercise routine. Stretches for back pain, including pilates, are something to consider, if want to strengthen your lower back and help overcome your back pain.
Stretching provides you with a number of benefits
A) They increase the range of movement of your muscles and tendons, by increasing their length, so that you develop more suppleness and flexibility in your joints. We often marvel at martial artists and the way they can stretch their legs to kick at amazing heights; also, ballerinas and dancers, in the way they move so gracefully. They have one thing in common - they all perform stretching exercises to increase their flexibility. They help you also to become fit - something to remember if you are obese or suffer from back pain - you can still stretch your way to fitness. Stretching also helps break up those fatty deposits and is the first step to getting rid of those cellulite legs!
B) Stretching helps to prevent injury to your body. When you can achieve a good range of flexibility, and corresponding levels of fitness, they can recover more quickly from your exertions, with less chance of injury.
C) Relaxation of the muscles - they do not tense up so quickly, because they are used to exercise.
D) Increase your levels of energy - the more often you stretch, the more you can move, the more efficiently you can exercise and the better you will feel. You become more aware of your body's potential and not its limitations. It becomes a self motivation tool in itself. The more energy you have, the more you can exercise, the faster you can burn off fat and get rid of those cellulite legs.
E) It actually has been shown to reduce cholesterol content - yoga, is essentially a form of stretching exercises and doing these for any length of time, helps to reduce the level of cholesterol in your body. Less cholesterol means cleaner arteries means less breathlessness as your blood can increase its delivery of oxygen to your body. More oxygen means you can do more exercise. Stretching really can help you become a healthier you!
If you ask any personal trainer, you will find that they will strongly advocate stretching as part of your fitness program, no matter what level of fitness you are at, at any given time. The beautiful thing about stretching exercises is that they can be done almost anytime, anywhere, and if you are shy about your fitness levels, then the privacy of your own home is the best place to start.
Learn more by taking a look at Cellulite Legs to get a few more tips and also here, for Exercises For Cellulite
