Why Machine Strength Training Doesn't Lead to Weight Loss
To lose weight efficiently through dieting, as you know, the fundamental principle is to prioritize increasing basal metabolism, which accounts for 70% of the body's energy expenditure.
To increase basal metabolism, you must increase muscle mass. Muscle tissue is the only tissue in the body that burns fat.
In other words, efficient weight loss dieting requires increasing muscle mass.
Since "Diet = Increase Muscle," let's examine how effective "machine training" and "machines" are for strength training from the perspective of "increasing muscle mass." "Machines" refer to the strength training machines commonly seen in sports gyms, like those shown above.
Muscle physiologically cannot be efficiently increased unless weight is applied to muscles in a way that opposes gravity. However, with machines, the direction is diagonal or the gravity direction is bent by cables or camshafts, so they're not 100% opposing gravity. This means only a small fraction of the weight being handled actually loads the muscles themselves. In other words, you're exerting force but muscles often don't increase enough to create a diet-friendly constitution.
Moreover, despite only a small fraction of the handled load actually reaching the muscles, machine strength training prioritizes superficial muscle areas. Since you don't need to maintain balance, deep muscles aren't effectively targeted - only surface muscles are primarily engaged. This creates not only poor balance between surface and deep muscles, but also results in poor left-right muscle balance. This is because machines can be operated even when one side is unbalanced. For example, as you can see in the machine on the left in the photo above (leg press machine), the machine can be operated using just one leg.
Due to these factors, machine training cannot build balanced muscle due to the machine's structural limitations, making it impossible to increase the fat-burning muscle needed. In other words, machines are unsuitable for efficient weight loss dieting.
I, personal trainer Toshiaki Ozeki, have seen many people who work hard but don't see results and waste their efforts during my many years of involvement in body shaping and diet instruction and personal training instruction as a personal trainer. I've also seen many people who think body shaping and dieting are painful and unenjoyable. I provide personal training with the desire to help such people.
Though my contribution may be small, I sincerely hope that my body shaping and diet knowledge and instruction experience can help as many people as possible.
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Many women think they should do more lower body exercises to slim their lower body! Are you also focusing blindly on lower body exercises because you want to slim your lower body? However, if the form doesn't match your skeletal structure, your hips and thighs might actually get bigger with muscle development. This is the dilemma of lower body exercises - even though you're doing body shaping...
From the extensive model guidance experience of personal trainer Toshiaki Ozeki, who has the #1 track record in model body shaping, it has been discovered that top models have developed what are called "model muscles" - muscle areas that ordinary people don't have. If you develop model muscles, you can achieve a model skeleton and automatically get a model body type. With model muscles, you can achieve the same straight, linear model body lines as top models.
Does doing lots of abdominal exercises remove fat from the waist? If you think so, that's a big problem! To conclude, body shaping is not that simple. Conversely, belly fat can be removed and the waist can be slimmed without doing abdominal exercises. To change a body that's hard to lose weight, you need authentic women's body shaping that produces results.
Slender, straight, thin stick legs - so-called model legs - have become essential not just for models but for all women in today's fashion-forward world where showing legs is mainstream. While model leg body shaping tends to focus only on making legs thinner, the key point of model leg body shaping is creating the straight, linear appearance of the legs.
In model body type body shaping, we reduce overall fat, change the shape of areas of concern, adjust posture and skeletal silhouette to straight joint angles, and organize body type lines. We polish the model body type by developing the same model muscles as top models. Finally, we add model body functions to achieve perfect finishing - this is true model body type body shaping.
To slim and beautifully shape your calves, you first need to objectively determine the cause of your thick calves. Causes of thick calves include: ① fat accumulation causing thickness, ② muscle causing thickness, ③ a combination of both. For cases ② and ③, body shaping that reduces calf muscle is essential.
While "pelvis" has become a standard term in women's body shaping and women's diet training, there are endless consultations about pelvis body shaping: "I didn't lose weight in a feminine way," "I didn't get a slender model-like body type," "I didn't lose weight at all"... Aren't you fed up with body shaping that uses the plausible-sounding word "pelvis" to obscure what's really happening?
Women with good posture are beautiful and cool. Good posture alone makes you look slimmer. Everyone surely thinks so. Even if you work hard to lose weight and diet, if you don't have beautiful posture, you won't look slender and your body shaping efforts will be wasted, won't they? In authentic body shaping, we don't leave posture to conscious effort - beautiful posture is achieved through body shaping training that changes the underlying skeletal joint angles.
Have you experienced doing upper arm exercises to slim your upper arms but finding that your upper arms don't get thinner? Or dieting but your upper arms don't look thinner? You might hear that you should do lots of upper arm exercises because your upper arms are a concern, but you've probably already realized that doing only upper arm exercises has almost no effect on reducing upper arm fat or slimming them.
Do you really understand the body mechanisms for weight loss and the systems that enable dieting? Is not eating the best way to lose weight? Is exercise unnecessary for weight loss? Can you lose weight by going to diet gyms or women's exclusive body shaping gyms? Does cardio burn fat? Foods introduced on TV one after another and exercise books lining bookstore shelves... The honest truth is you don't know which ones are really effective!!
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