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Case Study: Help Woman Lose weight

design a routine for a forty-year-old woman who wants to lose 20 pounds of fat without getting too big.

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how to get a woman to lose 20 pounds
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Anyone who loses weight will lose weight, optimally, at a rate of 90% fat and 10% muscle. A woman, on top of that fact, does not have the muscle building power to look like a man, naturally, in the first place.

The whole goal with a client that is trying to lose weight is to maintain muscle mass.

The way make a woman lose 20 pounds of fat with minimal muscle loss is as follows.

1. Calculate out how many calories she is going to lose in order to lose 20 pounds of fat, under perfect conditions.
(20*3500)=70,000 calories*1.11 (to include the 10% of extra muscle mass she could lose)= 77,700 calories.

2. Take her measurements- Chest, Waist, Arm, Legs, Butt in inches

3. Find out what her metabolism is, if possible. Or, do a rough estimation by doing her weight in kg*23+ extra activity included in her daily life.

4. Do basic stress tests on a treadmill or ergometer. Test her flexibility, posture, and other things integral to a good workout.

5. Create an exercise regimen based off of her medical conditions, skeletal condition, ROM limitations (torn rotator cuff? torn ACL?), and overall general health as found through testing in step four.

6. Assuming she is in generally good health, then it have her do ellipticals as her first mode of cardiovascular health and weight loss for as long as she can go without becoming too exhausted. Make sure she switches off increasing her intensity and duration of her exercise until she figures out how many times (frequency) she can do it. Have her do a circut on the nautilus machines to work her upper body.

7. Once she is used to the idea of exercising and maintaining an exercise regimen, begin to cut out unhealthy foods in her diet. i.e. she has 2 150 calorie soft drinks a day. That is equal to 3/5 of a pound of fat that could be lost each week with that one modification.

8. Modify the new diet so she loses 500 calories a day between diet and exercise (minimally)- while at the same preserving muscle mass by incorporating lean meats like fat free turkey and talapia for high protein low calorie sources of food. This will allow her to reach the 1.3-1.5 grams of protein for each kg of body mass.

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