How to reduce belly fat

1. Reduce your sugar intake, this also includes (YES) artificial sweeteners into 25 grams per day. (For women)

2. Eat your three portions of FRESH vegetables a day. Make sure your tummy can digest them.

For me, these include

• Spinach
• Salad mixed
• Lettuce
• Cucumber
• Bell peppers
• Cherry tomatoes
• Avocado
• Arugula

3. Gluten-free foods, artificial sweeteners, fruit or berry juices, fat-free or low-fat products, granola and canned food suck.

You are welcome.

If you still have belly fat, it might be because of gas:

1. Don't chew your gum for so long. Just for 20 minutes.

2. Cut beans and peas out of your diet. Or just any other thing that gives you inflammation or flatulence.

3. Stress relief could be a thing.


And if you still have belly fat, it might be just retained fat from eating an excessive amount of carbohydrates or salt.


1. Reduce your carbohydrate intake to three portions of carbohydrates a day.

2. Eat only products that contain less salt than 1gram per 100 grams. This is not hard.


If it still remains there, it might be your stress levels (cortisol):

1. Practise meditation and mindfulness once a day. Or twice if you like. I like them.

2. Do not strain with carbohydrates or anything else in your diet. You don't want to starve yourself or otherwise startle your body with a too strict diet. It's not very healthy either.

Balance is the key.


And obviously, workout:

1. Blank (remember to squeeze your glute muscles)
2. Lower abdominals: leg raise with laying down on your back, make sure your lower back does NOT arch, think about the balance when you lower your legs
3. And all the variations of these.

Drink enough water,
Annika

Planning

Hello there.

I want to make a good workout routine for myself. The other didn't quite work, it was rather exhausting. However, I am going to take some of the earlier movements into this plan.

So, what I want to do is:

3 times a week HIIT (high-intensity interval training) OK

3-4 times a week a core muscle workout OK

2 times a week yin yoga

2 times a week foam rolling

Flexing, stretching and warming up every day 30 minutes?

And, we have 7 days a week. What are we going to do?

• We also need two days when we don't do anything big. 
• HIIT workout has to be done every second day, or that there is a day in between workouts
• I cannot workout hard on the same day I do foam rolling

Are there any other conditions?

No. But if it appears there are, I will add it to that list, and adjust it to my workout routine. 

Monday Core workout

Tuesday HIIT

Wednesday Core workout

Thursday HIIT

Friday Yin yoga, foam rolling

Saturday HIIT

Sunday Core workout

It appears, that I cannot do yin yoga so often, not 2 times a week or foam rolling. It means that I will do it properly on Fridays. 

But also, this core workout, wait up. It has to build the muscles I need to be built. 

• left back muscle
• left shin and calf muscles
• hip dip muscles

These muscles need just strength

• left glute muscle
• also a bit right glute muscle
• lower abdominals

Warming up and stretchings

• Variety of exercises to get the heart rate up (jumping jacks for example)
• Neck
• Shoulders, arms swinging, hands back and chest up towards the sky, blade stretch
• Arms, back
• Ribs, two exercises
• Chest, cat bow
• Spine, swirling
• Lower back
• Abdominals, on your knees, reach hands back and grab your ankles
• Glutes, pigeon
• Hip flexors
• Thighs, open, back, front, butterfly
• Calves, downward-facing dog, and flex and point
• Ankles
• Wrists

If the current muscle or joint is tense, flex it twice as much as the other muscle

Cooling down and stretching

• Walking
• Back muscle, reach forward
• Back muscle and ribs and back thighs, sitting down, reach alternative toes
• Butterfly stretch
• Hip flexors
• Open your hips
• Glutes
• Front thighs, mermaid's pose
• Downward-facing dog for chest and ankles and calves
• Childs pose
• Chest, cat's bow
• Rib sides with hands interlaced

Foam rolling

• Calves
• Shins
• Glutes
• Thighs
• Back muscles
• Hip flexors

Core workouts

• Plie squat
• Blank
• Lunges
• Lower abdominal exercises
• Leg circles on your knees and hands
• Leg bridges
• Stars
• Leg raises

Yin yoga

• Deep stretches
• Target the places in your body that you hold a lot of tension: Jaws, neck, shoulders, hip flexors, lower back, chest, front and back thigs, blades, the back of the arms and glutes
• And those which are already tense: left hip flexor, right thigh, left ankle, left rib, left-back muscle and right glute

Examples:

• Happy baby pose
• Butterfly pose
• Pigeon pose
• Cat's bow

And what comes to HIIT workouts, I usually do follow-up workouts from YouTube or Vshed.

If you are shocked by the number of exercises here, I'm going to say that these were only the exercises. There is more to come! :D


It's about eating and other health management.

Then, I will likely post some dreams and therefore goals here.

But, this is enough for today.



Keep in mind who is your role model.


So so much love,
Annika

For myself

Hello, beauties!

Today I decided to make a workout routine for myself, that is very personalized for my body and mind.

As I have known for a long time, my lower back has a curve, known as lordosis, that is caused by weak lower abdominals, tight hip flexors and weak glute muscles.

What I think for me, is that my core isn't very solid just around my lower body.

The good thing is, that this is absolutely treatable, and this is maintaining my own self. My identity isn't going to change, it is going to be better and stronger. It will work better.

So, with those things in mind, let's create a personalized workout for myself.

Start with patience. Your body will give it one day. Do it right. It will give you that.

• Lower abdominal leg raises, hold the navel into your spine and keep your lower back on the ground. 

• Leg bridges

• Single leg bridges, hold and baby pulse

• Stars

• Leg kick to the back, baby pulse keeping your core tight

• alternative leg and hand up, knee down, hold and baby pulse

• Blank position, breathe

And then flexing:

• Hip flexors, abs tight

• Thigh flexing, mermaid position, hold your abs

• Glutes, pigeon position

• Child's pose

• Cat stretching for the chest

Is this too much? No. I will know what to do. This is good. Most important are leg bridges, lower abdominals, stars and core workout, that is the baseline. And what comes to stretching, hip flexors, thighs and glutes. And chest. 

My body will be stronger. And I will be able to hold my lower body well. It will be easier! 

Also, I will have a foam roller to open the tensions in my front thigs and I will do that after my workout :)

I'm excited about this!

I love you guys,
Annika

A new blog, I new chapter in my life.

Hi everyone.

I didn't know if I should have waited until this blogs outlook is ready before writing. But I can do it another time.

So this is my new blog. This is where I will write about my life. I am excited about this. I want to write about my life.

What I wanted to tell you guys today are my goals. My goals in fitness and self-transformation.

At first, I thought that I will be happy when I look like her. Or that I am feeling like I am satisfied. But neither of those give me satisfaction because they are not that exact. They are too imprecise for the human mind to know what to exactly do.

What I want, is to get the craving for working out. Make it a habit. Come familiar with blanking. That is where I feel the most potential with my body. I want to not be afraid of pain. I want to find the best moves for my body, especially those which work out the parts in myself that need improvement.

I cannot wait to get started this. I can feel it so strongly.

Also, I will tell you my other goals in life. I will tell you them soon.

I love you very much. I cannot wait to write to you again. I have so much to tell you. ♥

Much love,
Annika