<p><p id="intelliTxt" name="intelliTxt"><img height="300" border="1" align="right" src="http://images.askmen.com/galleries/singer/beyonce/pictures/beyonce-picture-1.jpg" alt="" />Beyonce tends to be a focus for many women in regaining their youthful shape. But let’s take a look at her approach to fitness so we know WHY it works for her.</p>
Step 1: To drop some of her initial weight, she followed the Master Cleanse Diet for a week. This detox diet requires you to cut out solid foods. Instead of food, you drink a mix of lemon, water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper.
The problem with this is that the body cannibalizes muscle tissue (literally eating away at your muscle tone), and down-shifts you into hybernation mode making you burn less calories throughout the day. It’s a starvation diet wrapped in the dressings of health.
Beyonce could get away with this because she has the money and time to afford all of the toxicity that you release when you cleanse. If you’re a parent or have a full-time job, a cleanse can be a beast. The best bet you could make would be to make ONE shift in your diet a week. Here’s a schedule I suggest:
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Week 1: exchange all coffee for black tea.
- Week 2: eat a big breakfast one hour after waking including 1/3 your bodyweight in grams of protein.
- Week 3: make your lunch “all green” - salads, stirfry or soup - heavy in complex carbs, and throw on some fish or beans for protein.
- Week 4: exchange any pastries, candy or chocolate for banana chips, dates, or mango slices.
Step 2: Exercise 5 days a week. You can’t have bootyliciousness by sitting on the couch all day long. There’s no magic pill, but there are secret strategies to make it stick! Every morning get out there and put in the roadwork - walk or run 40 minutes. Start with walking. The duration is the issue, not the speed initially.
Here’s an example of how she circuit trains, but offering CST substitutes for the movements. Don’t count reps. Do each move for one minute and hold the last rep for as long as you can. This will give you the time under tension you need to cause lasting transformation to your body.
Minute 1: Crunches (basic Be Breathed spinal rocks)- Minute 2: Bicycle Crunches (twisting shinbox Be Breathed spinal rocks)
- Minute 3: Rest
- Minute 4: Core Twists (hurdler Be Breathed spinal rocks)
- Minute 5: Core Twists (straddle Be Breathed spinal rocks)
- Minute 6: Rest
- Minute 7: Plank Hold (quad squat FlowFit)
- Minute 8: Rest
- Minute 9: Plank Hold (quad squat FlowFit)
- Minute 10: Rest
- Minute 11: Captain’s Chair (swinging plank Forward Pressure)
- Minute 12: Captain’s Chair (swinging plank Forward Pressure)
Then, Beyonce adds in a 20 minutes session with free-weights. Target the basics: arm casts, shoulder casts, head casts, and flag presses. Use the clubbells, of course.
Step 3: Work on your butt. Duh. Beyonce is considered bootylicious because of how hard she’s worked on her legs, thighs and bum. When trying to get a body like Beyonce, you have to do exercises that target the butt. She mixes it up with 2-3 sets of lunges, squats and leg lifts. Here’s a “Translational Series” from Circular Strength Training System to carve your own bootyliciousness:
- Lunge forward right
- Lunge forward left
- Side lunge to the right
- Side lunge to the left
- Rear lunge right
- Rear lunge left
- Squat bum to heels
- And jump as high as you can
Repeat for 2 minutes; rest for 60 seconds, and then perform 2 more sets.
Step 4: Spend time playing… Beyonce practices her dance routines each day, which are inherently athletic. Dancing can provide a high impact cardio workout.
So you have to remember that whatever you’re doing throughout the day, you want to be a “little bit active” in everything that you do. Make fitness a habit, rather than just a work-out. It’s not survival of the fittest, but thrivival of the fittest. If you want to have a great body, live a great bodily life. Not only will you feel great, but you’ll look great too… Bootyliciousness is as bootyliciousness does.
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flow thyself,
