The universal method of losing weight and rejuvenating - bodyflex - reviews are described as the most simple and effective. Its popularity is due to the fact that it takes a little time, so even super-busy people can easily devote only 15-20 minutes a day to it.
In addition, this practice of weight loss, strengthening muscle tone and skin rejuvenation can give good results to everyone who does not attend the gym or does aerobics from time to time. Various online sites are full of enthusiastic reviews and stories about the good results of people who have lost weight. However, today you can find negative feedback about widely known breathing practices.
About the author of bodyflex and its followers
Housewife Greer Childers, who lives in one of the American provinces, quickly gained weight after the birth of her third child. The plump figure brought a lot of suffering to the woman and caused problems in her personal life. Low self-esteem and the inability to choose for the wardrobe that Greer considered ideal for herself, made her look for ways to change the figure of the 56th size. Studying specialized literature, the future author of "lazy weight loss" was faced with breathing exercises. Greer was interested in the theory of proper breathing to ventilate the lower lungs. Having tried this practice on herself, she created a bodyflex. Reviews of adherents of this method indicate that it helps to lose weight and at the same time feel good.
His author managed to reduce the size of the body to the desired 44th. To enhance the effect of body-flexing exercises, Greer Childers combined breathing practice with simple exercises.
The main secret of a unique technique
Aerobic respiration, which serves as the basis of bodyflex, helps to saturate every cell of the body with oxygen, in the presence of which fat is actively broken down. This type of enrichment of our tissues with vital gas - diaphragmatic (abdominal breathing) - is not usually used in everyday practice.
It works simply: holding the breath for 8-10 seconds causes an accumulation of CO 2 in the tissues, which provokes the expansion of arteries. As a result, the absorption of oxygen by the cells is much more efficient. This "additional" O 2 is a real "megastank", which:
- Saturates with energy.
- It improves well-being.
- Helps to successfully deal with extra pounds.
Exercise poses help strengthen muscle tone, which leads to restoration of muscle elasticity, skin tightening. Successfully stimulating the fight against cellulite and age wrinkles, bodyflex reviews receive positive feedback from the majority of the fair sex. Despite the slow and calm movements during aerobic exercise, this weight loss technique causes a more tangible effect than doing strength exercises or jogging.
For example, for a half-hour training session with the use of body flex it is possible to burn 1700-1800 kcal, while running during this period will allow you to get rid of only 300-400 kcal, and normal fitness - to remove no more than 150 kcal. Greer Childers designed the exercises in such a way that it was possible to load certain parts of the body, achieving changes in the muscular relief in problem areas.
Bodyflex for beginners: how to breathe
To master the technique of proper diaphragmatic breathing in body flex, you first need to take the classic pose of a “basketball player”: place your legs 35 cm wide from each other, lean your hands on your legs above your knees (about 2.5 cm) and bend them a bit, as if crouching. The breathing practice of bodyflex (reviews of those who lost weight with photos before and after indicate its effectiveness) consists of several stages:
- First you need to empty the lungs from the rest of the air. An important rule: you need to exhale through the mouth, and breathe in with your nose! Having folded lips with a tube, as if for uttering the sound “y”, we completely exhale all the air from the lungs.
- Then you need to perform a powerful, swift breath with your nose, filling your lungs as much as possible.
- Next, we make a sharp exhalation through the lips, located horizontally (as for even distribution of lipstick during the application of makeup), while “groin” is heard.
- Performing a breath hold, we lower the head down, pull the stomach as far as possible inward and slowly count to 8.
- The final stage is a relaxed breath. We return to the initial stance of the “basketball player” and calmly inhale with our nose.
At home, as Marina Korpan advises, you can use a universal breathing technique that preserves the sequence of the process, but the stand can be more loose.
Exercise Features
During body-flexing exercises, the muscles experience the whole range of physical activities: isotonic, isometric, and tensile. The first function allows you to contract certain muscle groups, the second - to strain without changing the length of the muscles, the third - to work on stretching.
Such biomechanics creates the conditions for muscle training in any of the controlled areas. Anyone who first decided to do bodyflex, reviews of those who have lost weight are advised to pay attention not only to the correct breathing, but also to the technique of performing one or another exercise.
The advantages of this system
In contrast to the methods of losing weight that are widely advertised today, the described weight loss program does not require:
- A lot of time for training - lesson for 15 minutes helps to improve well-being and improve mood.
- Special equipment, since 12 gymnastic exercises are simple and affordable. Their implementation resembles the usual morning exercises, after which a person feels a surge of strength.
- Adhere to strict diets. It is enough to switch to a healthy balanced diet that ensures the normal functioning of the body.
- The cost of a subscription to a fitness club, travel related to waste of time.
Bodyflex for weight loss also collects positive reviews because it includes special exercises for face lifting, neck muscle tightening, which are absent in shaping, aerobics and fitness programs.
Just a week of training according to the methodology of Greer Childers or Marina Korpan, who has developed respiratory gymnastics and promotes it in our country, helps to make the waist thinner by 5 or 10 cm, and in some cases it is possible to achieve a difference of 15-20 cm!
Weight loss is not the goal: what to expect from training
In a popular book that tells how to achieve a great figure, doing body-flex for 15 minutes a day, Greer Childers claims that the main result of the author’s program for all losing weight is not weight loss as such, but strengthening the muscle tone of the whole body and increasing the person’s energy potential. After a long course of bodyflex training, the reviews of those who lost weight with a photo indicate the elimination of the excess layer of fat, tightening sluggish skin. Owners of a loose loose layer of fat cells, as a rule, achieve more impressive results than those who have a minimum percentage of excess weight.
In addition to positive changes in the figure, regular breathing exercises contribute to:
- increase the human immune defense;
- reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems, the onset and development of oncology;
- normalization of digestive function;
- getting rid of bad habits.
An increase in the general tone of the body, which is caused by regular body-flexing exercises, is equally beneficial for women and men.
Indications: what helps a unique practice
Marina Korpan and Greer Childers recommend that everyone who suffers from physical inactivity - lack of physical activity or its absence, pay attention to bodyflex breathing exercises. Reviews of those who have lost weight with a photo demonstrate:
- Elimination of excess weight, which is the main cause of a person’s dissatisfaction with his appearance.
- Skin tightness and lack of signs of early aging.
- Strengthening muscle tone throughout the body, including problem areas.
- The disappearance of puffiness and the reduction of the "orange peel".
- Improvement in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
- The absence of chronic fatigue syndrome, weakness and drowsiness, as well as emotional irritability.
Often people who are addicted to tobacco smoking quit this unhealthy habit using the described breathing practice. A wide range of indications for bodyflex training is due to the fact that training is simple and non-exhausting, the result often becomes noticeable after 3-5 weeks of regular practice.
Contraindications
Having studied a whole shaft of information about body flex, reviews, before and after photos posted on forums and other thematic online sites, many decide that this system is suitable for any person without restrictions. But actually there is a taboo for:
- Pregnant women, because diaphragmatic breathing causes high tension of the walls of the abdomen, which can harm the desired baby or stimulate premature birth. Doctors recommend bodybuilders who are long-time fans of bodyflex to coordinate their classes with a specialist who usually advises to exclude the respiratory program, leaving only a tensile load on the muscles.
- Those who suffer from various chronic diseases, as well as people who have recently been injured or undergone surgery. Holding your breath along with a deep breath can cause stress in the body. This leads to an increase in blood pressure, an increase in heart rate, which, combined with the stress of various muscle groups, negatively affects overall health.
The list of other taboos for body flex exercises includes reviews of doctors:
- Heart failure.
- Hernias of various localization.
- Uterine fibroids (since deep breathing and abdominal tension can trigger bleeding).
- Arrhythmia.
- Pathologies and diseases of the thyroid gland.
- Glaucoma.
- A high degree of myopia.
- Bronchial asthma.
- Intracranial pressure.
- Elevated body temperature.
- Bleeding.
- Hypertension (in a severe stage).
Doctors advise to undergo a medical examination before using any of the breathing practices to exclude possible contraindications. It is also necessary to verify the absence of chronic and other diseases with mild symptoms.
Three basic rules from Marina Korpan
To improve the result from training in body flex, the reviews of a famous Russian guru suggest adhering to basic instructions:
- Consistency in bodyflex is the most important factor in achieving high efficiency. Daily classes should be held regularly, without gaps and excuses. Enough 15-30 minutes a day. Most prefer a 20-minute workout to get the perfect body proportions.
- It is necessary to maintain a reserve of patience. The fight against excess weight at the initial stage is aimed at strengthening the muscles, which contributes to the careful implementation of exercises. Correction of problem areas is included later.
- Those who are interested in the bodyflex system, reviews of those who have lost weight with Marina Korpan are advised not to starve or stick to strict diets, as this causes weight gain. It is right enough, that is, balanced, to eat, and a set of exercises to perform without fail on an empty stomach.
Bodyflex system: advantages and results
Greer Childers and Marina Korpan breathing program helps fat people:
- Improve metabolism by accelerating thermolipolysis (fat burning).
- Strengthen the abdominal muscles.
- Absorb oxygen fully (if during normal breathing, body cells absorb only 25% of the received volume of vital gas, then during training with bodyflex this parameter increases to 85%).
- Reduce the amount of hard-to-reach visceral fat filling the space around the internal organs.
- Reduce or eliminate cellulite, as in people practicing bodyflex, the photos show the absence of an “orange peel”.
- Successfully deal with constipation and other gastrointestinal problems.
- Increase muscle elasticity.
- Bring the contours of the body to the ideal.
- Align the oval of the face.
- Normalize digestion and regularly remove toxins.
- Improve self-esteem and improve mood.
After a year or two of regular bodyflex exercises, reviews with photos from experienced show dramatic changes. If at the initial stage any model can see a loose and voluminous body, then by the end of the period tremendous changes take place with it - the figure becomes slim and fit.
Does the respiratory system help everyone?
In practice, there are occasionally cases when the process of losing weight lasts too long or becomes impossible. Trained people, whose muscles retain their tone, incredibly slowly lose weight. Such people manage to maintain a figure with the help of breathing exercises, but no significant changes occur. A wonderful bodyflex technique in reviews with results that are noticeable to others is usually intended for overweight people who are not able to use strength training with intense exercise, running and jumping.
The effectiveness of bodyflex can also decrease with the use of certain drugs: antidepressants, hormonal drugs, birth control pills. The absence of visible changes in the figure after training is sometimes associated with individual characteristics of the human metabolism. This technique does not work in those cases when the student does everything through force, without pleasure, not believing in a positive result. In the absence of discipline and inability to perform breathing exercises, it is impossible to lose weight daily, and a three-day break in classes leads to the fact that you have to learn to breathe again. In addition, it will not work either to reduce body weight below the physiological norm.
Opposing opinions and expert comments
One of the opponents of bodyflex - Alexey Faleev - the author of his own weight loss program, promoting it with the help of several books and a number of relevant articles, indicates the presence of large, 10-second, respiratory delays after exhalation, which can be very harmful to the body. This oxygen starvation, according to the master of sports and a multiple champion, can adversely affect brain and body tissues, causing various diseases in the long term, including tumors. But is bodyflex so dangerous? Real reviews from practitioners indicate a lack of research on this topic. At the same time, observations of athletes whose activities are associated with longer breath holdings did not reveal their increased predisposition to cancer. In synchronized women, for example, a pause during a breath hold can be from 3 minutes and 40 seconds to 4.5 minutes! However, critical physiologists argue that the loss of excess fat in bodyflex is associated with stress due to tissue saturation with carbon dioxide, and cardiologists recommend paying attention to the sharp movement of the diaphragm during inspiration after holding your breath, which can trigger an increase in blood pressure. Professionals and long-standing supporters of bodyflex advise beginners to listen to the opinion of the authors of the methodology, who suggest that you first learn how to breathe properly for 3-4 weeks, and only then proceed with the exercises. From the mega-volume of the incoming oxygen, dizziness, tingling in the hands and darkening in the eyes may initially occur. During this transition period, you need to strictly monitor your well-being, interrupt the session in time, taking a break and avoiding discomfort. As soon as the body gets used to diaphragmatic breathing, an excess of incoming oxygen will become the norm and unpleasant symptoms will disappear.
Facelift with body flex
Only two exercises of the bodyflex system for the face in the reviews are characterized as effective workouts from a double chin and wrinkles:
- An “ugly grimace” helps to strengthen the neck muscles and tighten the lower area of the chin with fatty deposits. Having performed the breathing technique, we expose the lower jaw forward, as far as possible. We extend our lips as if for a kiss. Then we direct our lips up and pull them towards the ceiling, and straighten our arms and fold them back a little. Count to eight.
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