Cellulite, which is also called in the common people “orange peel”, often occurs due to a sedentary lifestyle. Another most extensive cause of this ailment is overeating and malnutrition. Smoking and alcohol are less common causes of the disease, but they also have a place to be. Stress, dehydration and hormonal disruption can also lead to cellulite.
Affected areas
Most often, cellulite affects the buttocks, hips, legs, and rarer places are found, for example, hands. Mostly women are affected by the disease, due to this physiology. The female body is naturally designed so that it quickly accumulates subcutaneous fat, and this is the reason for the appearance of cellulite. In men, this disease occurs, but tens or hundreds of times less often than in the fair sex.
Prevention
Physical activity and proper nutrition are a great way to prevent cellulite. Be in the air more often, if possible go on foot, do morning runs. If you have a busy schedule every day, then in your free time, do stretching and physical exercise at home.
Treatment
If the disease has overtaken you, then do not give up, exercises against cellulite exist, and they work. Of course, prevention is easier than treatment, but if you haven’t had time with prevention, you need to move on to solving the problem. There are several effective methods against cellulite, if you combine them into one complex, you will get a very powerful weapon to combat the "orange peel" on any part of the body and at any stage.
Power adjustment
Before looking for exercises against cellulite, you need to understand the causes of its occurrence. Experts unanimously say that one of the causes of cellulite is nutrition. This reason may be the only one, or it may be concomitant, for example, against the background of a sedentary lifestyle.
You need to try to exclude from your diet fried lamb and pork (if possible both types of meat). Minimize potato and pasta consumption. If you want potatoes, sometimes it can be boiled or steamed, but in any case, the consumption should be within reasonable limits. If we talk about craving for pasta, then it is better to give preference to pasta from durum wheat, but you need to cook pasta no more than once every ten days. Baking and butter is also better not to eat.
If you are a sweet tooth, then you will not have a sweet tooth. It is necessary to reduce the use of sugar to a minimum, ideally it is necessary to achieve a rejection of the product. If you still can’t refuse, restrict yourself to honey, marshmallows, and replace the sugar itself with stevia or fructose.
Prefer cereals, vegetables, fresh herbs, cereals, dairy products, chicken, turkey, beef and non-fatty fish. Cook in a double boiler, dress salads with olive oil, if this is not possible, then replace sunflower oil with rapeseed. Drink at least two liters of pure still water per day, in addition to food that contains water. Salt the dishes already on the plate, and not during their preparation.
Try to do five to six meals a day. You should eat the right food in small portions. It is also important that the timing of meals is the same every day. Diet is required!
Pomegranate, cranberry, raisins, spinach, cabbage are considered products that actively counteract cellulite. Cumin, onions, ginger, garlic, nutmeg, turmeric are seasonings that help fight cellulite.
Wrap
In order to get rid of cellulite faster, do body wraps of problem areas. You can use special creams, which are presented in stores in a sufficient assortment.
You can go the other way. It is recommended to make such a cream yourself at home. For cooking, take cosmetic clay and water. Mix both ingredients until a porridge. Next, add five drops of lemon essential oil to the resulting mixture, this ingredient will enhance the anti-cellulite effect.
Smear the problem area with homemade cream, wrap it with cling film, wait about 30-40 minutes and rinse off the mask with water. For even greater effect, do exercises against cellulite right during the mask.
Massage
After wrapping, to consolidate the effect, it is necessary to make a special anti-cellulite massage. You can turn to specialists, if this is not possible, then you can conduct this massage at home on your own.
For massage you will need a silicone jar, a little cream and essential oils of lemon (orange, rosemary). Massage cream is applied to the problem area, drive around the area with a jar for about 20 minutes.
Cellulite exercises
It is worth noting that, depending on the problem area of the body, exercises can vary significantly. The first is to consider the area on the body, which is the most vulnerable to the appearance of cellulite. Hip cellulite exercises should be done every other day. With the help of the complex described below, you will be able to work out the inner surface of the thigh and strengthen the gluteal muscles.
Stand straight, put a chair next to you, it should be on your right side. Hold the chair with your right hand, slowly raise your left leg to the left, try to keep it in line with the other leg and with your body. Try not to bend your knee or bend over. It is not required to lift the leg high; the active phase of fat burning is in the initial amplitude. Do twenty repetitions on each leg.
Another effective exercise is squats. Squats can be attributed to exercises against cellulite on the hips and buttocks, and not just on the buttocks. Spread your legs wider than your shoulders, stretch your arms forward, chest rib protruded, shoulders back. Start your squat, try to take away your pelvis, simulating a fit on a chair. The back is held straight during the exercise. If you do the exercise correctly, you will feel that the center of gravity of your body is in the heels.
The next exercise is against cellulite on the legs and pope. Lie on a flat surface (on the stomach). Keep your hands behind your head, bend your legs at the knees and hold them perpendicular to the floor, while your feet should be parallel to the floor. Pull your legs to the ceiling, your hips should be torn off the floor, while you should try to maximize your buttocks.
Moving on. Exercise against cellulitis on the buttocks. Sit on the floor, legs bent at the knees. Hands wound behind the back, arms resting on the floor. Turn the legs bent at the knees to the right, at the end point, stretch the legs forward, and then lift them up and at the highest point, hold them in that position. When the legs begin to shake, and you feel a tingling sensation in the muscles, slowly lower your legs to the floor and relax the muscles. Rest for three seconds and a new repetition. There should be at least ten repetitions.
If cellulite hit the hands, then in this case there is an effective way to fight. Exercise against cellulite on the hands is a classic push-ups from the floor. If the physical form does not allow you to do push-ups from the floor, then do push-ups from objects, so your body will be tilted, which will simplify the exercise.
Do not give up
Effective exercises against cellulite will not give you the result immediately, but in the fight against this ailment it is important not to give up and be persistent, and then everything will work out for you. Exercise for one month, and you cannot fail to notice the positive changes. Time and your willpower will restore elastic skin.
Bath and Sauna
It is believed that a bathhouse and a sauna help to fight cellulite. Some combine visiting paired rooms with a wrap, but in this case you need to be careful and know the measure, because the wrap is a clogging of pores on the skin, and sweat comes out through them, which allows the body to fight at elevated temperatures, while maintaining a normal body temperature. In the case of wrapping, some parts of the body will be deprived of the possibility of perspiration through the pores.
Outdoor sports
The fight against cellulite is not limited to just one physical education at home. Hip cellulite exercises, for example, can be found in sports such as basketball and volleyball. Jumps and squats in these games are very frequent, and they are a great exercise for your struggle with the "orange peel". This is a great option for those who can not monotonously perform exercises. During the game, all this will pass unnoticed and with excitement!
Swimming
It is worth highlighting swimming as a separate item. If you want to overcome cellulite, then swimming in the pool, as well as water aerobics will be an excellent solution for you. It is best to swim in moderately cool water, in such conditions your body will burn even more calories, trying to maintain your body temperature normal. An additional bonus is you get a water massage. It is advisable to visit the pool at least twice a week.
Other sports
In addition to outdoor games, exercises against cellulite on the priest or other parts of the body can be found in other sports. For example, running with jumping over barriers, jumping (both in length and in height). Yes, and the same rowing, and cycling will make your problem areas (buttocks and legs) work properly. Skiing and skating should also not be discounted when looking for exercises against cellulite on the legs. Rope jumping is also effective.
Beauty Salons
In the modern world there are several solutions to the problem of cellulite. Destroy the layer of fat using a special ultrasound procedure. This is expensive, and the procedure is rather painful. It can be used only for a small area affected by a disease.
Another procedure is myostimulation. Special electrodes are attached to problem areas that have undergone cellulite, then the device turns on, weak electrical impulses cause your muscles to contract. In fact, this is an imitation of exercise. Miostimulation is an addition to your physical exercises, but not their replacement, an addition that costs decent money. Should I use it? You decide for yourself.
Home or gym?
In fact, the main thing is not a place, but a desire. If you have a desire to solve the problem, then it does not matter if it is an exercise against cellulite at home or classes in the gym. The advantage of the gym is its equipment. Here you can perform the whole complex of exercises without problems and you do not need to invent simulators from improvised things. In addition, in the gym you can turn to an instructor for help, who will show you some exercises and the correct technique for their implementation.
From the advantages of homework, accessibility can be distinguished. You do not need to get to the gym and back, just a little free time is enough for you and that's it! At home, you can do two sets of exercises (one in the morning, one in the evening). For two trips to the gym, someone is unlikely to dare because of the time spent on the road. The necessary exercises can now be easily found on the Web, with detailed comments and shows from qualified professionals.
Everyone will determine their place for training. The most important thing is that the training takes place, and it does not matter where it takes place!
To summarize
After all that has been said and summing up, it is worth saying again that the main thing is desire and perseverance. Be it exercises against cellulite on the hips and buttocks, or for some other part of the body, they will work, but it takes time, desire and your willpower.
Do not give up, switch to proper nutrition, and in the near future you will become the owner of such a body, which not only does not need to be hidden, but you want to demonstrate to those who could not. To those who could not like you. Those who could not change their lives for the better, but decided only to aggravate the problem. Those who could not get up from the couch and abandon the sweet for the sake of a perfect body.
Be an example to follow, be an object of envy and admiration. Go in for sports, lead a healthy lifestyle. Challenge the "orange peel", a victory in this confrontation will be on your side. And everything will be smooth with you!