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About Karen Sullivan
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Karen can help with lifting technique, muscle recovery, weight loss, body building and powerlifting. She has been certified by AFPA for the last 10 years as a Personal Trainer and has recently acquired a certification from the same agency as a Post Rehabilitative Exercise Specialist. Any recommendations or advice rendered are based on fitness information as specified by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Fitness Professionals and Associates.

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Clients include athletes training for marathons, mountain climbing and general weight loss. In addition I have clients troubled with COPD, Fibromyalgia, and Parkinsons as well as stroke rehab. She was the Strength and Conditioning coach for Williamsburg Aquatic Club, a USA Swim Team, in Williamsburg, Virginia for 3 years. Karen is presently working at Main Street Gym in Historic St. Charles, Missouri where she teaches Pilates and continues her work with clients. Her training reaches across the country with her long distance Body Restoration eTraining. Her dedication to fitness reaches into the nutritional supplementation with Shaklee products. She only works with clients who add nutritional supplementation to their training. Read more of her story on www.shaklee.net/BodyRestoration

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Weightlifting & Exercise - Weights or cardio?

Expert: Karen Sullivan - 11/3/2009

Question
Hi Karen!
Hope your day has been going great. I just wanted to ask you a quick question about what I should be doing in my workout regiment. Currently, it's mainly cardio and I would like to start adding in some weight trainging. However, there's a catch. My thighs are pretty muscular and I don't want them to get any larger. I have researched and found out that muscle takes up less space than fat so my goal is to lose some of the fat on my inner thighs. Everywhere else, it's pretty solid and I'm okay with that. Long story short, I was wondering if I should perhaps stop doing the bike/treadmill/elliptical route and start focusing on weights to get rid of the jiggle in my legs. Thanks so much!

-Joanne

Answer
Joanne,
I believe the way to permanent fat loss comes with lifting and diet. Clean up the food you are eating. Go lean and fresh. Veggies, fish, chicken lots of water. Whole grains. No white rice or flour. This web page has some ideas for exercises http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercise_demos.asp?exercise_type=upper

I would do lighter weights and 15 - 20 reps. try to do a circuit to keep your heart rate up nicely but not really huffy and puffy. Do lifting or home bodyweight stuff at least 3x a week. The cardio is good for your heart and lungs and get about 3 days of that in for about 30 minutes. Do 3 sets of the 15-20 reps. Choose 2 exercises for each body part at first. Work into it gently.

Have fun and keep in touch.
Karen

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