HELP: I dont want muscles, Just want to get rid of flab!

1) To get BIG Muscles on a woman.. you would have to push heavy weights and drop your body fat by A LOT. We don't have the testosterone that men do to naturally build muscle at the rate they do.

2) Take a look at www.livestrong.com LOTS of advice there for women and weights. I squat 150 lbs and bench 100 lbs and dont have big muscles... however I have dropped a full size by burning the fat. You have to use weights that create some resistance to tighten up. So at first 5 lbs dumbells may be enough.. and next thing you know youll need 20 lbs.

But dont be to concerned about bulking up.. that comes with a lot of weight and fat loss.

Best of luck!

You need to do something like 30 Day Shred. And actually look at pictures of normal women who lift - they are not monsters, they look amazing. When you say you 'don't want muscles' I think you are thinking of those crazy body building competitors - you really would be having to take all kinds of 'roids to get like that. You do want some kind of muscle - who wouldn't want to be stronger? People don't really aim for that weak looking catwalk skinny any more.

muscles aren't a bad thing...just don't do steroids. You could lift heavy 24/7 and still not get "he-man" look

Thank you, your advice is appreciated. But forget large muscles, I don't even want the smallest of toned muscles showing up on my arms. I want it to look just as it does without the flab, no tone no nothing.

Lipo might do it.

Thank you, your advice is appreciated. But forget large muscles, I don't even want the smallest of toned muscles showing up on my arms. I want it to look just as it does without the flab, no tone no nothing.

really? why not? muscles are beautiful!

Thank you, your advice is appreciated. But forget large muscles, I don't even want the smallest of toned muscles showing up on my arms. I want it to look just as it does without the flab, no tone no nothing.

Then honestly there's nothing you can do that *I* can think of. Simply by losing flab, your muscles will start to appear because the flab won't be "coating" them any more. Even if you don't do anything to try to *add* muscle, it's still there. *shrug* not possible?

Surely you want your body to have shape?
Toned muscles give your body shape and in order for them to become toned and not just hang in pockets of flab you need to exercise and stress them.
I don't like the overtly muscualr look on women either, I find it masculine ... but I do like a nice toned firm body. Lift light weights, lots of reps or as I prefer ... do yoga... but not that wishy washy no sweat yoga... do Kundalini Yoga. Check out Ana Brett's DVDs ... Kundalini YOga Flow Bootcamp is the best. It's beautiful, hard and it works. It will give you a lithe, lean, feminine tone ... if you do it regularly that is x

Thank you, your advice is appreciated. But forget large muscles, I don't even want the smallest of toned muscles showing up on my arms. I want it to look just as it does without the flab, no tone no nothing.

Diet ...... without exercise ..... you will lose muscle mass this way.

Very low calorie diets (again no exercise) will cause even more muscle loss ..... oh & hair loss too. When you lose lots of muscle your metabolism slows down ..... this is one reason people try to hang onto as much muscle as possible.

I want to look "Fit" .... not skinny .... different strokes

I am sorry to tell you this but you will have the arms genetics gave you. I am muscular but I know girls that lift a lot more weight withless muscles. it just how I am made.

muscle eats fat, without the muscle your skin will always hang. i have built muscles but my arms are smaller than what they were, the only way to tone is to turn the saggy skin into muscle which will then tighten your skin. don't be scared of a bit of muscle it feels good and makes you stronger. take a look at my pictures on my profile and see i have muscle but it isn't bad.

Flab = body fat

Reduce your body fat by eating at a deficit.

If you want to "firm up" you'll need to lift weights. If you are eating at a deficit there is no way you can have bulky or muscles popping through. You will be firm but lean.

I lift heavy weights and I am 110 pounds and my muscles don't pop unless I flex (and even then it isn't much). I just don't eat over maintenance, so I will never build big muscles unless I do that.

P.S. It really doesn't matter if you lift heavy or lift light, it will produce the same result if you eat at a deficit. You'll just have to do A LOT MORE which to me, doesn't make sense.

You can't have it both ways, if you want to look firm you actually have to reduce the body fat, which will in fact, expose the muscle underneath.

I am sorry to tell you this but you will have the arms genetics gave you. I am muscular but I know girls that lift a lot more weight withless muscles. it just how I am made.

which means how ever hard I life I wont get muscles on my arms? because I am smaller on my top then I am on the bottom

NO....You HAVE muscles in your arms - otherwise you won't be able to lift your lipstick.. " - you want to lose the "flab" - actually fat- but you don't want muscles to show????
The only way to get that is to stop eating altogether, or get really sick, of go ask one of the anorexic models how they do it - this is My FITNESS pal....most people here want to be fit - which means they want strong muscles - not bulging muscles......
And muscles are feminine - we don't all want to be waifs too weak to lift a grocery bag of briefcase.....That's not feminine, just a little sad......

Thank you, your advice is appreciated. But forget large muscles, I don't even want the smallest of toned muscles showing up on my arms. I want it to look just as it does without the flab, no tone no nothing.

I am not sure that is possible outside of genetics. In my family we get muscles in our arms even when we do housework and aerobics like Tae bo. My mom started getting muscular arms when she did Tae bo. To be healthy you have to exercise some or you are at just as much risk of getting sick as someone who is an unhealthy weight but exercises or is large and doesn't exercise. As you age you lose muscle every year as well so at some point you are going to have to start lifting weights and you don't want to wait until it is too late. I would like to get healthy by the time I am 30 or 31 and then work at my body a lot lifting and such so that I will gain more muscle so I will have more muscles when I am old. People who lift weights and do aerobics when they are older usually are very healthy physically. Just aerobics would not be enough.