It’s the start of the new year, so you’re likely putting your resolutions together. If one of your resolutions is to lose weight…why? Whenever I hear someone wants to lose weight, be it a resolution or at any other time, my immediate thought is: why?
To lose weight, we first need to peel back the onion to understand the why. Do you want:
- More energy?
- To be able to play with your children/grandchildren?
- To get in and out of a chair independently?
- To potentially eliminate your back and/or knee pain?
- To reduce your risk for diabetes and high blood pressure?
- To increase your health span?
One of the most significant common denominators in all the “whys” is lack of muscle tone. As we age, as early as 30, our muscle mass begins to atrophy. Our sedentary lifestyle is also a significant contributor to this decline. And as our muscle declines, our ability to move freely and with enthusiasm diminishes, resulting in weight gain, risk of injury, lack of independence, and, most importantly, a compromised quality of life.
The Role of Muscle Tone—Aging, Muscle Atrophy, and Its Impact on Lifestyle
The following ten muscle groups are critical to our everyday lives. From simply standing, walking, and getting dressed to running, breathing, and even digesting our food, our muscles matter!
- Abdominals and 2. Obliques: These are referred to as “core” muscles for a reason. They are vital to every movement you make. Think posture, reaching to grab your bag from the back seat of your car, protecting your back, increasing your balance and stability, improving your respiratory function (breathing), minimizing your risk of injury, promoting improved digestion, helping to reduce bloating, and so much more!
- Quadriceps: This muscle protects your knees! Strong quadriceps help you get up from a chair, lift something off the floor, climb stairs, and maintain your gait.
- Glutes: Your glute muscles are and should be the strongest muscles in your body. They’re the key to any propulsive movement…yes, running and jumping, but walking, too! Strong glutes improve posture, alignment, balance, and stability, which protects you from injury in your lower back, hips, knees, and ankles.
- Hamstrings: When building a muscle, you employ the mind-body connection…however, the hamstring is a difficult muscle to build on your own because of the body’s lack of ability to “feel” and contract this muscle. Yet, strong hamstrings are vital to our everyday functions, such as enabling us to pick up a bag of groceries and get in and out of our cars while simultaneously protecting us from injury.
- Outer Thighs and 7. Inner Thighs: We give little thought to these muscle groups outside of how they look in the mirror. Yet, these muscle groups create stability in our gait and protect our knee, ankle, and hip functions while enabling us to stabilize our pelvis, leading to core strength and balance.
- Calves: This is another overlooked muscle…yet the calf muscle’s strength helps avoid injury and protects the foot and ankle while increasing stability, posture, and movement. It helps you to walk, run, jump, and stand up straight.
- Biceps and 10. Triceps: These muscles work together: while one is contracting, the other is relaxing. Without even realizing it, you use these muscles all the time! Be it lifting groceries or laundry, using your arms to get out of a chair or off the floor, getting dressed, and so much more!
Remember: When there is a weakness in one of the muscle groups, other muscle groups have to jump in to play a compensatory role they were not designed to do. Eventually, this compensation will lead to injury from using the wrong muscles at the wrong time.
Empowering Change – The EMSCULPT NEO™ Solution
Staying well for as long as possible is hard work. For this reason, we LOVE the EMSCULPT NEO™. We believe it can help get you back on your feet, get you excited again, feel the power of movement, and ultimately solve your “why” you want to lose weight. The EMSCULPT NEO™ targets these ten crucial muscle groups and provides individually tailored treatments to help you eliminate fat and build muscle in several body areas.
The EMSCULPT NEO™ uses radiofrequency and a high-intensity focused electromagnetic field to non-invasively reduce fat by 30% and build muscle by 25% in 30-minute sessions on average. A single session provides 20,000 supramaximal contractions. These contractions bypass the brain’s limitations and provide intensities not achievable during a voluntary workout safely and, most importantly – comfortably!
Are You Ready for a Healthier Lifestyle?
It is inevitable that when we focus on the intent of the muscle group we want to improve, not only do we gain function, mobility, stability, and protection from injury, the muscle will continue to burn fat – all of which contribute to a healthier lifestyle, increased confidence, and more enthusiasm when working out on our own.
If you’re ready to transform your body, gain muscle, and achieve your health goals, don’t wait! Call Imagine Float at 860.255.7771 to book your complimentary consultation and experience a demo of the EMSCULPT NEO with our Medical Director, Karen Myrick, APRN. Let this year be your year of positive change. Seize the opportunity to kickstart your journey toward increasing energy, independent living, and, ultimately, an investment in your health span!
Imagine Float is a locally owned, award-winning, woman-owned wellness center in Avon, CT. We offer several innovative healing therapies that, when used in synergy, have endless benefits for your physical and mental well-being. Our services and advice are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. A number of our services are not evaluated and/or approved by the FDA. We are not, nor do we claim to be, medical professionals and our therapies cannot guarantee results. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Our EMSCULPT NEO service is specifically managed and performed by our Medical Director, Karen Myrick, APRN, following Karen’s guidance.