Visual Impact for Women

Starting from today, I will be following Rusty Moore’s Visual Impact for Women

Mr Moore claims that this plan will give you a natural, lean, feminine Hollywood-style body without bulking out your muscles. The main problem I have with the exercises that I’m currently doing, is that I never seem to get any slimmer. Even when I’m careful about my diet, my body gets more toned, but I stay the same dress size. My legs are particularly chunky, and that never seems to change, regardless of how many miles I run. I also feel that arm exercises bulk up my biceps (which I don’t really want) but my triceps stay hidden under a layer of fat. I do tricep dips and extensions regularly, but they seem to do bugger all!

The visual impact plan puts a lot of emphasis on cardio in order to burn fat, alongside specific muscle-targeted exercises. This may sound like your typical workout routine, but there are some important differences.

As part of your normal routine, Rusty recommends HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) for 10-15 mins, followed immediately by steady-state cardio for 15-20mins. HIIT is where you alternate between intervals of high intensity, eg sprinting, and longer intervals of slower paced activity to recover. An example would be sprinting on the treadmill for 15secs, then jogging for 45secs. You would repeat this around 10 times, then follow with 20 mins of steady-state jogging/elliptical/etc. The afterburn effect of the HIIT means that you will actually burn far more fat during that 2nd stage than you would without doing the HIIT in the first place. You’ll burn more once you have finished your workout too.

Another aspect of the Visual Impact routine, is amount of reps you do with each muscle exercise. In the past I have done 2 sets of 12-15 reps with each exercise. I have chosen a weight in which I will be struggling with the last 2-3 reps. Rusty recommends 5 sets of 4-5 reps with each exercise. While this may feel easier, it means that you are not creating a ‘pump’ effect with your muscles. The ‘pump’ will increase your muscle size, which is not what most women are looking for. The lower reps allow you to burn fat, while maintaining the lean muscle mass. This will give you a lean, toned look, without looking muscly.

The biggest difference I have noted in Rusty’s routine is the absence of any lower body resistance training. Rusty recommends high levels of cardio, namely running, as part of the routine. This, enough, will tone and slim your butt and legs. In the past, I have done endless squats, lunges, and machine-assisted weights such as the leg press and hip adducter/abducter. This has NEVER slimmed my chunky legs, only made them bigger! This advice seems to make sense for me. N.B. If you do want to work on your legs, Rusty does recommend some optional squats and lunges, but I don’t think my chunkers need them!

I downloaded the Visual Impact plan from http://visualimpactforwomen.com for $47 (around £38)

Its is a book in PDF format and come with 4 parts:

1. Visual Impact for Women – the main book, in which Rusty explains his theories and details his excercise plans, he also gives advice of dieting and expells any diet/exercise myths

2. Fat Torching Cardio – a 12 week cardio plan to incorporate into your plan in order to maximise fat loss

3. Exercise Demonstrations – Explains and provides photos of how to do of basically every exercise you’ll ever need to know!

4. Printable Workout Charts – simple charts you can print and take to the gym so you know what exercises to do

I should mention that you don’t need to be a gym member to do this plan, Rusty includes alternative exercises you can do at home.

So that is the plan, the next step is to actually do it! I’ve set up this blog in order to record my progress and see if it actually works. There doesn’t seem to be much feedback online from women who have done it, so I decided to make my own. I have pretty high hopes, it does seem to make sense.

Here goes nothing!

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