Do you want CoolSculpting results that last? We get it; CoolSculpting is an investment! It requires your time and money, so we want to help you optimize each appointment! If you want the best outcome possible, it’s important to focus on a healthy lifestyle. In this article, we’ll unpack how exercise before and after your treatments will help you get the results you love every time.
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Maintain Your CoolSculpting Results With Regular Exercise
Want to tone your stomach? Or firm your upper thighs? Say goodbye to those pesky bulges with a combination of CoolSculpting AND exercise. The important thing to remember is that exercise compliments CoolSculpting.
While CoolSculpting freezes and kills fat cells to tone your stomach, exercise keeps your remaining fat cells small. It’s true: CoolSculpting kills fat cells. Your body won’t grow new fat cells, but the remaining fat cells in your body can increase or decrease in size. Simply put, exercise keeps your remaining fat cells in check!
Before exercising, consult your doctor. If you want the best results possible, focus on the right exercises for your body that make you feel strong — after all, there’s not a one-size-fits-all exercise plan.
Exercising After CoolSculpting Encourages Your Body’s Slimming Process
Remember, lasting results take time. CoolSculpting initial results can be seen in a few weeks, and the most dramatic results may not be apparent for several weeks.
Exercise is similar. While an effective gym routine helps your body immediately, it may not look like it right away. But the look you want is usually just around the corner. Keep it up!
A balanced exercise program maintains the look you love. You can exercise right after your CoolSculpting treatment at Central Wellness. Here are some ideas:
- Cardio: Cardio exercises burn calories and slim the body. Most people choose jogging, running, sprinting, cycling, rowing, and swimming for their cardio of the day. You can even hop on a stair climber or elliptical at your gym to get started. If you don’t want to go to the gym, consider a dance class to do some cardio.
- Weights: Lifting weights can be intimidating at first. Work with a personal trainer to understand proper lifting techniques and equipment safety. There are other great training resources on platforms like Youtube that are completely free. And though this is a common myth, weights don’t make you look bulky; they tone your body in the right places when you target specific muscles.
- Yoga: When paired with cardio and weight lifting, yoga helps you achieve maximal results. Certain yoga exercises signal your body to burn fat instead of storing it because it decreases stress hormones and increases insulin sensitivity. Check out these five yoga poses to slim you down that we love!
- Core strength: If your CoolSculpting treatments target your stomach, then core exercises are a must. Core exercises typically don’t require a substantial amount of time yet are quite effective. You can do a great ab workout in ten minutes. Cardio, weight lifting, and yoga incorporate core strength, but targeted core exercises give you the stomach you want. Use these five ab exercises to compliment your CoolSculpting treatment.
You’ll Be More Motivated After Seeing CoolSculpting Results
Now that you’ve finally achieved your goals after all this time, you can keep it this way! Good results motivate people to chase their goals like the snowball effect. You’ll gain the momentum to keep going and it only gets better and faster from here!
Habits are hard to form at first because they take time and discipline. What you repeatedly do forms the person you are, what you believe, and the personality you portray. James Clear’s research on habits gives us a gude to make habits stick. Here are the four stages:
- Cue: Cues trigger your brain to initiate a behavior. Our minds analyze our environment and predict rewards associated with certain things. (Perhaps you want fame, power, approval, praise, recognition, or love.)
- Craving: Cues indicate that we’re close to a reward which then creates a craving. Cravings differ from person to person. You may not crave working out, but you crave how fit you look and how strong you feel after a workout.
- Response: This happens when you take a craving and turn it into an action. Your response is dependent on your level of motivation and ability to take action.
- Reward: This is ultimately what you’re looking for — the results (the end goals) of your habits. Rewards show you that your habits are worth it. Your toned and flat stomach is worth the CoolSculpting treatment, healthy eating, and consistent exercise.
After a successful treatment, and a few weeks or months of eating healthy and exercising consistently, your momentum keeps you going. It feels good to look good. Plus, healthy eating and daily exercise gives you more energy to pursue your goals.
While Effective, CoolSculpting is Not a Permanent Solution to Weight Loss
While it’s true that CoolSculpting provides permanent results in targeted areas, it is not a weight loss program. Talk to a doctor, nutritionist, or a personal trainer for a specific weight loss program. Along with your team of professionals, our Central Wellness clinicians are happy to assist you along the way!
You have a set amount of fat cells in your body and weight loss occurs when your fat cells get smaller. Muscle does not weighs more than fat but fat takes up more space in the body. Meaning, if you workout and lift weights the number on your scale may not decrease by a large amount, but you will look thinner and more toned, because you are shrinking fat cells and building muscle.
Should You Exercise After CoolSculpting?
The answer is YES! There are no restrictions on exercise after a treatment. In fact, many clients feel more motivated to go to the gym after treatments.
When is the best time to exercise for weight loss after CoolSculpting?
Jump right into exercise! It may be more helpful to have an exercise routine before you start your CoolSculpting treatments so that it’s easier to get right back into it.
Keep in mind that exercise isn’t always a trip to the gym. You can incorporate exercise into your daily life and at home. Here’s are some ideas:
- Use the stairs instead of an elevator
- Bike to work
- Take your dog for a long walk
- Dance when you listen to your favorite music
- Move when you watch tv (do a few squats, stretch, or ride a stationary bike if you have one at home)
- Take a walk while you make a call. Unless you need a computer in front of you, move while you’re on that conference call.
- Stand instead of sit. If you’re folding laundry, choose to stand. This helps with posture and core strength.
- When walking from one side of your home to the other, do front and back lunges.
Healthy lifestyle choices positively affect the outcome of your CoolSculpting treatments.
CoolSculpting With Exercise For Weight Loss Of Stomach
Don’t underestimate the power of core workouts and cardio. Together, these two give you a toned stomach. While CoolSculpting eliminates fat in certain areas, it won’t give you a six-pack. If you want to look “ripped”, then you’ll need a consistent cardio and core routine.
Besides the classic cardio exercises like running and biking, HIIT (high-intensity interval training) classes incorporate short bursts of intense cardio training. This is a great way to challenge your body, burn calories, boost your metabolism, and lose weight. Plus, you burn calories even after you’re done working out. Who doesn’t want that? Many gyms and fitness studios offer HITT classes led by trained professionals – check them out near you.
If you want to strengthen your core after your HIIT class or even at home, don’t forget to include bicycles, planks, mountain climbers, Russian twists, v-ups, and crunches.
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Is Coolscultping Considered Exercise for Weight Loss?
CoolSculpting makes you look slimmer but is not considered exercise. Even when you look great after a treatment, it is important to continue to exercise.
Combining Diet and Exercise To Improve CoolSculpting Results
Eating healthy enhances your CoolSculpting results. You don’t have to make drastic changes; just be mindful of your choices. For instance, choose homemade meals over fast food, reduce processed foods and sugary treats, and incorporate fresh produce, whole foods, and high-protein options. And as an added bonus, healthy foods give you the energy you need to work out!
When Will I See CoolSculpting Results?
Although results are not immediate, they are relatively fast. You’ll see initial results approximately three weeks from your first treatment. The most exciting results are evident 12-15 weeks after the treatment.
We want you to have the results you love which is why it is important to include a healthy and active lifestyle with your treatments. Exercise will improve your CoolSculpting experience. Try it out and expect great things!
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