The trouble is though, that I start this and then start that and never really settle down to something to give it a chance to work on me and they don’t seem to mention my general weight, surely that counts?

What I need I discover, is some kind of follow up or someone setting out what next, what to expect and although I hate to say it, some regular e mails coming in to gee me up.  If I could afford a personal trainer that would be even better, but I can’t so this seems like the next best thing.

Also I learn that just pushing up on your arms or dipping while holding on to a chair, is not enough on its own, especially if you have some weight to lose and worse, you can damage your shoulders if you don’t do it right.

I learn that the fastest way to get toned upper arms has to include a fair bit of weight training. Sounds as if we will end up looking like Mr Universe, but no, ladies aren’t built that way in general.  Properly set out weight training (nearly said weight lifting there, but that would be double wrong) anyway, weight training will help to melt off excess body fat and at the same time! begin to get those toned sexy arms we definitely want.

One of the programmes I am looking at states:

This perfectly illustrates the point that I preach about so often
to my clients. You CAN’T burn body fat doing long slow cardio, and
you will NEVER look lean and toned if you don’t add serious
strength training exercises to your program.

Mmm, we shall see.