“Can Cardio Workout Get Rid Of Your Man Boobs or Gynecomastia?”

A lot of people once they have discovered they have man boobs, start to do workout hoping that they can be reduced if not eliminated. However, there are a few types of man boobs that one must know. Gynecomastia or man boobs due to excessive of glandular tissue can never be reduced by any exercises. At this moment, the only way to get rid of man boobs is through surgery. However, if your man boobs are due to excessive of fat (also known as pseudo-gynecomastia), then workout may be one of the solutions. Get your doctor to check the type of your man boobs or else you can self-examine by using the method illustrated in this blog.

If you are thinking of any exercises that can just get rid of chest fat alone, you are wrong as you cannot perform spot fat reducing. When you perform fat loss workout, it is meant for the whole body. In order for the body to start burn off your fat, your body metabolism need to burn off all the carbohydrate stored in your body (glycogen) first. Once it is exhausted, then your body metabolism will start to look for fat stored in your body for burning.

So which types of cardio should you do? It is depends on individual physical, health and fitness levels. If you are sedentary type, new in fitness or extremely overweight, you might want to start with moderately-paced walking from 30 minutes till an hour. As you progress, you want to increase to your pace and speed so that you can increase your body metabolism level. If you want to exercise indoor, you can try walking on treadmill machine. However, you have to take note, walking burns little calorie or fat unless you walk with extremely fast paces. Therefore, you need to progress to more intensity cardio training like running, sprinting and interval training if you seriously want to burn off your fat.

“Aerobic exercise such as walking, jogging or cycling is the only type of physical
activity that directly burns body fat. For fat to be burned, oxygen must be present and
this occurs only through aerobic exercise.”
- Cliff Sheets, Certified Clinical Nutritionist and author of “Lean Bodies”

Interval training is an advanced level of cardio training which has higher level of fat burning potential. It alternates between low pace of exercise and high pace of exercise and is repeated over a period of time. You can use it for your walking, running, cycling or any other type of cardio exercises.

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) takes one more level higher such as you will perform high intensity exercise until you feel you lose your breath during your high pace exercise, then you will lower to your low pace exercise just to catch up your breath. Research showed high intensity exercise increases usage of free-fatty acids after exercise to re-synthesize glycogen. This explain why HIIT is so powerful in burning fat and it is by far the second most powerful fat burning exercise program. Do you want to know the most powerful and efficient fat burning program? You can download a FREE report of another special HIIT program by signing up at the above opt-in box.

Cardio training is best to be performed in the morning (before your breakfast of course) because in the morning your carbohydrate (ie. glucose) level is low after hours of fasting. It is faster for your body metabolism to burn off all your carbohydrate and move on to burn your fat layer. You will feel more energetic throughout the day as the high metabolism stays elevated during a period of time.

In order to get rid of your chest fat, you need to combine cardio training with weight training. As Chris Aceto, author of “Everything You Need to Know About Fat Loss” said the fastest way to lose fat is with hard, heavy, to-failure weight training with 6 to 12
reps and don’t rely on aerobics exclusively. We shall cover this in the next post.

Disclaimer: See your physician before starting any exercise. You must have a complete physical examination if you are sedentary, if you have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or diabetes, if you are overweight, or if you are over 30 years old.

“Exercises for getting rid of man boobs”

First, we need to identify the causes of man boobs. If the cause of it is due to fat deposits (commonly known as pseudo-gynecomastia), then taking specific exercises to reduce the chest fat may be beneficial. Otherwise, if it is due to excess of glandular tissue, then the only way to get rid of man boobs is through surgery. Therefore, it is advisable to check with your doctor or physician to find out the cause of it before embark into these exercises.

The recommended exercise for pseudo-gynecomastia is chest exercise using bench press, pec deck, Swiss ball fly and chess weight. Pec deck is a weight machine where you sit and press your arms together. Swiss ball exercise is where you lay your back on the ball, grab hold of dumbbells and move your arms acts as you are flying.

Below is a series of exercises which are beneficial for man boobs
1. Wide-arm Press Up
Basically, it is normal press up exercise but extend out your arm to twice of your shoulder width and with your fingers pointing forwards.

2. Dumbbell Chest Press
You need to lie down on a flat bench and with your hands holding dumbbells. First, you need to hold the dumbbells above your chest, arms straight up from the shoulders and the knuckles facing toward your feet. Next, you need to lower down the dumbbells till your chest level. Subsequently, press the dumbbells up again.
You can repeat the exercise by having the palms facing each others and toward his body.
There are other variations for this exercise, ie. incline or decline bench presses. It also can be performed on weight stack equipment.

3. Bent-over row
Bend forward at the waist with elbows out to sides and hands dangling below, holding weights. Row the weights up to just below nipple-height. This exercise is for targeting the rhomboid muscles

4. Bent-over fly
Repeat Bent-over row exercise but with arms stay straight as you smoothly raise and lower them out to the sides.

5. Cable Crossovers
Stand in front of a pulley station. Hold the two handles horizontally at your side. Slowly, pull forward until your hands cross, then release slowly. Again, aim for three sets of eight, and increase at each session.

You can get more exercises, specifically to sculpture your chest from this chest exercise ebook. This book shows you how to work on the chest exercises which can be done at home or in the gym. You can get the book by clicking the link below,

However, if you are looking forward to lose more fat and fast, have a chiseled chest what most women love to see, then I recommend you to look into this training manual. In this manual, the author requires you to do 3 workouts per week and each session is not more than 50 minutes to achieve your goals.