If you have been trying to figure out how to tighten saggy skin, you are not alone. Many men and women suffer from loose skin usually due to aging, or substantial/rapid weight loss. Regardless of the cause of loose skin, there are different methods that you can use to improve it.
Here is a list of the different methods you can use to tighten your loose, saggy skin:
Ways Tighten Loose Skin Caused By Aging
As we age the elasticity of our skin decreases. It often becomes considerably more noticeable after around 40-50 years of age.
Training With Resistance - Resistance training will not actually tighten your skin directly, but will help build lean muscle tissue that will "fill out" certain areas. Since you lose quite a bit of lean muscle after around 30 years of age, skin will sag around the areas where that muscle used to be. Resistance training with weight or bands for 1-2 days a week can help your body rebuild lean tissue and re-shape your body (especially the arms and thighs.
Home Herbal Body Wraps - Body Wrapping problem areas such as the upper arms, thighs or stomach is a great way to help tighten loose skin. All it takes is a couple of body wrap sessions a week for the first few weeks and then a "maintenance phase" that will consist of one or two wraps a month.
Tightening Saggy Skin Due to Excessive Weight Loss
Loose skin caused by rapid weight loss is often much more severe than loose skin caused by the natural aging process. Now if the amount of loose skin you have isn't too severe, you can follow the same two steps above and they should help.
If you have large amounts of loose skin on the other hand, then you may have no choice but to have it surgically removed. Although is sounds quite unpleasant, it's a relatively common and easy procedure that surgeons perform daily. It is considered very low risk as well.
Good News - Skin Can Bounce Back!
One last thing that is important to mention is that your skin is extremely resilient and can shrink considerable if you give it time. Surgery should be a last resort, only if nothing else works for you.
Ella Simpson is a health and fitness enthusiast, and herbal body wrap pioneer. She is also the author of the ebook "Wrap Yourself Slim: Body Wraps Exposed", and manages "The Body Wrap Shop", one of the leading online retailers of body wrapping kits and body wrap supplies.
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Here is a list of the different methods you can use to tighten your loose, saggy skin:
Ways Tighten Loose Skin Caused By Aging
As we age the elasticity of our skin decreases. It often becomes considerably more noticeable after around 40-50 years of age.
Training With Resistance - Resistance training will not actually tighten your skin directly, but will help build lean muscle tissue that will "fill out" certain areas. Since you lose quite a bit of lean muscle after around 30 years of age, skin will sag around the areas where that muscle used to be. Resistance training with weight or bands for 1-2 days a week can help your body rebuild lean tissue and re-shape your body (especially the arms and thighs.
Home Herbal Body Wraps - Body Wrapping problem areas such as the upper arms, thighs or stomach is a great way to help tighten loose skin. All it takes is a couple of body wrap sessions a week for the first few weeks and then a "maintenance phase" that will consist of one or two wraps a month.
Tightening Saggy Skin Due to Excessive Weight Loss
Loose skin caused by rapid weight loss is often much more severe than loose skin caused by the natural aging process. Now if the amount of loose skin you have isn't too severe, you can follow the same two steps above and they should help.
If you have large amounts of loose skin on the other hand, then you may have no choice but to have it surgically removed. Although is sounds quite unpleasant, it's a relatively common and easy procedure that surgeons perform daily. It is considered very low risk as well.
Good News - Skin Can Bounce Back!
One last thing that is important to mention is that your skin is extremely resilient and can shrink considerable if you give it time. Surgery should be a last resort, only if nothing else works for you.
Ella Simpson is a health and fitness enthusiast, and herbal body wrap pioneer. She is also the author of the ebook "Wrap Yourself Slim: Body Wraps Exposed", and manages "The Body Wrap Shop", one of the leading online retailers of body wrapping kits and body wrap supplies.
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