15 Best Fat-Burning Foods for Women!

The 15 Best Fat-Burning Foods

These are foods that start winnowing your waistline the moment they leave your fork and enter your mouth. They build muscle, promote fat burning, or simply use energy (i.e., burn calories) just to digest them! Stock up today.

By Selene Yeager

photo: Hemera/Thinkstock Almonds and other nuts (with skins intact)
Build muscle, reduce cravings
Dairy products (fat-free or low-fat milk, yogurt, cheese)
Build strong bones, fire up weight loss
Eggs
Build muscle, burn fat
Turkey and other lean meats
Build muscle, strengthen immune system
Berries
Improve satiety, prevent cravings
Enova oil (soy and canola oil)
Promotes fullness, not easily stored as fat
Peanut butter
Boosts testosterone (a good thing even in women), builds muscle, burns fat
Fatty fish (such as salmon, tuna, mackerel)
Trigger fullness, fire up fat burning
Grapefruit
Lowers insulin, regulates blood sugar and metabolism; be sure to eat the fleshy white membranes
Green tea
Fires up fat burning
Chili peppers
Spikes metabolism
Spinach and green vegetables
Fight free radicals and improve recovery for better muscle building
Whole grains (quinoa, brown rice, whole grain cereal)
Small doses prevent body from storing fat
Beans and legumes
Build muscle, help burn fat, regulate digestion
Whey
Builds muscle, burns fat

The face pull with external rotation. By Bill Hartman CSCS.

If you've struggled with shoulder pain in the past or want to avoid it in the future, this move is for you. It's a new spin on an exercise called the face pull, courtesy of Bill Hartman, P.T., C.S.C.S., a physical therapist in Indianapolis and an expert at MensHealth.com/personaltrainer. This unique movement -- pulling your arms toward you while rotating them up -- targets your back's typically weak scapular muscles, which stabilize your shoulder joints. Try it once or twice a week at the end of an upper-body training session.

The Benefit

Strengthens your rear deltoids and lower trapezius, pulling your upper body into its natural alignment, with the shoulder blades back and down.

How To Do It

1. Attach a rope to the high pulley of a cable station and grab an end with each hand so your palms face each other, thumbs toward you.

2. Back a few steps away from the weight stack until your arms are straight in front of you and you feel tension in the cable.

3. Pull the rope toward your eyes so your hands end up just outside your ears. You should be positioned in the classic bodybuilder's "double-biceps pose."

4. Allow your arms to straighten out slowly in front of you.

Our Expert's Tips

Lifting too much weight can throw off your balance and technique. Start with two sets of 15 to 20 reps. As this becomes easier, add weight and reduce the number of reps (while still completing 8 or more per set).

Improving Shoulder stability for a better Bench Press.

The  safest and most effective way to perform the bench press is with your  shoulder blades pulled together and downward.  It  is also important to  balance all pressing movements with pulling ones such as- rows , chin-ups , and cable face pulls which will help improve the shoulder's ability to retract and place them in  a safer position when performing horizontal pressing movements such as barbell and dumbbell bench presses.

This video from James Smith, CSCS, demonstrates perfect bench pressing form. Thanks Mr. Smith.

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