This review will take you inside the program, highlighting what it can do for women and what benefits it offers. Curvalicious Workout is a ladies’ fitness program that does require commitment and a workout schedule for best results.
Here you will find what the benefits, pros, and cons of this program are and who it is suitable for.
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Who Is Curvalicious Workouts For?
Curvalicious Workout is suitable for women who do not just want to lose fat but rather re-shape their bodies with a strategic increase in lean muscle in the right places coupled with general body fat loss in order to achieve a lean, sexy and athletic look.
It is suitable for women who are prepared to work out and stick to a schedule, as it is not just a diet loss plan but a complete female fitness program that implies working out and being disciplined.
Curvalicious Workout is one of the 2 Flavia DelMonte’s fitness programs. Her other program is “Full Body Licious“, of which you can read the review here.
Flavia Del Monte is a certified trainer, nutritionist, and registered nurse with years of experience in fitness training who has created a fat burning and muscle building program specifically designed and marketed by a woman for women.
Even though “muscle building” is part of the picture, it is only intended as a moderate increase in muscle mass for a healthy and balanced body tissue composition which, coupled with a decrease in fat deposits, will result in a sexy, feminine, and attractive physique.
The focus of the program is on building the right amount of muscle in the right places while generally losing fat. The result will be an attractive and functional body rather than a skinny looking one.
Curvalicious Workout Strategy
There are is a great emphasis in the program on addressing some of the topics women feel more self-conscious about, like booty and shoulders.
This is because the ratio between these two parts alone has a dramatic effect on general proportions and looks in a woman’s body.
A round, firm booty coupled with strong shoulders will instantly transform your physique more than anything else, just like for men.
To achieve this ideal proportion, Flavia devised an MRT (Metabolic Resistance Training) as part of the same program.
The MRT consists of ancillary exercises like lunges, shoulder presses, lat pull down and burpees designed to strengthen your booty and shoulders.
How Does It Work Exactly?
to increase muscle mass is therefore one of the foundations of Flavia’s program.
However, Curvalicious Workouts goes on a different route than the usual high repetitions, lightweight exercises widely perceived as good for “muscle definition”.
On the contrary, the program guidelines rely on a heavy 5/7 repetition range with basic exercises targeting the main muscle groups, scheduled in a weekly split routine.
As for the fat loss part, this is achieved with a 3-way process, with an increase in metabolic rate at rest, increase in muscle mass, and proper diet.
The workouts are designed to give a post-workout “after-burn’ increase in metabolic rate lasting up to 48 hours for sustained fat loss even while resting.
These are the basic foundations of Flavia’s program. She goes to great lengths to explain that a sexy, athletic physique is not the result of just fat loss, but fat loss combined with an increase in muscle mass in the right places.
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Putting on some muscle is something difficult to digest for some women who have a natural fear of bulking up with weights, ending up doing the opposite of what they should be doing, that is high rep/low weight exercises.
What happens when training with the traditional and outdated high reps method is that muscles achieve growth through an increase in capillaries, sarcoplasm, and mitochondria.
In practical terms, this translates into puffed up, inflated muscles, the buff type.
With lower repetition sets muscle growth occurs through an increase of the building blocks of muscles, myosin, and actin. This means sexy-looking, lean muscles.
These muscles do not look inflated, but very dense and solid both at rest and while moving due to an effect called neurogenic tone. The neurogenic tone makes muscles look more defined and athletic in all situations.
Fast Twitch Fibers And Slow Twitch Fibers
Also, low repetition sets stimulate fast-twitch fibers, the fibers needed for fast action or great exertion, as in sprinting or fighting.
Only heavy weights and low reps can stimulate fast-twitch fiber growth, a quality that gives strength, speed, and an appealing neurogenic tone.
So here we go, low reps with progressive overload are the way to go.
Now, this is nothing new, but Flavia goes to great lengths to make this understood to her female audience, eliminating the fear of bulking up too easily and dispelling the myth of burning fat through pointless high repetition sets.
The Curvalicious Workout Diet
Most programs come with calorie counting software and with robot-like meal planning, making them look like new NASA projects to space.
Instead, Curvalicious Workouts gives general guidelines without any specific meal plan or robotic schedule. This approach has worked very well for Flavia Del Monte without the need to obsess over each and every calorie.
In addition to the nutritional manual, there is also a bonus diet blueprint specific for abs because she believes, abs are still widely recognized by all as the benchmark of fitness and sex appeal.
A low-fat tummy is also strictly related to good health. The blueprint offers general guidelines on protein, carb, and fiber intake to be customized to your own body weight, without fussing over planning and calorie counting.
Curvalicious Workout PDF And Components
The main program is available immediately on download, no shipping of materials, CDs or hard copies available right now.
It consists of PDF manuals AND high-quality online demonstration videos to better illustrate the exercises.
Here is the PDF Breakdown:
The main workout PDF manual with all the information on training for beginners, intermediates, and advanced, both at the gym and at home.
The nutritional manual. An easy and down-to-earth approach to nutrition for the trainee has worked very well for Flavia too.
Here is the Online Videos Breakdown:
Video 1: the Lucious Legs video describing the best toning exercises for amazing legs, like squats and lunges kick-butt but also clever moves and techniques to challenge and stimulate the muscles and avoid plateaus.
Video 2: The Tummy Tightener video revealing the best techniques to get a low-fat tummy. A low-fat stomach is not just sexy and healthy but also functional, as the abs act as a pivot between the high and the low part of the body, ensuring better athletic performance and general posture.
Video 3: Amazing Arms. Arms are generally fast-twitch muscles. Biceps and triceps respond well to training, providing that the exercises are performed with proper form with the correct weight as shown in the video, not throwing up in bad form excessive weights that do nothing for building muscle.
Video 4: Better Back and Strong Shoulders. This video shows how to develop strong shoulders and a strong back. Nice, round deltoids improve the waist to shoulder ratio, giving a better proportion and a V shape athletic body, while a strong back gives better posture to complement strong shoulders. What Flavia is talking about is not cannonball style Hulk deltoids, but round, strong, and feminine shoulders to make a woman look good on the beach or in a party dress.
Video 5: Bombshell Booty. Last but not least, today’s benchmark of a woman’s fitness, the booty. The video shows all the movement varieties and heavyweights necessary to develop a fabulous “shelf”.
Videos 6: The Online Home Gym Workout Videos describing how to perform the gym exercises described above (1 to 5) at home with basic equipment.
In addition, you get:
Printable Workout Sheets and exercise descriptions with pictures.
A supplement guide, should you want to use some of the supplements suggested by Flavia, though they are absolutely NOT mandatory.
The pre-program checklist to make sure you are ready for the workouts and have memorized all you have to do for more effective workouts.
A Dynamic Warm-Up and Stretching Guide Video, describing moves and techniques to promote healing between workouts.
The Step by Step Specific Abs Diet. Flavia believes that “a firm belly is the single most significant step anyone can take to stay healthy for life“.
Flavia Del Monte’s Curvalicious Workout is a program developed by a woman for women.
It dispels the myth of lightweight, high repetition exercises for fat loss and muscle definition and instead it advocates heavyweight, low repetition exercises designed to increase lean muscle mass in the right places while reducing body fat.
This approach, combined with a proper diet, results in a more balanced body composition, which in turn translates into a lean, sexy, and curvy body.
My name is Deborah Foster and I am a Weight Loss Coach with a background in Nutrition Coaching and Personal Training. I specialize in helping women and men break through the yo-yo diet cycle and lose weight for good, without being miserable in the process.
