In my experiance, I dislike curves. ONLY because of my personal experiance with the two local ones we have here. They PUSH all their crap on people who go to them here- their 'vitamins' and some other stuff. I am not a believer in Joining and (paying large amounts of money for) a place that 'hassles' you with their products that they sell. It's very inappropriate in my opinion.
AND, it's only resistance training. You cannot change the set up of the machiene as you get more and more in shape. There are methods that make it more of an effective work out, but most people don't do them.
#1 eat right. No matter WHERE a person excersizes, they still need to eat a balanced diet and LESS CALORIES. If you eat the same as you are doing now- and excersize the only thing you won't do is gain weight. Loosing weight means change.
#2 Curves says that you only need to go 3 days a week...to me, that's a bunch of bull. 3 days a week can help you maintain what you look like now. SURE, it works for some- but really, honestly...working out should be about how much weight you WANT TO LOOSE...excersizing (stricktly excersizing) 3 days a week doesn't really do a ton as far as loosing weight. The trick for LOOSING WEIGHT is to burn more calories than you consume. If you're only working out 3 days a week, how can you honestly do that?
I am more of a 'traditional' work out person. I get on a treadmill and walk fast or even run some days no matter how much I hate doing it, because it's healthy for my body. I also do light weights and for me that works.
I think, only because of MY EXPERIANCE, that MOST curves are a sham. There are people who I see on a weekly basis that are mad that they joined. But, they got roped in to do a 'pay for 6 months, each month is cheaper' type of a deal...so they use it, because it's already paid for. Many people who go to curves loose weight. Great. It doesn't work for ME.
