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Crunches!
I have a little fat around my stomach, and also I guess love handles? I'm not sure if that's what they are called. But I'm like skinny by my ribs, then it just bulges out on the sides near my belly button. It's so ugly, I hate it.
So I've decided to do something about it. But I have a question. I've just started doing 100 crunches per night, and the thing where you hold your legs about 6 inches off the floor for a minute (every night). I'm just wondering, do these exercises just help build muscle, or will it also help me lose my extra 'tummy' fat?
If this isn't going to help me lose the fat, can you tell me a simple, at-home, exercise that WILL reduce the fat & needs no equipment? Thanks!
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well when you loose weight itll first start to build muscle then eventually itll start taking away the fat. so yeah those exercises should help. but dont do these exercises at night its really bad exercising at night do it during the day! hope i helped buh bye!!! ♥ terri!!!
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These exercises will help you build muscle in your stomach and give you a flatter stomach, make you skinnier, and give you abs. Another exercise you can do that helps a lot is sit on the ground, bend your knees, and hold one of the bent knees up. Then turn over to the side where your leg is bent with your arms in the air, and do 100 of these on each side. Hope I could help! Please rate!
-Mallory <33
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The best thing to do is to try and cut out fatty foods. Check on crisp packets and stuff to see if it has lots of saturated fat or 'monounsaturates'. You'll want to look around and try and find the crisps, bread, cereal etc etc etc with the least amount of fat in. That'll help you a lot! It'll stop the fat getting worse and you might even lose a bit of weight.
Another way is to speed up your metabolism. You can do this by excersizing more, drinking a glass of VERY cold water half an hour before you eat (your metabolism has to speed up to make your body warm again), avoiding sitting against radiators and stuff as lots of heat slows your metabolism down, and eating five small meals a day instead of three big ones. Watch that you stop eating when you're full - we tend to over-eat in the colder weather!
As for excersizes, you want to do sit-ups, crunches and try yoga as it gives you a better posture - you stand better and tuck your tummy in naturally, stuff like that. It also helps with losing weight.
The thing is, you can't REALLY target one area...excersize, wherever it is, makes you lose weight all over or basically wherever the weight WANTS to disappear from (when I got flu and lost loads of weight, I lost it mainly off my arms...which really wasn't helpful as they're skinny already lol!). However, if you do it well, it will also tone your problem areas.
Swimming is always good as it uses every muscle in your body! Swim whenever you can. Dance around the house too - you don't have to be doing loads of weights and stuff for it to be excersize! Excersize is just movement :)
Spend less time in front of the TV - it's been proven that you burn more calories reading, even if it is only a magazine!
Sleep for at least eight hours a night - if you sleep a lot and you still feel sluggish, you've slept too much. If you just cannot get up int he morning, you aren't sleeping enough. Try and balance the two extremes - you'll look healthier and burn more fat!
Finally, drink LOTS of water. Don't drink too much straight away because you'll feel sick and bloated, but build up. Drinks add loads of hidden calories to your diet, and water is calorie free. It also helps flush away fat and toxins :)
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As well as helping to build muscle, at the same time you will lose the fat. The fat will turn into muscle. Just be sure whenever you are working your abs to hold your tummy in otherwise it won't work at all and all your hard work will be for nothing!
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