Does anyone know any exercises for toning saggy stomachs?

Question

Don't want to be buying fancy workout dvd's just something easy, and quick that I can do daily

Answer 1

Before considering any exercise to tone up the area, remember that you cannot spot reduce fat. How your body uses fat, where it burns fat from first and where it deposits fat first and most all depend on your genetic make up. If you tend to deposit fat on your midsection first and burn up fat from that area last, then the answer may be that you just need to persevere and keep at it.

To tone up the abdominal muscles themselves, I think you'll find that crunches are the best exercise. A simple crunch movement is done by lying on the floor on your back with your lower legs supported off the floor in such a way that your thighs are at 90 degrees to your body. Imagine that you are rolling up your body, lifting your chest and bringing it closer to your hips. Don't sit up, don't pull your head/neck/shoulders up with your hands. Just concentrate on "rolling" your body up.

A number of variations of this movement can be done like by doing it on large exercise balls, with added weights, doing the movement in a cross-over fashion (ie: crunching to either left or right), etc.

Look up some exercise/fitness website. www.efitness.com is a good one. Good luck!

Answer 2

This is a very easy exercise that you can do daily,2 B honest it's a bit difficult; U need 2 do this some 2 to 3 times every hour.
Just hold u'r stomach tight(not with u'r hands)for about 15min. no matter whatever work U do (I mean 2 say tighten u'r stomach by holdin u'r breath). U can carry out this exercise when u r free; then after some weeks U'll find that u'r sto is toned.

Answer 3

I have the perfect solution! I'm an exercisephobe but I bought one of those cheap stomache crunchers from Argos ... the ones where you reach for the bar above your head and rock backwards and forward (let me know if I've not explained properly!). Anyway, I did this whilst watching TV every night for just a week and I could really notice a difference. A month later, with barely any effort and without taking any extra time from my daily life ... flat tummy!! Hope it works!

Answer 4

the best way to tone the stomach is by doing sit-ups, also called crunches. but don't lift up all the way. Make sure your feet are being held down by something, put one hand behind your head and the other one on your stomach (just below the breast), and lift up your neck and shoulders. Don't lift up all the way, but just a little bit until you can feel your stomach muscles stretch a little. I learned that from John Basedow =0)

Answer 5

Read the recommendations below. Also, go to the book store and locate the book "Weight Training for Dummies". In chapter 15 you will find excellent information on how to perform abdominal exercises correctly. Page 218 of the book dispels all the myths surrounding abdominal training.

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*1) Burn more calories then you're consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity. Get a fitness calculator that you can put on your cell phone and computer. This will allow you to easily calculate this formula, log your daily calorie consumption, and register your physical activities.

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Answer 6

Sit ups and crunches, i know it hurts but its the best way. You should notice a difference in a few days. Start of doing 20 then each day add one more. Before you know it you'll have perfect abs! Good luck

Answer 7

Homeopathic Treatment for Excessive Fat and Weight :-
PHYTOLACCA BERRY's Mother Tincture is perhaps the safest and sure fire way of loosing excessive fat around abdomen. With Phytolacca Berry once you loose the excessive fat and weight you don't get it back because you body takes care of itself after that and keeps you from gathering up excessive fat. It is prescribed after having a baby too, to get the tummy to loose its flab and to make it flatter and tighter. And after loosing weight with this you don't get flabby it tightens up the flab and skin along with helping your body to shed the excessive accumulation of fat around the girth
The dosage is 15 to 20 drops of the tincture in half a cup of hot water thrice a day half hour before or after meals.
Avoid Chocolates, Coffee, Mints, Red Meat and Carbonated and Alcoholic drinks while taking Homeopathic Medicines. You have to take it for at least 30 to 45 days after that you start to feel the results.
To the best of my knowledge its the safest and the most sure fire way of loosing fat and weight and keeping it of for keeps. Excellent remedy for Obese people who cant seem to shed weight despite trying.
Homeopathic Remedies can be found at all Major Herbal Stores or could be bought on line, In most of the world Homeopathic remedies are quite cheap and easy to find and they do not need a prescription.
Take care and God Bless !

Answer 8

crunches, sit ups, 20 reps each 2 times a day you should see results in little as a week 1/2 that should help

Answer 9

Maybe trying to ignore it. That seemed to work with getting rid of my job.

Answer 10

Weight train.

Situps and crunches.

Stop eating eggs and pasta for awhile, they are both really fatty.