if i do sit ups every day will i get abs and will my love handels on the side go away?

Question

my stomach is already flat i just want abs and i dont have big fat rolls, its jus when i sit down i can grab my sides and wen i stand up i can grab them. its not fat ol fatty though.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Sit ups will help but you have to reduce your body fat percentage and that means the basic rules apply: eat fewer calories than you are burning, eat healthy things so your body has fuel, and exercise.

Sit ups or crunches will help a lot with the abs but you also should do leg lifts (lying on your back, raise your head and shoulders, contract your abdominal muscles and lift your legs, both at the same time). For both men and women, pelvic circles also help tone and strengthen all the muscles of the torso and pelvis: stand with your feet shoulder width apart and take one step forward; drop your knees, and rotate your pelvis. Best way to tell if you are doing it right? Imagine a pencil protruding straight down from exactly between your thighs, and that you are making perfect circles with that pencil. Sounds weird I know but the long strap muscles along both sides of your torso, where the love handles are now, will get very strong.

Don't forget that the more you build your muscles the more your metabolism increases and the more calories you burn. Good luck!

Answer 3

It will take more than sit ups... The body doesn't start burning fat until, if i remember correctly, 20-30 minutes of aerobic activity... I don't mean doing aerobics, look up the term.... So if you just work out for 5 or 10 minutes and your workout is anaerobic you might not have even got to the stage of burning fat...

Answer 4

If your just doing Abdominal exercises your targeting your upper and lower abs. But love Handles are located by your obliques so you need to target that specific area by doing a different exercise which targets that area. Like oblique crunches etc. You should try an isometric type of work out where you burn the hell out of those area by going really slow or holding it half way for 1 min per set i love the pain when it burns.

Answer 5

Nope, it doesnt take doing situps everyday. You should have like 1 or 2 really hard intense ab workouts each week, using a couple different workouts ( bicycles, leg stretches from floor, crunches, etc)

Answer 6

To a point. I've known several avid lovers of sit ups and now they have what looks like beer bellys because they overdone it. I say five hundred sit ups a day is overkill.

Answer 7

you have to do a lot of running to get the fat off, and then doing the ab work outs will tone those muscles... but you have to get the fat off first!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

YES. So will running. situps and crunches and leg-lifts are excellent ways to flatten, tone and lean up your belly and sides. Try side crunches too.