does hoola hooping and jump roping tighten your body and flatten your stomach..does it remove fat (belly fat)?

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not only that but i will be on a tredmill also(NOT at same time)...WOULD ALL THIS HELP?

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Darling, jump roping and hula hooping could be considered a form of cardio. As long as you are sweating a bucket-full. You must jump rope and hula hoop for at least 35 min to 1 hour a day!! Yes, treadmill works as well. You must run or jog though. If you have belly fat, the aforementioned exercises will not only target the belly fat....it burns calories, in general, from all over your body. I suffered from belly fat. Found out that I got smaller from my limbs first (legs, arms, etc) and my belly fat started to disappear second before last. The last thing to shrink was my boobs!! lol. You must also stay away from fattening foods (sodas, candies, fast foods, ice cream, etc). If you want to tighten your body, then you must lift weights because if you don't, then get ready to have hanging curtains from your arms and obtain flabby legs. Other forms of cardio are dancing and aerobics. If anybody tells you that you will obtain a flat stomach by doing sit-ups, PLEASE slap em!! You will develop the stomach muscles, but if you don't get rid of the fat on top of your muscles, then you will just have hidden muscles underneath all the fat. The fat is removed by doing cardio workouts to burn sufficient amount of calories to burn the fat. Understand? I hope you did. Have fun watching your body transform.

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The hoola hoop would help remove belly fat because it would exercise your abdominal area. All the exercises would burn off calories. Eating moderate size portions of food and cutting out junk food will keep it off.

Good luck!

Answer 5

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you exercise them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Aloha

Answer 6

any form of exercise is good, but you also need to pay attention to your food and drink

Answer 7

http://www.bodiesofstone.homestead.com/fitness.html