What exercises would help weight loss off the top of your bum and stomach? No daft answers please...?

Answer 1

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

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.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

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 work 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.


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Answer 2

Fat is easily created and stored in the body, but is difficult to lose. This is because for most activities the human body will first use up carbohydrates which are stored in the form of glycogen and muscle tissue before using up fat. Exercising is the best way to burn fat and stay healthy. For long term fat loss, the exercise program should consist of a combination of weight training and aerobic exercises. For a fat loss program, weight training exercises should be done first so that the carbohydrates and glycogen in the body are used up. This also forces the body to conserve and build muscle. After weight training, you should do aerobic exercises. More information on exercises to loose weight is available at http://tinyurl.com/jax5h

Answer 3

Sorry to say it but you can not Spot reduce your body. you slim your body all over at the same time.

Try this:

Burn more calories than you eat.

Cut your fat intake.

Eat three cups of fat free low cal yogurt a day (make sure it has live cultures in it) and pineapples. This helps you break down your food.

Do 45-60 min. of aerobic exercise a day (preferably before you eat in the morning). This will attack the fat.

Do 30 min of weight training three times a week. This will build lean muscle which will in turn burn fat.

I lost 40 lbs in two months and have kept it off for two more months doing this. I also took my body fat % from 30% to 14%

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Answer 4

start with a healthy diet and you should use cardio vascular work, ie anything that raises your heart rate. you cant really just shift weight off one place, try running on a treadmill or the streets, a step class, and cross trainer. if you can afford it you should join a gym where the instructors will set a proper routine for you, but check with your doctor first.
once you have lost weight, you can tone and define your waist using twists and crunches and using an exercise ball.

Answer 5

Wow, thanks enuwolf for the increadably long and hard to follow answer. She's right, but there's a simpler way to do it, here it is; eat lots of fruit and vegstables, don't eat ANY sugar or carbohydrates and make sure you're not getting calories from fat. The following sit-up is very effective; lie on your back and bend one leg up towards you, leave the other elongated. As you do a sit up, twist your opposite elbow to the knee of the leg that was bent. While you're doing this, bend the leg that was elongated so that it matches up with the leg that was bent. After 10-15 then swich. In addition run on a track; this helps with almost everything.

Answer 6

Sit on a stool with your arms stretched and holding a broom handle which crosses behind your neck and rests on your shoulders. Curve arms behind broom and hands on top at each end. Slowly swing the top part (waist upwards) of your body to the right and then left, and repeat. This will exercise and tone the mid area muscles. It will hurt the next day! DON'T do this if you have a spinal problem!!

Answer 7

Are you just sick of the standard diet plans were right after the diet plan end the extra pounds are just coming and coming soon after finish the diet plan? Are you encounter the truth that once your physique will get employed to a diet regime then this diet gets to be much less powerful in excess of time since your entire body adjusts to compensate?

Answer 8

sticking to a diet is about 80% of weight lose. It will get you so far but not to were you want to be. To get total success you will need to do some form of exercise depending on what you want to achieve.

Answer 9

Leg lifts while lying on your stomach, use some weight on ankles. Crunches work best for abs. Loose skin won't disappear however but muscle will show up instead.

Answer 10

I would say go running, alot of pple dont like running but honestly if u look at pple who run there all skinny. im talking about pple that run on a dayly basis. n if u take ur ipod or bring a friend it wont be all boring, thats y advice. also exercise issent everything i would not recomend a diet but its important to start eating healthy, another words no fast food n such..

Answer 11

When cooking, swap out the butter for one of these.