about crunches?

Question

how much weight can i lose if i do like 50 a nite

Answer 1

If you are trying to reduce your waist, here are some ideas from my 360 Blog of September 10.

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

Not a whole lot. Crunches are a form of strength training and since muscle weighs more than fat you'll actually be gaining weight (without that jiggle-ie fat look).

Aditionally , it is impossible to "spot train" your body. This means that if you have excess belly fat simply doing crunches will not reduce fat from that area. Crunches should be part of a larger plan that includes a proper diet AND exercise.

To lose fat you must expend more calories than you eat in a day. For an average person this equates to about 20 minutes of moderate cardio exercise (non-resistance exercise like walking, jogging, or jumping rope to name a few) about 5 days a week.

For a plethora of information head to: www.exercise.about.om

Answer 3

You can't lose weight doing crunches alone... it will bulid up muscle but it won't let you lose weight... you need to do some cardio and that will help alot. GOOD LUCK...and don't be afraid to work your other musce groups.. because the more muscle you have the better you weight loss goals will be and if you do cardio to you will KICK BUTT

Answer 4

In order to lose weight, you need to exercise aerobically. This means, "Feel the burn, baby!" Walking, cycling, anything you can do for an extended period of about 40-60 minutes. Start off slow if you aren't used to it, and work your way up.

Answer 5

Talk in your dentist to look should you will have to fear. This occurred to me. One time I could not even consume for an afternoon considering the fact that it was once so painful to open and/ or near my mouth. I received braces and now it is higher. My dentist informed me its getting higher however he has in no way informed me it was once some thing to fear approximately.

Answer 6

You should also do cardio work. That burns fat. The crunches will build muscle.

Answer 7

not too much.. u need ot diet and exercise too.. haah.. its funyn i started my diet/exercise plan today wiht my bf.. haha lets c how that goes.. but ya crunches rnt as effective as leg lifts.. omg they hrut soo bad but ehy work.. wat u do is u lie on ur back and lift both of ur feet up and then down but u donnttt touch the ground.. try that

Answer 8

well it depends try menshealth.com u will find all da answers about how u can lose weight by exercises , running n wat diet u hav to take

Answer 9

It depends on what you weigh now, and what what shape you're in now.

Answer 10

it'll help you lost weight
but it's more effective to walk