How do i get rid of the "flat tire" around my waist?

Question

Ive been doing 90 min or cardio a week and some light weights what can i do to get rid of it? this is my biggest problem area!!!

Answer 1

How often do you do the cardio?
How strenuous is it?

Try for 45 min a day 5-6 days per week.

Answer 2

Its all about diet, you do not have to workout. Its easy if you can resist temptation. Eat mostly lean meats and vegetables. Lower you food totals a little every week until you see your results. Its very hard, but you have to cut out sugar, and (High Glycemic) carbs, no more eating out. Its amazing what can happen when you are completely focused on your diet. Plus you dont have to workout. :) oatmeal is great.

Answer 3

I wish I had a "flat tire" around my gut, I have a full blown tire around my gut. LOL sorry I couldn't resist. Good Luck KG

Answer 4

Keep up with your cardio. Add crunches and setups if you are not already. A lot of people are using exercise balls that have a variety of different workouts focusing in front, and the sides (love handles). I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Try a juice only diet for 30 days, also get a small rod such as a broomstick and place it on your shoulders extend your arms to the end of it and twist from side to side do as many reps as you can at once do this every day and increase the number of reps.

Answer 6

the problem is u r are doing it once in a week and thats not good.
juss think if u eat once in a week than its ok to do once in a week.
I mean u r eating whole week including the exersice day and working out only once.so,do cardio everyday and juss 10min is ok
if u dont got time.Juss stop eating faty things and workout evryday for a week and u can rip it of.I mean its not a big deal.

Answer 7

90 min cardio a week will not put a tiny dent into a flat tire - it is too little to burn up the fat.

Answer 8

that is whats called brown fat. the best advise is at www.webmd.com. //// But youre only mentioned cardio workout. do alot of ab work along with a diet that works best for you. but the thing youll need most will be the push to do it.

Answer 9

Take up golf.
The swinging and stretching and walking should help.
Eat less often and watch that your portions are not large!

Answer 10

On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

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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