best exercise for belly fat?

Question

i do sit ups and work with a tension rope and starting to lose weight. the fat is pushing up on my lungs and is uncomfortable,is there anyway to relieve this pressure while i am trying to get my weight under control.i need to lose 30 lbs and mostly around the mid section thanks

Answer 1

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount 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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Answer 2

How to lose bellyfat

Losing fat is not an easy task, but gaining fat is very easy. You need to keep a check on the diet and do workouts for your abs to lose tummy fat. You also need to do aerobic exercises like swimming, jogging etc. Here are some points to keep in mind to lose belly fat:· Consume less sugar, processed foods and sodium. · Eat fiber rich foods like green leafy vegetables.· The diet should contain protein, carbohydrates and little fat.· Drink plenty of water and fruit juices.· Eat in small quantities for five to six times a day. · Do at least 30-60 minutes cardiovascular exercises at least 4 times a week. · Do strength training and ab exercises at least 3 times a week.

Tummy fat is not good for the body as it increases the chances of many diseases like diabetes, heart attack etc. A whole body workout is required to lose weight from your tummy, spot reduction is a myth, you cannot lose fat by doing stomach crunches or ab workouts only. A complete workout, which includes cardiovascular exercises, helps improve metabolism and you will be able to lose tummy fat quickly. Try to lose weight naturally by doing hard work and controlling your diet.

Answer 3

If you have stubborn belly fat, the only way you can reduce your fat is by doing aerobic exercises. During activities like swimming, rowing and walking, enough oxygen is supplied to the body to burn fat. Fat is burned from all over the body, including the stomach. The healthiest way to prevent a fat stomach is by ensuring that your weight is normal for your height. More information available at http://tinyurl.com/jax5h

Answer 4

best thing I ever did to lose weight and keep it off is to exercise everything (morning, 20 minutes is all it took me), not just the target areas, and eat 6 small meals per day.
If I eat out, I immediately get a take away box, halve the portions, and eat the rest later.
If you skip meals, your body stores fat because it thinks there is a food shortage. You have to trick it by 'grazing' all day rather than just eat 2 or 3 big meals per day.

good luck!

Answer 5

You can't target specific body fat areas like your belly. You have to lose body fat all over. Eat less and exercise more.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

try doing aerobics and eating healthily make sure you have 5 different fruits a day and lay off the crisps for a while a small amount of chocolate is OK if you treat your self from time to time but don't over do it.sit ups help build up your muscles in your belly area but it wont help you as much as aerobics.keep confident and don't give up you will soon have a toned stomach if you keep at it. good luck!!

Answer 8

Try drinking a lot of water and dont drink any soda. You should go jogging or walking for at least 20 mins 3 times a week. Aerobic exercises are also good, anything that raises your heart rate will helps burn calories.

Answer 9

Core Training

Answer 10

all fat is created equal. eat less and exersize more and it will go away. you can do nine million sit ups and it will not spot reduce around your mid section. frankly it may make it look bigger because the muscles under the fat will get bigger. you need to run or walk like an hour a day

Answer 11

Your diet and cardio with speed up your metabolism and help you loose pounds. There is no spot treatment there is just overall weightloss. So keep your diet clean and get strong minded and get going on the cardio and I promise within a month you will be feeling a lot better.