Why does my stomach seem to?

Question

protrude more and be squishier after vigorous stomach excersise?

Answer 1

First of all the squishy feeling is due to the fact that you are destroying the muscle when you work it out, and your body is flooding the area with blood to begin repairs.

The protrusion could be a slight swelling due to the increased blood flow but most likely you are doing the exercises wrong. Many people think that to do a crunch or sit-up you just "sit-up" but that isn't true. It's very very VERY important that you pull your ab muscle inward, toward your backbone when you do the movement, otherwise you will build the muscle OUTWARD making your stomach look poochy.

Answer 2

Vigorous exercises produce fatigue. (tiredness)

If you work any muscle hard, it uses up its ability to work. That's why a weight that was easy to move at the beginning of the set, can end up totally immovable by the end.

If you work your abdominal muscles to the point of fatigue, they will be less able to hold your internal organs together, so your belly will feel squishy for a while. This will be temporary, but it is better to avoid it.

You can spread the same amount of abdominal work out, so that you do a third of the work, but do it three times during your normal 'work cycle'. For example, if you do 60 crunches, every day in the evening, you will get more benefit from doing 20, three times a day.

Very frequent, low effort exercise is much more beneficial than working out heavily, less often. Because a heavy workout needs much more recovery time than a light one, you can actually get a lot MORE exercises done if you split them into lots of lighter sessions.

The traditional principle is: LITTLE AND OFTEN.

Answer 3

mayby too much liquid in your stomach before/after exercise

Answer 4

as you work your muscles enlarge pushing any fat on your stomach out