Would sit ups help?!


Question: Would sit ups help!?
does anyone no how i can sort out my belly i give birth 8 months ago to my daughter and my belly doesnt seem to want till go ive been on diets never lose anything not even 1lb bought adios tablets and i drink loads of water and i walk all the time were ever i wanna go i walk

am 5ft 2inch my weight is 9stone 6lbs

its my belly thats making me feel depressed am going away on holiday in 6 weeks and feel uncomfortable about wanting to go swimming and stuff like thatWww@Answer-Health@Com


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Congrats on your baby! My youngest just turned ten months old!. With me being a personal trainer, my wife had an advantage that you don't, but the plan she followed is fairly straightforward (but not easy, so I recommend you look further ahead than your vacation in six weeks for motivation!.

You have two things working against you after having a baby!. First, women's stomach muscles stretch out to make room for the baby!. Second, women always add a few layers of fat to ensure that mom has enough energy to support the baby's development!. It's a one-two punch that is hard to recover from!. At your weight, you probably don't have a lot of fat to lose, but you still need to keep in mind that you don't need to lose weight, you need to maintain muscle and lose body fat!. I've trained women who were your size but were considered obese when you took their body fat measurements!. Not to say that you fit into this category, but weight and BMI aren't the best indicators of health!. Body composition is the best way to go, since you can have a skinny person with 35% body fat!.!.!. I've seen it and helped her to remedy the situation!. She's now at a healthy 19% body fat and has been maintaining it for six years using what I'm about to show you!.!.!.

First off, diet should be the main part of the equation!. You want to eat with the same frequency as your baby: several meals a day that consist of the recommended macronutrient percentages (45-55% carbs, 30-50% protein, 10-25% fat)!. at no time should you get more than 30% of your calories from fat and you should make sure that the main bulk of your carb calories come from fiber, not sugars!. The sugars you do get should not be refined (maltose, sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, evaporated cane sugar (HFCS replacement in organic foods), fructose, and refined and/or enriched white flour)!.

Your basic meal should consist of a lean protein, a fibrous vegetable or grain, and early in the day, you can include fruits!. To make your life easier, feel free to get into a groove!. I have the same breakfast, every day: oatmeal with a scoop of whey protein powder, ground flax seed, and a little fruit for more flavor!. Whey powder is usually absorbed quickly and is usually used to get a nice boost of protein after lifting, but you can mix it with milk to slow that down!.

Basically, by snacking several times a day, instead of going for the normal 2-3 meals a day that the average busy adult makes time for, you are putting your metabolism into high gear!. As for calories, you need to create a slight daily negative to lose weight!. The safest way to do that is to figure out your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) from your BMR, and when you plan your meals, try to never go below 80% of your TDEE!. When you hit a plateau, eat your TDEE for a week, and then drop back down to 80% until your next plateau!.

Last on diet is water!. You need to drink at least an ounce to an ounce and a half of water for every kg you weigh, but should never go below 64 ounces for adults!. That's 64-87 ounces of water for you!. It's probably more water than you're used to, so ease into it over a week, so your bladder can have time to catch up!. You'll quickly get used to the increased water intake and the added restroom stops will go away!. I promise!. :)

For exercise, you want to do three days of cardio, three days of weight lifting, and get one day to rest!. For lifting, you don't need to toss around the plates at the gym, since bodyweight exercise can provide a more functional workout for the average person!. As to what exercises to do, you should concentrate on the larger muscle groups!. Squats, lunges, push ups, crunches (instead of sit ups), leg lifts (on your stomach and back) and pull ups (negative pull ups are fine if you can't do a pull up) are great workouts and don't need much special equipment (something to act as a pull up bar is all you need)!. The only thing that is neglected in the exercises I pointed out is shoulders!. For them, you can do a modified military press with your baby!. Ours loves it when we do it with her, and it's easy and fun! Plus, it will help instill a workout ethic in your child, helping to ensure they develop healthy lifestyle habits for their future!. For other workout ideas, you can do a search on the web!. There is a ton of free info out there for everyone to use!.

Cardio is great, but most people just pick a steady pace and push for half an hour or more!.!.!. That's great, since it's a healthy habit, but if you really want to boost your metabolism and burn the fat, your best option is for an exercise that will provide a long-term metabolic boost similar to what you get from weight lifting!. That exercise is the dreaded HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)!. Do some research on the web for this!. It's basically alternating between running and sprinting!. Changing things up will really shock your system and you'll have insane results from adding a day or two of HIIT into your cardio routine!.

Be careful with the HIIT, though!. You can easily over train when you adopt such an advanced exercise like this!. The way to know if you're overdoing it is to track your heart rate before you get out of bed, every day!. If your heart rate jumps more than a few beats per second, for more than two to three days in a row, you should take it easy on the cardio for a couple of days!. I'm not saying stop the cardio, but definitely decrease the amount of HIIT you're doing until your resting pulse rate stabilizes again!.

Also, since you want to target your abs, you should be aware that you can do ab exercises daily without the risk of over training the muscles (you should still take the one day of rest a week)!. A few sets of 12-15 repetitions should be sufficient, as long as you are squeezing your abs really hard with each rep!. Hitting your abs from different angles will also help with this!. Leg lifts work your lower abs, which is where most of the muscle stretching occurs, so be sure you don't ignore them!. Be sure to use proper form, and if they strain your lower back, a rolled-up towel can help support your spine to keep the risk of injury to a minimum!.

With that said, I recommend you consult a certified professional trainer to learn proper exercises and form!. You don't need one full time, but a touch up here or there goes a long way to helping to prevent future injury and a healthy lifestyle, since we tend to stop doing the things that hurt!.

Other people may suggest diet pills, teas, fasting, etc!.!.!. Diet pills will only serve to dehydrate you!. Sure you'll lose weight, but as soon as you rehydrate yourself, you're back to square one!.!.!. It's not worth the expense (though I do recommend you take a decent multi vitamin/mineral) and possible long-term damage you can do to your body!. Most people aren't aware that your pituitary gland can get "lazy" if you take too many stimulants!. This will affect your thyroid and eventually cause weight gain, depression, and a myriad of other symptoms that doctors usually have a hard time diagnosing and a harder time treating!.

Fasting will put your body into gluconeogenesis, or starvation mode!. Some fasting advocates will say that if you get enough vitamins and minerals, your body won't burn muscle, bone, organs, and even your brain, but what they're not telling you is that this isn't how your body works!. Weight loss isn't a simple calorie in versus calorie out process, and your metabolism can very easily adjust itself to drastic drops in caloric intake!. This is why you cycle your intake back up every time you hit a plateau!. When I was a professional bodybuilder and was in preparation for competition, I would cycle my caloric intake every few days and eat all of my simple carbs in the morning!. This is a simplification of what I would use to cut down to my lowest body fat percentage of just over 2%, and if you want to give it a try, go for it!.

All I ask is that you don't go low carb!. It's missing too many nutrients, ends up being a low calorie diet since it is great for turning off your hunger mechanism, and once you hit ketosis, you also go into gluconeogenesis and are guaranteed to lose lean body mass along with the fat!. Remember, the key is to maintain or gain lean body mass (which takes up less room that fat, so you can gain muscle and still get leaner) and lose body fat!. Your scale should only be a tool to help you determine your body composition, and if it wasn't required for that, I'd tell you to throw it out!

There is so much I want to get out to you, but I just don't have the space!.!.!. I hope this is sufficient!

Good Luck!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Thats it, you said it! Swimming!.

Best sport in the world for getting fit, losing weight and looking good ;)

Don't worry what other people think!. There is a small guy that goes to my gym, when I say small I mean like a dwarf!.!. well he is one!. He's like that for the rest of his life and your complaining about a streched belly!?

Look at yourself in the mirror woman, it's a tempory thing!.!. it'll go!. Getting depressed over something like that only shows me a weakness in your mentality!. You need to think of yourself as a woman solider!.!.!. now go marching on and do yourself proud!. Be proud of your kid, don't worry about your stomach!

Just get down the health club and do your swimming, ask for a good diet program and you'll be sortedWww@Answer-Health@Com

Sit ups are a good way of tightening the muscles in the tummy and upper legs!. Try, also, to loose a little weight, like one stone!. Sit-ups will help you tone up and loose a little weight!. Walking is good but you need to find another more vigorous exercises, such as a bicycle!. Good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Normal situps are known to wear down on your back and neck, there are a lot of alternatives

If you're wanting some great abs I recommend checking out this link:

http://www!.l-o-s-e-weight!.com/fastabs!.ht!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Join a low carb diet like Atkinks or Kimkins online!. I lost 54 lbs!. in 4 months on kimkins and it was easy with the online menus and support!. Check it out!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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id suggest alot of cardio work, running (whether on a treadmill or around your town etc) is the key to losing any belly!. :)Www@Answer-Health@Com

belly dancing, or jsut put on a few shakira sings a day and dance moving your hips etcWww@Answer-Health@Com

This is going to be long, but please read every word of it; it will help you

out immediately!.

Okay, if you want a six pack you have two ways of going about it!. You can go

with option 1: the hard, tedious, and annoying way that ultimately ends with

you giving up, or 2: the only smart way that you'll end up realizing if you

DON'T give up with number 1!.

So I want to give it to you straight through with number 2, because number one

is probably what everyone else is going to say, and that's just going to make

you frustrated!.

There are generally two key ingredients to building a great six pack, or toned

stomach, and those two things are as follows:

1) You need to have low body fat!.
2) You need to actually have abdominal muscles!.

Since number two is true for all human beings born healthily, or with

abdominal muscles, I am going to leave that one alone for now, and just focus

on number 1!.

You have to have low body fat to have a good toned stomach!. No amount of

crunches, sit ups, and ab-isolating exercises are going to help you AT ALL if

you do not have a lower body fat!.

But we want to kill two birds with one stone, then!.

a) burn fat!.
b) tone muscle!.

You need to do full body resistence training on a level that rivals most

cardiovascular exercises!. Many resistence training programs only work out

small body parts at a time!. This is stupid because working out larger muscle

groups burns more fat!.

Doing full body workouts also do what many other isolation exercises don't:

they work out the abs! This will add muscle definition to the abdominal

muscles, thus resulting in a more defined six pack!.

Build enough muscle around your entire body that it burns calories throughout

your day!. Then you won't have to worry about doing crunches or sit ups, and

your entire body will be leaner!. ;)

Hope that helped!Www@Answer-Health@Com





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