Abdominal Exercise And Weight Loss
Abdominal
Exercise
When
most people start on a weight-loss regime the first thing they wish to attack
is their waistline. They start off with visions of turning a beer gut into an
abdominal six-pack. After a few weeks of strenuous exercise nothing appears to
happen and soon they lose confidence and give up.
This
article is designed to explain, in laymen's terms, why this happens and why you
may be using the wrong exercises, or possibly the right exercises at the wrong
time. Either way you are doing yourself no favors.
Never
give up because only losers quit. We've all heard the old saying: "The
height of stupidity is to repeat the same thing and expect a different
result." If it isn't working you try a different routine and you keep
doing that until you find the routine that does work, that is the way of
winners.
Why
These Exercises do not Reduce Waist ?
The
first thing you must accept is that all abdominal exercises only strengthen
abdominal muscles, if those muscles are covered by a layer of fat when you
start they will still be covered by the same layer of fat when you finish.
You
will have stronger abdominal muscles but you will not look any different.
Therefore your attempt to create figure from fat will have failed. The secret
to making these abdominal exercises work is to lose fat first. You lose fat by
diet and aerobic exercise, by burning more calories than you take in with food.
When you have reduced your waistline to a more
natural size you can then take up abdominal exercises and start working on that
perfect six-pack.
Weight
Loss
In a
nutshell you need to reduce your calorie intake and burn some calories off by
using light exercise. Losing weight can only be achieved by eating less and
moving more. Forget the complicated scientific formulae, it all boils down to
eating less and moving more.
Exercise
Wisdom
Conventional
wisdom claims that you need to exercise for 30-minutes each day and that this
demand can be broken down to six five minute sessions or three ten minute
sessions, whichever suits you best.
You
can carry out aerobic exercise using simple methods like parking your car as
far from the store as possible and forcing yourself to walk further. Maybe
walking up the stairs instead of using the escalator, any small act of this
nature that adds to your normal exercise output is aerobic exercise and burns
calories.
Eating
habits
Furthermore
it makes sense to eat five or six meals each day rather than two or three. Why?
Because you will eat smaller meals and it is better for your metabolism to deal
with smaller meals rather than large meals. You can also eat between these
meals providing you restrict it to a piece of fruit or a raw carrot. Dieting
doesn't have to be hard it has to be sensible.
Your
brain doesn't get the message that your stomach is full for at least twenty
minutes after it is full. How often have you eaten way beyond the capacity that
is required simply because the message hasn't got through?
Conclusion
There
is no point in attempting abdominal exercises while you still have a layer of
fat and expecting a figure improvement. Muscle building and weight loss are
separate subjects that should be approached individually if you are to get the
best results.
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