Mommy pooch

C12254

Im sure this has been asked before but i have a very cranky teething baby who has finally fallen asleep and with the pattern of today, she wont stay that way long. so instead of searching a zillion posts...

how do i tone (because i know i cant spot reduce) that lower belly mommy pooch?

ShaunaMcMac

I don't think you can 'tone' the pooch itself, that's just fat loss. What do they say, "you don't make abs in the gym, you make them in the kitchen". Basically, eat a cal deficit to lose fat. Tone up your abs by doing ab exercises, ex. crunches, leg raises, reverse crunch etc..

Good luck, I'm working on mine too ????

jenndeirdre

This is one I'd love to know too after two kids I'd like to have less of one, not what I expected to look like at 25

RunnerElizabeth

I'm a full time single working mom of a 3.5 yearold and I have a very long commute. So it took me 2 years to start fitting in regular excercise. Anyway, I ate at a moderate deficit and ran 20+ miles a week, fat loss helped, but I started seeing my abs (still on top of the pooch at this point, but a huge step in the right direction, 3 vertical lines, one horizontal) when I added strength training. It seems it definitely is a combination of diet and strength and fat loss. I do 3 days of body weight strength for an hour each session. Figure I'll continue with this for a couple of months and then see if I need to switch it up after race season. 3 years ago though, I wouldn't have thought my abs were gone forever and now I think there is hope.

SmallMimi

55 and mother of two, never thought to get rid of the mommy pooch. Crunches - both normal and reverse will help firm up the muscles and make it less noticable. The over laying fat in the area is all about the kitchen, calorie deficit!

BeachGingerOnTheRocks

55 and mother of two, never thought to get rid of the mommy pooch. Crunches - both normal and reverse will help firm up the muscles and make it less noticable. The over laying fat in the area is all about the kitchen, calorie deficit!

This.

You can strengthen the underlying muscles, but the fat loss is all diet.

Some exercises to strengthen the core: reverse swiss ball pikes, crunches, hanging leg raises, planking, burpees, skipping rope, Roman chair, weighted side bends, mountain climbers, and ab wheel. But you will only see results when you lose the body fat.

That pooch will go down. You just have to keep eating at a deficit.

kindasortachewy

In January I lost my son at 7 months, I had just started getting the pooch and was carrying him low, so even after losing him it stuck there.

I started doing a Stand Up Abs workout on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK6mKUEY09o

and it seemed to work - I also got a gold gyms waist trimmer belt and wow does it work for me and its like 4 dollars at walmart

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Gold-s-Gym-Waist-Trimmer-Belt/12167842

Here is a before/after of a 70 days progress

ingeh

mine went down alot in 2 weeks of ripped in 30 then I gave up lol Iv just started day 1 again as I need to lose 2 inches off my waist and it helped tighten my lower pooch up so much

SamanthaClarexo

55 and mother of two, never thought to get rid of the mommy pooch. Crunches - both normal and reverse will help firm up the muscles and make it less noticable. The over laying fat in the area is all about the kitchen, calorie deficit!

This.

You can strengthen the underlying muscles, but the fat loss is all diet.

Some exercises to strengthen the core: reverse swiss ball pikes, crunches, hanging leg raises, planking, burpees, skipping rope, Roman chair, weighted side bends, mountain climbers, and ab wheel. But you will only see results when you lose the body fat.

That pooch will go down. You just have to keep eating at a deficit.

Exactly this.