Sweat bands and waist trainers?

haleyjones7

Hello!
I have noticed at my gym that many women wear sweat bands and saran wrap around their mid section to increase sweating. I have also seen that many people wear waist trainers while working out. Is this beneficial? Will it help me lose belly fat?

jgnatca

I suggest calling these waist trainers, to prevent any future misunderstandings.

No, they don't help. You're watching a whole bunch of foolish people torturing themselves for no good reason.

yopeeps025

No. Those women at the gym like to waste money on gimmicks.

jemhh

No, they will not help you lose belly fat. Sweat is not fat melting. It's just your body's built-in air conditioning system. They may lose some weight doing this but it will be due to dehydration rather than fat loss.

professionalHobbyist

Waste trainers are a waist of money

jemhh

professionalHobbyist wrote: »

Waste trainers are a waist of money

You're going to make my brain explode.

FatFreeFrolicking

Waste trainer? Like waste as in garbage?

Or do you mean waist? As in part of the abdomen?

emdeesea

Training my waste to take itself out on trash pickup day. THAT might be something.

But no, wearing plastic wrap around your middle isn't going to help you lose weight. The only way you can lose belly fat is overall fat loss. With a lot of people, that belly fat is the last place you lose.

jeffpettis

Contrary to what most people believe, these things do work to make you lighter...









...anytime you spend loads of money on useless garbage your wallet will get smaller, which in turn will make you weigh less.

TimothyFish

Waste trainer? Is that another name for pooper-scooper?

flaminica

Sweat bands and waste trainers?

QFT

SergeantSausage

smh ...

strong_curves

professionalHobbyist wrote: »

Waste trainers are a waist of money

omg

westcoastgrl21

They will not make you lose belly fat. They will make your waist *appear* smaller TEMPORARILY, so if you're going to be in a show or a pageant, it can help create a certain appearance for just that one day. But as soon as you stop using the contraptions, your waist will go back to it's original shape and size.

shrinkingletters

I always love catching up with my mother (who is successfully losing weight, and steadily so) who works with women who just LOVE those scams. They do the herbalife, they do 'water fasts' and they just had a guy come in and sell them these waist trainers. They still all bring in their dozens of krispy kremes and cinnabuns and olive garden breadsticks, etc, etc.

Then they get on her and ask her how in the world she's losing weight, she must be taking some kind of pill! Why is she being so secretive?! It can't just be that she's eating less, no way.

Kalikel

Last time I saw a lot of women in sweatbands. They were working out to Jane Fonda.

Waist trainers are just not something I'd ever do. Seems wacky to me and kinda painful. I can't imagine very many women are wearing those things.

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shrinkingletters

Kalikel wrote: »

Last time I saw a lot of women in sweatbands. They were working out to Jane Fonda.

Waist trainers are just not something I'd ever do. Seems wacky to me and kinda painful. I can't imagine very many women are wearing those things.

I had a coworker show hers off to me and then was fussing with it all afternoon. Apparently it was hurting her back.

amwoidyla

Lots of the bikini comp girls at the gym use the sweatbands, which are different than waist trainers. They're not boned and as restrictive. These girls are pretty lean anyway, so I doubt it makes much more than a temporary difference on their body.

ManiacalLaugh

Waist trainers make your waist smaller, alright...

...by pushing your ribs in and permanently shoving your organs up into places where they're not supposed to be.

The biggest defense of these I've heard is "Oh, it's only by an inch or so." SMH That's still not supposed to happen to the human body.

Seriously, waist trainers are dangerous and harken back to the old Chinese tradition of foot wrapping. You'd just be making yourself miserable - and I'd love to see what happens to some of these people when they need surgery of some sort, or age.

auddii

The saran wrap makes you sweat more and you might temporarily lose water weight. Similarly, I also still see some of the sweat suits that are out of fashion due to severely increasing the risk of fainting and death from exercise due to dehydration:


Might make sense for someone trying to make weight for a very specific time point (before a fight or competition), but not actually useful for long term weight loss.

And long term waist training can damage organs as previously mentioned.

Overall, waste of money.

antennachick

Waist trainers/girdles can benefit women after childbirth fyi...helps shrink everything. Doctors even recommend them. However they are unhealthy if they are too tight...some people need them for back support or other problems as well so dont judge if you dont know.

FatFreeFrolicking

antennachick wrote: »

Waist trainers/girdles can benefit women after childbirth fyi...helps shrink everything. Doctors even recommend them. However they are unhealthy if they are too tight...some people need them for back support or other problems as well so dont judge if you dont know.

No reputable doctor would ever recommend a waist trainer.

mantium999

antennachick wrote: »

Waist trainers/girdles can benefit women after childbirth fyi...helps shrink everything. Doctors even recommend them. However they are unhealthy if they are too tight...some people need them for back support or other problems as well so dont judge if you dont know.

Hehe. Gonna sit by and watch this one play out.....

randomtai

antennachick wrote: »

Waist trainers/girdles can benefit women after childbirth fyi...helps shrink everything. Doctors even recommend them. However they are unhealthy if they are too tight...some people need them for back support or other problems as well so dont judge if you dont know.

No just no.

ManiacalLaugh

antennachick wrote: »

Waist trainers/girdles can benefit women after childbirth fyi...helps shrink everything. Doctors even recommend them. However they are unhealthy if they are too tight...some people need them for back support or other problems as well so dont judge if you dont know.

For the first six weeks, for those who have had an exceptionally difficult labor. "Exceptionally" - as in not the norm.

And I really, REALLY don't think this applies to someone posting on a weight loss forum.

Regardless, if they aren't "too tight," they aren't "waist trainers", they're just corsets.

atypicalsmith

Most people are looking for an easy way to lose weight, and MLMs are making billions . . .

mbaker566

i have a waist trainer but it's for smoothing my silhouette and to prepare for bodiced renaissance fair stuffs. done right, I do not find it uncomfortable at all.

I do not use it for exercising in. it would only impair my breathing which seems bad to me

azulvioleta6

At best, these people are losing a little water weight. It really doesn't make any difference in the long run, and in a very hot summer such practices could lead to serious dehydration.

I find that the belief that things like this are necessary/useful is cultural.

terar21

jeffpettis wrote: »

Contrary to what most people believe, these things do work to make you lighter...









...anytime you spend loads of money on useless garbage your wallet will get smaller, which in turn will make you weigh less.

And less money means less groceries...so you know...automatic deficit due to lack of funds.

Homemaker57

I thought a sweatband was a headband made of absorbent cloth to soak up forehead sweat.

No?