Waist Trainers?

Choromyslny
Choromyslny Posts: 6 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Do waist trainers actually work or is it just a marketing scam? Anyone here have any experience using them?
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  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    Scam. You can not spot reduce
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Marketing scam.
  • cathipa
    cathipa Posts: 2,991 Member
    Scam. Wouldn't waste (pun intended) my money.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    cathipa wrote: »
    Scam. Wouldn't waste (pun intended) my money.

    @Mycophilia did it better.
  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    Scam
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Choromyslny wrote: »
    Do waist trainers actually work or is it just a marketing scam? Anyone here have any experience using them?

    If they worked, do you really think people would be eating 1,200 calories a day to achieve the same goal?
  • Italiana_xx79
    Italiana_xx79 Posts: 594 Member
    Mycophilia wrote: »
    They're a waist of time

    This!! Too funny, lol!!!
  • sarahlifts
    sarahlifts Posts: 610 Member
    Waste of money and can cause long term damage.
  • sherbear702
    sherbear702 Posts: 650 Member
    edited May 2017
    Mycophilia wrote: »
    They're a waist of time

    Har har, I see what you did there. I've been seeing these on my Facebook feed lately (super annoying). The only reason I would get one is so I could wear it under a tight *kitten* dress and not look like a sack of cream corn in it. Don't waste your money. You body will go back to its original shape once it comes off
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    They make you look like a tube of toothpaste smooshed in the middle.
  • YalithKBK
    YalithKBK Posts: 317 Member
    Look up what happened to Victorian woman who wore corsets.
  • Muana1005
    Muana1005 Posts: 172 Member
    I use one when I do yoga and HIT and it seems to have worked for me. But I was looking to spot reduce my lower belly which has been resistant to all diet and exercise. My trainer thinks it might have helped me correct my posture and strengthen my core along with the exercise.

    You should definitely not rely on a waist trainer alone.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    Muana1005 wrote: »
    I use one when I do yoga and HIT and it seems to have worked for me. But I was looking to spot reduce my lower belly which has been resistant to all diet and exercise. My trainer thinks it might have helped me correct my posture and strengthen my core along with the exercise.

    You should definitely not rely on a waist trainer alone.

    They actually do the opposite and weaken your core.
  • DeficitDuchess
    DeficitDuchess Posts: 3,099 Member
    edited May 2017
    Muana1005 wrote: »
    I use one when I do yoga and HIT and it seems to have worked for me. But I was looking to spot reduce my lower belly which has been resistant to all diet and exercise. My trainer thinks it might have helped me correct my posture and strengthen my core along with the exercise.

    You should definitely not rely on a waist trainer alone.

    Actually it does the, opposite it; weakens your core because you aren't relying, upon those; muscles! It's like what occurs with, astronauts via; space because of the lack of, gravity they aren't using; their muscles & thus, they weaken!
  • Daddy78230
    Daddy78230 Posts: 125 Member
    There have been 37 studies done on the effectivness of compression garments, like waist trainers.

    The results: Contradictory data

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22161265
  • Muana1005
    Muana1005 Posts: 172 Member
    I don't think so. I use a great trainer and he said if I'm exercising it with it on, it will strengthen it. I've seen the results - where there was once a layer of fat you can now see abs. I feel stronger too.
  • LPirate
    LPirate Posts: 3 Member
    A rubber waist trainer is way different than Victorian corsets first off.
    While it won't actually do the work for you, it will produce extra heat from being a tight extra layer.
    Otherwise I feel like it is what it is- shapewear.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    LPirate wrote: »
    A rubber waist trainer is way different than Victorian corsets first off.
    While it won't actually do the work for you, it will produce extra heat from being a tight extra layer.
    Otherwise I feel like it is what it is- shapewear.

    Extra heat does not burn fat though. That's not how this works...
  • LPirate
    LPirate Posts: 3 Member
    edited May 2017
    I'm not sayin it does? See where I put "it won't do the work for you"
  • ksz1104
    ksz1104 Posts: 260 Member
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    Mycophilia wrote: »
    They're a waist of time

    Har har, I see what you did there. I've been seeing these on my Facebook feed lately (super annoying). The only reason I would get one is so I could wear it under a tight *kitten* dress and not look like a sack of cream corn in it. Don't waste your money. You body will go back to its original shape once it comes off

    A sack of cream corn i really LOL'd
  • whitpauly
    whitpauly Posts: 1,483 Member
    I hate waist trainers! However I do use one of those rubber stretchy things sometimes but mostly for back support, seems to help
  • 1LonelyRose
    1LonelyRose Posts: 48 Member
    Try a neoprene waist trimmer it reduces fluid in the midsection. Bottom line the body sheds fat where it wants a waist trainer after time will shift your internal organs after continued and it will weaken your core because you are not relying on the muscles to do the job they are intended to do. but I honestly have never used a waist trainer. I have however used a latex corset 11 years ago following a c-section and it helped along with breastfeeding to reduce my middle but it was in part due to the shrinking of the uterus rather than fat loss. Try a waist trimmer instead.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    At best it will temporarily push some fluid out of that area, if you tend to hold some water weight there (that's why some people think they work). Key word temporarily. It will do nothing to the fat, and will do nothing good permanently.
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,110 Member
    If anything they can help support proper posture. It won't help you lose weight. Some people appear slimmer though when they have better posture
  • yellingkimber
    yellingkimber Posts: 229 Member
    I used a waist trainer for about 3 months last year, but not because I was looking to spot reduce fat or "increase burn" or anything like that. I injured my back in multiple places back in 2014 and went through physical therapy 3x at a minimum of 8 weeks per time. I think the second time was actually 16 weeks. No matter what I did, nothing seemed to help. I could only spend about 2 hours a day out of bed before curling up in excruciating pain.

    As a college student, that really wasn't ideal. I had 5 hours of classes a day and I ended up having to miss like half of them, which made my GPA suffer, and I wasn't into that. Nothing the PT was suggesting for exercises was seeming to help, so I caved and bought a waist trainer (latex free, allergy) off of Amazon because I was at the end of my rope. I was suddenly able to sit through about 4 hours of classes before needing to collapse into a heap in my bed. Kept doing the physical therapy exercises, but this time it actually started helping?

    Physical therapist thinks that using the waist trainer helped me because of the reason everyone hates on them- you're not relying on those muscles. For me, it ended up being that I was doing exercises that SHOULD have been helping the spot I injured, but other muscles were chiming in and trying to compensate for the injured spot? Not entirely sure. Either way, after wearing it for 3 months, I didn't have to wear it anymore. I'm over a year out and now I'm only lounging in bed to get ready to sleep.

    Otherwise, yeah. They're just a marketing scam.
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,110 Member
    yellingkimber wrote: »
    I used a waist trainer for about 3 months last year, but not because I was looking to spot reduce fat or "increase burn" or anything like that. I injured my back in multiple places back in 2014 and went through physical therapy 3x at a minimum of 8 weeks per time. I think the second time was actually 16 weeks. No matter what I did, nothing seemed to help. I could only spend about 2 hours a day out of bed before curling up in excruciating pain.

    As a college student, that really wasn't ideal. I had 5 hours of classes a day and I ended up having to miss like half of them, which made my GPA suffer, and I wasn't into that. Nothing the PT was suggesting for exercises was seeming to help, so I caved and bought a waist trainer (latex free, allergy) off of Amazon because I was at the end of my rope. I was suddenly able to sit through about 4 hours of classes before needing to collapse into a heap in my bed. Kept doing the physical therapy exercises, but this time it actually started helping?

    Physical therapist thinks that using the waist trainer helped me because of the reason everyone hates on them- you're not relying on those muscles. For me, it ended up being that I was doing exercises that SHOULD have been helping the spot I injured, but other muscles were chiming in and trying to compensate for the injured spot? Not entirely sure. Either way, after wearing it for 3 months, I didn't have to wear it anymore. I'm over a year out and now I'm only lounging in bed to get ready to sleep.

    Otherwise, yeah. They're just a marketing scam.

    The one I own was purchased to help me increase activity while recovering from a disc injury in my lower back. My posture definitely improved and I was able to walk more without pain while healing.
  • scgfitlife
    scgfitlife Posts: 55 Member
    Y'all are so clever. But for real, don't do it.

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