Would lying with weights on your stomach help tone?

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Swaggerr
Swaggerr Posts: 19
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If often think this, but it sounds so stupid.
If I lay down, with weights on my stomach and just breathed normally would it help tone me?
Surely your stomach will have to use extra energy to lift the weights, so...

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
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    I think you have to exert some effort to get any results. Just a thought.
  • mandi1823
    mandi1823 Posts: 5
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    Im going to go with no...it sounds painful to me! Just normal crunches should do the trick! (and cardio) :)
  • caseyp1122
    caseyp1122 Posts: 79 Member
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    That's a new one to me. I personally have never heard of that type of method and don't really see how it could be beneficial but if someone has input I'd like to hear your thoughts as well!
  • Swaggerr
    Swaggerr Posts: 19
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    Im going to go with no...it sounds painful to me! Just normal crunches should do the trick! (and cardio) :)

    My weights aren't heavy enough for normal crunches, so I'm not sure.
  • caseyp1122
    caseyp1122 Posts: 79 Member
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    However, I HAVE heard of plank position with weight put on your back to help strengthen the core!
  • twinmom01
    twinmom01 Posts: 854 Member
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    no - toning your midsection comes from within - doing exercises to strengthen your core - you have a variety of abdominal muscles and you have to exercise all of them - by doing that you will strengthen those muscles - that combined with a fairly clean eating diet should allow for the core to strengthen and burn fat deposits in the midsection
  • mandi1823
    mandi1823 Posts: 5
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    I dont use any weight when I do crunches, what would you do with weights?
  • Swaggerr
    Swaggerr Posts: 19
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    I dont use any weight when I do crunches, what would you do with weights?

    What do you mean by crunches?
    Sit ups?
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
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    I dont use any weight when I do crunches, what would you do with weights?

    What do you mean by crunches?
    Sit ups?

    No, I think he means crunches.
  • wolfchild59
    wolfchild59 Posts: 2,608 Member
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    I dont use any weight when I do crunches, what would you do with weights?

    Could be one of two ways. There are Ab crunch machines that allow you to add weight resistance as you do the crunches. Or, I've seen some people hold free weights or medicine balls to their chests while doing crunches.

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