How Often??

Krisgren

Hey everyone, I too am suffering from nasty tummy syndrome from all my babies (4-smallest 8pnds and biggest over 10) I have gone down a couple of sizes in pants in the past couple months and have built a lot of muscle as I love to weight train. But still not seeing a lot of change in my stomach fat, blech!!! I'm not a super big girl, just a little overweight and carry it all around the middle pretty much.

Anyways, my new plan of attack I'm thinking is to no matter what my workout schedule is (whether its a full workout day or just a cardio day) I'm planning on doing abs daily. I'm hoping if it becomes a daily thing being my main problem area it will help (I know you can't spot reduce but I mean ADDING in extra).

So I guess my question is for those who have had success in the tummy area, how often and what kind of workouts do you do??


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traceyjj

I'd love to know the answer to this too. I've had 4 children, including a set of large twins. My stomach muscles are pretty much non-existant, but I'm doing cardio and strength training almost every day to try to get myself in some sort of shape. I still have a fair amount of weight to lose, but most of it seems to be from around my stomach area.

Tonight I started a new program at the gym, and most of the program seems to use the balance ball and a bosu. According to the trainer, this will work my core "hard", so I'll try it for a month and see if it is making any difference

Krisgren

I'm thinking I need to up the fat burn process, I have been researching interval training and it says that doing spurts of fast and slow burn more fat then a steady pace for cardio, so that's what I'm gonna work on, upping my cardio and then of course all my ab work. fingers crossed cause the stomach is my worst, I absolutley hate it!!!!

traceyjj

The last part of my workout is cardio, and I think its what they class as HIIT. I start on the elliptical for a minute at a reasonable pace/resistance for 2 minutes, then its set at a high resistance, and faster pace for 2, down to a slower one for a minute, then faster and higher than the previous high, and I continue that for 15 minutes. It is hard work, much harder than the 30 minutes of elliptical I was doing.
Good luck

adamb83

I really wouldn't suggest doing Abs daily. You're not supposed to work the same muscle group daily (unless you're doing really light routines).

I would say every other day is good - that allows one day of rest for your muscles to repair and recover (which, incidentally, is when the muscle "builds up").

bluberrygoo

I really wouldn't suggest doing Abs daily. You're not supposed to work the same muscle group daily (unless you're doing really light routines).

I would say every other day is good - that allows one day of rest for your muscles to repair and recover (which, incidentally, is when the muscle "builds up").

Agree, I do every other day or every two days. You want your muscles to recover!