how do you tighten your stomach

hagerwendy

:sad:

victoria4321

Do you mean by just flexing your core muscles or actually losing weight?

angbieb

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angbieb

Do you mean by just flexing your core muscles or actually losing weight?

OMG Victoria what did you do to kitty? lol!! Is his name Pikachu? That is too cute!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

UrbanRunner81

for me it was a modest calorie deficit and heavy lifting. Honestly my mid section didn't start tighten up until I started lifting heavy. I don't just mean ab exercises. I mean squats, deadlifts and ect.

mudra123

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3cCHBSo7Pk&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7W06GyGq8&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BjWLaGqEAg

when u stop 1 rep of 10 of the first exercise ...u can literally feel the muscles in ur stomach expand..kinda like shock absorbers expanding

imjessly

The 'one old weird old tip to reduce your belly fat' ofcourse

TinkrBelz

Obviously lose fat in your tummy.

But, do planks and ab vacuums. Youtube ab vacuums. They look weird and I can not do them as well as these people can, but I can pull my tummy in more now than I could a few months ago. This gets your transverse abs and pulls your tummy in.

Sp1nGoddess

for me it was a modest calorie deficit and heavy lifting. Honestly my mid section didn't start tighten up until I started lifting heavy. I don't just mean ab exercises. I mean squats, deadlifts and ect.

^^^^
this and planks, engage your core while working out.

futuremalestripper

I prefer a tie down strap with a ratcheting device that locks it in place.
Bungy cords always stretch.

BigRich822

Calorie deficit

TrophyWifeSass

for me it was a modest calorie deficit and heavy lifting. Honestly my mid section didn't start tighten up until I started lifting heavy. I don't just mean ab exercises. I mean squats, deadlifts and ect.

^^^^
this and planks, engage your core while working out.

Truth!

kdeaux1959

I feel your pain.

1. As far as reducing fat, there is no such thing as "spot reduction"... Lose fat and it will come off the parts it jolly well feels like it... Not what we want to hear... but it is the way that works...

However... there is good news...

2. There are exercises that can firm up various muscles which does in fact help certain areas of our bodies...
a. Ab crunches... not fun but they help
b. Ab machine at the gym
c. Torso rotator at the gym
d. sit on an exercise ball and have somebody throw a fitness ball to you... first to the left then to the right.... (all while essentially doing sit ups/crunches)
*** Many do not recommend old fashioned sit ups any more due to back involvement... but if you can do them... it would not hurt...

Essentially any exercise that forces the contraction of those tummy muscles will "work" those muscles and hence cause them to tighten up.. and when they tighten up, it does cause some reduction in the size of the mid section... However, it does NOT reduce the fat covering those muscles... That is done "in the kitchen"... ("Abs are made in the kitchen")...

Unfortunately for most all of us... We will gain fat first in the torso then the hips... (women tend to get hippy faster than men... men tend toward the old "beer gut" first)... And guess what leaves last...

Keep at it and you will get where you want to be. Best wishes.