Bye Bye muffin top!

My lower tummy is my biggest problem area.

You can spot shrink, without cardio though. But you can build muscle in that area to make it stronger. Bicycle crunches, "supermans", and side planks really help me with that area.

As far as I know - this is purely a fat loss thing.

In some cases doing tummy-exercises will actually make it look bigger!
If you weren't to lose any weight doing them, you'd still have the same fat, but you'd now have bigger muscles underneath the fat, pushing it even further out.

Of course doing the exercise does mean that when the fat does go, you'll have a nice abdomen ready to show off .

Those pictures are very inspiring! Thank you all for the information I know it's a trouble zone for many of us.

Had to edit to add one more. I think the bikini one shows the belly loss really well, mostly the lower part, where my bottoms are. lol

It sure does! I looks like it did some shrinking on your thighs as well ( another problem zone for myself.) Thank you for sharing these I look forward to showing my own results.

Weight loss will NOT always remove that lil rounded bump under a woman's naval. Who hasn't seen a very skinny woman with a small rounding out right below her naval, "the apron"?

Even when i was slim, athletic, SIZE TWO!!!! and at VERY low weight

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i'd occasionally STILL have to fight against a small roundness right below my naval. What worked for me back then
was a few pilate-type exercises.
Like
~Lying on my back, and lifting up both legs up and down, in various ways (sometimes rotating the lift over to each side, to target back of waist area).
~Lying on my back, lifting legs straight up, lowering them back down to within inches of the floor, and doing 'scissors'--open and close my legs as they are held a few inches above floor. When you get very good at this, you can lift up your arms off of floor, too, and scissor them open and shut, too.


~i also used to do the ^above exercise on top of stairs, with someone spotting me, with my top half on floor at top of stairs, and my legs hanging down over stairs, to further be able to lower my legs and do scissor leg moves, to target the low abdomen.

A few other tummy- toning exercises to try include:

~standing on floor, bending forward at my waist so my top half is parallel to the floor, holding bedpost or door knob for balance,
and then---lift up one leg behind me, straight out behind me, and move that one lifted leg up UP UP, and side to side---- til i can actually FEEL the pull on my lower abdomen. Switch legs.



~Kneel on floor, now put hands on floor, about right under your shoulders. Lift up one knee forwards, and try to touch your nose to that knee, THEN extend head up, and stretch that leg out behind you, and UP UP UP. Switch legs.


~Kneel on floor, put hands on floor with hands about under your shoulders, but, you can try moving hands fwd or backward to see if that helps you more, and then, push bellybutton down down as far as you can, arching your back down,
and then, suck it back up up up up, as high up as you can. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

~and yeah, "supermans" help the lower abdomen, too. As does walking with good posture,
and making habit of sucking one's tummy in every time you go up/down stairs, or drive, or whatever activity you want to make sucking in your tummy with.

Hope these exercise ideas help anyone!! )