Best Exercises To Lose Fat On Your Belly?

As you said, you can't choose where you lose it. Exercise doesn't spot reduce, no matter how awesome it would be if it did!

You can't spot reduce, but you can add exercises that help strengthen your core which in time, coupled with healthy eating, can reduce and reshape the appearance of that area. - As a person who worked her *kitten* off to get back in shape, what helped strengthen my core were exercises like planks, mountain climbers, wall sits, barbell squats, wood chops, supermans...stuff like that.

mandeiko wrote: »

jimmmer wrote: »

Fork putdowns and plate pushaways....

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This is the hardest workout!!!

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SimonCypher wrote: »

I was wondering if people could suggest the best exercises to lose excess fat around my belly? I appreciate you can't target where to lose the fat however the only two places I really have any is my belly and bum (jeez, I sound like a right woman, haha).

I'm an active runner but this doesn't seem to help shift any of it! I'm back to the gym tomorrow and would like suggestions to work on.

Thanks ladies and gents!

In the kitchen!

Maintain a deficit in the CICO equation and the belly fat will be lost.

louubelle16 wrote: »

Everyone's already said CICO, but that didn't work for my tum. I had to cut out alcohol to see the belly pooch shrink, and I wasn't exactly a big drinker (a typical Friday night binge drinker but not otherwise drinking). Might be worth a try? Dryathalon is coming up...

Booze has calories, so my guess is your tum was not shrinking due to incorrect math. When you cut the booze, you cut your calories. Simple CICO...

Why Am I Not Losing Weight: 11 Reasons You’re Failing To Lose Fat

louubelle16 wrote: »

SingingSingleTracker wrote: »

Booze has calories, so my guess is your tum was not shrinking due to incorrect math. When you cut the booze, you cut your calories. Simple CICO...

Why Am I Not Losing Weight: 11 Reasons You’re Failing To Lose Fat

I always logged it, and was always under calories as I would reign in my eating for a few days. It just seemed to make a bigger difference for me than anything else. May have been coincidence but that was my observation anyway.

The main thing is to point out to the OP what is known to work. CICO - for all practical purposes is the ticket.

Not to label your "observation" as anecdotal or what others might call Bro Science, but we are all here at MFP to learn. I drink, and am currently in my losing weight portion of the year by running a deficit with good ole CICO. 5 pounds of belly fat has been lost in December - even with a 1/2 to full bottle of wine daily. ;-)

One can do it in the kitchen alone. Or one can use exercise to help balance out the CICO equation. I tend to do better using exercise to boost the CO portion of the equation because I love to eat.

This chart represents my 2015 weekly training hours which I use to help control the CO portion of CICO. The red arrow down is where training volume tapers off during the Fall months as I enjoy 3 months of the off season for cycling. Training ramps up this time of year to prepare for the 2016 season. The red arrow up is slowly adding back training volume and December has enough volume to balance the CICO equation in favor of a deficit to lose weight off my belly.



Point being - as accurate of calorie counting as possible, logging that honestly, and seeing what is going in and what is being burned off to make sure one is running a deficit is the only known way to lose the fat.

The link I provided is quite an honest assessment by that particular blogger. Somebody pointed it out to me two years ago when I was in a "stall" and it got me out of the "stall" and led to more accurate logging, and CICO equation control. Here it is again.

You’re Eating Too Many Calories - being the premise of those 11 reasons why someone like the OP may not be losing her belly fat. In your case, my guess is that even thought you though you were accurately logging your booze and food, and thought you were running a deficit - you most likely were not. So the coincidence and observation you noticed was really a result in finally having enough of a deficit to lose weight in the CICO calculation. It's typical we underestimate how much we eat, and overestimate how much we burn (the calorie burn measurements here at MFP are terrible!!!). This means one has to run an even larger deficit to account for the inaccurate CICO tabulations we all perform.