Losing Belly Fat

PrincessShayla2024 · May 12

What’s the best exercises to melt belly fat, like for example sit ups or or jumping jacks?

nighthawk584 · May 12

Lots of cardio, but most important is healthy diet and calorie counting. You can do all the situps in the world, but without watching your diet and calories, that belly will not "melt".

tomcustombuilder · May 12

Melting fat in general will come from diet, more specifically eating fewer calories than you burn over a substantial length of time.

You can’t spot reduce fat with exercises targeting a certain area of the body, fat comes of in an order that is dictated by your genetics

ninerbuff · May 12

PrincessShayla2024 wrote: »

What’s the best exercises to melt belly fat, like for example sit ups or or jumping jacks?

You CANNOT spot reduce fat from anywhere on the body by directly exercising it. Body fat is reduced when your body utilizes it for energy. So a calorie deficit is needed. Cardio burns more calories than lifting weights in the same time allotment. But a combination of exercises using the largest muscles in your body will work best. Also PATIENCE.

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AnnPT77 · May 12

The guys upthread are right: Spot reduction isn't possible.

The only option is to lose weight (which is about getting the right calorie intake) to lose fat, or to very, very slowly add muscle all over the body at the same body weight, which will result in losing some fat along the way. (Why "very, very slowly"? Because gaining muscle is always quite slow, and requires serious work and good nutrition.)

Our bodies lose fat from areas of their chose, in whatever order they want to do it. We have no control over where the fat is lost. (Obviously, we're not losing fat from areas where we don't have any.) An implication of this is that some people won't be able to get their belly fat down to their preferred look without getting too thin somewhere else. That varies individually, because all of us have different genetics.

What you can do with exercise, that may improve the appearance of the belly area, is improve posture. It's super common these days to have poor posture, though you may already be one of the lucky people who's posture is good.

Common problems:
* Anterior pelvic tilt (top of hip bones tilted forward). This may be especially common among women who want to make their booty look more prominent, so they push it out/back. Any body fat and some of the internal organs then sort of flop forward out of the body cavity, making the belly area look bigger.
* Locked knees. Similar result to anterior pelvic tilt.
* Rounded shoulders, chin forward posture that many of us get from hunching over phones and keyboards. This sort of presses the ribcage downward, squishes any belly fat and some of those internal organs outward between the rib cage and hips, again making the belly look more prominent.

There are exercises to improve those, if you have any of those issues.

P.S. Don't believe everything internet influencers say about how to reduce belly fat. They mostly just want to sell you something, either a diet, exercise program, or even just advertising in the form of their boosting stuff from their product partners who give them free stuff. There's a lot of nonsense out there.

Best wishes!

Hobartlemagne · June 17

Abs are made in the kitchen

tomcustombuilder · June 20

Hobartlemagne wrote: »

Abs are made in the kitchen

Abs are made in the gym and exposed in the kitchen

nolongergordo · June 27

You can't target fat loss to any specific part of the body.

You just have to eat less than you need to maintain your current weight for long enough for your body to use your fat in your overall body.

Do the right thing (eat less than you need to maintain your weight) for as long as it takes.

mfunder1 · June 29

A calorie deficit

cmriverside · June 30

You asked for an exercise? Everyone above gave good advice. It's all about the amount of food.

My suggested exercise for burning belly fat?

Fork put-downs and Table push-aways.

ninerbuff · June 30

cmriverside wrote: »

You asked for an exercise? Everyone above gave good advice. It's all about the amount of food.

My suggested exercise for burning belly fat?

Fork put-downs and Table push-aways.

This.

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