how do you tighten your stomach

hagerwendy
hagerwendy Posts: 1
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
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  • victoria4321
    victoria4321 Posts: 1,719 Member
    Do you mean by just flexing your core muscles or actually losing weight?
  • angbieb
    angbieb Posts: 668 Member
    bump:heart:
  • angbieb
    angbieb Posts: 668 Member
    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
    UrbanRunner81 Posts: 1,207 Member
    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
    mudra123 Posts: 14 Member
    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
    imjessly Posts: 140 Member
    The 'one old weird old tip to reduce your belly fat' ofcourse ;)
  • TinkrBelz
    TinkrBelz Posts: 866 Member
    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
    Sp1nGoddess Posts: 1,134 Member
    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
    futuremalestripper Posts: 467 Member
    I prefer a tie down strap with a ratcheting device that locks it in place.
    Bungy cords always stretch.
  • BigRich822
    BigRich822 Posts: 681
    Calorie deficit
  • TrophyWifeSass
    TrophyWifeSass Posts: 490 Member
    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
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    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. :smile:
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