Abdominal Exercise And Weight Loss

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Abdominal Exercise

When most people start on a weight-loss regime the first thing

they wish to attack is their waistline. They start off with

visions of turning a beer gut into an abdominal six-pack. After

a few weeks of strenuous exercise nothing appears to happen and

soon they lose confidence and give up.

This article is designed to explain, in laymen's terms, why

this happens and why you may be using the wrong exercises, or

possibly the right exercises at the wrong time. Either way you

are doing yourself no favors.

Never give up because only losers quit. We've all heard the old

saying: " The height of stupidity is to repeat the same thing and

expect a different result. " If it isn't working you try a

different routine and you keep doing that until you find the

routine that does work, that is the way of winners.

Why These Exercises do not Reduce Waist

The first thing you must accept is that all abdominal exercises

only strengthen abdominal muscles, if those muscles are covered

by a layer of fat when you start they will still be covered by

the same layer of fat when you finish. You will have stronger

abdominal muscles but you will not look any different.

Therefore your attempt to create figure from fat will have

failed. The secret to making these abdominal exercises work is

to lose fat first. You lose fat by diet and aerobic exercise,

by burning more calories than you take in with food. When you

have reduced your waistline to a more natural size you can then

take up abdominal exercises and start working on that perfect

six-pack.

Weight Loss

In a nutshell you need to reduce your calorie intake and burn

some calories off by using light exercise. Losing weight can

only be achieved by eating less and moving more. Forget the

complicated scientific formulae, it all boils down to eating

less and moving more.

Exercise Wisdom

Conventional wisdom claims that you need to exercise for

30-minutes each day and that this demand can be broken down to

six five minute sessions or three ten minute sessions,

whichever suits you best. You can carry out aerobic exercise

using simple methods like parking your car as far from the

store as possible and forcing yourself to walk further. Maybe

walking up the stairs instead of using the escalator, any small

act of this nature that adds to your normal exercise output is

aerobic exercise and burns calories.

Eating habits

Furthermore it makes sense to eat five or six meals each day

rather than two or three. Why? Because you will eat smaller

meals and it is better for your metabolism to deal with smaller

meals rather than large meals. You can also eat between these

meals providing you restrict it to a piece of fruit or a raw

carrot. Dieting doesn't have to be hard it has to be sensible.

Your brain doesn't get the message that your stomach is full

for at least twenty minutes after it is full. How often have

you eaten way beyond the capacity that is required simply

because the message hasn't got through?

Conclusion

There is no point in attempting abdominal exercises while you

still have a layer of fat and expecting a figure improvement.

Muscle building and weight loss are separate subjects that

should be approached individually if you are to get the best

results.

This article is © Copyright McCarthy 2005 and may be

reproduced in its entirety with no additions.

About The Author: McCarthy is webmaster of

http://www.recipesmania.com a website devoted to freely sharing

knowledge on all facets of food, cooking, weight loss, food

related health subjects and a free weight loss program. It

contains recipes for all occasions from health to partying.

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