Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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toning stomache

leahmaria7981
leahmaria7981
Posts: 1
Joined: 2007/05/24
United States
2007/05/24, 03:26 PM
I'm new here and had a question about toning the stomache. What exercises work the best. I'm 5'6", 116 pounds, so I don't want to lose any weight, I just want to tone down my stomache. I'm not wanting to do crunches, as I don't really want the bulgy stomache, although I do side crunches. Anything else that would help, but not make me lose weight?
ecle5c
ecle5c
Posts: 1,312
Joined: 2003/07/10
United States
2007/05/24, 05:13 PM
table pushes.......meaning your diet is the #1 thing you can do for your stomach. Exercises can help once you get rid of the layer of fat, but until then what you eat is important.
hottie08
hottie08
Posts: 3
Joined: 2008/03/06
United Kingdom
2008/03/06, 01:17 PM
what are the best things to eat and excercises for toning your belly?:(
hottie08
hottie08
Posts: 3
Joined: 2008/03/06
United Kingdom
2008/03/06, 01:17 PM
:surprised:
corless319
corless319
Posts: 118
Joined: 2008/03/07
United States
2008/03/07, 02:59 PM
There are many ab workouts that could give you a six pack. You'll need to adjust your diet a small amount since your thin already. I'm not sure what you eat but if you drink soda eliminate a lot of that. You can do flutter kicks any ab machine in the gym works low weight. Crunches sit ups.leg ups scissor kicks. Weighted sit ups. There are a ton but to me abs sucks to workout thats the only muscle i dont work at the gym. I use my ab lounge at home. lame i know but its easy and conveniant right before i go to bed.
mwalshy20
mwalshy20
Posts: 9
Joined: 2008/03/03
United States
2008/03/07, 02:39 PM
since your a female and am probablly not worried about beeing extremm;y ripped, just try something that will raise the heart rate, wether it b a treadmill, and eliptical machine, or a bike, just break a sweat, but eat before doing so, nothing fatty though, try to eat around 40 g of fat per day some variation is fine, but eat lots of protien, fish, chicken, red meat or supplements, and keep the calories between 1500 to 2000, and you'll be on your way. crunches situps and ab exercises will Not slim the belly, only your diet will. be healthy, sorry for the typos and bad grammar, im in a rush, good luck stick to it