Don’t want to join a gym.Ok, I do but I don’t want to pay much. I was told doing sit-ups are actually bad for the spine.
Drinking and pigging out has taken its toll.
Is jogging and star jumps the way?
if your knees are healthy climb stairs. Situps wont help you to loose your belly
Doing regular (as in every single day) and quite intense exercise will help reduce your beer belly a little but not by much.
If you really want to get rid of it you have to exercise AND change your diet.
Eat half of what you normally eat and avoid foods containing flour - bread, pasta, noodles, cake, cookies. Fat, oil and sugar intake should also be cut way back. This is a rest-of-your-life diet. You can’t expect to do it short-term and then go back to your old ways or that blubber gut will just creep back. Hopefully if you make healthy changes to your diet for long enough your tastes will change and you will quite happily avoid greasy, sugary foods.
It’s hard work but exercise alone is unlikely to do much at all if you don’t change your diet.
Oh, yeah, and don’t drink beer.
Good luck.
Decreasing the size of one’s waist is tough but not impossible to do. I went from a size 42 waist to a 33 by following a sensible eating plan, exercising on a regular basis and using a decline bench.
From all the mags and books I read, and listening to people in the know about getting in shape, I found that a decline bench is the best way to lose weight in the middle.
Actually, you don’t need a bench at all, since anything you can hook your feet into which allows you to bend over backwards and bring yourself back to an upright position will do just as well. SImply remember to try to put no pressure on your back while at the same time really putting pressure on your stomach.
Once I thought I was stuck forever with a “spare tire,” but the plan I outlined above really helped me. However, now since I have slacked off, things are falling apart again.
Best of luck to you.
Hairy Knuckles, please bear in mind that there’s no such thing as so-called ‘spot reducing’.
[quote]Exercise myth #1: Spot reducing.
One of the most common exercise myths is that you can reduce fat from specific parts of your body, such as your thighs or abdomen. The truth is fat cannot be burned from specific body parts. Fat is stored throughout the body, and exercise will use fat from different areas and not necessarily the part you are working. The best way to reduce body fat is with a consistent routine of cardiovascular exercise, strength training and stretching.[/quote]
Hairy Knuckles, please bear in mind that there’s no such thing as so-called ‘spot reducing’.
[quote]Exercise myth #1: Spot reducing.
One of the most common exercise myths is that you can reduce fat from specific parts of your body, such as your thighs or abdomen. The truth is fat cannot be burned from specific body parts. Fat is stored throughout the body, and exercise will use fat from different areas and not necessarily the part you are working. The best way to reduce body fat is with a consistent routine of cardiovascular exercise, strength training and stretching.[/quote][/quote]
Spack,
Please read my post carefully. I never said that only using a decline bench will help one lose weight in that area. I said I lost it by a combination of regular exercise, following a sensible diet and using a decline bench.
Thus, if anyone follows such a plan, they will lose the weight they want to lose. My main point was that an overall plan will help one to lose weight, and that nothing works better to get abs in shape than a decline bench or something similiar.
I actually ended up with a four-pack in my middle, not the six-pack abs that look so good. Still to get a four-pack from a former slab of fat is wonderful.
BTW, one can drink beer and still lose weight in the middle. The key is not to drink too much or too frequently. However, it is incorrect to simply say one has to stop drinking beer altogether.
[quote=“cableguy”]Thus, if anyone follows such a plan, they will lose the weight they want to lose. My main point was that an overall plan will help one to lose weight, and that nothing works better to get abs in shape than a decline bench or something similiar.
I actually ended up with a four-pack in my middle, not the six-pack abs that look so good. Still to get a four-pack from a former slab of fat is wonderful.
BTW, one can drink beer and still lose weight in the middle. The key is not to drink too much or too frequently. However, it is incorrect to simply say one has to stop drinking beer altogether.[/quote]
Some good suggestions here. If you do a lot of abdominal exercises but don’t change your diet or ramp up the exercise, you’ll just build a layer of muscle underneath the fat. I should know. I’ve got very strong abdominals from years of weight training, and about 5kg of excess weight that hides my six-pack.
It ain’t rocket science. Eat less and eat better, and exercise four or five days a week for an hour. You can still have a beer or two from time to time, but stay away from the binge drinking and the pizza. In six months, you’ll drop 15 or 20 pounds and feel like a sexy mf again.
Thanks a bunch for the advice!
I can hear those stairs calling me!
Time to get fitter!
Go up the stairs on your knees. It’s really good for you, but some people don’t believe it. Especially the cops in the MRT stations.
The best way to get rid of a beer belly is to stop drinking beer. Drink straight vodka instead.
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8 minute abs! Works great. As mentioned above diet is also important.
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First of all, I agree that there is no such thing as spot reduction. However, an unfit person that starts his or her excercise regimen with a program including lots of abs work will quickly see some benefit because by strengthening the abdominal muscles, the increase in tone in these muscles will tighten the whole area up. But this benefit is very limited and some kind of cardiovascular excercise conducted on a long-term basis will be needed to truly get into shape.
In my opinion, the real goal should be how to get yourself to be a lifetime exerciser. This is a very difficult thing to achieve, but if you approach things correctly at the beginning it can be done. My wife asked me jokingly just a few days ago why I continue to work out so hard (who am I trying to impress?). I answered that I can’t not exercise. And that’s really the truth- I feel terrible if I go a week or two without working up a good sweat and somehow pushing myself physically. Okay, so how do you become a lifetime exerciser?
At the very start of things, you have to restrain yourself from getting too gungho (it’s kind of a psychological game you’re playing with yourself while of course being cognizant of the fact!). This cannot be stressed enough. Know that most people that start to exercise quit. Know also that most of these quit in the first few months because they push themselves too hard in the beginning and then dread putting themselves through the experience again. For example, if you want to bulk up with weights, your first workout at the gym should just be a walk through looking at the equipment, maybe trying ONE set of two or three exercises. If you want to start running, your first run really should be a walk. It will take at least a year before you get to the point where you can’t not workout, so approach things with this goal in mind. The trick is to stay excited about exercise by keeping things to a low level of pain.
I have a great idea.
Go to the Taipei 101.
Go to the top of the Taipei 101.
Do not use the elevator.
All the exercise mags suggest eating more not less but eat the right stuff. Fruit, vegetables, nuts, chicken. Eat six times a day. Not three. It speeds up your metabolism. Here in Taiwan the difficult thing to do is avoiding fried food.
Stop drinking beer - switch to wine coolers or mixed drinks. You’ll shave off a lot of calories right there. Beer is just a liquid bread that will go straight to your stomach.
What’s wrong with having a beer belly? 
(well, apart from sometimes getting in the way when you shag).
[quote=“hairy knuckles”]Don’t want to join a gym.Ok, I do but I don’t want to pay much. I was told doing sit-ups are actually bad for the spine.
Drinking and pigging out has taken its toll.
Is jogging and star jumps the way?[/quote]
Sit-ups are bad if you do them improperly, bouncing rather than using your muscles to raise and lower your body. Done properly they are a great exercise. Jumping rope is an excellent way to burn fat but it can be boring. I recommend up-tempo music to go with it. Besides sit ups, it would be smart to add push-ups, pull-ups, one-legged squats and whatever other exercises you can think of that don’t require special equipment. I haven’t been to a gym in years and manage to stay fit. Persistence and intensity are key. Without them, any exercise program will fail.
Well, I haven’t seen my weewee in a few years, and kinda miss the little fella 