Maham
July 27, 2010, 8:37pm
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Paheli00:
A major part of toning the stomach/abs are diet.
You need to run regularly to lose the fat. And you need to do different ab exercises to tone the muscle.
BUT no matter how much you run and exercise, if you do not control your diet, you won’t see much results.
According to my personal trainer: you should be doing tons of cardio to lose the actual flab, but at the same time you should be doing ab exercises as well. Building muscle will help to burn the fast and will also help to increase your metabolism. You should really be doing the two in conjuction to get good results.
Also look into the effectiveness of your cardio, machines and equipment wrongly specify a ‘fat burning zone’ as a low intensity speed zone for an extended period. Try buying a heart monitor and make sure your heart rate, you should be training within 70-80% of your maximum heart rate.
Interval training is a great way to optimise your workout, you exercise for a shorter time but with more intensity. I do a ratio of 1 minute of intense exercise, to 2 mins rest, and use a heart rate monitor to check that during that 1 min, I’ve gone above my anaerobic heart rate target. I usually only do 30 mins of cardio max this way.
Finally, like Paheli said diet is important. According to my trainer you will never lose the weight unless you can control your diet. Its probably the hardest part. I’m currently sticking to a 1500 calorie diet (5 ft 8 and 62 kg). Doesn’t mean I’m starving myself, but I’ve had to cut out all refined sugars, white carbs, etc.
In order to lose those last few pounds which are almost impossible to get rid of, you’ll have to do all three of these things.
All of the above is really all that u need to work out your problem area. Dont forget to take abs classes twice a week they really do help tighten up yr stomach if done right. goodluck.