How to get a tight stomach?

[Anonymous]

I've been shedding a lot of weight. I used to weigh 220 and now I'm at 169. I go to the gym every night and excersise for about 2 hours. I can see that my stomach is beginning to shrink a little But what I really wanna know is, how to I make my core firm? What excersises to you guys recommend? I want that section to be flat and firm. If you guys have any other tips to lose weight, I'd appreciate those as well :]

[sweet_18]

First of all, you have to realize that there is no such thing as spot reduction. Your body packs on fat in different areas and there's nothing you can do about those areas except to continue burning more calories per day than you are taking in.

There are lots of exercises you can do to strengthen your core. The plank being one of them. I don't feel like trying to explain here so I advise you to take a yoga or pilates class. :)

[Asker]

How about those cardio classes at the gym?

I take zumba classes at 24 hr fitness, do those help your core?

[Anonymous]

Congrats on the weight loss. You'll need to keep losing weight before you see some definition in your stomach but what I find helps is doing crunches, sit-ups, and ab exercises like these- link

[Asker]

Thank you. :]

[Opinion Owner]

You're welcome. :)

[Undoubtable]

I'll advertise for my favorite sit-up, the bicycle sit-up. It's the most effective in the world, closely followed by the captain's chair exercise. Also, great job on shedding those pounds, takes real dedication. Just remember to alternate with high intensity workouts, which make the body burn fat for hours afterward. 4x4 on the treadmill does wonders for cardio, and it really knocks you on your arse. Multiple hours isn't always the way to go to boost your furnace, so to speak. Cheers.

[Peedesperation]

It depends on what you want, are you looking for tone and definition? sit ups will tighten the stomach muscles but they won't show unless you change your diet, to get tone you need to cut down a lot on carbs and fat and have more protein, excercise tightens and diet gives tone and definition. I would seek advice from your local gym

[Asker]

I simply want my stomach to be flat. How do I go about that?

[Peedesperation]

Exercise and diet, jogging, and swimming are good as well as sit ups but diet is the key, proein feeds the muscles so is good, you need to try and work out how many carbs you burn in a day (a gym cud help you with that) if you have more than you burn it turns to fat, same thing with fat. So all round exercise and sit ups every other day but you need to do quite a few, I would recommend 3 sets of 20 to 30 sit ups

[somedude555]

Run.

Run every day, starting out as little as half a mile if you have to but increasing the distance every week. It helps you a lot more than just working out.

[TheStrangeOne]

This may be helpful. Check it out.

link

[EddyMetal]

Sit ups (on a sit up machine so you can put weights on) and cardio.

[human_condition]

I try to do 50-100 sit ups every evening.