Doing cardio is not working for my tummy?

[736_switch_blade]

I’ve been doing cardio everyday and I see no difference. I don’t eat junk food but some juices and water mainly. For breakfast yogurt eggs pancakes or oatmeal. Drink lemon with water. Sometimes snack in a fruit like a banana or strawberry. Lunch it depends can be rice with a red meat and some beans. Dinner same as lunch.

[HighlyVolatile]

Are you doing more steady-state, low-intensity stuff? I don't know for certain if it will work for you but if so, you might try to increase intensity. You can reduce distance/time as well.

If you do it my way, you don't try to burn as many calories in one session as possible. Instead, you try to improve your speed and strength over the long run. Let's say you set a distance like 300m. You try to cover that distance as fast as you can and time yourself and record your times. Then take a good rest until you're fresh and repeat.

As you start getting more explosive and faster, you can elevate the challenge. You might start sprinting uphill, for example, attach weighted vests, etc. If you do it right you start to get really light and springy on your feet and might start wanting to sprint to work, to the store, dash upstairs instead of waiting for an elevator, etc.

If we try to frame this from a CiCo perspective, the idea is to gradually elevate your TDEE without having to work out for longer and longer and longer periods of them. Instead you get stronger and stronger and faster and faster and keep elevating the challenge of what you do.

[HighlyVolatile]

* [...] longer and longer periods of [/time].

[HighlyVolatile]

One problem with steady-state, low-intensity cardio in my opinion like jogging N miles routinely or walking N steps routinely is that it starts to work towards a fat loss plateau unless you increase the duration or start to eat even less. And that's because your body exerts less energy as you become more efficient at the motions and also start to resist a lighter body.

If you approach this like an athlete seeking to measure and increase speed, then you tend to push yourself each time in ways where getting lighter and more efficient at the motion doesn't necessarily result in a reduction of calories burned.

[HighlyVolatile]

Similar idea with resistance training. If you just lift some weights routinely without changing anything, you'll quickly work towards a strength plateau. If, however, you start progressively overloading and start tackling heavier weights as you grow stronger, you start busting through those plateaus. I see busting through fat loss plateaus the same way. "Training" with measured improvements can be far superior to "exercising" routinely.

[Guy13]

How do you expect to lose weight with that much consumption especially the bread and Rice based Carbohydrates that process into sugar, which in a resting state, converts to fat…. YOUR BELLY
1. Cut your portion by half
2. Cut carbohydrates out
-2 eggs small amount of oatmeal and that’s it for breakfast.
-NO RICE but vegetable protein (beans) is good.
****FRUIT**** are Sugars. Resting Sugars turn to fat. No fruit until belly noticeably disappears.
JUICE: if you do research you will discover the amount of syrup or sugar in store bought juice is same as Pepsi. NO Juice, beer, soda, or any other bottled/processed 💩. That leaves you water and NOT whole Milk 🥛

Your body works this way…Fat never goes away, however, it can be used and absorbed. Your fat absorption area is full hence the belly.
-Cut your calories to 1600-1700 Protein driven. To much protein is bad too. Too much anything is bad.
-HIIT every other day (even) 15-20 minutes total workout time. 30sec high intensity rest 1.5 minutes 30sec high intensity etc
-high rep circuit trading (odd)
REST Saturday AND Sunday FROM GYM.

NO TV or sit down in front of computer.
Gym then clean house
Gym then pull weeds
Gym then cook
Gym then beat-off…. I don’t care but move and keep your body burning Fat.

[Flower7]

Great advice!

[Flower7]

I especially like the part about doing more household chores during down time.

[Guy13]

@Flower7 Thank you. Boys and Chores-anything it takes to loose that last 10 lbs of noticeable belly fat…. look good

[blurpblurp]

Cardio is good for strength. Maybe try something else.

[Alyssa_11]

I believe that tummy fat mostly comes from your diet.

[Still-alive]

And the official term for it is ‘tummy fat’ in fact :p

[Alyssa_11]

Stomach fat lol.

[Sonorous]

Maybe your body targets your stomach fat reserves last or later than most others? The same happens with me & love handles. I can have abs and love handles at the same time. Also, bloat could be making your stomach appear bigger than it actually is.

Recently I've done nothing but eat junk food packed with fat & sugar. But even though I have a slow metabolism, I'm not eating in a severe caloric surplus & I'm intermittent fasting. So it gives my body more time to eat away at the fat reserves than it otherwise would have if I were eating all day.

I probably wouldn't be as lean as I am now if I spread the junk food out for the whole day though. Especially since I don't do enough cardio to burn significant amounts of it.

[Fireguy17]

It takes more than cardio to target a specific area of the body.
You need to find specific exercises that target that are as well.

[urpapi69]

Cardio isn't good for weight loss dear. What you need is weight training. If you want, I can tell you in detail how you can lose weight.

[736_switch_blade]

Please tell me

[moonpie89]

Opposite for me. Cardio has always kept my stomach toned.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Are you running? Running definitely works.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I thought Sit-Ups worked on the tummy area?

[Anonymous]

maybe you are pregnant

[736_switch_blade]

Fucking rude

[Opinion Owner]

maybe twins

[Flower7]

Try weights.

[RoseJ123]

Do you have any fitness advice? Could you PM me?