Do Stomach Exercises Work?

By TruthAboutAbs February 8, 2009

For most people who are trying to lose weight, having a slim stomach area is top priority. However the fact is the stomach is one of the most difficult parts of the body to tone and get in shape. The fats covering the stomach muscles are very difficult to break down. Ironically, when we overeat and store fats in our cells, the stomach is the first place they go to. They form the so-called “love handles,” those layers of fats in the stomach area that a lot of people find to be ungainly and unattractive, and for good measure. Besides not looking good on you, stomach fats are also a health hazard. Studies have found that people who have more stomach fats are more prone to hypertension and heart diseases.

Genetics plays a big role on where the excess fats get stored in our body. The basic biomechanics of our body says that fats are stored in places where you would not spend too much energy to carry them around. Fat storage is actually a survival strategy of our bodies, so storing fats in the abs makes sense because we do not bend and move our stomach area so much at any given day so the energy stored in these fats will be saved for future use.

Now, the question is, do crunches and sit-ups and other forms of abs exercises remove abdominal fat? This is a common misconception. Exercising your stomach muscles will help tone and shape those muscles but they do not necessarily remove the fat that surrounds these muscles. To remove the body fats, one must burn them, possibly through cardiovascular exercises or doing several strength-training routines. First, you have to consume less calories and fatty foods so as to minimize the fat storage in your system. The number of calories you take in each day must be proportional, or very close, to the amount of calories you can actually expend. It is a known fact that when you lose body fat, through exercise, training, and dieting, the fats stored in the stomach area will be the last to go. Lifting weights and strength training actually helps in more efficient fat burning in that even after several hours or even days after the training session, when you are already at rest, the fat-burning mechanism of your body does not stop. It makes metabolism of fats a lot faster.

Thus, it is only by working with a whole-body or holistic approach can one successfully eliminate stomach fats. Cosmetic surgery, such as liposuction, is not recommended because this process removes not only the fats but also the fat cells. Removing fat cells in your stomach area and then continuing on with the same lifestyle and eating habits will only have the effect of storing fats in other parts of the body. It causes disproportional distribution of fats, which would not look good on anyone. Thus, proper diet and exercise are still the best way to lose fats in the abs.

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