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Question: If you do a lot of abdominal exercises, or if you use weights when you do them, you're building bigger abdominal muscles. The bigger they are, the more your abdomen is going to stick out.
It sounds like you have been misinformed about how to get that elusive washboard midsection. All the abdominal exercises in the world won't get you a six-pack. If you want that ripped look you need to get your body fat percentage below 10% if you're a guy or below 13% if you're a girl, and that takes strict diet and exercise. Eating a well-balanced diet usually isn't enough -- most people have to count calories, protein grams, fat grams, fiber grams, carb grams, the whole shot. And most people also have to do aerobic exercise AND walk every day, in addition to doing crunches and other ab exercises.
If your goal is to trim your midsection, it may be worth it for you to invest in a copy of "The Abs Diet" by David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of Mens Health magazine. It's a 100% safe common-sense approach to eating and exercise aimed at getting people slim and trim. You can find it at any major bookstore, and it's hard to miss -- the cover is bright orange.
Answers: If you do a lot of abdominal exercises, or if you use weights when you do them, you're building bigger abdominal muscles. The bigger they are, the more your abdomen is going to stick out.
It sounds like you have been misinformed about how to get that elusive washboard midsection. All the abdominal exercises in the world won't get you a six-pack. If you want that ripped look you need to get your body fat percentage below 10% if you're a guy or below 13% if you're a girl, and that takes strict diet and exercise. Eating a well-balanced diet usually isn't enough -- most people have to count calories, protein grams, fat grams, fiber grams, carb grams, the whole shot. And most people also have to do aerobic exercise AND walk every day, in addition to doing crunches and other ab exercises.
If your goal is to trim your midsection, it may be worth it for you to invest in a copy of "The Abs Diet" by David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of Mens Health magazine. It's a 100% safe common-sense approach to eating and exercise aimed at getting people slim and trim. You can find it at any major bookstore, and it's hard to miss -- the cover is bright orange.
because you may have some excess fat on your stomach and in doing ab exercises you create bigger abdominals therefore pushing the stomach fat out making you look fatter but you not. so i suggest continue doing ab exercises but also do more cardio exercises and weight training
You are causing the muscle to hypertrophy, which means get bigger, which will cause it to stick out more. If you want it to flatten you should try lots of cardio and only a light ab work out to keep tone and lose fat
Your stomach has muscles and your stomach will grow just like any other muscle. So if you don't lose the fat around the stomach then your only adding on size to your belly. A good diet will do the trick and a lot of cardio. Stop eating sugar foods if you wanna lose the fat around the belly. I never do situps because I did them for years and it didn't do anything but make my stomach bigger because I wasn't losing the fat.
Well im not a trainer or anything but i think you are building muscle but there is proly some fat still there. when you work out one area of your body doesn't mean that the fat will go away from that area. You might have to go see a trainer or to GNC or something and ask how to shed the fat in the stomach area the best. I am not saying your fat its that small little of fat that you have always had that is hard to burn kinda like love handles are hard to get rid of
a) maybe you are eating more calories than you think.
b) you arent exercising enough aerobically
Well I'm not an expert but I think your muscles are bunching up over the gloop inside after being slack. Keep on and they should work themselves out to the correct positions soon enough.
i agree with the first 1
Make sure you are pulling your abs in as you do the part of the exercise that contracts the muscle...in a crunch this would be when you lift up. Your lower back should stay on the floor and you need to pull your "belly button to your spine" (as most of the instructors put it).