How many sit-ups do you need to do to lose weight?

The fat around the waist and abdomen is the area where most people who need to lose weight will focus on reducing fat, and sit-ups are an exercise for slimming the waist, but many people do not know how to do sit-ups, or do not know how many sit-ups they need to do every day to achieve the effect of losing weight, so they fail to lose weight. Regarding this issue, let’s follow the editor to learn about it!

Analysis question: Straightening your back and lifting it upward can burn more calories.

Answer: Wrong! The function of the abdominal muscles is to shorten the distance between the chest and pelvis. During abdominal exercises, your back should be arched rather than straight. If you lift your body straight up, not only will you fail to exercise your abdominal muscles, but you will also suffer from low back pain or more serious joint diseases due to excessive pressure on the lumbar spine. During abdominal exercises, you should also pay attention to avoid excessive stretching of the neck. Do not cross your hands behind your head, but place them on both sides of your head behind your ears. In addition, the larger the distance between the elbows, the more difficult the movement; conversely, the smaller the distance between the elbows, the easier the movement.

Discrimination question: The more sit-ups you do, the better.

Answer: Wrong! It is difficult to simply reduce the fat accumulated in a certain part of the body. Common weight loss methods (including reducing calorie intake, increasing exercise, or both) can reduce weight, but not every part of the body can be reduced proportionally. We should reduce fat through diet and exercise, and increase abdominal muscle mass through abdominal muscle exercises, rather than increasing muscle alone and ignoring fat. Note that this is the root cause of the signs of a "growing" belly. Fat will never turn into muscle, what you need to do is make it disappear.

Recommendation: You don’t have to practice sit-ups every day. After each exercise, muscle tissue needs at least 24 hours to complete "rebuilding". Performing abdominal exercises every day does not leave time for the abdominal muscles to "repair themselves", which is not conducive to muscle growth and shaping. The best practice frequency is once every two days.

The editor reminds the majority of female friends to pay more attention to diet regulation in their daily lives. If you want to lose weight, try not to eat very greasy food. If you want to slim down your waist by doing sit-ups, you must pay attention to the amount of exercise you do. If you exercise too much, you may suffer from muscle strain.