Losing weight, unfortunately, isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. What helps one person shed pounds may backfire on another.
Because we’re all so different, from our food preferences to our body chemistry, the only successful way to reach and maintain a healthy weight is to find what works for you. We’ve read the studies, the books, the reports, and the theories. We’ve been talking to experts and trying to keep ourselves trim for years.
There probably are a million ways to gain 10 pounds, but here are 9 ways to lose them:
Beginner Moves for Abdominal Fat
Butterfly Crunch
Lie on your back with the soles of your feet together as close to your body as possible, with knees bent out to sides. Place hands behind your head, elbows in line with ears. Keeping your back flat on floor and stomach muscles contracted, exhale and curl your chest up a few inches off the floor toward your legs. Lower to start. Repeat 10 times.
Front Plank
Start on your hands and knees. While you keep your back and ab muscles contracted, drop down to your forearms while extending legs out behind you so you are resting on the balls of your feet. Be sure to keep your back straight, hips up, and neck relaxed. Hold for 3 seconds, then return to start. Repeat 10 times.
Side to Side
Lie on your back, knees bent and feet flat on the floor, with your arms at your sides. Exhale and contract your abs as you slide your right hand toward your right foot. Your head and neck should remain aligned and your lower back pressed to the floor. Return to start, then switch sides. Repeat 15 times.
Intermediate Moves for Abdominal Fat
Scissors
Lie on your back with your fingers resting behind your head. Keeping your abdominals tight, raise your left knee and touch it to your right elbow. Return to start, then raise your right knee and touch it to your left elbow. Alternate for 15 reps in a smooth, continuous motion, keeping abs engaged and hands relaxed so you don’t pull on your neck. Work up to 2 sets.
Reverse Crunch with Resistance Bands
Lie on your back with your knees bent, arms down by your sides, holding one end of a band in each hand, with the band wrapped around tops of knees. Raise your knees toward your chest until your hips leave the floor. Hold for 3 seconds; lower to start. Repeat for 2 sets of 10 reps.
Fingers to Toes
Lie on your back with your legs straight and extended toward the ceiling, with arms down by your sides. Exhale and contract your abs as you crunch up from your waist and extend your hands toward your toes. Keep your back flat on the floor. Work up to 2 sets of 15 reps.
Advanced Moves
Ball Leg Lift
On a ball lie face down and roll forward until your hands are on the floor and just the tops of your feet are flat on the ball. Keeping your back and right leg straight, slowly lift leg a couple of inches toward the ceiling. Hold for 3 seconds, then lower. Do 10 reps, then switch legs. Add 2 repetitions each week as long as you can maintain perfect form.
Knee-Ups
Brace yourself between the backrests of two sturdy chairs, keeping elbows slightly bent, shoulders down, neck relaxed, head and chest lifted. Keeping your abs tight, exhale and then very slowly bring your knees to your chest without swinging back and forth. If your form falters, try raising one knee at a time. Build up to 3 sets of 15 reps.
Leg Swings
Lie on back with arms out to sides, legs and feet pointing up. Exhale and draw navel in toward spine as you lower legs to left side about 5 inches from the floor. Return to start and repeat on the right side. Keep switching sides for a total of 15 reps. Work up to 3 sets.
Best Exercises For of Abdominal Fat
Sciatica and lower back pain are caused by an irritation or compression of the lower back nerve. Today, it is a problem that it’s often found in people and studies even suggest that 5 to 10% of Americans suffer from it.
Sciatica pain begins from the lower spine to the lower part of one leg or even the foot.
These are the most well-known side effects of this difficult condition:
- A penetrating pain felt in one butt cheek and leg
- A smoldering and shivering pain
- Pain that is strengthened in a sitting position
In the most extreme cases, it might bring about lost in bowel and bladder control.
Sciatica can be a result of various factors, including:
- Slipped disc (90% of cases)
- A direct injury
- Tumours
- Spinal infections
- Spondylolisthesis (or a slipped vertebrae)
- Spinal stenosis (it is the narrowing of the spinal cord passage)
- Cauda equine syndrome
This frequently agonizing pain can be counteracted in this ways:
- Regular exercise which strengthens the back muscles
- Sleeping on a firm mattress
- A proper body posture
- Properly adjusted car seat for lower back support
- Regular practice of a proper lifting technique
Here are some examples for exercises you can try:
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Hamstring Stretch Exercise
Sit on the floor, with a straight back, and extended legs, and a hand-width separated. Breathe in profoundly, keeping in mind breathing out, incline forward from the hips and achieve the toes with the hands. Push the collarbone towards the feet, and hold consequently for half a minute.
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Knee Lifts Exercise
Lie on the back, with the knees, bowed to a 90-degree point. The arms have to be leveled by the sides. Raise the legs until they are at a foot range from the floor, and delicately bring down them. Make 5 reiterations.
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Piriformis Stretch Exercise
Lie on the back and twist the knees. The heels should be pushed towards the rear end, traverse the other, and rest the lower leg. You should extend the hips and hold for 20 seconds. At that point, change the leg and hold for an additional 20 seconds. You can likewise push out the leg for a more increases extend.
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Knee To Chest Stretch Exercise
While lying on the back, curve the knees to a 90-degree edge, while the feet are firm on the floor. At that point, wrap the hands around one knee and draw it to the mid-section. Hold for 20-30 seconds and rehash with the other leg.
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Back Extensions Exercise
Lie with the face down and keep the feet and hands level on the floor. Keep the fingertips at an eye level. Push the hands to curve the back, and hold for 5-10 seconds. At that point, bring down the back to the ground and make 10 reiterations.
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Gluteal Stretch Exercise
Lie on the back, with the knees, twisted to a 90-degree point. Lift the left leg and lay the lower leg on your correct thigh. Next, wrap the hands around the correct thigh, pull it near your body, and hold for 20-30 seconds. Rehash this 3 times, and after that switch the leg.
