Just practicing abdominal muscles will make your stomach bigger. When interviewed in some gyms in Taiyuan, the reporter found that some young men and women, middle-aged people and some industry workers exercise mainly to lose weight, especially to reduce their bulging stomachs, so as to achieve the purpose of being slim and well-proportioned.
The reporter saw that some people made a plan of "abdominal weight loss" for themselves, insisting on doing sit-ups every day, in groups of twenty or thirty at a time, and doing sit-ups repeatedly. In the gym, you often get up and he falls down, doing repeated actions. Many people sweat profusely and have stomachaches until they are exhausted.
A fitness instructor told reporters that only practicing abdominal muscles will not consume much fat, nor will it achieve the goal of losing weight in the stomach. On the contrary, it will make the stomach bigger because of the increase of muscles.
The reporter interviewed Liu Shu, an expert from Shaanxi Institute of Sports Science. Liu Shu believes that there is no scientific basis for the partial weight loss method of only practicing abdominal muscles. This idea of ordinary people is like seeing a doctor, mistakenly thinking that "treating the head with a headache and treating the foot with a pain" can cure the disease.
Losing weight requires consuming whole body fat. From the point of view of exercise, losing weight requires whole body fat consumption, and only strengthening abdominal exercise can not achieve the purpose of losing weight for the stomach. Thin people should adhere to the whole body exercise, on this basis, increase abdominal exercise to achieve the purpose of reducing stomach. Running is the best exercise for the whole body. The coach particularly stressed that running should be moderate, and neither extreme speed nor extremely slow speed can achieve the goal of scientific weight loss.