Why doesn't my routine work for getting rid of belly fat?

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I am 20 years old, 6'3 and weigh about 170 pounds.

I have been getting into exercising in the last years for the physical and mental health. My friend gave me his old dumb bells, and within a month or two I already gained a lot of arm muscle. I was impressed and wondering what else I could work on.

I want to work on my belly, I seem to have a lot of excess fat, maybe from growing tall really quickly when I was chubbier in school? I began with situps, I think I got up to about 2 reps of 50 sit ups a day next to my weight lifting. I gave up on it after about a month and a half because I stopped feeling a burn in my abs and didn't see any results. I than began sprinting through my woods. Which involved me pretty much running as fast and hard as I could until I couldn't run anymore, taking a break and catching my breath than repeat. Once again I didn't really notice any results.

I have a captains char as well, and for a couple months have been doing about 2 x 20 reps a day. Once again, I stopped feeling the burn and didn't see any results.

And now I have began push ups.

My routine is as follows:
2 x 20 pushups
2 x 20 weight lifts (depends)
2 x 20 captains chair lifts

I really just want to just get rid of my flabby belly but I am just not seeing results, I am willing to pretty much build an entire routine around working my stomach area, I also would like to tone my thighs too.

I eat pretty well, if anything I should eat more than I usually do. I am not picky and usually eat healthy.

Anyway, any recommendations on helping me with a routine would be greatly appreciated.
 
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You can't spot reduce the fat on your belly I'm afraid, ab training will help strengthen muscles but to reduce fat you need to sort out your diet and probably go into a negative calorie balance
 
It seems to me that you are doing what you need to do in order to lose belly fat in that you are basically just trying to lose weight. That is exactly how you do that. Your program isn't spectacular but it makes no sense to me that you see no results at all. Something is amiss.

My gut reaction is that you are lying to yourself.

I'm not calling you a dishonest person in particular. Like, I don't want you to feel bad about it. Homo sapiens sapiens are natural and highly sophisticated self-decievers. Scientists are still discovering new lies that most humans convince themselves of.

Look at science itself. The gold standard of a scientific study is the "double blind" study. That is a study in which nobody being studied or working on the study has any clue what they are doing. Because, if the people being studied or the people you hire to conduct your experiment know what is going on, they will f&*# with your results without even realizing they are doing it. Just on account of being human. We are a race of inveterate liars.

So, don't tell me that you aren't lying to yourself. Just accept the possibility that you are.

Keep a log. Write down everything you eat and every work out you do. I want you to do the sprinting AND the resistance training. Give it 2 months and log everything.

Chances are pretty good that the log won't serve to demonstrate how badly you were judging your diet and activity rate. You will log the exact behavior you had estimated in yourself and the only difference will be that you'll see results. Keeping a log might just cause you to be the person you thought you were being.


Comments on the routine itself:
Don't lift every day. Let me say that again...DO NOT LIFT EVERY DAY. Also, about "feeling the burn"...I'm not sure what you mean. You don't have to feel sore after a work out in order for it to have been effective. It should be challenging, though. If you can do a set comfortably, make it more difficult.
 
LMAO, that's the funniest post I've ever read, not only did you respond without reading his post properly (he didn't say he was trying to lose weight and said if anything he should probably be eating more) but then the ramble about Homo Sapiens and self deception is a classic.

p.s. There's nothing wrong with lifting every day. Most body builders I know do it, Arnie did it, I do it, many people do this with great results so I think you need to question what you think and why you think it.
 
If he should be eating more, which he claims, that's basically a calorie deficit. So, why did you advise him to eat a calorie deficit? Is it because you don't believe he is truly eating a calorie deficit right now even thought he claims to be? Do you see what I mean? I feel like you agree with me that he is deceiving himself. So, what I wrote about self-deception, while long, was also pretty towards.

Sprinting and push ups aren't the sort of things people trying to spot reduce their mid-sections do. Do you recognize that I am not LMAO at you not reading his post, though? I feel like that would be a really weird thing for me to do. It is possible that he is trying to spot reduce and I misunderstood and your advice may help.

You read the post differently than I did. That doesn't make either one of us ridiculous.


P.S. I will not be revisiting any of my opinions based solely on vague, anecdotal evidence.
 
Quadlas3r said:
If he should be eating more, which he claims, that's basically a calorie deficit. So, why did you advise him to eat a calorie deficit? Is it because you don't believe he is truly eating a calorie deficit right now even thought he claims to be? Do you see what I mean? I feel like you agree with me that he is deceiving himself. So, what I wrote about self-deception, while long, was also pretty towards.
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You still don't seem to understand. He makes no mention of diet, in fact I'd bet money he has no idea if he's in a positive or negative calorie balance. I told him to go into negative calories because he probably isn't right now, that doesn't mean that he is lying to himself, just that he hasn't given it enough consideration yet.
Given that the poster has made no mention of his diet or his calorie intake, how you you claim that he is in denial? You have made massive assumptions based on nothing which makes me think that you didn't even read his entire post
 
He did mention his diet. You understood that sentence differently than me. Let us move on.

Lots of people try to lose weight with exercise alone. In fact, if a person's exercise consists of sprinting, in my experience, that person is either a runner or is trying to lose weight. And this guy is not a runner.

I did not call him delusional. I said he was deceiving himself which is a very human trait. We all do it all the time. You have to be diligent if you want to be sure you aren't doing it. That goes for everybody.

I did read his post. I know for a fact that I read his post. Do you feel certain that I am lying? Or, does the possibility exist in your universe that you misjudged this situation?

Don't try to convince me I didn't read his post. You will fail at that. You could be the reincarnation of Clarence Darrow himself and you would still fail at that.

I did read his post and your dogged insistence that I didn't is getting more bizarre by the second.

I think you made a hasty, wild assumption about me. I think you are so tragically certain of every errant thought you have, that you believed this hasty, wild assumption gave you the right to hold another human being up to public ridicule. I think your inability to acknowledge even the possibility that you made a mistake is now undeniable and it makes your entire knowledge base unreliable.

I also think that I do not have the patience to risk ever engaging your mind on any other topic at any future time.

What I mean is, you can take your **** off the table. I'm leaving.
 
Calm down dear!

Here is the only mention of eating habits in the entire first post. From this you accused the man of lying and then rambled on about self-deception being human nature.

Zoltan said:
I eat pretty well, if anything I should eat more than I usually do. I am not picky and usually eat healthy.
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You will notice that he makes no mention of being on a controlled diet.

Maybe he thinks he is, but maybe he doesn't, my point was simply that rather than find out, you jumped to a conclusion and then insulted the guy with it.

You also seem to have a problem with understanding the meaning of words. When I said 'makes me think that' refering to you not reading his post fully, that means that it is my opinion of what might have happened and not 'dogged insistance' as you put it.

I'm guessing English is your second language?
 
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