How many sit ups?

Akani1

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How many sit ups and leg lifts should I do per day to get a flat stomach? I'm 5'2 109 pounds. Is 600 good?
 
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The only way to actually get a flat stomach is to reduce your weight. As you can't spot reduce, there is no actual exercise or product that will reduce the fat at your stomach. watch your diet, still exercise and eventually it will reduce.
 
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I'm not quite sure where the notion that you cannot target and tone your stomach is coming from but from personal experience I can say that yes you can target your abdominals through specific exercises. While sit-ups in particular may not be the best way to go about flattening the belly since they are more likely to build the abdominal muscles than tone them, I believe saying you cannot target areas of your body for toning is a bit extreme. Muscle symmetry in resistance training is a perfect example of not only the ability to target areas of the body for various outcomes (including toning), but it also stresses the importance of targeting the opposing muscle groups so if you are targeting your abs you should also target your back, a great way to do this is “core” exercises such as the “Planks”.

There is definitely more to it than just working your abdominals and going a little in depth on this may be a better way to approach this issue than a blanket statement against abdominal exercises. Calorie intake versus calorie expenditure is the key to weight loss, so if someone does 15-20 minutes of ab exercises a day, leads an otherwise sedentary life, and routinely goes way over their recommended caloric intake for the day THEN the abdominal exercises wont have much of an effect other than the caloric expenditure of them offsetting the calorie intake a little bit.

Find a caloric intake calculator and figure out what you should be taking in for calories based on your objective (weight gain, weight maintenance, or weight loss), when you know your target caloric intake stick with it and adjust as needed while you progress to your goal, then find a good ab routine to follow (I like Ab Ripper X, a few routines I have put together myself, and 8 minute abs) and stick with the routine frequency (daily, 5 times per week, or 3 times per week depending on the intensity of the routine). If you want faster results make sure you are striving to be at least moderately physically active for 30 minutes to an hour each day. This daily physical activity goal may seem like a bit much at first but when you think about it you can very easily accumulate that much activity each day, it does not have to be all at once and depending on what your job duties at work entail you may be meeting this goal anyways. If you work a desk job or lead an otherwise sedentary life try walking, jogging, or if your capable running. Again it doesn’t have to be all at once, and depending on how long and how intense your physical activity routines are they wont even have to be every day, just keep in mind a basic guideline of a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate physical activity of any form or interval throughout the day (that’s only a total of 3.5 hours in a week).

At 109 lbs I imagine that your stomach is not too far out of shape Akini1, but a set number of reps may be hard to determine. A better way to go about this is to think in terms of Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type (FITT). For example, Ab ripper X (Type) is a roughly 16 minute (Time), very intense (Intensity) routine that should be used every other day equating to 3 time a week and 5 times a week (M, W, F, Sun, T, TH, Sat)(Frequency). If you do not have that video or access to it some abdominal exercises to consider are planks, side planks, heels to the heavens, & phifer scissors for core moves and crunches, push throughs, reverse crunches, & side crunches for rectus abdominus and obliques.

Summary- Watch your caloric intake requirements versus expenditure.
- Find an abdominal routine or have one put together with exercises you enjoy and stick with the FITT principles.
- Strive to maintain a physically active lifestyle not only for your specific goal, but also for your health in general.
- And lastly you can target areas of your body for toning, or building but if the other aspects of you lifestyle (physical activity levels and caloric intake) are not also managed it will greatly affect the effectiveness of your exercises targeted to a specific group (and its opposing group, symmetry).
 
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The only way to actually get a flat stomach is to reduce your weight. As you can't spot reduce, there is no actual exercise or product that will reduce the fat at your stomach. watch your diet, still exercise and eventually it will reduce.

Yes , I will be sure to continue exercising :) I have been doing at least 1.5 hours for the last 5 days.
 
600 situps? Seriously?

You guys are giving me serious complex
 
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