What are the benefits of doing sit-ups for a month?

There are often people who want to lose weight. They lie on their bed at night and do some sit-ups every day. So if you do sit-ups for a month, can you lose weight? If you stop doing sit-ups after a month, will there be a rebound? What should you pay attention to when doing sit-ups? What are the benefits of sit-ups?

Many people hope to reduce belly fat by doing sit-ups, but in fact, the effect of sit-ups is not as fast as aerobic exercises such as running, brisk walking, and skipping rope. The principle of weight loss is to consume calories, which requires continuous medium to high intensity exercise. Because sit-ups belong to muscle training and are not considered aerobic exercise, most people only do a few dozen to a hundred sit-ups, and the time does not exceed 10 minutes. The exercise time is too short, the calories consumed are low, and the conditions for sustained fat burning cannot be achieved. Additionally, excessive sit-ups can cause fatigue and stress on the spine.

But sit-ups are not completely useless. It can effectively exercise your abdominal muscles, making your abdomen tighter and less likely to sag. If you are trying to lose weight, you can consider changing your daily one-hour simple running (or other aerobic exercise) to a combination of 40 minutes of running + 20 minutes of muscle training in various parts of the body + stretching and relaxation. The weight loss effect will be more perfect.

Most people practice sit-ups incorrectly, thinking that the faster the better. In fact, this is not the case. Muscle training should be slow. If you do sit-ups too quickly, you are not relying on the strength of your abdominal muscles, but only on inertia. The best rhythm is 1-2-3 up, 4 down, about 4 seconds per round. This is the only way to fully exercise the abdominal muscles. Just practice about 30 times a day.

From this we can see that sit-ups can make your belly smaller, but the biggest effect of sit-ups is to make the flesh on your belly tighter and make the curve of your belly more beautiful. So if you want to lose weight, it is best to do some aerobic exercise, which will be more effective in burning fat.