How many sit-ups should you do to lose weight?

When it comes to sit-ups, I believe that most of my friends will not feel unfamiliar, on the contrary, they will feel very familiar. Because sit-ups are an exercise that has accompanied us almost since childhood. Our teachers have taught us to do this exercise since childhood, and it can indeed exercise our minds well. Now you can also rely on it to lose weight, so how many sit-ups should you do to lose weight? In response to this question raised by everyone, I would like to invite my friends to join me in today's discussion.

1. Correct way to lose weight

Many practitioners also do sit-ups in an incorrect posture: lying on the ground, bending knees, lifting the entire upper body, touching elbows to knees, holding head with hands crossed at neck - this makes the thigh muscles work, not the abdominal muscles. Doing this for a long time will cause strain on the waist muscles; at the same time, it also compresses the nerves in the neck.

The correct way to do it is: lie on your back on the bed, bend your legs normally, place your hands in half-clenched fists on both sides of your ears, and stretch your arms as much as possible.

When doing the exercise, use your waist to exert force and straighten your upper body. Be careful not to let your waist leave the ground, then slowly lower your body back to the original position and repeat the above movements.

As your abdominal muscles pull your body upward, you should exhale, ensuring that all the muscles deeper in the abdomen are working at the same time.

During the exercise, your legs must not be straightened, otherwise it will not only be a waste of time, but may even be harmful.

In addition, if you hold your hands gently in front of your chest, the weight loss effect will be better.

2. It is not the case that the sooner you get up, the better.

Many people do sit-ups at home to lose weight, and force themselves to complete a required number of movements within one minute, thinking that this can strengthen their abdominal strength. In fact, this can easily cause abdominal muscle strain.

Too fast a frequency will not improve the exercise effect. Only by slowing down the exercise rhythm appropriately can you avoid physical discomfort caused by excessive fatigue and enhance the training effect of the abdominal muscles.

If you want to lose belly fat, you must control the rhythm and avoid doing a lot of sit-ups at the beginning, which will cause muscle soreness. Initially, you can try to do it 5 times a minute, and then slowly increase it until you reach about 30 times a minute.

3. Keep your body balanced

You should try your best to control the direction of the sit-ups, and don't deviate from the straight line or sway your body left to right.

And the speed should be slowed down to exercise the control ability of the abdominal muscles. It is best to feel the movement of the abdominal muscles when getting up.

4. Other aerobic exercises are required

Simply relying on sit-ups can only achieve local fitness effects, because sit-ups directly target the abdominal muscle groups. Long-term exercise may strengthen the abdominal muscles, but other parts of the body, such as the thighs and buttocks, will get less exercise, and it is impossible to achieve a weight loss effect in a certain part through one type of exercise.

I believe that through the discussion of the above paragraphs, everyone has a clear answer to the exact number of the above questions. In fact, by displaying the specific data in front of people, friends can also implement the operations according to it, and the final weight loss effect will of course be a piece of cake. But I would like to emphasize again that we must follow the standard movements of sit-ups, otherwise we will strain our muscles.