Women know that losing belly fat is challenging. However, you can lose fat around the stomach or waist at home through exercise combined with some diet changes and imagination. For women who hate to exercise, finding ways to burn calories and trim the waistline is important to get moving and lose those inches. You don't need an expensive gym membership or fancy equipment to lose the fat around your stomach.
Step 1
Dance the fat away. Women who don't like to exercise but do like to dance should take advantage of the calorie burn offered by dancing. A 130-lb. woman can burn nearly 270 calories an hour jazz dancing, the NutriStrategy website calculates. Thirty minutes of aerobic dancing, meanwhile, can burn nearly 200 calories for a 145-lb. woman. Dancing strengthens and tones all muscles of the body and increases your metabolism, which in turn increases fat- and calorie-burning potential.
Step 2
Perform abdominal exercises daily. Your abdominal muscles are among the largest in the body and can be worked every day. Switch up your routines, however: Work your upper abs one day, your lower abs the next. Don't forget waist-twisting exercises, which help tone the sides of your body and give you a leaner appearance. Effective abdominal exercises including standing, side-lying and traditional crunches, broom-twisting exercises and calisthenics finger-to-toe touches.
Step 3
Tone your core and strengthen your back, which helps support the abdomen, by performing a standing broad jumps. Stand with your feet hip-distance apart and pull in and tighten your abdominal muscles. Raise your arms to shoulder height in front of you and squat down, pressing your buttocks toward the floor while keeping your back straight. Jump forward, landing softly and using your abs as your powerhouse to initiate the leap. Straighten, turn around and perform the exercise nine more times.
Step 4
Adapt the traditional toe-to-finger touch windmill exercise to work the sides and front of your abdominal muscles fast and gain added benefits of toning muscles in your buttocks and thighs. Start this challenging fat-burning and stomach-toning exercise by standing with your feet hip-distance apart. Pull in your abs and slightly bend your knees. Reach your arms out to your sides at shoulder height. Lift your right foot about 1 foot off the floor while bending at the waist and twisting your body to the left. Try to touch your left elbow to your bent right knee. Straighten and repeat on the other side, touching your right elbow to your left bent knee.
Step 5
Perform general aerobic exercises --- following an exercise DVD, for example, or walking or running in place --- that burn calories and help reduce fat throughout your body to lose fat around your stomach. Combine short abdominal workout sessions with your overall exercise workouts at home for fast and beneficial weight-loss results.
Things You'll Need
- Exercise DVD or video, optional
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