Thanks to my hobbies of walking and cycling I have, if I say so myself, wonderfully taught thighs and the pert buttocks of a man half my age.

Unfortunately my fondness for real ale and curries means that the top half isn’t quite so impressive and I’m not only 2 stone heavier than I was a year ago, most of it appears to have settled on my stomach, giving the impression I’m in the early stages of pregnancy.

So apart from the obvious - cut down on the beer and curries – are there any activities or exercises anyone can recommend that might reduce the beer gut to something more manageable?

Bad news, Basil - I gather that the fat laid down there is the hardest to get rid of. :(

I'm similar to you - legs and backside OK, but whilst soem men have a 6 pack, let's say I have a small keg. :D

Seriously - shifting abdominal fat is the hardest part of weight reduction, and there are no spot-reduction techniques available except for surgery.

I'll read this thread with interest as well.

It's virtually impossible to spot reduce lard, and belly lard is notoriously difficult to shift. So, in addition to the obvious, the most you can do is up the aerobic activity (start running; if you've got the fitness from cycling and walking, make sure you're going for around 70% of your max heart rate for at least thirty minutes - buy a heart rate monitor).

You could start doing some crunches to work on the abdominal muscles, which will start to appear once the lard has been reduced a little.

You could try these guys....

www.britmilfit.com

Not cheap, but it doesnt get more intense. Or maybe take up boxing training, which focuses on fat reduction, fitness, and crucially, a strong stomach.

Once you get to a certain age (30) the only way is to stop drinking beer and eating fatty food. That'll stop it from growing.

To reduce it you need to do some serious aerobic exercise. Jogging about 20 miles a week for half a year should do the trick.

To get a six pack you'll need to do 1000+ sit-ups a week in tandem with the jogging.

Personally that all sounds a bit too much like hard work for me.

I know a workout that would shift it :D

It's virtually impossible to spot reduce lard, and belly lard is notoriously difficult to shift. So, in addition to the obvious, the most you can do is up the aerobic activity (start running; if you've got the fitness from cycling and walking, make sure you're going for around 70% of your max heart rate for at least thirty minutes - buy a heart rate monitor).

You could start doing some crunches to work on the abdominal muscles, which will start to appear once the lard has been reduced a little.

I'm with her. You really need to concentrate on the cardio side of things such as running, cycling, boxing and of course holding back on the beer and curries :D

Edit: try doing circuit training sessions at your gym, we do em in the RAF and they certainly work you hard.

cardio, lots and lots of cardio and a healthy diet. I did 3 months doing body attack and body pump 3 times a week and lost a stone and a half (down to 13 and still classed as overwieght :(), most of which came from my hips and stomach. I have the start of definition but I twisted my ankle and never got back into it.

To get a six pack you'll need to do 1000+ sit-ups a week in tandem with the jogging.


That won't work. The abdominals are muscles and if you overwork them you'll put strain on them, forcing longer recovery time and less development.

You need to do several things:

Drink more water
Have a coffee in the morning to kick start your metabolism
Eat less, more. As in, don't just have 3 big meals a day, have several smaller meals. It will naturally boost your metabolism as your body is constantly burning.
Don't skip breakfast
Do more CV work and plenty of running/fast walking
Don't eat complex carbs (rice, potatoes, pasta, bread) after 2pm. They take too long to digest and be ready to burn off.

You don't get fat overnight, and you don't lose weight overnight either (slimming world etc that makes you think they're great because you lose 2 or 3lbs in a week are false, you've just lost excess water in your body) - Be patient.

lay on the floor basil, i will come and jump up and down on your belly:hihi:

Bad news, Basil - I gather that the fat laid down there is the hardest to get rid of. :(

I'm similar to you - legs and backside OK, but whilst soem men have a 6 pack, let's say I have a small keg. :D

Seriously - shifting abdominal fat is the hardest part of weight reduction, and there are no spot-reduction techniques available except for surgery.

I'll read this thread with interest as well.

Well that makes me feel great! I am a normal weight but am getting a bit of a beer belly! How about sit-ups? I can't afford lipo! (I'm a lady so it's not just you guys that get it!)

lay on the floor basil, i will come and jump up and down on your belly:hihi:

Hope you are gonna remove those high heels? :help:

That won't work. The abdominals are muscles and if you overwork them you'll put strain on them, forcing longer recovery time and less development.

True. I should have made it clear that you have to work up to that level (and get the weight down first). If someone were to attempt 1000+ sit-ups in a week after not doing any for years they would end up in hospital (assuming that is, that they could get through the various pain barriers that their body put up)

Last time I tried to do 50 in a day after a period of inactivity it took a week to recover.

But when you've built upto it, 1000 a week or 300 every other day isn't a lot. Damned boring doing them though.

That won't work. The abdominals are muscles and if you overwork them you'll put strain on them, forcing longer recovery time and less development.

You need to do several things:

Drink more water
Have a coffee in the morning to kick start your metabolism
Eat less, more. As in, don't just have 3 big meals a day, have several smaller meals. It will naturally boost your metabolism as your body is constantly burning.
Don't skip breakfast
Do more CV work and plenty of running/fast walking
Don't eat complex carbs (rice, potatoes, pasta, bread) after 2pm. They take too long to digest and be ready to burn off.

You don't get fat overnight, and you don't lose weight overnight either (slimming world etc that makes you think they're great because you lose 2 or 3lbs in a week are false, you've just lost excess water in your body) - Be patient.


I always find that working on my CV flattens my tummy - just added my new second job and couple of new interests and the pounds are falling off!! :)

Here you go.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/746000/300_spartan_workout_home_version_2/
Tonight we dine in......the New India Garden.

Hi Basil, if you can pm me an email address i'll forward you a pdf ebook on abs.

Phil

Treasure it Basil! You have spent some of your favourite hours acquiring it. You know doubt rub it lovingly whilst thinking lovely abstract thoughts. It is like a love child and should be worshipped accordingly.

Do 'tha plank' every day. You lie on your tummy and then hold yourself up using your elbows and feet, pulling in the abdomen. Hold for as long as you can. It strengthens the core muscles

http://exercise.about.com/od/abs/ss/abexercises_10.htm

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As others have said already - jogging. Build up from 10 minutes, ie 5 mins out 5 mins back. Start by making 2 days such as Saturday morning and Tuesday evenings your jogging time, then once you've set this 'me' time aside you can take it from there. The first time I started I went out in the car to somewhere I felt more comfortable with. Lots of people feel embarrassed to begin with.

Aim to be jogging 20 miles per week after 3 months, say every other day. The non jogging days you need to be slowly building up your sit ups to at least 50 every other day. Keep a record or an excerise diary to remind you how well things are going.

Checkout the videos on here, and the sit-up ones on youtube.
http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com/abs.html

Cut out as much as possible of the chips, pies, white rice, white bread, white pasta, dairy products, cut down on the beer, try something like blackcurrant or lime juice with soda water. Replace red meat with fish and chicken. Stop eating after 7pm, go to bed earlier to avoid late night snacks, get up earlier, drink/sip at least 2 litres of water each day and dump the tea and coffee (or at least the milk & sugar), instead - start the day with a slice of lemon in hot water to kick start the metabolism, burn off more calories than you take on board. If your serious you could buy something like a Polar heart monitor that tells you how many calories you've burnt but the treadmills at the gym can do that too.

Also, have a look at http://www.sparkpeople.com and of course join a gym, get a friend involved to help you motivate each other. The secret is not to try too much exercise too soon. Get your body used to the new regime change gradually.

These things worked for me. I came back from my summer holiday binge and dropped a stone in a month following the above routine, but I was already into jogging, or should I call it plodding. Nothing to fast, just keeping it sensible.

Good luck Basil, your on your way once you decide you need to do something!

About 21 months ago I hadn't been to the gym for quite a while and had let myself get seriously out of shape. I was eating cookies every day at work and as I work in an office I was barely doing any exercise at all. I knew that I was overweight but it was an initial checkup with a new GP that made me realise how bad it was.

I weighed 14 stone 11, which on a BMI scale classed me as obese. I decided there and then that I had to do something serious about it, so I started dieting. After a while I joined the gym too, and I'm now 12 stone. My diet was to have a bowl of cereal in the morning, three tuna sandwiches on wholemeal bread for lunch and then a fruit smoothie in the evening.

Thanks to all for some useful suggestions, but I'm keener on finding activities or exercises than vastly changing my diet. Oddly enough for about 15 years my weight hardly ever fluctuated, though much of that may have been due to me being a smoker (smoking is well-known as an appetite suppresant).

Some have suggested jogging, but surely (like walking and cycling) that only exercises the lower body?

Would swimming be a good exercise for losing a beer gut, for example?

swimming is a good all over work out, as id running/jogging i think. Its likely to have more immediate impact on the lower body but its cardio so u'll lose fat. Teamed with some toning exercises- the usual crunches etc and the plank as i mentioned before i thiink you'll soon be an adonis...

i wish i could practise what i preach!

Running will certainly tone your legs, but the point is that it's the most effective aerobic activity, and it's aerobic activity that you need to burn off the fat from your gut.

Swimming will work for the aerobic fitness and toning too, but you still need to do it vigorously (70% max heart rate etc etc as above) for it to be effective. If you have a good swimming style, and can propel yourself through the water well, then go for it. I can't swim well enough to get my heart rate up enough for it to be of much use.

As for your weight not fluctuating for 15 years, you're getting old. Your metabolic rate slows with age, so you need less energy in (food and drink) to maintain the same weight. Carry on eating and drinking as you've always done, and you'll start to put on weight.

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Divorce him :hihi:

Yes, why is it men don't gain weight as fast as women, my husbands weight hasn't fluctuated much either in the past 30 odd years, he still wears jackets he's had for donkeys years.

Oh! forgot about beer gut...errm , stop drinking ?

I always remember a friend's dad saying "you're not a man unless you've got t*ts and a belly"
I'm with his line of thinking. I'd tell him but he died at 40.

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Divorce him :hihi:

:hihi: Spot on - as usual!! :hihi:

I've heard that a very good way to lose a beer gut is by digging a very big hole in your back garden - then filling it in again. :hihi:

I've heard that a very good way to lose a beer gut is by digging a very big hole in your back garden - then filling it in again. :hihi:

Doesn't it try to climb back out? :suspect:

Doesn't it try to climb back out? :suspect:

No, it uses secret tunnels to emerge by the kerbside! :hihi:

No, it uses secret tunnels to emerge by the kerbside! :hihi:

:hihi::hihi::hihi:

Was idly browsing my old threads and came across this one. You'll be glad to know that I took on board all the suggestions, bought some weights, got a "Men's Health" fitness DVD and book of exercises and vowed to cut down on the booze and curries.

Then I decided all of that didnt sound like much fun so I put the weights, DVD and book in a cupboard, carried on enjoying my food and real ale and in the time since I started this thread I've put on another half a stone!

However I still cycle 50-odd miles a weekend, walk 15 miles a week and can climb the ten flights of stairs to my office in less than 80 seconds, so although I may not look fit, I actually am and that's good enough for me!

I'm still burning with curiosity about what it was that you 'taught' your thighs, or are they just generally well educated :D

Have you tried Horizontal Jogging ?

Have you tried Horizontal Jogging ?

Well, if you're offering......;)

Hi Basil, All you really need is some discipline. :)

It's certainly kept Max Mosely trim.

I know a workout that would shift it :D

Does it invole weightlifting or a running track?

Liposuction?

Easy!
Take a photo of your beer gut Mr Rathbon and get rid of it using Photoshop!
Photoshop Beer gut removal tutorial (http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tutorials/beer-gut-and-baldness-removal.php)
Job done, no pain :hihi:

PS - It'll sort out your bald patch too :D

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i'm on lighterlife program it's great ive lost 3 stone in 4 weeks honest

i'm on lighterlife program it's great ive lost 3 stone in 4 weeks honest

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i'm on lighterlife program it's great ive lost 3 stone in 4 weeks honest
Three stone in a month? Did you cut off both legs? :suspect:

Thanks to my hobbies of walking and cycling I have, if I say so myself, wonderfully taught thighs and the pert buttocks of a man half my age.

Unfortunately my fondness for real ale and curries means that the top half isn’t quite so impressive and I’m not only 2 stone heavier than I was a year ago, most of it appears to have settled on my stomach, giving the impression I’m in the early stages of pregnancy.

So apart from the obvious - cut down on the beer and curries – are there any activities or exercises anyone can recommend that might reduce the beer gut to something more manageable?


You could try 'lipotrim' from the chemists--it worked for me. I needed a 42
waist, I can get into a 36 easily now.

St Williams Church
Tuesday 7.30 - pay as you train


Excersises used will burn fat, especially on the area that you have mentioned.

An effective class, rather than an easy class.

Sounds intriguing. What is it, where is it and how much is it?

Have ever considered circuit training? I did my share of this whilst in RAF and I found it more effective than most other forms of exercise at keeping my beer belly at bay. I'm sure there are gyms in the area that have circuit training sessions. I believe Ponds Forge used to hold them, but not so sure anymore.

Thanks to my hobbies of walking and cycling I have, if I say so myself, wonderfully taught thighs and the pert buttocks of a man half my age.

Unfortunately my fondness for real ale and curries means that the top half isn’t quite so impressive and I’m not only 2 stone heavier than I was a year ago, most of it appears to have settled on my stomach, giving the impression I’m in the early stages of pregnancy.

So apart from the obvious - cut down on the beer and curries – are there any activities or exercises anyone can recommend that might reduce the beer gut to something more manageable?

I wouldn't say I'm toned with a sixpack now but a year ago I think I was a big guy but you work out different cv work and it will just go with weight loss.

Lot's of cardio and instead of doing situps, do crunches, they offer more exercise.

If you don't like doing situps, or anything of that nature, do free weights like dumbells etc. If for example, you're dong a few bicep curls, the rest of you're body uses "the core" (the central part of you're lower chest and stomach) to stabalise and balance the rest of your body. This is good for toning your stomach.

-Michael

i'm on lighterlife program it's great ive lost 3 stone in 4 weeks honest

Think i'll try lyerlife, a dream thing.

Thanks to all for some useful suggestions, but I'm keener on finding activities or exercises than vastly changing my diet. Oddly enough for about 15 years my weight hardly ever fluctuated, though much of that may have been due to me being a smoker (smoking is well-known as an appetite suppresant).

Some have suggested jogging, but surely (like walking and cycling) that only exercises the lower body?

Would swimming be a good exercise for losing a beer gut, for example?

I tried swimming, it didn't work for me.

Does anyone know anyone who's done BMF?

Link here: http://www.britmilfit.com/

As far as I can tell it's not available in Sheffield - but I bet it'd be just the thing for getting rid of ALL unwanted flobber, not just a beer belly. Looks tough.

Have you considered sexual self abuse ?

Have you considered sexual self abuse ?

Is that where you tell yourself how crap in bed you are?

Is that where you tell yourself how crap in bed you are?
No, what you are describing is oral sex.

Have you considered sexual self abuse ?

Put that mirror down.

Does anyone know anyone who's done BMF?

Link here: http://www.britmilfit.com/

As far as I can tell it's not available in Sheffield - but I bet it'd be just the thing for getting rid of ALL unwanted flobber, not just a beer belly. Looks tough.

The Sheffield group starts on the 29th, at Graves park... think I might quite fancy this, though need to drag a mate or few with me :hihi: They do a free trial though, then you either sign up to a monthly contract (like a gym) or buy sessions in blocks... looks like a fun alternative to the gym

Was idly browsing my old threads and came across this one. You'll be glad to know that I took on board all the suggestions, bought some weights, got a "Men's Health" fitness DVD and book of exercises and vowed to cut down on the booze and curries.

Then I decided all of that didnt sound like much fun so I put the weights, DVD and book in a cupboard, carried on enjoying my food and real ale and in the time since I started this thread I've put on another half a stone!

However I still cycle 50-odd miles a weekend, walk 15 miles a week and can climb the ten flights of stairs to my office in less than 80 seconds, so although I may not look fit, I actually am and that's good enough for me!
This is very true! Sumo wrestlers for instance are obviously very fat. However they must undoubtedly be very fit in order to participate in the sport they do. Simply put. energy in is greater than energy out = weight gain. energy in less than energy out = weight loss. So calorie counting is the way to do it. The best way to lose the weight in that particular area is running. Today I have cycled ten miles as quickly as possible and then done ten 3 minute rounds of muay thai on my punchbag which is approximately 1400 calories of exercise. Your average person needing 2000 cals a day means i can have 3400 cals today. This is an underestimation because I need at least 2500 cals a day. Tonights tea was a chicken madras naan bread poppadoms and rice, it was fantastic a few beers thrown in I did about 2700 today minus the exercise. . ........Where is that chocolate???? In the morning I will be sparring....cant wait, feeling fit. Down side after tonight I will train the same but limit myself to 2000 a day. ..............Im not obsessed tho!!:hihi: So basil look at what your taking in and increase your exercise to suit or reduce your intake. You sound like a fit lad anyway. If you dont wanna look like a calvin klein model. Carry on you will still be fitter than youraverage man!

Lot's of cardio and instead of doing situps, do crunches, they offer more exercise.

If you don't like doing situps, or anything of that nature, do free weights like dumbells etc. If for example, you're dong a few bicep curls, the rest of you're body uses "the core" (the central part of you're lower chest and stomach) to stabalise and balance the rest of your body. This is good for toning your stomach.

-Michael

Spot on with the crunches :thumbsup:

You could begin smoking tobacco, cannabis etc or taking amphetamines, although this is not to be recommended.
Plenty of people have suggested cardiovascular workout, which is good, but considering you do a lot already, it's not very constructive. Bar the swimming, you will work the muscles you want to, you see.

Back to crunches..
That is what you want to do.
Say you weigh 14st and have a 1st beer gut. Begin the crunches and aim for 15/16st weight, turn it into muscle, it's the best way.
Start with a 10kg weight and work up to something you feel sufficient.