"Starman" <iknowbutidontknow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm male, 40, weigh 150 pounds, am 185cm tall. I'm im excellent
> health,
> don't drink or smoke, don't play sports though I'm very active as my
> work
> keeps me on my toes all day. Never had an injury aside from a sprained
> ankle
> when I was ten and an occasional lower back pain that comes and goes
> on it's
> own.
>
> I want to concentrate on making my stomach and abdomen area better and
> more
> taunt. Though the rest of my body is okay in my opinion, there is this
> slightly very smallish "puppy gut" bulge that no matter what I do
> never goes
> away. I tried sit-ups but they don't work or maybe I'm doing it wrong?
> My
> dunm bells do the job for my arms and upper torso but if I could find
> the
> right exercises for my abdomen, I'll be happy. Is this sufficient info
> to
> help me?
Yes. A few things to consider for you. First, we all tend to lose a
bit of muscle and put on a bit of fat as we get older, so it's no
surprise that as you turn 40 you find yourself wanting to do something
in the way of fitness. You are quite thin for your height, so your goal
should probably be to both lose fat and add muscle. You cannot really
concentrate on your mid-section because that's simply where most fat
collects on men. Please also keep in mind that situps can aggravate
back problems. As you'll read if you visit the site below my name at
the end, I suffered a very bad back injury about 9 years ago and I do
not do standard situps except under duress - there are alternate
versions which I sometimes do but, overall, there are plenty of other
ways to strengthen your middle.
For you, a good choice is to lift weights more and watch what you eat,
and don't worry specifically about your belly but let your overall
improving strength and additional muscle take care of that. People new
to lifting can often both lose fat and gain muscle at the same time; for
those of us who've been doing it for a while, such good fortune is less
common so we usually focus on one or the other at any given time.
Frankly, although you will undoubtedly receive a lot of very specific
advice here, I think you need to experiment with weight lifting for
yourself to see what you like and what brings you results. There is a
tremendous amount of information available now in print and on the
Internet - don't only ask here, but do some investigating and see what
you think for yourself. I would, just to generalize, suggest you plan
on increasing your time spent lifting from 10 minutes per workout to 20
and then eventually to 30 or 40 minutes. 3-4 times per week is fine.
My personal preference is for free weights and compound movements like
the deadlift, squat, overhead press, and pullup, and I do not recommend
machines.
I began my lifting by reading this book:
http://www.kbnj.com/ptp.htm
which is "Power To The People!" by Pavel Tsatsouline, but I don't think
it's the ideal first book for you, although it would be OK. Another
book by the same author is entitled, "Beyond Bodybuilding" and that's my
recommendation to you, link is
http://www.kbnj.com/bb.htm.
If you Google
Bryce Lane ironworks
You'll find a very good page with lots of free articles plus links to
some inexpensive booklets that contains very good information on getting
bigger and stronger.
Also consider
http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/index.php , a web site
nominally for women but well worth reading for everyone.
The web site
http://exrx.net is another good place with a lot of
information.
I hope that's of some help to you. This newsgroup is rather like the
corner pub - a lot of noise and a lot of uninteresting conversation, but
pick through it to find what's useful to you in helping you achieve what
you want.
-S-
> "Steve Freides" <steve@fridayscomputer.com> wrote in message
> news:4to263F14lpthU1@mid.individual.net...
>> "Starman" <iknowbutidontknow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:Rzrdh.3367$HU.965@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> > 3-4 times per week I work out with my bar bells for about 20
>> > minutes.
>> > I
>> > usally do 10 minutes of lifting them from top of my head to bottom
>> > below my
>> > waist and other various exercises. I have done this for years
>> > without
>> > ever
>> > increasing the weight as I like to just stay fit and taunt. My
>> > friend
>> > recently told me that to get a better benefit from weight lifting I
>> > should
>> > be doing 12 repetitions then stop for 10 seconds and do another 12
>> > reps etc.
>> > Do these in groups of 6 and slowong increase them over time. This
>> > way,
>> > it
>> > will work better than my current method. is this correct? if so why
>> > and any
>> > other advice musch appreciated.
>>
>> If your current method is working for you, why change it? If you'd
>> like
>> better results, the Internet offers a wide range of options to read
>> about - just use your favorite web search engine with terms like
>> "exercise program."
>>
>> There are many, many choices, and one is not necessarily better than
>> the
>> other - if you perform any regular exercise, you're already ahead of
>> most people. If you want advice here, I suggest you supply a much
>> more
>> detailed background on yourself - age, sex, height, weight, medical
>> restrictions, current and past injuries, sports you've played or
>> currently play, and the like - as well as a more thought-out
>> description
>> of what you'd like to change about yourself - strength, endurance,
>> lose
>> fat, add muscle, better prepare for a particular sport, etc.
>>
>> -S-
>> http://www.kbnj.com
>>
>>
>
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