Having a baby makes many women put on weight and in some cases, it can be a lot of weight. Besides the weight, your body goes through many changes, such as your abdominal area stretching. Once the baby is born the abdominal area goes back to normal but often leaves behind a lot of fat and this area may be very loose. Fortunately, there are things you can do to help tighten these muscles back up again so you can feel better about your body.
Crunches
Crunches are a simple, basic exercise but they can work well to tighten the abdominal muscles. If you have not worked out at all since you had your baby start out slowly. Lie down on the floor and bend your knees. Put your hands behind your head and lift until your feel your muscles tightening. Hold the position for as long as you can and then lie back down. Keep repeating these 20 to 25 times per day.
Once you find this very easy to do you, make the crunches harder. Put your hands behind your head and lift. Instead of bending your knees, however, put your legs out straight and lift them up while you are doing the crunch. Hold the position as long as you can. You will feel a tight pull in your abdominal muscles. Alternate this with the crunches to get a good workout.
Strength and Weight Training
Strength and weight training will help tighten up your belly but it also helps tighten up muscles all over your body. If you have never done this before the best way is to go to a gym. You would have to purchase a lot of equipment to do this at home, which would be very expensive.
There will be trainers at the gym that can help develop a strength and weight training routine for you. They will have you use pull bars, dumb bells, gymnastic rings, and strength bands, which are like large thick, rubber bands.
Tummy Tuck
In some cases, it is impossible to lose the belly fat, especially if your muscles were stretched out a lot during delivery. To take care of this you can visit a plastic surgeon to have a tummy tuck. This procedure is also known as an abdominoplasty.
During the surgical procedure, the doctor makes a horizontal incision between your belly button and public hairline. How large this incision is depends on how much fat the doctor needs to remove. Once they make the incision, the doctor removes excess fat and skin for your lower and middle abdomen. Once the fat and skin are removed the doctor tightens your fascia and musical to your abdominal wall.
Because this is a surgery you will likely spend a day or two in the hospital.
Make sure you also eat a healthy diet to help lose weight, as well as to keep the weight off after your belly is flat again.
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