Stomach fat

I swam for years and always kept in great shape. I quit for 2 years. After turning 41, which was 7 months ago, I started back up again. I swim 5 days a week for an hour, mostly freestyle. I'm in great shape again everywhere except for this stomach fat I can't seem to lose. Can anyone recommend any good workouts that can get rid of this? Are your 1 hour workouts "easy" at this point? Eventually your body reaches a plateau unless you are continually challenging yourself. If you are not on a team with a coach, I really recommend it, because when I used to swim solo, I would never push myself like a coach would and I never lost that much weight. Once I started on a team, I have been losing about 5 lbs a week consistently. (Doing 3 practices a week of 1.5 hour each - coached). Additionally, make sure your diet adjusts with your workout. A lot of people think they workout so they can eat whatever they want, unfortunately, this only goes so far and as someone else noted, if you consume more calories than you burn, you will not lose the fat. If your body has gotten to the point where your current workouts are "easy", you wont even be burning as many calories as when you first started back swimming. Try to cut out all the pointless calories like: - All sugar drinks (coke, lemonade, sugar-added juices, etc). Gatorade can be acceptable because it has fewer calories, but just make sure you use it to replenish, not as a way to satisfy your hunger all day long - Get the burger with no bacon and no cheese, it really wont taste that different after the first few times and after a while you will start to feel the cheese/bacon are too rich and you wont like the taste - No fries or other high fat sides, try to get things that arent modified much from ground to mouth. (ie: black beans and rice over fries, etc). Those are just some examples. If you can try to evaluate where you are spending calories, you should be able to focus on good balanced meals and avoid all the "toppings" on so many things. Even when you splurge and get a slice of pizza, get chicken and veggies as toppings instead of pepperoni take a paper towel and press it down to soak up all the extra grease/oil you dont need to consume and does not change the taste of the pizza at all. Anyways, my 2c, hope it helps.

I swam for years and always kept in great shape. I quit for 2 years. After turning 41, which was 7 months ago, I started back up again. I swim 5 days a week for an hour, mostly freestyle. I'm in great shape again everywhere except for this stomach fat I can't seem to lose. Can anyone recommend any good workouts that can get rid of this? Are your 1 hour workouts "easy" at this point? Eventually your body reaches a plateau unless you are continually challenging yourself. If you are not on a team with a coach, I really recommend it, because when I used to swim solo, I would never push myself like a coach would and I never lost that much weight. Once I started on a team, I have been losing about 5 lbs a week consistently. (Doing 3 practices a week of 1.5 hour each - coached). Additionally, make sure your diet adjusts with your workout. A lot of people think they workout so they can eat whatever they want, unfortunately, this only goes so far and as someone else noted, if you consume more calories than you burn, you will not lose the fat. If your body has gotten to the point where your current workouts are "easy", you wont even be burning as many calories as when you first started back swimming. Try to cut out all the pointless calories like: - All sugar drinks (coke, lemonade, sugar-added juices, etc). Gatorade can be acceptable because it has fewer calories, but just make sure you use it to replenish, not as a way to satisfy your hunger all day long - Get the burger with no bacon and no cheese, it really wont taste that different after the first few times and after a while you will start to feel the cheese/bacon are too rich and you wont like the taste - No fries or other high fat sides, try to get things that arent modified much from ground to mouth. (ie: black beans and rice over fries, etc). Those are just some examples. If you can try to evaluate where you are spending calories, you should be able to focus on good balanced meals and avoid all the "toppings" on so many things. Even when you splurge and get a slice of pizza, get chicken and veggies as toppings instead of pepperoni take a paper towel and press it down to soak up all the extra grease/oil you dont need to consume and does not change the taste of the pizza at all. Anyways, my 2c, hope it helps.