How do i get a flat stomach. I have only 30 mins for xercise in my schedule?
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The best piece of ab workout equipment is your floor.  Sittups crunches flutter kicks scissors bicycles, they're all good.  Alone that will help flatten your stomach, but honestly in order to burn all the fat in front(assuming you have some) you're going to need cardio-respatory fitness which means jogging or a bike or something for at least 20 minutes.  You should really strive for a total fitness routine rather that just "I want flat abs".  If you're only working out because you want a certain part to be more appealing I'd be willing to bet you're less likely to stick with the routine than if you were going for total fitness.
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I have the same problem and Im still working on it. I lost it then but I recently got it back cus I havent been workin out for awhile. But You should do Cardio.. I know that your trying to lose that bump on ur stomach but 20-30min of cardio 3 to 4 times a week help alot. Eat grapefruit as well theres an ingredient in grapefruit that burns fat cells. yay! also take a tablespoon of apple cider vineger before every meal. But most importantly IVe been doing crunches for ever and they only work SOME parts of your stomach. to GET the FULL effect you need to do sit ups about 100-150 sit ups a night... or at least 50-100 sit ups... as well as those backward crunches THOSE HELPED ALOT. i should get back to doing them myself. lol. Hope I helped. Email me in 2 to 4 weeks and tell me how it came out. My results were I lost 2 sizes in 3 weeks... plus 10 lbs and a much toner body... That quickly. lol.
651129
How to get a flat stomach - Ok firstly the idea of localised fat loss is a myth - during exercise fat is burned as fuel from all areas of the body and while working your abdominal muscles will help them to develop, but if there is a layer of fat obscuring these new muscles neither you or anyone else will be able to see them. Therefore to achieve your goa,l any abdominal exercise needs to be combined with a well balanced and nutritious diet to see the fruits of your labour. In addition cardiovascular exercise will speed up this process and help to burn extra fat.\n\nBy far the best exercise to build abdominal muscle and toning the abdominal wall is the crunch - this is actually the main stomach exercise performed by athletes and models.\n\nThe Crunch\n• Lie on you back.\n• Place your feet on the floor as close to your bottom as possible and place your knees together.\n• Rest your hands across you chest and relax the neck.\n• Slowly raise your shoulders off the floor by contracting only the abdominal muscles.\n• Don't come up too high - your lower back should always remain on the floor.\n• Hold that position for a count of 1 and breath out forcefully.\n• Slowly relax the stomach muscles and allow your shoulders to return to the floor.\n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\nThe amount of crunches you can do, as with all exercises, varies from person to person... its safest to start off with a relatively low number as to avoid strain and build up to more over time.\n\nFurther Exercises \nThe Plank\n• Lie flat on your stomach.\n• Place your hands at either side of your chest - as if ready to perform a press up - although your should tuck your elbows into your sides.\n• Keeping your back perfectly flat, push yourself up onto your knees - so that your upper body is off the floor, with your hands and knees acting as support.\n• Keeping your back flat, pull in your tummy button as high as possible - as if to suck it in close to the spine.\n• Aim to maintain a normal breathing pattern and hold this position for 10 - 60 seconds.\n• Rest, lie flat then repeat twice.\n\nToe Touch\n• Lie on you back.\n• Raise your arms and legs so they are perpendicular with your body.\n• Slowly curl your torso up and forward, raising your hands as close to your toes as possible\n• Contract your abs and then reverse direction, returning to the starting position.\n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\nReverse Curl\n• Lie on you back.\n• Place your hands at sides and bend your knees.\nraise your butt as high as possible while keeping your upper back pressed to the floor.\n• Contract your abdominals and then reverse direction, returning to the starting position. \n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\nTwisting Crunch \n• Lie on you back.\n• Bend your knees so your thighs are perpendicular to the ground and fold arms across your chest.\n• Slowly raise your shoulders up and forward toward your chest, twisting your body to the right.\n• Feel a contraction in your abdominal muscles and then slowly reverse direction, returning to the start position.\n• Repeat movement but this time twist to the left.\n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\n \n   Home \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n The Truth About Weight Loss \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n The Truth About Exercise \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Great Workouts \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Exercising With Kids \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Fitness Myths \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n The Low Carb Diet Dilemma \n\n--------
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crunches but not just simple crunches try putting both your hands on the back of your head and raise your head laying flat and lift your legs alitte over 8 inches r till where its stranious and hold for 20 seconds, after every 20 seconds lift your legs pass that and spread them apart in a butterfly motion then drop back into the 8 inch position but NEVER let your feet touch to the ground also keep your hands behind your head raised, your body should make the shape of a skateboard \n\nThe bicycle exercise:\nput your hands on the back of your head(like your relaxing) raise your head, and lift your legs up and move them like your on a bicycle TIP: raising your back off the ground and rocking from side to side (like the song) while doing the bicycle motion will put effect on every area of your stomach and burn fat right off, its going to burn alot but it works \n\n6 Pak exercise:\nnormal crunch position but lift one leg and lift your head on the same side you lift your leg, that works the right or the left side of your stomach: for those of you that dont know normal crunches work the top part of your abs and thats about it but those with short stomachs it works the top and the middle a tad so its just a 4 pack but switcin up and balancing your legs and things of that nature will get the job done
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To show a 6 pack, you must not be fat.  Once you got rid of the fat through lots of cardio: 20 minute intervals or 40 min non-intervals 3-5 days/week, getting a 6 pack is easy, just do lots of side crunches: hands behind neck, left elbow to right knee, right elbow to left knee, and repeat for 1 minute, rest for 1 minute (stretch tummy/back with cat and camel), then do side crunches again.  Do this 3-5 days/week.  Remember, you have to get rid of the fat!
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First, I meet with my personal trainer and discuss my diet options and what fats I can cut back on. Then, I do four sets of twenty crunchs to tone my stomach and then I work out with an exercise ball for half an hour. After that, I like to run for the remaing part of my hour and a half at the gym. Somedays though, I just lift weights to tone my arms and do yoga to help me unwind.\nJ'adore,\nConnie
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i take it by your question that you have not tried excercise yet. \n\nsome women are able to look the way they did pre pregnancy. some are not. I would recomend regular excercise. You can do some cardio, do some weight training. \n\nI used to run 6 miles a day and do some light weight training. My stomach was never completely flat, but alot of that baby belly was gone. \n\nWhatever you are able to loose, great. Whatever you maintain, great.\n\nProviding you are not grossly obese, you should be proud of what motherhood has given you. Loose what  you can, but be proud of all you have. .."I am woman, hear me roar"\n\nGood luck.
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if you want flexibility you can buy a yoga kit that comes with a video and yoga mat at target if you want to lose weight start walking for 30 minutes every day and gradually increase your pace or distance or add activities as your enduarance increases, if you want to tone up start doing situps or abdominal crunches every night before you go to bed and wearing ankle and wrist weights and go walking everyday after about a month your body should be adjusting to increased activity level and you will probably have more success starting whatever new exercise routine you have decided to follow also try going to the food pyramid .gov website and input your diet it will analyze what you eat and your activity level and let you know what you have to do to make changes effectively
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No. Try exercise and lay off the fatty foods; sit-ups, crunches, walking, running, stretching, cardio exercise, resistance exercise...all are great for flattening your abdomen. There are tons of evercise programs on line and places for women, who have the same problem as you, to work out at all over the place.\n\nGood luck.
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try running, seams to burn more then walking, I know some people clam walking works just as good but they all seam to be large people.  you can also go to any store (most big box sores will have this) and go to there exercise equipment area then look for an abb wheel, its just a small wheel with a bar threw it.  use that, your tummy will be flat in no time.  It should run you around $10 or so, put a pillow or other padding down for you knees or they will not like it lol.
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First of all, congrats on your weight loss efforts! If you want to flatten and tone your stomach, what you need to do is strength train. That means doing crunches (the regular crunch and reverse crunch), the bicycle crunch, the side crunch, the ab reach and the crunch on a workout ball are all good. For info on doing these exercises check out: http://www.toneteen.com/exercises/stomach.htm \n\nDoing these exercises with weights will help build muscle and your abs will look even better! Good luck!
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I run for 30minutes, 500 situps not at once divide it up,150 leglifts,100 pushups and 500 jumping jacks, 20 squats each held for 20 seconds.This is a days work out. Eat alot of protein and eat 6 small meals a day.I suggest 4 times a week
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To get a flat stomach you need to watch your eating, and do the exercise. The key however is exercising your core when you do your regular exercise routine. Do cycling, rowing, etc, exercises that burn calories as well as work your core. Its like a double hit. If you just keep killing the abs you will never get there. Tie your ab workout in with your usual workout by finding ways to work your core.
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The only way to have flat abs is to burn fat. No amount of situps will ever give you a six-pack. Situps and similar exercises work the muscles *under* the fat. If you want to be able to see the muscles you've got to lose the fat.\n\nThat's all well and good, but how? You have to use more energy than you consume. How do you burn more energy? Aerobic exercise, you've got to get your heartbeat up for extended periods of time. \n\nYou should also look at your diet. Eating multiple small meals throughout the day is a good start (it takes energy to digest food, make your body work for you). When I was kick-boxing all the time, I used to eat 5-7 meals a day at about 6500 calories total and I couldn't keep weight on.\n\nWhat you eat is extremely important. You want to make sure you're getting enough energy to power your motor, without excess getting converted to fat. Fail to eat enough of the right things (protein, carbs), your body will cannibalize muscle. Less muscle means lower metabolism, which means you burn less calories each day.\n\nFinally, you should have realistic goals. You want flat abs by 12/16/06. Even with a good diet and exercise regimen, 1-3 pounds a week of weight loss is excellent. If you think you're going to drop more than 10 pounds in a month, think again. You *can* do it, but it's not a good idea. For one, once you start eating like a normal person you'll rebound MORE weight than  you initially lost. Starvation diets are a bad idea in general. \n\nIf you can't get to your target weight by the scheduled time, adjust your goals. setting impossible goals only makes people feel depressed and less likely to continue. Instead, set several smaller, easier goals - then have a small reward each time you reach one. This will keep you interested, and on the straight and narrow. For instance, I'd have ice-cream on Saturday if I went to the gym like I wanted to the rest of the week. It's a little thing, but it breaks the monotony. You shouldn't have to weight until you lost every ounce of body fat to indulge - just keep it in moderation - and realize a healthy body is an ongoing process, not something you reach and then slack-off forever.\n\nCheers,\nOdd
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1. Limit fats, dairy products, and sweets-- cut down on soda\n\n2. Don't eat before going to bed (>3 hours, so the food can metabolize)\n\n3. Take walks in the park, or go to the mall-- after a meal\n\n4. Do yoga, it is a great way to get in shape without all the hassle and artificial products.\n\n5. Simple crutches for the abs area, lift small weights for the arms, and STRETCH!!!\n\nFYI: Diets don't work, because most people don't stick to the plan forever, so the best way is to cut down food intake and stay healthy.\ngood luck!!! :)
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I recomend running atleast 35 mins atleast 5 days a week and do sit ups every night! it def. worked for me
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do 10 minutes of each, dont do them in amounts. thats what i do only more. im 16 and i do 15 min of sit-ups and 15 min of crunches. then 10 of weights. anyways it should take a month maybe less. then when u get older youll get obliques which are on the side of your abdominals and maybe an 8-pack, but those are usually genetic.