What sort of exercise would help my stomach go flat?
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Situps or lay flat on your back arms above your head and feet straight, slowly raise your arms and upper torso, along with pulling your legs up, stay level and use your stomache muscles to hold you in that position for five seconds, go back flat slowly while flexing your stomache muscles. Try 10 reps, then see how you feel. Good Luck!
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I'd say abdominal exercises but not sit-ups, as they might be harmful for ur lower back (depends on how fit u r overall, though). \n\nTry crunches and do them every day: \n\nhttp://www.fitstep.com/Library/Exercises/Crunches.htm\n\nHere's a fairly good website w photos and explanations:\n\nhttp://www.sixpacknow.com/abdominal_exercises.html \n\nAlso depending on how much of this abdominal fat is on the outside (because abdominal fat can be both inside the abdominal cavity, below the muscles, and outside, below the skin layer), u can get massage and some anti-cellulite cream to help this outer layer of fat go away.
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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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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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Do some toning exercises like stomach crunches.  Hope this helps.
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One thing you shouldnt expect to happen is to do situps and crunches to flatter your stomach. This is will just strenghthen the muscles inside but it wont get rid of the fat thats lieing above. To get rid of this fat, you have to do cardio (combine situps or weights and it will work better). The more intense you do it, the less amount of time you have to spend and it burns more fat that way. Try HIIT. Its a great way. Read here and im sure it will get you alot of confidence that it will work.\n\nhttp://www.musclemedia.com/training/hiit.asp\nHope this helped!
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Cardio exercises burn the most fat and will probably put the least amount of stress on you stomach. Try what feels the most comfortable to you. You could try walking, jogging, or biking.
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do exercises crunches
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Try Crunches.Thatz the best exercise.
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go to this website it will show you exercise moves to increase and to decrease whatever or flatten whatever
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sit ups would be the best...but of course you'll also have to eat healthy..try dancing or areobics...its fun and its good excercise.good luck
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Abdominal Crunch\nThese are excellent for strengthening the abdominal muscles and reducing a protruding stomach. Lie on the floor. Hold your legs at a 90-degree angle with your lower legs parallel to the floor. (You can also place your legs over a bench or a piece of furniture.) With arms at your side (or on shoulders or behind ears as in the curl-ups), inhale slowly as you raise your shoulder off the floor, forcing your chest muscles toward your legs. Pull your hips upward, hold for a second, then exhale slowly and roll down to the starting position. Do up to twenty-five repetitions.
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Try laying flat on your back and raise your legs until your heels are about 2-3 inches off the floor, and hold them there for as long as you can.  Do it as often as you like but be prepared for sore muscles in you stomach.
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Pilates is an excellent way to flatten your stomach, strengthen your core muscles and feel more energized.\n\nA healthy, whole-food diet (lots of fruits and veggies, much less fats and processed foods) is also a good way to reshape your body.\n\nBe sure to drink at least 64 oz of water a day.
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You will certainly need more than 10 days to flatten your belly.  Multiply that by about 10 at that may be a more reasonable time range to see modest results.\n\nFirst and foremost, stay away from any ab machine as they are simply a waste of money and barely effective.\n\nFor the upper abs, focus on crunches which effectively work the abdominals better than sit-ups or any machine on the market.\n\nFor the lower abs, keep in mind there is very little muscle tissue there so decreasing levels of body fat is the most effective way to bring out the best in this area. Hanging leg raises, v-situps and reverse curls are among some of the best exercise for this region. Always make sure your pelvis curls up to maximize lower abdominal contraction during these exercises.\n\nAs far as fat loss and getting ripped goes, cardio, cardio, cardio. In the morning, on an empty stomach at about 70-80% of your maximum heart rate for about 30-45 minutes. This combined with a common sense diet will quickly shed body fat so you can actually see those abs you've developed. \n\nI would encourage you to seek the advice and guidance of a personal trainer in your area for further education on these principles. Please ensure you start off at a very basic level for crunches and cardio if you are a beginner.\n\nHere's a list of ab exercises to help you get started:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises_abdominals.html
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theres this magazine called SEVENTEEN and what the more recent issue has is these pilaties methods. and they really work! they give you a flat stomach in only 10 days! im serious. go buy the magazine. or check the site listed below.\n\nI\nI\nI\nI\nI\nV
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Diet and exercise. However due to the musculature of the abdomen, you will not get a completely flat stomach. Muscles do protrude. :) The Ab-Lounge works well ONLY for the front abdominal muscles. If you want to work your obliques, try a series of crunches by your knee to the opposite side of your head. Also, to protect your neck, do NOT put your hands behind your head, and always look at the ceiling so that you are using the right muscles; abs NOT back.