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Monday, October 12, 2009

The Best Exercise For A Flat Belly, 3 Things You Must Do To Tighten Your Stomach

By Ryan M Hall

If you want to get fit, doing a bunch of crazy ab exercises for a flat belly won't do as much as you might think. Honestly, most ab exercises do very little to actually flatten your midsection. This is because they work like any other muscle building exercise. They break down the muscle with stress and force it to rebuild. That's it. The myth that they will turn a beer belly into a six pack is silly. But if you want to look and feel better, what are the best exercises for six pack abs?

First, get your diet in order, and once you have your eating in line, getting back to the basics of a simple workout plan can do more for your stomach than most fancy ab exercises or ab machines ever will. Doing muscle building exercises will get your body burning more fat which will get your belly flat faster.

When you have been working at a good exercise plan, you will want to add some exercises that build your abs and help you burn more fat. That way when your belly flattens, you have a 6 pack to show off.

Here are some of the best ab exercise I've found:

1. Squats or Dumbbell Squats

Place the squat bar on your shoulders or use dumbbells and hold them at your shoulder height next to your head. Then just perform a normal squat. The reason this works so well is that your abs have to work extra hard to stabilize the weight at your shoulders. This keeps them tight and working hard throughout the whole movement.

2. Mountain Climbers

These are great for lower abs, and can be done virtually any where. Remember though, they have very little effect if performed with the wrong cadence. To do it right, get on your hands and toes as if you are going to do push ups, then lift one knee to your chest and put it back down, repeat with the other leg until you've don a full set. This works the butt, back, abs, obliques and hip flexors.

3. Full Body Crunches

With a full body crunch, you use your legs and your shoulders to crunch which makes your body flex your entire midsection. Lie on the ground as if you were going to do a normal crunch, but when you lift your shoulders off the ground, bring your knees to your chest at the same time. Then as you lower your shoulders, extend your legs completely in front of you, this will get your abs burning in no time.

If you want to move on to some advanced routines, try cable crunches or weight crunches for a set or two.

Ab exercises will strengthen and build your ab muscles, but they do very little to flatten your midsection. If you want a flat belly, you have to focus on total body fat and good nutrition. This is the only way to get a flat stomach and let the 6 pack abs you build show through. - 17269

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