How to work out for Flat Tummy and Abs?
Most of us face the problem of having a little fat over our tummy. Especially women tend to hold more fat in their hips, stomach and thigh regions. Although I know many guys can feel my point too.
It can be really awkward to wear any outfit confidently, especially those sexy bodycon dresses for girls and tight fitted shirts for guys.
Let us get our basics straight for losing weight in your tum-tums:
Do you have a little too much belly fat? Changing that may be easy and tough at the same time. Everyone has belly fat, even athletes with 6-pack abs albeit much less than an average sedentary person. Yes, you heard that right.
Fat can be of two types – deep belly fat and fat on the upper part of the belly.
The second kind of fat is the one that shows. The first type of fat that is deep belly fat is also called visceral fat and it is essential for your body. It covers all your organs and cushions them from any injuries.
Read: How to measure your belly fat? Do you have too much?
All types of fat are lost from the body by a combination of diet and exercise!! That’s IT.
We hate to break it to you but losing belly fat is a long term game and you need to be patient to see results. There is no shortcut to losing belly fat in a healthy manner. Crash diets and starvation may get you there for sometime. But if you need a permanent way to keep the belly fat off then read on.
Secret to losing Belly Fat!!
A few workout methods which help to reduce the extra fat and also get a little closer to get abs:
1. CRUNCHES
A very popular method which is really effective to burn those extra calories sand focus mainly near the stomach region are crunches. Crunches should be done at least 10-20 per workout, as time progresses you will feel the tightness in your tummy.
2. PLANK
Plank is a really difficult exercise, and you can start off by doing it for 30 seconds and then increase the time. Don’t be too difficult but be sure to tighten your core while doing this exercise.
3. TWIST CRUNCHES
Twist crunches are similar to crunches, just modifying the fact that, instead of pulling yourself upwards, you will pull your upper body to the right, and elongate left leg and do the same for the other leg as well.
4. RUNNING / JOGGING
Running or even jogging helps your body very effectively. You will find that it burns your insides when you run for a long span of time, but running or even jogging just doesn’t help only with your tummy, but your overall body.
