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How To Tone Your Lower Stomach

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:35:21 +0000

Your lower stomach is probably one of the hardest places of your stomach to get flat. Your lower stomach is the area that starts just beneath the navel. Everything above is considered the upper abdominal region. But it is an area that everyone wants to tone to get a sexy flat stomach. Exercise can be helpful to help you tone your lower stomach muscles. But remember that you need to first change your diet because exercise alone will not reduce fat.

Your lower stomach is the area where excess belly fat first starts to accumulate. So naturally, it will be the last place that you will lose it. The muscles in your lower stomach can be toned so that the muscles don’t sag and so that they better support the weight that is on them, giving your stomach a slightly better appearance. But this is not a remedy for the overall problem that you face, the fact is that you have built up too much extra fat. You need to lose this excess weight before toning your lower stomach muscles will have any visible effect.

Toning your lower stomach through exercise

While exercise won’t do much to eliminate the fat that is hanging off of your stomach, you can still tone the muscles that lie beneath that. It is likely that your lower abdominal muscles are not very built up and therefore won’t have the sexy look that you want. Don’t you want your lower abs to be firmed and defined for when you do lose the extra weight? Many abdominal exercises don’t have a direct impact on your lower stomach!

Most effective exercise to tone your lower stomach

The most effective exercise to tone your lower stomach are cardiovascular exercises such as running. Most exercises for your lower stomach involve the movement of your legs because they are directly linked with your lower stomach. That is why one of the most effective lower stomach exercises is running. Not only will this increase your heart rate and burn extra fat, but it will also tone your lower stomach muscles.

Stomach Toning Tips

Remember not to over-do or under-do stomach toning exercises. You need to be aware of how often you do your exercise routine. If you try and do a heavy exercise routine every day of the week, that will probably be too much for your body. It won’t allow your muscles anytime to absorb what they’ve been through and actually grow and strengthen. You body needs about a day or two to actually take into account the workout that you just had. But at the same time, don’t take off too many days in-between heavy workouts or muscle atrophy may set in and you will have to make up for the days you missed. It is a good idea to do your workout 3 days per week, with at least a day of rest in-between workouts.

For more information on this learn about Tone Lower Stomach. All information above is courtesy of Tummy-Toning.com, where you can learn more about Stomach Exercises and how to lose stomach fat.

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Abs Work Out – Working Smarter Will Bring Faster Results

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:26:32 +0000

The right abs work out will generally bring faster results for men than it will for women. All things being equal, men naturally have a lower body fat percentage than women – which means that it’ll be slightly easier for you to lose enough belly fat to show off those ripped muscles hiding underneath. But one thing both men and women have in common: if you want to get a six pack stomach as quickly as possible, make sure your abs work out includes interval training. In other words, work smarter – not harder.

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Six Pack Stomach – What You’re Probably Doing Wrong

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:27:45 +0000

A six pack stomach is a very popular subject in the fitness industry. A simple web search will turn up hundreds of gimmicks and gadgets that promise to help you lose belly fat with little to no effort on your part. Getting a flat stomach is certainly an achievable goal, but if it was as easy as those products claim then we’d all have a six pack stomach by now.

Six Pack Stomach 101

What bothers me most about the stomach shaping products I see is that they’re based on a faulty theory. The truth is, stomach exercises alone aren’t going to give you a six pack stomach. If you’ve been training at all then you probably already have pretty decent abdominal muscles. They might just be covered up by an extra layer of fat that you need to work on.

Is Your Exercise Routine Sabotaging Your Efforts to Get a Six Pack Stomach?

You’ll have much better luck getting a six pack stomach by focusing your training on your entire body, instead of just your abs. Exercises that involve the large muscles use more energy, release fat-burning hormones in your body, and are the most effective for weight loss. Hundreds of reps of abdominal exercises won’t do anything to help you get rid of belly fat.

Workouts that target the big muscles in your legs and buttocks, chest and back will give you much better results in your efforts to get tight abs. Combining large muscle exercises with high intensity exercises in your trouble spots will work wonders for getting rid of belly fat. The main reason people don’t get the six pack stomach they’re looking for is because they try to take a shortcut around this fact.

A Six Pack Stomach Requires Resistance Training

Another mistake I see a lot of people make is not using enough resistance during their workout. You could do a hundred crunches, but if you’re not using enough resistance to challenge your stomach muscles then you won’t see any improvement. In fact, you shouldn’t even waste your time on any stomach exercise that you can easily do more than 20 reps of. If your goal is a six pack stomach, you need to use enough resistance so that you feel challenged to complete just 15 reps (or less) of a movement.

If you’re serious about stomach shaping, don’t let yourself be taken in by fitness gimmicks that will only waste your time and money. A six pack stomach requires work, but that doesn’t mean your workout has to be boring. Combine high intensity exercises with a good full-body workout, and you’ll soon have the sexy, tight abs you’re looking for.

Stomach Exercise – The Bottom Line

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:51:09 +0000

Over the past 20 years there as been a rapidly increasing numbers of ab gadgets, fat loss pills, and new miracle diets. All of the above have promised losing stomach fat and getting flat abs, however none of the above have ever succeeded. I am positive that you have seen at least 25 different ads already this year promising long lasting, fast, fat loss from around your stomach. I know I have counted over 43 of them and it’s only a few weeks into the year. This makes me sick….The problem is that most of the stomach exercises that are recommended all over the internet, and in magazines, etc, are not necessarily the best method to get that six-pack abs appearance. First and foremost, the most important aspect for great looking six pack abdominals is losing the extra belly fat that is covering them up. To be honest, most people already have decent abdominals underneath, however their six pack abs are being covered by a layer of stomach fat.

So today I have come to set the record straight once and for all on how to effectively train your stomach for optimal fat loss. The truth about abs is actually that crunches and situps won’t give you flat abs. Neither will those fancy abdominal gadgets or costly weight loss pills. However what will give you the greatest and most beneficial abdominal workout is doing full body exercises that work multiple muscle regions all at the same time.

Exercises that work the large muscle groups of the legs, upper and lower back, and chest give you the biggest metabolic bang for your buck in terms of abdominal fat loss. Combining these types of big multi-joint exercises in high intensity super-set, tri-set, or circuit fashion gives you the biggest fat-burning and metabolism boosting response from your workouts.

And that is one of the best kept secrets for flat sexy abdominals that are actually visible as a six-pack!

Now when it comes to abdominal-specific exercises, another mistake most people make is mindlessly pumping away with hundreds of crunches and other meaningless stomach exercises that barely give your abdominals much resistance to work against. If you want to actually develop your abdominals to the best extent possible, don’t waste your time with exercises that you can do more than 20 or 25 reps… that means you are definitely not doing an exercise that provides enough resistance to the abs. Exercises that give you enough resistance to get you down into the 6-15 rep range per set works great for the abs.

Generally, higher resistance stomach exercises that provide a much larger stimulus to the abs come in the form of exercises that involve raising/curling the legs and pelvis either upward or inward closer to the trunk. A couple great examples of these higher resistance abdominal exercises are hanging leg raises or knee raises using a “pelvic curl up”, or an exercise like lying hip thrusts. Many times, the same people that can do 50 or 100 crunches, can’t even complete more than 2 or 3 properly executed hanging leg raises.

If you really want tighter flatter abdominals that look like a six-pack, remember that losing that extra belly fat is the MOST important factor. Also, when it comes to abdominal-specific exercises, always remember higher resistance exercises that involve curling/raising the legs and pelvis upward or inward are what develops the abs to the best extent possible.

So with that being said it is very important that you also have your diet, or what I prefer to say ‘supportive meal plan’, in place to complement your fitness routine.

By: Matt Shuebrook