Do you want a flatter, sexier stomach? Stomach Flattening Exercises can help you.
Let’s not waste time — If you are like most people, there are two separate things you need to do:
1. Strengthen and build your abdominal muscles (abs.)
2. Burn off the ugly fat that is covering them.
Unfortunately, most of the exercises that are designed to do the first, will not help you much with the second.
This is where so many people get discouraged and frustrated.
They do situps and crunches and leg lifts and many others until that can’t do any more — and still their belly resembles a keg more that a 6 pack.
But, take heart…
There are a few simple Stomach Flattening Exercises you can use to create — and uncover — your washboard:
The Plank:
This is sorta like a push-up that got stuck half way — except you’re on your elbow. Lie face-down on the floor and life yourself up on your elbow (directly under your shoulders) and toes. Keep your body straight. Hold this pose for 20 to 60 seconds, then lower and repeat for 3-5 reps.
The Bicycle:
Lie on the floor, face up this time and put your hands to the side of your head, behind your ears. Bend your knees to a 45 degree angle and bring them up. Pull your head and legs up and start “pedaling.” Touch each elbow to each opposite knee (left elbow, right knee — right elbow, left knee.) Continue for 12-15 reps.
Vertical Leg Crunch:
Lie down — face up on the floor, again, and raise you legs straight up with knees crossed. Flex your abdominal muscles to lift your shoulder blades off the floor — as though trying to sit up. Lower both legs and repeat for 12-16 reps.
These simple exercises should very quickly start to get your stomach into tip top shape.
But remember, no one will ever see your sexy tummy if you don’t burn off the fat around your waistline first.
Get started by eating the right Fat Burning Foods to crank up your metabolism and then invest in — and USE! — a proven fat burning program.
One of the most complete programs I have found that will burn the fat AND build the muscle is The Fat Burning Furnace.
You can find out much more about The Fat Burning Furnace and get a totally free “7 Secrets of Fat Loss and Fitness” – Just Fat Burning Secrets
Begin today on Your Stomach Flattening Exercises and start a good Fat Burning Program — and you will see results in just weeks.
Filed under Fat Burning, Fat Burning Tips by on Nov 3rd, 2009. Comment. 
One of the most lifelong and frustrating endeavors you can undertake is to lose weight.
It can be a minefield of diets, weight swings, mood swings, successes and failures. However for many dieters and would be biggest losers little attention is paid to one of the most crucial factors in the weight loss equation.
Your metabolism.
Speeding up metabolism can be a huge factor in weight loss. So lets look at what metabolism is and why speeding it up can be important.
What is metabolism? It isn’t a part of the body. It is actually a bodily process, really in fact a series of processes. It’s a process that your body uses to turn food into energy.
That’s right. Food goes in and the body converts that food into energy to fuel the running of the body. It’s a constant process that goes on without you knowing it.
Your body uses energy to fuel a range of body processes and this fuel comes from the calories in your food. If you have too much energy, or calories, your body stores this as fat.
The body can use the energy that it gets to either create energy/fat cells in your body, or to help break them down to release energy. These two processes are the opposite of each other. What you want your body doing is spending more time breaking energy cells down and less time creating more energy cells. The process of speeding up your metabolism changes the balance between creating more energy cells, and breaking them down.
Faster metabolism, more energy cells broken down.
There are ways to speed your metabolism and this aids in your weight loss program. It’s not an answer all on it’s own but it greatly helps your chances of success. But it does take a little effort.
You can’t speed up your metabolism overnight. It takes some time, but doing so can be one of the very best things you could ever do for your weight loss program. The time and effort can be well worth while.
You get your body working for you rather than against you if you speed up your metabolism.
But you won’t find a lot of talk about speeding up metabolism in the general losing weight literature because there’s not much money to be made from it. There’s no expensive program to sell, no pre made meals to sell, not much really. It’s really pretty simple.
But just because you don’t read a lot about increasing your metabolism don’t ignore it. It can be one of the best things you can ever do for your weight.
Find my book about speeding up your metabolism at my website.
Peter has written a book which you can get at his website about How To Speed Metabolism full of tips and tricks to speed up your metabolism. Find it at http://max-metabolism.com/
Filed under Fat Burning, Fat Burning Foods, Fat Burning Tips by on Oct 27th, 2009. Comment.
