How To Strengthen Your Abs and Flatten Your Stomach - 3 Tips

fastweightloss (24)in #weight-loss • 7 years ago (edited)

Tight abs is one of the most highly sought after physical features among people who work out to tone their bodies. You likely aren’t hoping to chisel a rock-hard six-pack into your abdomen, but looking to achieve that flat stomach that so many celebrities somehow manage to maintain.

There are a few easy changes you can make to your lifestyle and workout to get you closer to your goal of tight, strong abs and a flat stomach.

Tip #1: A Stomach-Flattening Diet

Contrary to popular belief, just because you have strong abdominal muscles doesn’t guarantee you’ll have a flat stomach. And while this news is disheartening, now that you know you can begin to work on other factors besides stomach strength to help acquire a tight, flat stomach. You need to change you diet to a lower calorie intake and ensure you are burning off excess calories at the gym.

Tip #2: Don’t Focus On Ab Workouts Alone

You don’t want to focus on crunches and nothing else to help burn off the excess layer of fat covering your stomach. Regardless of how many crunches you do, you won’t have the flat stomach you want unless you work out your entire body to bring down your overall body fat. Plus gaining abdominal strength in the first place requires an all-over body workout. Experts recommend high-quality, slow exercises, such as Pilates. You certainly want to work the abs, but not isolate them.

Tip #3: Sit Up Straight

Slouching not only make you look thicker than you are, it allows your tummy muscles to slack when they should be working. That’s right—simply improving your posture is one way to make your abs appear tighter and leaner. The effect of standing up perfectly straight can lengthen your torso, and sucking your belly button in towards your spine is a light way to engage your stomach muscles at all points during the day.

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