What weight exercise is best for keeping a tummy flat?
Arm curls? or other? or does it matter as long as Im lifting light weights lots of reps for tonality and keeping the tummy flat
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To keep your belly flat, make sure you don’t gain too much body fat. It is body fat that makes a belly round, lumpy, or poochy.
To keep your abdominal muscles strong, do exercises like crunches, leg lifts, and side bends. You can do these exercises with weights….aim for several sets (3-4) of 12-15 reps each. You will know a weight is heavy enough when you feel fatigued toward the last 3-4 reps of a set.
sit ups
A tight core requires…a variety of Ab exercises….crunches leg lifts…etc…but keep doing those other exercises…the body is like a suspension bridge that works together
Lay flat on the floor hands on the side and raise legs up and down to almost touching the floor and mid way back up!!! That takes care of lower stomach… And sit ups pulsing and reaching to the sides!!! counting as you raise 3 pulses !!! 1 2 3 down!!! Hope this helps!!!
As long as you have a body fat below 20% through cardio exercise, also do some sit ups, leg raises, and the plank to improve core stability.
The Firm 5 Day Abs video does it for me. If you try it, however, be prepared for some serious stomach pain during the first few days. The exercises are very grueling and produce fast results. I swear, during the few times I’ve actually stuck to it I started to develop Hurcules abs by the second day.
Here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Firm-Parts-5-Day-Classic-Workout/dp/6303284019
try these few simple steps… take my advice im ripped and it only took me about six months or so!
1) lay on a bench, arms holding to the side or back of bench, lift your legs up and down slowly,try 10 and do around three sets. if this is easy add a weight between your feet.
2) SQUATS — these are key to a solid all around figure trust me,, there are a variety of different types of squats, research to see what is most comfortable for you
3) crunches, i know they are old school but they do the trick,
4) run maybe a mile or so per day
5) join a local gym,,that is key…try using a mixture of different abb workouts all the time…(side abbs,lower, and upper) you can sculpt them any way you want
6) finally EFFORT – MOTIVATION – DETERMINATION stay with it it will pay off (try a protein shake from time to time and always try to fit in cardio whenever you can even a simple bike ride
best of luck
V-ups on a bench… and others but that’s the best, IMHO… There are some weight assited excercises that effect ab strength, but not to the degree that full range of movement excercises that target the abs can. Tricep push downs performed while standing on a lat machine effect abs… and so do machines like the total gym that have you sitting upright with no support behind your back while you do chest and shoulder movements. Stick with V-ups, leg raises, and crunches and you will be good.
Pilates exercises, they create long lean muscles than slim and tone rather than produce bulk.
If you had to chase me around you would get the exercise you need.
Good question for married ladies….
Fit ball is the best its all about your CORE strength which is your tummy strenght yoga may help and Pilates but the fit ball is the easiest 20 mins a day is all it takes.