How To Lose Fat Around Your Stomach and Get Ripped Abdominals
There is no real secret to getting a flatter stomach or ripped abdominals. All you have to do is to eat healthy, lose excess fat, and exercise your abdominals.
Here is the regimen used by my friend, who is a lifelong bodybuilder and former Mr. Philippines winner. He is a natural bodybuilder with a ripped and flat stomach all year round. Here are some tips on how to get a flatter stomach.
Start Eating Healthy Foods
To get a flat stomach, the first item to lose is excess fat around the midsection. The way to do this is by eating correctly. That means following a strict diet. For example, my friend is 180 pound of muscle, yet he only eats around 3,000 calories per day. He eats foods such as tuna, rice, eggs (including the yolk), bananas, and other natural foods low in fat.
Stomach Exercise
The best and fastest way to lose fat is to exercise. A total body exercise will increase your muscle and metabolism, and you will burn more calories even while resting. Follow a complete body fitness workout regimen to burn off excess fat. Note that fat around the midsection is usually the last fat that is lost.
For the stomach, simple exercises such as crunches, stomach raises, and side to side bends are great for building the stomach muscle, giving you the ripped abs effect.
My bodybuilding friend usually starts his daily workout with 25 minute stomach crunches. He lies on the floor and brings his elbows and knees together to complete one crunch.
He also does hanging leg raises or stomach raises. Here you are suspended by holding a chinning bar, then raise your legs to a horizontal position. This works your lower abdominal muscles.
He then finishes of by putting a bar over his back and swings it from side to side, working the oblique muscles. These help remove the "love handles."
Abdominal Fitness Products
There are many products out on the market that target the abdominal muscles. Personally I never use them, and just rely on doing simple exercises such as crunches, hanging leg raises, and side to side movements. These do not need any special abdominal fitness products.
Tips
Getting a flatter stomach requires a lot of dedication, discipline, and sacrifice. If abdominal fitness products will keep you motivated then by all means buy them. But basically a floor, healthy diet, and regular workouts is all you need to get that flat and ripped stomach.
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