Five Fantastic Workouts To Flatten Your Stomach

Are you looking to flatten your stomach? That is surprisingly easier to do than most people think. The reason that most people have difficulty doing so is that their efforts are misdirected. But I am going to tell you the best workouts to get a beautiful flat stomach. And, just as surprisingly, they do not target your stomach at all.

You see, most people do sit ups and other ab workouts thinking they can reduce their belly fat. Those exercises are great for building muscle but you simply cannot spot reduce fat. Even if you could, it takes 3,500 calories to burn a single pound of fat. When you consider that an average person burns only 2,000 calories in an entire day you quickly see how useless traditional stomach workouts are for flattening.

These workouts are really only effective if you are a man below 10% body fat and a woman below 16% body fat.

So, it seems the issue becomes one of reducing overall body fat rather than simply flattening your stomach. Well, I am about to tell you the best way to burn fat at a higher rate and give your stomach a great workout in the process; by lifting weights with your arms and legs.

Confused? I thought so. So, let me explain. Lifting weights builds muscle, muscle weighs more than fat for your body has to work harder throughout the day. Consequently, you are burning more fat. But, the types of exercises you do are very important. By doing exercises like the dead lift, clean and jerk, on arm dumb bell snatches and others you are working multiple muscle groups at the same time, even your stomach. This is because your stomach muscles serve to stabilize your torso. The added benefit of these workouts though is that they cause your body to go into a metabolic shock so that you are burning calories at a higher rate for a period of time, even while you are resting.

So, here you go, five fantastic workouts to reduce your body fat percentage and flatten your stomach.

1.The dead lift. Standing over a barbell bend down keeping your eyes forward, back straight and butt out. Pick up the bar and lift it to your thighs, lower and repeat.

2.The squat. With a barbell resting on your shoulders and your feet pointed out like a duck, squat down as far as possible and then come up again.

3.The clean and jerk. Standing over a barbell bend down keeping your eyes forward, back straight and butt out. Pick up the barbell and clean it to your chest before pressing it over head.

4.Dumbell snatches. Standing over a dumbbell, bend down, grab it and lift it high over your head.

5.Military press. Starting with the barbell at shoulder height grab it and press it over your head.