What is the best way to get a flat toned tummy?

Answer 1

You have to lose fat from all over your body, you can't lose fat from just one area no matter how many situps you do. The latest issue of mens fitness has an excellent supplement all about getting a six pack in 30 days, I should think the excersises and diet tips in general would apply to men and women.

Answer 2

99% of the flatness comes from dieting because fat causes the roundness and lumpiness in bellies.
Exercise, however, will make the grooves in the "six pack" deeper.

So in short: dieting=flat stomach; diet+exercise=6 pack

As a note: many people find that they will get a 6-pack from dieting alone, but exercise will always accentuate the "cuts."

Answer 3

i'm a swimsuit model.. so i needed a lot of training so i think i can help.

eat special K for breakfast
salad for lunch.. and u can put like grilled chicken in .. NO BACON! and no FRIED stuff. and put fat free dressing.
if you get hungry.. try fruit salad.. it's tasty and healthy.. or celery with peanut butter... also.. u can have low fat yogurt for either lunch or get a small one for a snack.

for dinner.. try to have low fat things such as grilled chicken or like a tuna sandwich on whole wheat bread with tomatoes and lettuce.. and also.. try to have salad and/or another vegetable every night with dinner.

for excersize- CRUNCHES! lol... do 100 crunches in the morning.. and 50 at night.. if you do too many at night.. it'll disrupt your sleep patterns.. that's what my trainer said. also.. take runs around your neighborhood or get a tredmil... running really tones a lot.. your legs and abs.

listen to music or watch tv while u excersize so you don't mind it as much. always drink A LOT of water to keep you hydrated.. and just eat healthy... but just remember to have fun while doing all of this.. if you don't have fun, you won't get as good of the results as if you were because u do more because u like to do it.

have fun. stay healthy..
xox- amanda

Answer 4

exercise videos

eat healthy, low carb foods

culture shock is a good dance place and the best for exercise.

sit ups

side sit ups

but ups work good. for abs

when doing sit ups tighten ur stomach while doing it

do 25 sit ups to starting off
than do a little more each day

Answer 5

I believe what you really wanted to know was this: "What is the
fastest, easiest and least time-consuming method of getting her tummy
back into shape?"

The truth is (and I'm sure this comes at no surprise to you) that
there is no fast and easy way to weight loss. The "best" way to lose
weight though, is a combination of dieting and aerobic exercise.
That's it. A maintained schedule of running and dieting will result in
weight loss. I can attest to this from personal experience. I will
explain this in detail further in my answer.

That said, let me address a point you raised in your question:

"Much advice seems to suggest that exercise that targets the muscles
in the stomach area (e.g. sit-ups) would help. To me that seems
illogical, or perhaps misleading. In its most simple form, is weight
loss not a simple equation involving a=amount of energy input to body
from food and b=amount of energy used by body and c=weight gained or
lost expressed as energy: a-b=c ? with weight loss acheived by either
1) decreasing energy intake through dieting, or 2) increasing energy
consumption through exercise or 3) both. When fat is burned up by the
body as reserve fuel, is the physical pattern of 'burning' dependent
on the location of the muscles requiring the energy, or a uniform
pattern, or a geneticly-determined pattern, or something else?"

Doing situps does burn calories, and will burn fat, if done correctly.
However the same and better results in terms of calorie loss can be
achieved by doing any form of aerobic exercise. I believe your friends
were operating under the myth that fat can turn into muscle or muscle
can turn into fat. See the article "Can Muscle Turn To Fat?" at
NaturalStrength.com:
http://www.naturalstrength.com/features/detail2.asp?AuthorID=60&ArticleID=436

What sit ups does do is tone your abdominal muscles. However, it does
not "target" the fat in your tummy any more than any other form of
aerobic exercise. In fact, if you only do situps as your aerobic
exercise, what will happen is that you will build up abdominal muscles
in your abs, but it would be still covered in the same layers of fat
as before.

"The first place we usually lose fat is on our face (so our mothers
can tell us we look too thin). Unfortunately, it is not possible to
direct our bodies to burn fat from a particular area."
"Take sit-ups for example. It is important to keep your stomach (and
back) muscles in shape, and firm abs can even help to hold in your
stomach. But to reduce the size of your mid-section, you would do just
as well to perform any exercise that you enjoy."
Source: http://www.eatwellandexercise.com/faqs_spot.html


The only way to reduce fat is through aerobic exercise. From personal
experience, the most effective form of aerobic exercise would have to
be running or jogging. I'll explain why in response to the next point
you've made:

"It seems to me that while there's probably variation from individual
to individual, the variables involved (e.g. calories ingested, current
body fat proportion etc) must be interrelated and subject to a set of
laws which could form useful graphs or simple programs that would
allow a person to predict weight loss, armed with a knowledge of the
relevant variables..."

Actually, the variables involved are not limited to calories in/out
and body fat proportion. I think one of the most important factors
involved in the equation is metabolism. Metabolism is a measure of how
much fat you burn from doing no activities. It depends on the fitness
level of your heart and other muscles. For example, long distance
runnners would have higher metabolisms than normal people due the
their muscle mass and fitness levels. What this means is that they can
effectively eat more than other people can, without weight gain.
(Unfair, I know!)

The best way to increase your metabolism is running. This is from
personal experience. I used to be fairly overweight, until I joined a
competitive long distance running training program. In just a month, I
noticed significant amounts of fat loss all over my body. What is
interesting is that my calorie intake was more, not less, than before.
This leads me to conclude that the increase in metabolism contributed
to my weight loss.

So to sum up, aerobic exercise and dieting is the best and only way to
lose weight. Dieting though, involves counting calories. You have to
count your calories in any diet. Even a small snack here and there add
up.

Answer 6

pilates is good but i reccomned you get one of those rolling exceriser's like it has 2 handles and you put your knees on the floor facing downwards and you put your arms onto the handles and the object has like wheels so your role it inwards and outwards after 2 months i lost 2 stone off my stomach.

Answer 7

Try doing sit-ups (not too many!) and eat a well balanced diet - they tend to go hand in hand (exercise and food intake)

Answer 8

no not lots of setups but walking alot while holding your tummy back inside

Answer 9

it's not eat less
eating less yoy store more as fat
a good diet and exercise is want is needed

check any diet web site

Answer 10

eat alot of fruits when you hungry and do about 60 situps a day

good luck hun!! =)