What's the best way to get flat abs?

Answer 1

Sit ups and crunches alone aren't good enough if you truly want to work and define your entire abdomen. Your ab region, or "core" consists of 5 different muscle regions. If you were to only do crunches, you would only be working your upper abs, and sit ups only work your upper abs and slightly your lower ones. The core consists of your upper abs, lower abs, obliques, transverse ("deep abdominals"), and your back. I suggest picking up the book from Men's Health magazine, The Abs Diet (www.absdiet.com) which has probably 100 ab workouts and teaches you to work all sections of your core as well as what to eat to maximize your results (i mostly just use the workouts- because they are awsome). They recently came out with a book geared towards women but they have the same excercises. Also, if you're finding you have to do a lot of each excercise which takes up a lot of time, try including weight in with your ab workouts (ie. hold a medicine ball or a dumbell weight on your chest as you do your crunches), which will give you further results after your body gets used to doing them without weights. Also remember, to lose fat over the abs, the only way to get rid of it is by cardio - crunches, etc. will not get rid of the fat - it will only built and tone the muscle underneath the fat.

Answer 2

suck in the stomach muslces and hold as long as you can then release and then repeat this again agian thought out the day when ever you thing about it you can also do it at the same time you watch tv or sit at the computer etc any time you think about it the more you do it the long you hold it the stronger those muslces will get and you will have rock hard ad in no time!!!! trust me it works I know!!!!! it work for me!!!!


you should feel it after the first time if you do it long enough and if you do it for like 10 or 20 sets for about 20 mins a day in a week or less you will see a differece in how the pants fit best of all it dose not cost any thing to do it!!!!

Answer 3

I dance three days a week and we do like 100 crunches and I have pretty flat abs.

Answer 4

Sit Ups

Answer 5

Add cardio to your routine so that you'll burn off the layer of fat that currently coating your ab muscles. Doing crunches all day won't do any good if your new muscles are covered by a layer of fat!

Answer 6

Are you familiar with gravity boots? If not look them on on Google.
They're hooks that you put on your ankles so you can suspend, upside down, from a bar. Using these for inverted sit ups is great for the mid section.

Answer 7

try tips and articles on getting great abs on this site

Answer 8

the ab lounge sux, try reg crunches

Answer 9

Sit ups/ Head raises..

Answer 10

situps/crunches/v-sits/other ab excersizes. Lots of them, every other day.