How to Exercise for a Flat Stomach

Everyone nowadays is either overweight or fitness obsessed. One of the things a lot of people have trouble with is toning and flattening their midsection. Here is how to exercise for a flat stomach.

Lie on a Pilates ball and do 50 crunches. Then do an additional 50 crunches side to side. Stretch out across the ball to relax your tense stomach muscles. Stretching after exercising prevents bulky muscles and instead creates long, lean lines.

Sit on the floor and bring your legs into your chest without touching them or the floor. Essentially you are balancing on your bottom. Straighten your legs out while keeping them in the air and extend your arms upward. Balance in this position for 8 counts.

Bring your legs back into your chest. Extend them out again as low to the ground as possible without touching it. Lower your torso at the same time without touching so that your body is flat like a board but above the ground. Pull back in to to the knees to the chest position. Repeat the extension and pull in again. Repeat this movement 20 times.

Lie on the ground on your back, hands behind your head, elbows out. Start into a typical side crunch then rotate your body around so it becomes a crunch circle. Do 10 to the left, then 10 to the right.

End your workout with the Pilates Hundred exercise. This will kill you core muscles as it strengthens from the inside out. Repeat these exercises three to four times a week for best results.

Don't forget to eat well and drink lots of water, and increase your reps as you become better at the exercises. Also don't ever tug on your neck while doing sit-ups or crunches, it's cheating and could strain your neck and back.