This outrageous stomach fat myth is something that 9/10 people who exercise buy into. So the chances are reading this article will take a lot closer if one of your fitness goals is to burn stomach fat.

The problem is everyone thinks you need to do exercise after exercise on your stomach to reduce fat to the area.  And even if you are one of the few people who do more effective stomach exercise, eg. planks instead of sit-ups, that alone will not get you the reduced stomach fat you are looking for.

You also need to perform total body exercises that engage the core in different ways. Two great examples of this are squats are deadlifts. With both of these exercises you are engaging the core in a totally different way compared to a regular stomach exercise.

You are actually engaging more muscle fibres with these two exercises than most stomach exercises. You may not get the same ‘burn’ feeling you do with a sit-up, but they are far more effective in burning stomach fat. You can do both of these exercises from home, check the search column on the right for descriptions of both.

Today’s Takeaway – But don’t just stop at these two exercises, really concentrate on engaging your core as much as possible during every exercise you do for best results.

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The two most common exercises for the stomach area are crunches (sit-ups) and the plank. What if you could you just 1 exercise that incorporated the benefits of both all into one? This would double the effectiveness of your workout half the time!

This exercise is called the Spiderman Crunch. 

Position: Rest on your hands and feet, facing the floor and with your body raised up.

 Technique:  Alternately draw one knee up towards the same shoulder, crunching through the stomach. Squeeze it as high as possible.

Points to Remember: Keep your hips down and back flat. The further you slide your legs back the more difficult it becomes.

If the above if really difficult for you, don’t panic, just do 2 reps at a time resting in between before attempting any more.

As you will notice from the above description you are holding a straight-arm plank as well as crunching your knee up using your abs. This means you are getting the best of both exercises. It’s really important that you engage your stomach muscles as you crunch the knee up towards your hand.

Today’s Takeaway - The more muscles you can work in each exercise the more fat you burn. The Spiderman Crunch is a prime example of this.

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All good fitness professionals, myself included, will tell you that you need to work your entire body during your workouts in order to get an overall body fat burning effect, and indeed to burn fat off your stomach. But what if there was something you could do that would ensure you literally burned stomach fat during every exercise you did!…

This is actually a very simple technique to apply to all your exercises. You may have heard of it before, but in my experience very few people actually get it right.

You need to ‘BRACE’ your stomach during every exercise you do. This will mean you get continual core and stomach activation, and are constantly burning stomach fat even when working you body’s other muscles.

In Pilates they talk a lot about ‘pulling in’ and ‘zipping up.’ I find these terms somewhat misleading, so I will explain my unique way of explaining the ‘brace position.’

Imagine that you were standing up, and someone went to push you in the stomach. What would you do? You would engage you stomach muscles ready for the impact. I am not talking about someone punching you hard, jus a push.

This embrace of your stomach is what the ‘brace’ is. It’s improtant you don’t over-strain and brace too much, but similarly you must hold enough tension get the muscles engaged.

Today’s Takeaway - It won’t come straight away, and you will have to practice and remind yourself to do it. But get this right, and you will seriously increase the amount of stomach fat you burn during your workouts.

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Do you want to be free from stomach flab? Have you spent many hours working hard in the gym, or following a restrictive diet to no avail? Well the following key rule really will make all the difference to getting a ‘free from flab’ stomach.

Work you abs and stomach in all 3 planes of movement.

Without boring you with details, there are ‘planes of movement’ in which you body can move.

1/ Forwards and Backwards

2/ Sideways

3/ Rotational

Have a think to yourself how many of the 3 planes you employ in your workouts. Most people will do plenty of forwards/backwards, perhaps a little sideways, and often no rotation whatsoever.

Why does it matter?

Your body wants to work in all 3 planes of movement, and will reward you with optimum fat loss and fitness results if you allow it to.

If you are only working 2 out of 3 of the planes of movement, you are limiting yourself to 66% of your potential results.

It really is as simple as that.

Today’s Takeaway – Make sure you work in all 3 planes of movement to be free from stomach flab. It won’t make your workout any harder, it just takes a little alteration and planning and your results will drastically improve.

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