stomach flattening exercises
Stomach-Flattening Exercises
Dream of a flat stomach? Then master the following stomach-flattening exercises and make that dream come true.
- Place a mat on the floor and lie on your stomach over it.
- Now, slowly lift your body onto your elbows and toes. The elbows will be flat against the ground. Place equal pressure on the toes and elbows.
- Keep your back absolutely straight and your body as straight as a plank.
- Maintain this position for 30 seconds to a minute.
- Take a dumbbell in your right hand and with a shoulder-width distance between your feet, stand with slightly bent knees.
- Now, place the left hand behind your head and start bending sideways to the right.
- Take the dumbbell lower and lower as you bend.
- Try to take it till your knees if you can.
- Hold for 2-3 seconds and come up to the original position.
- Repeat on the other side.
- This exercise can be done for as many reps as one wants, because it is non-taxing and is a great way to lose belly fat.
- Lie flat on your back and bend your knees, placing your feet flat on the ground.
- Place your hands behind your head and then crunch sideways.
- Lift your right knee and your left elbow in a crunch so that you feel the tension on the sides.
- Repeat on the other side.
- Do a set of 10 on each side and increase with more sessions.
- Sit on the floor and place your hands under your bottom. Keep the palms up.
- Now extend the legs right out and join them together.
- Now raise them off the floor in one swift movement at a 45 degree angle.
- Make sure that the pressure is placed on your back.
- Hold the pose for 30 seconds to one minute, if you can.
- Come back to the original position and start all over.
- Start with 10 repetitions, increasing with number as the weeks pass.
- Sit on the ground with your back absolutely straight.
- Breathe deeply and evenly.
- Exhale slowly and evenly until you feel that your stomach starts to form a vacuum.
- The vacuum should be such that you should feel your belly button touching your spine.
- Maintain this position for 8-10 seconds. You should feel a pull on the sides and slight pain as well.
- Repeat this 10 times.
- Lie flat on your back, bend your knees, and keep your feet flat on the ground.
- Use a medicine or stability ball that is 5 pounds and hold it over your chest.
- Ask a partner to stand at your feet.
- Flatten the arch of your back and push your lower back to the ground.
- Now, lift yourself so that your shoulders are 6 inches or so above the ground.
- You have to feel the pull in your abs.
- While you curl up, throw the ball to your partner.
- Hold the crunch till the time your partner throws the ball back to you.
- Catch the ball and come back to the original position.
- Repeat 10 times.