How to Fight the Flab

Several exercises target flab on your stomach and each one can focus on a specific area. Most stomach flab is in the middle of the stomach along the lower abdominal muscles and hips (also known as love handles). These two areas are difficult to keep in shape because the muscles are rarely used during the day. That means you have to target them during your work out. The best way to get rid of stomach flab and love handles is to eat healthier wholesome foods in smaller amounts throughout the day. You can look up healthy food and snack ideas under labels where it says diet or recipes. The last thing we want to encourage is to be obsessive about your body though. Focus more on how you feel, and when you are eating right and exercising you will feel much better and the way your body type should look will come with it. We all have different body types and a little bit of flab here or there is not necessarily a bad thing. The baby above pulls it off pretty nicely huh?Here are some helpful flab fighting exercises.

Lower Abdominals

Sit-ups and crunches are the best way to target the lower abdominal muscles. When you do sit-ups, do them on an incline of less than 45 degrees. It really only takes a slight incline to increase the amount of work you are doing during one sit-up. This amount of work will increase exponentially as you increase the incline. Once you get comfortable doing several sets of 25 to 30 sit-ups and crunches, you can add weight to the workout. Hold a flat 5-pound iron weight and perform the sit-up. You will build muscle in the abdominal area and that will burn more fat.

Leg Lifts
Leg lifts are an excellent exercise for your stomach because lifting the legs requires the use of your abs. Leg lifts can be performed by suspending yourself on a leg lift bar and drawing the legs up and out in front of you. Do sets with your legs fully extended and knees locked, and then do leg lifts with your knees bent, drawing your thighs up and into your abdominal area.

Cross Chest Pulls
Another method of tightening your stomach and removing flab is to perform cross-chest pulls. This exercise is performed on a cable-weight machine. Set the weight to 10 pounds, grasp one handle and move your body perpendicular to the machine. Then move away from the machine until you are more than an arm's length away. With your arm outstretched, pull the cable down and across your body. This helps to tighten your lower abdominal muscles and obliques.

Cardio
Cardio exercise such as running, aerobics and sports will also help remove stomach flab. When you exercise, your body uses fat from all over the body, including the stomach. Our body uses the stomach as a fat reserve. So, even after doing your sit-ups and crunches, it will continue to store fat there. You may not be able to remove your stomach flab just by exercising your abs alone. Regular exercise will help reduce your stomach flab as well as flab in other areas of the body.
(ehow.com)