How can i tone up my stomach ?
472767
Do variations of ab workouts, not just crunches. Include a good work-out regime and suck in your stomach and stand tall.
838439
You could do 5000 situps in a day and not get the results you want.\n\nResearch has come out that if you want to tone up, do cardio. Try pilates. Run.
1036357
Sit ups, crunches, leg lifts and other ab excercises will help you tone the muscles in your stomach area but they won't help you lose very much weight. To lose weight you need to do Cardio. Swimming, running, cycling and cross crountry skiing are all great ways to shed some pounds. And remember you need to get your heart rate up above a certain level for a period of time (usually at least 20 minutes) for it to be effective. If you're serious about it you should join a gym and talk to a physical trainer, not only will you be in better shape but you'll feel better too.
104566
running really works the stomach, if you do a combination of crunches, situps, then try twisting your torso when you do a situp that works the obliques, and then lay on the floor and hold your feet a couple inches off the floor and raise them up and when you come down stop a couple inches before you touch the floor that will really work the lower abs
633915
Sit-ups will help your muscle tone, but only if you do them right. Most people don't and they end up using thier back muscles instead of their abs. Can you feel the burning in your abs? If so you're probably doing them right. However, muscle tone can't become visible until the layer of fat over the muscles is thinned. If you have a pot belly, you'll probably need to try an over all fatk-busting program to bring tone to your abdominal muscles. Try doing cardio. You don't necessarily need to change your diet, but doing cardio will boost your metabolism and breakdown your fat storages. You'll get results a hundred times faster this way than by doing sit ups alone. \nIf you don't want to do cardio, at least vary your ab exercises. Get one of those videos, you can get them from the library, or do side situps and leg lifts to tone more than one muscle in your abs. \n\nI hope this helps!
753418
No. Try exercise and lay off the fatty foods; sit-ups, crunches, walking, running, stretching, cardio exercise, resistance exercise...all are great for flattening your abdomen. There are tons of evercise programs on line and places for women, who have the same problem as you, to work out at all over the place.\n\nGood luck.
1042881
Press ups and abdominal crunches are effective exercises that you can to at home without equipment and without taking up a lot of your time. They will tone your body and strengthen your core muscles which will reduce your paunch.\nHowever, if you have excess fat as well you will need to exercise for longer or more intensively to lose it, or reduce your calorific intake.
145309
You can't spot reduce, so no, you won't be able to target just the fat stored in your stomache area.  You can do crunches (all types) to tone up your abs.  If you do variations of crunches and work on your upper body, that should be good.
504540
Your problem is that you have excess bodyfat that you need to get rid of.  Abdominal exercises like crunches and leg raises will NOT eliminate excess bodyfat, but will only firm up the muscle underneath your excess bodyfat in the abdomen. \n\nWhat you need to do is to focus on cardiovascular training (running, jogging, biking, swimming, etc) combined with a healthy diet so that you are burning more calories a day than you are taking in, and as a result you'll start decreasing your excess bodyfat.  It also helps if you have the time to do weight training since this will help to eventually increase your body's overall metabolic rate, since muscle has a higher metabolic rate than fat.
452582
Well, you must have a couple of minutes when you wake up in the morning, rite? Do some sit-ups to exercise your stomach muscle. Do it gradually, beginning with only 10 sit ups, then add it everyday.\n\ntry to walk as much as you can...Don't use the elevator/escalator too often if you work/live in a building.And on weekend, spend some time in the morning to walk, jog or bike.\n\nGood Luck!
695674
stomach push ups.. \nsit ups\ncrunches\navoid oily food\navoid fast or junk food\neat boiled or mashed vegetables..
528276
You don't need a machine or other exercise equipment to strengthen your stomach and sides.  There is a series of exercises that you can do that will help you with your core muscle group.\n\n1. Sit ups - Make sure you don't pull on your neck and that your back is flat on the floor.\n2. Knee lifts with stomach crunch - Lift the knees slightly and bring them in as you do your crunch.\n3. Hip lifts - Legs straight up in the air.  Hands to the waist side with palms of the hands facing up.  Lift using the lower abs.  Make sure the lifts are deliberate.  Do not rush through them.  Again make sure back is flat.\n4. Oblique crunches - You should feel your ribs pressing pinching into your side. Try not to fold forward, but rather bend up trying to get your elbow to touch your feet.\n5. Side Plank Dips - Keep your body in a straight line (one plane) and keep the movement smooth and slow. Your hips should just touch (but not rest on!) the ground. \n6.  Oblique Leg Extensions - This not only works your obliques, but should also engage your piriformis & hip flexor as well. Don't let your leg touch the ground, and when the leg is fully extended your butt should be tightly squeezed rotating your leg out ever so slightly (this is the piriformis part). \n7. Supermans - Each side counts as 1/2 of a rep. Your stomach muscles should be engaged when you lift up. Think about your arm and leg not only being pulled up, but also out. Hold it at the top for 2 seconds. \n8. Bridged Leg Lifts - Each leg counts as 1/2 of a rep. Keep your butt down. You don't need to lift your legs super high.\n9. Pushups - Keep your head raised and looking forward, and your body in a perfect horizontal plane. Your elbows should bend back, not out to the side. \nRepeat steps 4, 5, and 6, but do the other side.\n10. Heel Touches - Each heel touch counts as 1/2 of a rep. Keep your shoulder blades off the ground, remember to breathe, and make sure your feet are far enough away from you that you have to really reach to touch the heel.\n\nThis sounds like a lot.  But you will notice a difference by doing them twice a week.  And don't do too many reps at first.  I would say 15 to 20.  Once you get stronger move up to 30(3 sets of 10).
401072
One way of making ur tummy flater is controled sit ups that are SLOW and Steady.Dont go fast,as its quality and not quantity that gets ur tum looking trim.Also,bread and pasta can bloat the tum so if u have a nite out planned try to eat protein and not so many carbs the day b4 the night out. For a permanant trim tummy u cant beat pilates,honest,it lengthens the tummy muscles and strengthens from deep below and not just the top of the muscle.Good luck and remember,curves are the way to go,look at posh spice,she looks hidious!!xx
623774
In addition to crunches, if you have fat in your midsection, you'll also need to burn some additional calories if you want your toned abs to show.  Good workouts for this are walking or running or anything aerobic.  Also do ab exercises like crunches, leg lifts, bicycles, reverse curls, etc to work those ab muscles.
264826
Cardio exercises burn the most fat and will probably put the least amount of stress on you stomach. Try what feels the most comfortable to you. You could try walking, jogging, or biking.
276786
Modified crunches work. Lie on the floor with your knees bent (I turn my feet outward, too. It puts more stress on your stomach muscles). With your hands behind your ears or crossed over your chest like an X, raise your upper body, head parallel to the ceiling. Return to floor. Do these at a rhythmic pace (about 1/2 second hold when raised). Do 3 sets of 20 each morning and each night (about 3 minutes of your time). Gradually increase your sets until you can do 100 + your age.\nWalking is also good for your stomach muscles. Start out with a casual stroll and increase your pace to a comfortable brisk, with arms bent and moving in sync with your steps. Hope this helps.
198454
To tone up you need to do aroebics and watch what you eat, and if you want to get a round booty, do lots of squats and lunges.  Crunches and stomach workouts really don't do much if you have a layer of fat on top.  If you decide to start running (which is really good for losing the fat, but bad on your joints) also do a yoga workout two or three times a week, or something along those lines.