How do I work  my stomach muscle w/o doing sit ups and crunches?
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Do pilates!!! It is fun, difficult at first but come easier with time.  Pilates is all aobut core strength and toning.  GREAT for your abs! I love it!\n\nI got the pilates for dummies DVD.. it's great...not complicated at all. hahah..\n\nhttp://www.pilates.com/\n\n^for more info!  Good luck!
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You are in luck. The best exercises for abdominals don't require machines.  \n\nTry doing regular abdominal crunches..lay down and bend your knees up until your feet are flat against the floor..cross your arms, raise your torso and hold each repetition for a second or two.  Then, lower. Repeat.  Do about 15-20 reps. If this gets too easy for you I would try adding a weight plate across your chest.\n\nThere are other exercises too.  For obliques (sides of around your abs), be in the same position as if you were in a crunch.  Get a dumbell plate or ball.  Hold out in front with your arms fully extended. Lean your torso up a bit and twist from side to side. This is one rep. Do 15-20 reps. \n\nFor lower abs, I would try doing pelvic tilt.  Be in same position as crunch.  Except now, raise your lower body towards your chest.  Lower back. Repeat. Do 15-20 repetitions.\n\nThese exercises are suggestions for toning your stomach.  It should work your abs and stomach. In fact, I do them myself.\n\nHowever, in order to get a flat stomach...you need to do cardio.  Do biking, running, jogging, or even brisk walking 45 minutes 5-6 times a week to get rid of belly fat.  \n\nGood luck.
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well what exactly have you tried? i would try crunches or sit ups, but crunches work effectivly. when you do them make sure it hurts because that means its working baby!! and while you do crunches flex your stomach.. remember this.. no pain no gain!\ngood luck!
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You can get a flat stomach by reducing fat by doing aerobic exercise and by changing your diet. Crunches and other ab exercises will only tone your stomach muscles, but they can't be seen if they are under a layer of fat.
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First and foremost, stay away from any ab machine as they are simply a waste of money and barely effective.\n\nI just love when people talk about doing 100s of crunches.  Waste of time and waste of energy.  The abdominal muscles work just like any other muscle and have to be challenged as such.  First of all, high-repetition crunches will work nothing more than your endurance.  If you want muscular abdominals, you have to challenge them with resistance and good form just like you would your chest, your back or any other muscle for that matter.  Targeting the correct energy system is imperative.  This means you should never enter into the aerobic phase of this exercise, ideally keeping it under 2 minutes at most.  \n\nThink of rolling a carpet and contracting fully on the top of the movement and squeeze.  If you do them correctly, you shouldn't be able to do more than 30 crunches.  Any more than that, and you're probably doing them half-azz, incorrectly or with a partial range of motion.\n\nFor the upper abs, focus on crunches which effectively work the abdominals better than sit-ups or any machine on the market.\n\nFor the lower abs, keep in mind there is very little muscle tissue there so decreasing levels of body fat is the most effective way to bring out the best in this area. Hanging leg raises, v-situps and reverse curls are among some of the best exercise for this region. Always make sure your pelvis curls up to maximize lower abdominal contraction during these exercises.\n\nAs far as fat loss and getting cut goes, cardio, cardio, cardio. In the morning, on an empty stomach at about 70-80% of your maximum heart rate for about 30-45 minutes. This combined with a common sense diet will quickly shed body fat so you can actually see those abs you've developed. \n\nI would encourage you to seek the advice and guidance of a personal trainer in your area for further education on these principles. Please ensure you start off at a very basic level for crunches and cardio if you are a beginner.\n\nHere's a good list of ab exercises:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises_abdominals.html
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you have to excercise your abs. do some crunches.
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Cardio.  Even if you do a thousand crunches a day, if you dont do any cardio, you'll never see those abs.  While youre doing cardio, make sure you have a healthy diet.\n\nAs for the ab work. Try getting an exercise ball.  Doing crunches on the ball and push ups on the ball is GREAT for your abs.  Pilates is also really good for your abs and obliques.  Make sure youre exercising your obliques as well.
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Most think doing crunches or sit-ups will do the job. But we are what we eat.. Think about that. I don't even know you but I am sure you need to look at your diet. I'm not bagging you, just it's the diet that's most important. Then exercise. Good luck !!!
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I find that a mix of exercises is best, you've got a lot of ab muscles and should try to work the majority of them to get an even muscle spread.\n\nI usually tend to do cycling crunches, where you lift your left elbow and right leg and vice versa.  Followed by a set of twisting crunches, a set of normal crunches, a set of double leg raises and finish with some lying bridges and back raises.\n\nSit ups tend to work your hip extensors more than the abs, ab crunches can do the job.  Beware though; over working your abs can do more harm than good, working them every other day is more than enough.\n\nBut you could also leave the crunches and get swimming :)
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if you already have a cardio routine keep doing that and maybe step it up a level and i hear that reverse crunches work pretty well.(those are the kind where you pull your knees into your chest)
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Situps/abdominal crunches are definately the key to tightening your stomach, you can also try leg raises where you lie flat on the floor are lift your legs slowly about 1 metre high.\n\nFor your arms try lifting some weights, light ones like a can of dog food if you havent done it before. Do this as many times as you can but slowly, that should help.
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it sounds strange, but for real, try this exercise. Lay on your back, arms out to the sides. Bend your knees up and with your feet together, make figure eights in the air. Do as many as you can every day.  It tightens your stomach muscles.
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I'd say abdominal exercises but not sit-ups, as they might be harmful for ur lower back (depends on how fit u r overall, though). \n\nTry crunches and do them every day: \n\nhttp://www.fitstep.com/Library/Exercises/Crunches.htm\n\nHere's a fairly good website w photos and explanations:\n\nhttp://www.sixpacknow.com/abdominal_exercises.html \n\nAlso depending on how much of this abdominal fat is on the outside (because abdominal fat can be both inside the abdominal cavity, below the muscles, and outside, below the skin layer), u can get massage and some anti-cellulite cream to help this outer layer of fat go away.
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This worked for me in 1 month. Do this every night, and soon youll have abs of steel.\n\n100 sit ups (full sit ups not crunches) it sounds bad, but really its not. Start out with 10 sets of ten, move up to five sets of 20, and pretty soon youll be doing 100, no problem. \n\n25 throw-downs lie on you back, and have a partner stand with one foot on either side of your head (you can grab their ankles) then bring you legs up to a 90 degree angle, holding them straight. Your partner will then push you legs back down to the ground. RESIST and try to keep your legs from hitting the ground. Bring your legs back up to the 90 degree angle after evry throw. This one hurts, but its good.\n\n25 arch-ups. Lie on your stomach, and clasp you hands behind your head. Then lift your head and torso off the ground, keeping your feet and legs on the ground. \n\n25 tuck ups. Hand on to a pull-up bar, or something similar. Then bring your knees up to your chest in tuck position. \n\nKeep in mind that all of these should be done in sets at the beginning, then work up.
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do crunches and side crunches. That will work your stomach and your love handles.
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Crunches are the way to go.  The most effective crunches to do are the bicycle kind.  Where your elbow meets the opposite knee.  And for your lower abs put your feet and booty up in the air and reach for them while doing your crunches.  Also while your feet are up in the air you can push them toward the ceiling.  Just remember slow and controlled.  That is key in any crunch you do.
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depends what you want to work out: crunches work out your abdominal muscles, while walking just stretches your leg muscles