How to Reduce Your Belly Fat with Ab Workouts

Reduce belly fat with ab workouts but be sure to also pay attention to nutrition and cardio as well.  

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You cannot depend on the regular workouts that you may be performing regularly.  Ab workouts are considered among one of the most complicated things that you can do while working out.

One thing that you need to remember while exercising is that hard work and determination always pays back. This can be thought about in almost every aspect of life.

Have you thought about the right way that will help you reduce that fat pouch that you carry around your belly?  You can reduce it with ab workouts.

How To Reduce Belly Fat

Ab workouts along with good nutrition and cardio can actually helping you reduce belly fat? Let us talk about a method that will help you adapt to a few exercises that are effective and can easily fit into your daily workout routine.

These include a few ab workouts along with the regular cardio that you may be doing.

You will need to first jot down the daily planner and decide the activities that you will perform on that day.

A rough schedule that can be followed for the same is as follows:

Monday: Abs and Cardio

Tuesday: Cardio

Wednesday: Rest

Thursday: Abs and Cardio

Friday: Rest

Saturday: Abs and Cardio

Sunday: Rest

If you take a closer look at the schedule, you will realize that it is just 3 days in a week that you will actually need to work out with abs.  This has to be done with cardio on the same day.

There are two days allotted for cardio and two days complete rest. You can design a similar plan by keeping these things in mind.

Let us now move on to the exercises that you will need to perform.

The Hipless Crunch

If you wish to make this easier, you can rest the calves on a chair and extend the arms along the sides.

Concentrate on your abs and make sure that your chin does not touch your chest.

Stop it when you feel that you cannot lift your head, neck or shoulder any longer.

If you want to increase the intensity of the workout, you can try extending the legs straight up.

This is a variation of the commonly done crunches. All you need to do is perform it without the support of the upper body and the lower body.

You will need to first lay down on your back. Raise your legs from the hips and bend them downwards with your calf parallel to the ground and feet relaxed. Band your stomach and pull the upper back, head at about 30 degrees off the ground.

Place your arms crossed on the chest and your hands on the shoulders.

Repeat this for 3 sets of 25 reps.

Reverse Crunch Without Hands

You can ease this workout by placing your hands on the sides or increase the difficulty by straightening the legs when they are lifted.

Focus on contracting the abs and not the back or the legs. Continue doing it until you cannot lift your legs without a jerk and your head and shoulder become tense.

Hands at the sides are of great support while we are performing crunches. Let us make this a little tougher. Lie on your back and extend your hands upwards. Hold something strong or heavy up there. Lift your legs as much as you can.

Keep them there for a while and then lower them slowly.

This can be safely repeated for 3 sets of 21 reps.

The Side Plank

If you wish to make this exercise easier, you can bend the legs a little and touch the bottom knee and the side of the lower leg to the ground.

To increase the difficulty level, you can simply straighten your left arm into the air.

Stop when you’re back, shoulder or neck hurts and when you cannot keep your body straight.

An important thing that we need to think about while shaping the abs is that they should be cut off from all sides.

Thus, side planks are important.

Lie on your right side, with the elbow on the ground and in line with the shoulder.  Stack your legs and place your left hand over your hips.

Slowly lift your body so that it forms a diagonal line that is balanced on just two points; the feet and the elbow.

You can hold this position for 30 seconds per side, 3 sets.   

V Crunch

If you want to make it simpler, you can think of holding the sides of the thighs or even increase the intensity by carrying dumbbells of 3 to 5 pounds while exercising.

You can stop this exercise if you feel you cannot lift your chest any more of your back starts paining.

This is a crunch that can be done by simply balancing completely on the tail bone and the hands running sideways and the legs lifted up.

You will also need to lift your upper body.

You can perform about 3 sets of 10 reps.


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These are the four main kinds of crunches that you can perform to make sure that the workout is effective.

The cardio that is mentioned can be of your choice such as walking, running, rowing, stepmill/stairmaster, calisthenics, etc.  Basically anything that will elevate your heart rate for a sustained period of time.

Focusing on your nutrition, cardio and ab exercises will surely help you shed that extra fat off your belly and body over time.  Reminder:  you can not spot reduce fat but by reducing overall body fat eventually the belly fat will shrink.

One thing that you need to remember while performing all of these crunches is to breathe.

That means you need to inhale when you lift and exhale when you lower. This is in fact a proven method that has helped many people to get rid of this unwanted fat through oxidation.

You can try it too.

Just remember, you need to be consistent and patient with this program to see results.

What’s your favorite form of crunches to perform?

 

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18 Replies to "How to Reduce Your Belly Fat with Ab Workouts"

  • comment-avatar
    Deborah
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    August 29, 2014 (8:34 am)

    Those are some of my go to’s. Love the v crunch and the side plank
    o

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      Diatta
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      August 29, 2014 (10:30 am)

      I enjoy working abs.

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    Amber
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    August 29, 2014 (9:22 am)

    I ALWAYS FORGET TO BREATHE WHEN DOING TOUGH CRUNCHES haha it’s like “whooops that’s not effective if I’m not breathing”
    o

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    Heather
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    August 29, 2014 (10:55 am)

    These are some of my fave ab exercises. I especially love side planks. They are so good for multiple parts of the body
    o

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    Katie
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    August 29, 2014 (1:20 pm)

    Great suggestions. The tummy area on me is always an issue. I’ll have to toss some of these in there to help strengthen my core.
    o

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      Diatta
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      August 29, 2014 (3:44 pm)

      And are made in the kitchen.

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    Sandra Laflamme
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    August 29, 2014 (1:36 pm)

    I love this post as I am always looking for better ways to strengthen my abs. The core is so important!!!
    o

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    Amber
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    August 29, 2014 (11:48 pm)

    Thanks for the tips! I do really LOVE the V crunch! I will have to incorporate some of the moves into my training.
    o

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    Brittany August 29, 2014 (11:50 pm)

    Ohhh yes, I needed this post!
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    jill conyers
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    August 30, 2014 (4:32 am)

    I was so surprised how different ab work feels with breathing correctly.
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    steph
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    August 30, 2014 (10:46 am)

    Aaahhhh the dreaded v-crunch!!!!
    o

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    Elle
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    March 7, 2015 (4:02 pm)

    I have a question… do you have to do cardio and abs on the same day? I typically like to do abs with my strength workouts and not on cardio days which is exactly the opposite.
    o

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      Diatta
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      March 7, 2015 (4:04 pm)

      Hi Elle. My coach advises doing ab work and cardio on the same day to burn the fat while you are building up the muscle with an exercises.

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    Sue
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    March 10, 2015 (7:32 am)

    Side plank is one of my favorite exercises and the one that I see the best results with!
    o

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    christine
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    March 17, 2016 (6:49 am)

    It is such a problem area for many women. Thanks for you for sharing!

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      Diatta
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      March 17, 2016 (7:33 am)

      It is but a large part is due to what we eat.

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    Dee January 2, 2018 (11:51 pm)

    These are the best workouts for abs especially lower. I have these harnesses that go under my arms that allow be to hang from a pull-up bar and I bring my knees to my chest with a dumbell in between my knees. Killer! Good post! Here’s what I would recommend in conjunction of your ab exercises: