QUESTION: MARK, WHAT EXERCISES CAN I DO TO FLATTEN MY TUMMY?
ANSWER:
Unfortunately there aren’t any. It isn’t that easy. Your tummy isn’t flat because you’re carrying too much body fat. And you cannot “spot reduce” fat in one particular area with certain exercises.
So what do you need to do? You must reduce your overall body fat percentage and the fat on your belly will go.
This is primarily going to be an issue of diet, not exercise. If you want a six-pack, bear in mind that as a man you’ll need to reduce your overall body fat percentage to below 10% so that your belly fat will be sufficiently low enough to see your abs.
As a woman, you’ll need to get under 17% body to see your abs.
For more on this, I highly recommend you check out my post ‘Want to lose belly fat? Skip the cardio and lift weights instead‘.
And if you need an actual program to show you exactly how to get the diet and training right, see my Total Six Pack Abs system here with plenty of before and after pics.
Bottom line: There simply aren’t any exercises that can flatten your tummy. You must get ‘overall lean’.
Mark McManus
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Great info & reminders Mark.
Can I submit a question that I’m sure a lot of your aesthetics focused readers would care to read your answer ?
My upper body is quite traps-dominant which gives a bizzare impression. How can I focus on creating square shoulders to compensate this ? I’ve already stopped all shrug movements.
All ideas are welcome from all musclehackers !
@Space. Sure thing buddy. I’ll put that in that works my friend 🙂