The secret to reducing fat in your stomach isn't about how many exercises you do it's about how much cardio activity you add to your workout. In fact, it's physiologically impossible to spot-reduce weight. Adding cardio activity by increasing your workout intensity will help you to reduce fat, while ab exercises will help you turn that fat into muscle.
Scissors Pull-Back
This exercise will work your obliques and your frontal abdominal muscles to help you build more muscle and burn more fat. Sit on the floor with legs stretched in front of you. Tightening your abdominal muscles, lean backward and lift your feet off the floor so your body makes a V shape. Stretch your left leg out from your body, rotating your upper body to the right and tapping your right elbow to the mat. Use your core and abdominal muscles throughout the move. Return to the starting position. Switch sides and repeat, performing as many as you can until you are out of breath.
The Matrix
Use a five to 10-pound medicine ball (small weighted ball) to help you reduce fat and burn calories. Kneel on the floor with your knees hip-width apart. Press the medicine ball into your stomach and stretch your spine so you are sitting straight. Tighten your stomach muscles and lean back as far as possible while keeping your knees on the floor. Hold this position, using your stomach muscles to keep you balanced. Exhale and use your stomach muscles to pull your body up to the starting position.
Bent Knee Sit Ups
Sit ups are used in almost every form of training to help you reduce fat. Sit ups not only burn calories by elevating your heart rate, they also tone and strengthen your abdominal muscles for a flat stomach. Lie face-up on the floor with your feet flat on the floor and your knees bent. Put your hands behind your head with your elbows near your ears. Flex your stomach muscles and curl yourself up off the floor, lifting your head, then shoulders, then upper back, until you have lifted as far as you can without straining. Pause, inhale and slowly curl back to the floor. To increase your workout with this exercise, use a stop-watch to time yourself performing as many sit ups as you can in one minute.
Samba
This Brazilian dance uses hip movements and pelvic crunches to work your abdominals. The motions provide a good cardio workout to help you burn more calories and reduce your stomach fat. Stand with your feet about hip-width apart and your arms hanging loosely at your sides. Step with your right foot out to the side while tilting your pelvis up, crunching your stomach muscles. Drag your left foot across your body to your right foot then step with your right foot out to the side again. Repeat four times, then switch and move four times to the left.
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