1. Eat Your Way to a Flat Belly
The key to losing excess belly fat is eating the right kind of healthy fat- monounsaturated fats or MUFAs. These good fats can not only help fight chronic diseases like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease, but they also help burn the excess fat on your tummy. The five major sources of these fats are olives, avocados, nuts and seeds, oils and believe it or not, chocolate. The key to losing belly fat with these foods is to eat them in place of other bad fats, not in addition. Eating one serving of one of these foods at each meal helps burn belly fat and reduce overall caloric intake.
2. Sweat Off the Belly
Everyone knows that you need regular cardio to burn calories and fat. While cardio exercise does not target the burn in one specific area, some exercises can work the belly more than others. Try exercises that twist, pull and rotate the torso like kickboxing, cross-country skiing, swimming or tennis.
3. Lose Belly Fat Sitting in a Chair
Do the Captain's Chair to target belly fat. Sit up straight in a hard armless chair. Firmly grab onto the seat of the chair right in front of your hips. Support your weight with your hands and bring your knees slowly toward your chest. Hold your knees in the air and count to ten before releasing your feet to the floor. Keep your back straight and pressed to the back of the chair the entire time. Repeat this several times a day. Make this workout even more challenging by holding your arms straight out to the sides instead of holding on to the chair.
4. Get Great Abs While Laying Down
Lie on your belly on the floor. Extend your legs straight out behind you, close together but not touching. Bend your arms and place your hands, palms down, under your chin. Keeping your feet firmly on the floor, lift your chin and chest between three and five inches off the floor. Hold the position and count to ten before slowly releasing and returning back to the floor. Repeat several times.
5. Get a Fit Belly With a Bicycle
Do the bicycle exercise to target belly fat. Lie on your back with your hands clasped back behind your head. Bend your knees, and lift your feet several inches off the floor. Then lift your shoulders slightly off the floor. Twist your torso, and bring your left elbow to your right knee, and then your right elbow to your left knee. Be very careful not to pull on your head with your hands since this could result in neck injury. Do several elbow to knee touches, and then relax by putting your shoulders and feet on the floor. Repeat several times.
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