is there any other good stomach exercise besides set ups?

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Please read the recommendations below. Also, go to the book store and locate the book "Weight Training for Dummies". In chapter 15 you will find excellent information on how to perform abdominal exercises correctly. Page 218 of the book dispels all the myths surrounding abdominal training.

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*1) Burn more calories then you're consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity minus the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF). A website that explains this formula in more detail and will help you determine how many calories you need to reach or maintain a certain weight is at http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/weight/calsburned.htm

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MILITARY CRUNCHES they BUUUUURN like no other. those are good and will DEFINITELY GIVE YOU ABS

hmmmm, leg raises work really well. Lay on your back, hands underneath your tail bone. Start with your legs 6" from the ground and raise to 90 deg.
Also, try twisting situps, crunches, hanging leg raises (require a bar) and weighted leg raises.

yes, bellydancing or rather hula hoops! ;)

After my personal trainer told me that sit ups don't burn fat, I haven't done one since!!! I know sit ups strengthen your core and tone muscle, which is great. But to burn the fat, if that's your concern, you have to do aerobic exercise. I think I should get off my butt now. Bye.

Crunches and sit ups help a bit to tone the ab muscle. If you do it daily, it will harm your back rather than getting the ab muscle.

You can see howmany machines are churning out of the fitness industry for toning the so-called ab muscles. Have you pondered for a while, if anything could have given any significant result what for these machines are coming out.

The result, none of these machines really work for your abs. When you think about your ab muscles, you have to think of the full body work out. The simple reason, the fat what you can find on the stomach is nothing but the total fat on the body accumulated in a inert place. So, you need a total body approach to reduce even the fat a hips, and abs too. This is the scientific fact.

The crunches alone will not do any good, on the other hand it will hurt your back.

So, please understand the physiology, Anatomy and kinesiology and do the work out.

You can undergo for a well structured resistance training with a wise combination of cardios and stretches. You will get the desired result. And you will feel healthy too.

If you do like to know more about this, kindly feel free to mail me.

Have a nice day.

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