There are literally hundreds of exercises that you can perform to workout your abdominal muscles, but unfortunately, few, if any of these flat tummy exercises can help you flatten your belly and get rid of the fat around your stomach. The key idea many people ignore is that achieving a flatter tummy goes beyond simply performing exercises that target the mid section – you must learn to control your diet to create the proper conditions needed to burn off the tummy fat.

You can perform ab exercises all day long in hopes of getting a flat tummy, but you will only end up disappointed with the results. While the exercises will help workout and train your abdominal muscles, and help you burn some extra calories, you will still have excess fat around your belly if you do not have a good diet and nutrition program in place. To get rid of your belly fat and have a flatter tummy, you need to create a calorie deficit where you burn more calories than you consume; however, that’s beyond the scope of this article.

With that out of the way, we’ll list a few abdominal exercises below. However, as we already said above, these exercise can help you tone and strengthen your abdominals, but they may not necessarily help you get rid of the excess fat – this must be achieved with a combination of exercises, and good dieting.

Flatten Tummy Exercises

Vertical Bench Crunches (Hanging Reverse Crunch) – this exercise works out your entire abdominal muscle with emphasis on the lower abs.  If you perform this hanging on a chinup bar, simply get into the hanging position, and bring your knees up to your abdomen level, so your thighs are parallel to the floor. This is the starting position. From here, raise your knees up as high as possible – rolling yourself up into a ball. Then lower your knees back down to starting position.

Seated Twists – this tummy exercises works to tighten the obliques. Sitting flat on a chair, place a light bar such as a broom handle across the back of your shoulders and hold it. Sitting steady on the chair, turn your upper body one direction as far as you can go. Then turn the opposite direction as far as you can go. You should not perform this exercise with any additional resistance other than the light bar, since you do not want to add any bulk on your oblique muscles.

Again, keep in mind that performing abdominal exercises will not help you get a flatter tummy without proper diet and nutrition.