If you want to shed excess pounds and get better-looking abs you are going to need to perform fat burning exercises regularly.

As you strengthen and tone your core muscles in your abdomen, you will not only improve the tonality of your ab muscles, but you will increase your body’s fat burning efficiency over time.

You will need to remain patient, dedicated, and committed to an exercise regimen: doing so will help you eventually see the fruit of your labors.

Fat burning exercises will help you build strong, fat burning muscles, increase your metabolic rate, and to shed pounds with greater ease as time passes. Here are three fat burning exercises that can get you on the road to your goal of having great looking abs and a better overall physique.

3 Fat Burning Exercises

Planks

If you want flat abs you need to tone the transverses abdominis muscles; these muscles are positioned in the core of your abdomen and are responsible for compressing the ab muscles during movement.

It is positioned below your external oblique ab muscles and is the flattest ab muscle in your abdominal core. You can perform “bent-elbow” plank exercises to tighten the transverses abdominis muscles. To perform these fat burning exercises, follow these guidelines:

1. Lay down on the floor face down. Position yourself into a “push up position” with your toes and elbows, and hands touching the floor. Your hands should be perpendicular to your elbows. Keep your elbows aligned with your shoulders.
2. Keep your ab muscles tight, your head perpendicular with the floor, and your spine perfectly straight.
3. Maintain the position for a period of five seconds. Stop, rest, and then repeat the exercise. You will want to eventually hold the position for up to ninety seconds for each plank you perform, but you will need to gradually work your way up to the level of strength you will require to do so.
4. Do a set of ten to twenty planks daily. Do not push yourself too hard however; only do as many as you are comfortable doing.

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Cycling

Bicycling is a fun exercise that can help you improve the strength of your rectus abdominis muscles. These muscles are paired; are in the front of your abdomen; are positioned side by side and vertically run the length of your solar plexus to your groin area.

The rectus abs are separated by the linea alba: a band of connective tissues. The rectus abs are the muscles that actually define the outline of your “six pack.” You will also be toning your obliques as you exercise on a bike or you perform cycling exercises.

You can either cycle on a bicycle outdoors, use an indoor cycle, or you can do a cycling exercise in the absence of a bike. To cycle exercise without a bike, perform the following:

1. Lay down flat on the floor. You will then need to bend your knees, hips, and back at a 90-degree angle.
2. Curl your chest so that it is positioned over your ribs and put your hands behind your head for support.
3. Extend your right leg straight out while bringing your left knee inward, toward your abdominal core and chest; as you do so, rotate your right shoulder and angle it toward your left knee.
4. Do not allow your arm to cross in front of your face: this will cause bodily strain.
5. Keep your position as your rotate your body from your trunk, pull your left leg inward and extend your right leg outward; perform this exercise slowly and remain in control of your movements.
6. Refrain from shifting weight to your hips.
7. Repeat this exercise as long as you are comfortable doing so. Twenty to thirty reps will suffice for a beginner.
8. After six week’s time you will see a considerable difference in the tone of your abs and your abdominal strength.
9. As you advance with this exercise, you can use dumbbells to add additional resistance; the dumbbell can be held behind the head between your hands.

Oblique V-Up Exercises

Performing V-Up exercises naturally tones the oblique muscles; these are the external muscles of your abdomen.

These are the muscles responsible for torso rotation and they run along the sides of the abdominal region. To perform oblique V-up exercises, do the following:

1. Position yourself on your left or right side. Extend your legs straight and cross your arms at your chest.
2. Raise both of your legs off of the floor as high as you can while keeping them together; do not force yourself beyond what you are capable of doing. You will feel a contraction or tightening of the obliques immediately. Hold the position for three to five seconds, and then allow your legs to slowly return to their original position.
3. Repeat for a series of ten. Then, turn over to the opposite side and do another set of ten oblique V-ups

And always remember that if you really want to feel the benefits of fat burning exercises that you need to combine them with a health diet. It crap and you you will probably always look like crap. Know what I mean?

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