I am sure that the only way you know about working out your abdominal section is by using the traditional exercises to flatten stomach like crunches and sit ups. Yes, crunches and sit ups do target the mid section, BUT NOT as effective as you think. They may sound and appeal as the best way to get slimmer around the waist, but they're not. The truth is that your stomach serves as a supporting muscle to other muscle groups in your body. Therefore, by working out other parts of your body you're still targeting your waist area where crunches and sit ups won't.

Mark Pfeltz set the Guinness Book of World Records by doing 45,005 sit-ups in just 59 hours.

It took Mark six hours of abdominal training per day for six long moths, to strengthen his abs, and lower back to the point that he could do 1000's of sit-ups without stopping.

And the funny thing is that he didn't even have a six pack. Check out the picture.

You can clearly see in the picture, that even thought Mark can rep up out sit-up after sit-up, he still had rolls of belly fat. Even after 6 months of training his abs 6 hours per day, every single day!

If that’s not proof sit-ups don’t burn belly fat, I really don’t know what is.

In order to get the best results focus on a intensive but short full body work out, rather than just on the abdominal section. Here's three stomach flattening exercises that target the mid section while working on other muscle groups.

Renegade dumbbells:
Start in a push up position with your hands on 2 dumbbells. Next pull one of the dumbbells up and stabilize your body with the other arm. Bring it back (dumbbell) to
the ground and do the same thing with the other arm. 3 - 4 sets of 8 reps, is all you need. When stabilizing the body during the rows you're creating incredible work for your entire midsection core area.




Front squat with barbell:
This stomach flattening exercise is very similar to regular squats something you're probably very familiar with. The only difference is that you will have a barbell in front of you on the front of your shoulders. You might need a little bit of help and practice with this exercise. Bring the barbell to your shoulders, cross your arms and push your fists into the bar while keeping your elbows out. And squat 3 - 4 sets of 8 reps. This exercise is mostly for legs, but it does target the abs, because of the weight of barbell being shifted to the front of your body.




Mountain climbers:
This stomach flattening exercise resembles climbing a mountain. Start in a push up position, than start shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are under your chest and than back out to the push up position. If you want to take it up a notch than you can shuffle your hands a few inches forward and backward in addition to leg movements.

After each exercise, rest for about half a minute before moving on to the next exercise. Take a break 1 - 2 minutes after finishing each tri-set before repeating.