5 Ways To Get A Flat Stomach

Nutrition

Avoid eating consuming sugar wherever you can as this is one of the top culprits for putting on body fat…your enemy in reaching you flat stomach. This includes sweets, chocolate, fruit juices since they contain a lot of fructose and sugar in tea and coffee! Every time we consume sugary food or drink, it releases a hormone called insulin into the body. Insulin is a storage hormone and it tells the body to store fat whilst also preventing the burning of fat.

Cardio Exercise

Perform your cardio training, such as a light jog for 40 minutes, first thing in the morning before eating any breakfast as this is the perfect time for your body to start burning fat. After not eating for 7 hours (because you are sleeping) your muscle glycogen levels and your blood sugar levels are at their lowest so this means during your morning run, cycle or swim you start to use the fat on your body as a source of energy rather than the muscle glycogen it usually uses.

Water

The Institute of Medicine advises that men consume roughly 3.0 litres (about 13 cups) of liquids a day and women consume 2.2 litres (about 9 cups)…and no, that doesn’t include alcohol! This is extremely important for fat loss because if the body doesn’t have a sufficient supply of water, the kidneys cannot function efficiently. Your liver then takes the surplus workload meaning it can’t do its job of metabolising stored fat for energy properly resulting in less fat being burnt…and who wants that, right?

Weight training

If women weight train properly and correctly they will never have to perform a sit-up ever again, because the stomach is worked out enough during these exercises. But weight training can also increase your metabolism so you carry on burning calories long after you have stopped exercising.  This is unlike normal cardiovascular training, like jogging, which only burns calories for the time you are training which is a God-send for all us lazy people out there!