How to Get a Tone Sexy Stomach

The sexy stomach muscles of a six pack, better health, fitting into smaller size clothing, sliming your stomach to accentuate your curves, better body function, and a stronger core are many reasons to want a nice slim toned stomach. No matter what your reasons are the fact is that your abs are the center of your body and have a great deal to do with everything.

When toning the whole stomach area you want to make sure to work on all sections of the tummy. The rectus abdominus (six pack area) is one muscle in which you can target different sections by adjusting your position for abdominal exercise, however this isn't really necessary. The obliques are the side muscles of the stomach and can be targeted with the right exercises.

Any good stomach toning routine will be completely moot if you don't watch what you eat and get a good amount of aerobic exercises. You need to consume less calories, more fiber and water, and get at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercises at least 3 times a week. Your abs are very special muscles and should be worked more often with less rest than all the other muscles in the body. Your ab routine should be its own routine and not mixed into the rest of your exercises. I recommend you save your ab routine as the last part of your resistance workout and be done before any aerobic routine.

A simple crunch performed with strict form is a great exercise that will yield great results. This crunch, though familiar, has a few different adjustments that will super charge this exercise.

Here are the adjustments to the simple crunch:

Crunch at a slower pace make sure to squeeze the abs the whole time.

When you get to the top of the movement pause there for a slow count of 3.

When returning down make sure not to touch the ground with your back.

For the obliques, perform a crunch but bring your opposite knee towards the opposite elbow. They don't have to touch. Just move enough to get a good contraction from the abs. Don't touch the ground on the way down.

There are many exercises you can do but these ones are familiar for everyone and effective.

Like I mentioned before your abs are a very special muscle and adapt and recover much faster than the average muscle and because of this you want to make sure that you add 2 reps to every stomach toning workout each time. In no time you will be doing more reps then you ever thought possible.

You could get to the point where you are doing thousands of reps. This many reps are not necessary for stomach toning. For maintenance you can stop at 100 quality reps unless you want to keep pushing yourself to see how many you can do.