In spite of what most people tell you all the specific abdominal exercises that workout the abdominals directly are not the best way to flatten the stomach.
All they do is strengthen the ab muscles and just burn a small amount of calories during the exercises.
So if your goal is to have a rock hard six pack then the specific abdominal exercises are the last exercises you should be doing due to the fact that you’ll only see a six pack when you get to a low enough body fat percentage, usually around 10% body fat.
3 highly effective exercises to boost your metabolic rate so you can burn a lot of calories are:
1. Dumbbell Lunges.
Hold a dumbbell in each hand and stand with your hands next to your thighs, now lunge forward until your thigh (right or left, depends on which leg you move first) is parallel to the ground. Now step back again and move the other leg forward.
2. Barbell deadlifts
Hold a barbell overhand and the arms above the knees, now squat down just like if you’re going to sit down while keeping your back flat.
3. Dumbbell squat and presses
Start with dumbbells at the front of your shoulders and squat
down into a full squat position. When you reach the top of the squat position, press the dumbbells up over your head.
As you probably figured out all tree exercises are actually weight lifting exercises, this is because they burn a lot of calories from the whole body after the workouts because of the increased metabolic rate.
Your metabolic rate increases a lot because you workout more and larger muscles groups of your body with these exercises instead than just the small abdominal muscles, and that makes these workouts one of the fastest way to flatten stomach.
Keep doing these types of exercises at least 3 times a week and you should be seeing results already the first month.
