It’s quite hard for you to get out of your comfort zone and do a few workouts to burn abdominal fat, but you realize it’s essential when you wear a tight dress and your belly bulges out like it gives no damn about your dress code. But here’s the good news; we’ve got you covered.
In this article, you’ll get to see a few workouts that don’t require you to get to the gym, or to declare a day off just because you wanna burn calories. (that actually doesn’t work at all). All you need here is to spare a few minutes and perform these workouts just before you take a cold shower and get to work.
1. Running/ walking.
You don’t have to run an ultra marathon like David Goggins or a couple of miles down the road. Jog around your neighborhood or walk a little faster than you’re comfortable with.
This will help you warm your body up and energize you for the next exercises. Without a warm up like this one, you’ll start off feeling lazy (if you even start).
2. Jumping jacks. (30 seconds)
Stand straight and spread your arms apart, then jump to spread your feet apart as your hands meet, and also as your legs meet and your arms spread again, for 30 seconds. This exercise also warms you up, but also stretches your arms, abdominal muscles and legs.
This is the alternative to walking or jogging, especially if you’re new to workouts and jogging freaks you out. Also, you might have woken up quite early and don’t trust your neighborhood. It’s better though, when you do it after the walk.
3. Abdominal crunches (x20)
Lie on your back with your legs hinged and both hands behind your head, then raise your chest towards your knees. This exercise strengthens your abdominal muscles and burns all the fat, because the you draw strength from your abdomen, to raise your chest to the knees.
4. Toe reach (x15)
Lie on your back and raise both your legs, then stretch out your hands and raise a bit till you can touch your toes. This exercise draws strength from the abdomen too and burns fat.
5. Bridge (15)
Lie on your back with your arms on the ground and legs hinged, then raise you abdomen and chest till they align with your thighs. This exercise helps stretch your abdominal muscles and burn more fat.
6. Plank (15 seconds)
Lie straight on the ground, then use your elbows and toes to support your body as you slightly raise it and keep it straight. This is a real furnace for belly fat, and it gets harder the more time you spend in that posture.
7. Reach through (x20)
Lie on your back with your legs hinged, and try to get your chest up, until both your hands meet in that space created by your hinged legs. This exercise will burn more fats and tighten your abdominal muscles.
8. Spiderman (x20)
Lie flat on your abdomen and try to lift both your arms and legs, leaving only your abdomen down. This exercise stretches your abdominal muscles too.
9. Squats (x20)
Place both hands behind your head and squat to the level of your knees as you get up, twenty times. This will stretch and tighten your abdominal muscles and leg muscles too.
10. Single leg jack knife (15)
This is where you raise one leg at a time and let it meet with the opposite arm. Do it 30 times, 15 times for each leg. This helps stretch and strengthen your abdominal side muscles.
11. Mountain climbing (x20)
Place both hands and toes on the floor, then start running like you’re climbing a mountain. This exercise puts a little more pressure on the abdominal muscles whenever you raise a leg, and burns more fat.
12. Cobra stretch (30 seconds)
Now that you’ve done a lot of tightening your abdominals, you don’t really want your abdominal muscles to hurt whenever you bend. Lie on the floor and stretch your arms to full length for 30 seconds to release the tightened muscles.
Bonus tip;
You can customize these workouts and slowly increase them according to how much familiar you become with them. Within 30 days, the change will be visible.