Abdominal flab: Simple Ab exercises that work wonders

How to lose that ab flab.

Simple common sense exercises that really work:

1. Proper posture can do wonders for the way your stomach looks.  Stand up straight, put your shoulders back, and tuck in your abdomen and buttocks.
2. Breathe correctly:  deeply, from the diaphragm.
3. Pull in your ab muscles and hold for several seconds.  Make the exercise part of your routine:  do it while you are brushing your teeth or sitting at your desk, or whenever you are stuck in traffic or waiting for a bus or train.
4. If you do not have a bicycle, try this bicycle exercise.  Lie on your back.  Put your hands underneath your buttocks for support and bend both knees up to your chest.  Extend one leg straight up towards the ceiling.  As you bend it in a pedaling motion extend the other.  Repeat 10-20 times.  
5. Do a set of bent-leg curl-ups as shown below.  Lie on your back.  Inhale, and then as you exhale, slowly curl your head and shoulders upward and slide your hands up your thighs toward your knees.  Pause.  Inhale, and while exhaling slowly curl down to a resting position.  Repeat 10 times.
6. While doing any exercise, contract your ab muscles to keep yourself in alignment.  During an abdomen-toning supine exercise, keep the small of your back on the floor; otherwise your hip flexors will take on the Ab's work.
7. Wanna have some fun exercising those Ab's?  Take belly dancing lessons!  You will have a blast and have those Ab's in shape in no time!

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