The ABsolute Truth

Everyone gal wants a flat stomach, am I right? So I’m here to help! Endless crunches and other ab isolation exercises are not your answer, especially for new mammas who’s rectus abdominis has expanded or stretched to make room for baby (but that’s a different blog that’s coming in the next week or so)! I hear this all the time as a fitness professional, “I do tons of ab exercises and I have a strong core, but I can’t lose the belly.”  There are two things I explain. 1. Nutrition is key to a “flat” stomach and 2. Your probably not doing the right workouts to burn the fat that’s hiding the muscles . Both just as important as the next, but I am here to discuss and help with #2 today.

Focusing your workouts on total body weighted movements is key. The more muscles your working together the more calories you will burn, which will in return burn more fat! The more fat you burn the leaner you become and that’s when you can begin to see muscle definition, aka a bangin body! There is nothing wrong with doing isolated abdominal exercises, but isolation doesn’t burn as many calories and we are here to burn calories and fat, right?! You usually won’t find me in the gym doing crunches, but you will find me doing total body workouts like the one below for a killer midsection!

Repeat 6 times with as little rest as possible between exercises:

10 burpees

10 weighted renegade rows

10 weighted squats with shoulder press (start with weight over shoulders and press overhead as you come out of squat)

30 seconds of mountain climbers

10 push ups

10 reverse lunges with front kick

30 seconds of speedskaters

30 seconds of bear crawls

10 curtsy lunges with weighted lateral shoulder raise

This is me cheering you on, get after it girls!!!!