Firstly, I would like to say a huge thank-you to all my family and friends for their support in me sharing my blog. I've received a lot of positive feedback and a lot of ideas for new posts which has made me very happy.
Therefore any ideas I welcome and am happy to write about whatever you wish.
This post is dedicated to a friend of a friend who wanted advice on getting a "flat tum" now I'm not sure how I feel about this... I think too much of the media focuses on celebrities and their flat tummies (some you can pretty much see their bones....who wants to be a skeleton???)... I am looking at a magazine right now that has an article about Katie Price supposedly slagging off Kelly Brook's curves (CHRIST. KELLY BROOK'S BODY IS INSANE.) all bodies that are in good health are good bodies in my mind. Be grateful for your fully functioning organs, it is a gift most take for granted. Rather than straining yourself think of more positive things to focus on like getting your fitness levels up.. I have found the more I have paid attention to my fitness, the more I have noticed a change in all of my body, including my stomach. I have actually found it.. *chokes* enjoyable....OK I SAID IT..to get my fitness levels up...in some awful fucked up way I don't think there is a better feeling than that after a crazy workout (I know some of you are questioning this you dirty-minded people).
Believe it or not the key to losing weight from your stomach is actually 70% from what you eat...do as many sit ups as you like you are not going to burn off the twelve creamcakes you've just eaten... the truth hurts I know. Food-wise for your stomach I would say cut down on your carbohydrates (by no means cut them out!) I'm talking swapping things up- eat sweet potato, wholewheat pastas, wholemeal bread etc, don't eat too much bread or drink too much milk as these things bloat you believe it or not. If you have noted a genuine problem in bloating then go to the doctors as I know a few people that found their stomachs were often bloated and sometimes quite sore- this could be a genuine allergy to gluten. Bloating can be reduced by drinking hot water..this also soothes a poorly tum or trapped wind (gross.) Drink lots of water as this cleanses your insides and clears you out and green tea can speed up your metabolism along with espressos.
However. I have come up with a devious little workout plan for anyone that wants to tone up their tums.
CARDIO- cardio is your best friend to shift any unwanted chub.
Running- this is a disgustingly beautiful exercise and if running was a person I would kiss it and kill it in the same breath. We have a love/hate relationship; me and running however it is VERY good for shifting weight in the stomach area- I have found this works for me personally.
If you are in the gym hoping to shift weight off your tum then get on that treadmill and do a 5k run- it only takes half an hour at the most...if it takes you more you need to speed up snail!
After your 5k is done you will look like you've just been hit by a tsunami and if you're anything like me your breathing will sound like you're trying to converse with a whale. Your new best friends for toning up your tum will now be a kettlebell/ plate/ medicine ball... use between 2.5 and 5kg- nothing under!!!
Without using these things do 30 crunches, grab your medicine ball like you would grab David Beckham in the H&M advert and do your torso twists...yes bitches another 30! Then cling to that plate with your dear life because you do NOT want that dropping on your heads and lie down with your feet together, knees facing outwards like you're making a pretty triangle and do a sit-up pushing the plate upwards so that you finish sitting up with both your arms raised in the air with that pretty plate pushed up...another 30....then do 30 bicycle crunches... Follow these exercises with a minute plank.... After your plank go up onto your hands and lift your knees up to your elbows like your spiderman climbing a wall...another 30....follow this up with crunch and hold for 10 seconds and down...do this 3 times....then lie down put your arms straight upwards and reach up lifting your shoulders off the floor 30 times....if you aren't feeling the burn by now then I am coming to fling an iron at you. Now it is time for the scissor sisters to pop out...lie down flat, pop your hands under your bum....I don't know why we do this but I find it positions me better...lift your legs off the floor by an inch or so and cross them over each other...another 30....follow this up by another minute plank.
Repeat this twice more and you will feel like action man and your abs will hopefully be burning so much you'll look in the mirror and convince yourself you're the hottest thing since Britney Spears in her 'I'm a slave 4 u' video. Jeez.
So.... to cut things down....
-5k run
-30 normal crunches
-30 torso twists
-30 plate sit ups
-30 bicycle crunches
-1 minute plank
-30 spiderman climbs
-3x10 sec crunch and hold
-30 reaches/shoulder lifts
-30 scissor sisters
-1 minute plank
do this 3 times through...
I hope this workout helps and I would like to hear feedback from anyone that tries my workout. I have also found there are many workouts on YouTube by the wonderful Gillian Michaels that are actually really good too.
Just remember ladies and gentlemen that life isn't all about having an insanely good body, we should build our bodies up to be better but don't become obsessive and stop it from building a better life for yourself too. These things should go hand in hand.
Lots of Love Guys. x
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