Thread: Help!

You can't 'burn off the fat' in your ab region. There's no way to spot reduce, despite what the cheesy infomercials tell you. Targeted ab training can help you build rock hard muscles in your midsection, but the plain truth is that the best route for burning fat is through diet and cardio.

As for exercises, I'd just do crunches and reverse crunches. I'd do three sets of the former of 20-25 reps, and three sets of 12-15 reps for the latter. Do two ab sessions twice a week unless your in a size-building phase in which case I'd only hit it once a week. My view - and many so-called experts might take exception to this - is to avoid doing situps and leg raises as they stretch the hip flexor rather than abs and place too much stress on the lumbar region. Quite honestly, the above exercises are all you need to hit the serratus, upper and lower abs.

As far as cardio is concerned, there really is no 'right' amount. I'd just stick with 40 minutes of cardio for five days a week and finetune it from there.

Thank you that really helped im gonna try the exercises that your suggested.

Thanks