How to Tone Your Stomach

How to tone your Stomach

You may enjoy rock hard abs but many others simply want to know how to tone your stomach. As a matter a fact the trend from ripped abs is slowly changing to smooth sculpted abs.

If you are more into knowing how to tone your stomach then this article is for you. Without wasting time I would like to draw up some fundamentals to abs training followed by the best exercises that will get you that ab toned look.

Fundamentals before toning your Stomach

Most times I see people in the gym doing unnecessary abs workouts. I say this because before you tone your stomach your body mass index must first depreciate.

Men need to shred their fat levels down to at least 12% and women need to drop down to at least 16% before any type of abs or toning will show. Prior to this all the abs workouts are completely useless. So cardio in the form of full body workouts and interval training should be a priority before ab workouts.

Toning Exercises

My guess is that if you are looking to tone your stomach then you would be going more for the “fight club” look rather than that “Spartans” look. If this is true then here are a few tips and exercises that are targeted towards your goal.

Tabata Exercises

If you are serious about your efforts then this is how to tone your stomach. Choose any exercise or any cardio machine and do 20 seconds sprint/exercise followed by a 10 seconds rest. Doing this a total of 8 times should amount to 4 minutes in total. If you do it properly, it’ll be the worst 4 minutes ever. Do as many 4 minute blocks as you can. Personally i recommend this for cardio and not weight training.

Killer Circuits

10 exercises in total 50 reps per exercise (if you reach failure before 50 reps, rest for 10 seconds and continue)
No rest between exercises. Usually takes around 30-45 minutes to complete (depending).Use 12kg/14kg dumbbells or lighter if you wish but not any heavier (you’ll find out)

1. Press-ups
2. Mountain climbers/ squat-thrusts
3. Dumbbell swings
4. Floor Press
5. Squat jumps
6. Dumbbell standing shoulder press
7. Crunches
8. Bicep curls (use lighter dumbbells)
9. Jumping alternating lunges (on the spot)
10. Dumbbell bent-over row
If you notice these are not your average cardio exercises rather it is cardio built in with resistance and intensity using you own weight. The goal is to burn stomach fat. The above is just a sample guide of how to tone you stomach. I encourage you to end your exercises with basic ab workouts such as

• Lying leg thrusts (3 X 9)
• Reverse crunches (3X 6)
• Ab bicycles (1 X 24)
• Stability ball crunches (1 X 10)
• Alternating crunches (1 X 18)
• Stability ball planks hold (1 X 1min)

Good Luck with Your Training
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