Do Sit-Ups Really Work to Get Flat Abs

Sit-ups are probably the most common and popular abs exercise in the world. They're easy to do, require no equipment, and we're used to doing them ever since gym classes at school. But are sit ups an effective exercise to get flat abs?

I'm afraid that the answer is no, and I could've saved a lot of time if I had known this earlier. The truth is that sit-ups aren't an effective abs exercise for a number of reasons:

1. Sit-ups are a low intensity exercise. Just think about it, even a person with little stomach muscle strength can train to do a lot of sit-ups in a very short time. I remember kids at school doing a 100+ of these and they weren't even fit kids.
   
   If sit-ups placed a real strain on your abs, you would not be able to do so many of them. If you're looking to power up those abs, there are countless of better abs exercises than sit-ups.
2. A lot of people believe that sit-ups can help them burn tummy fat. They think that since they're working the abs directly that they're melting the stomach fat right off. In fact, this is far from true. Spot fat reduction is one of the biggest workout myths in existence. You can't reduce fat from a specific body part. It just doesn't work that way. You either lose fat from you entire body or not at all.
   
   Since losing belly fat is the most important thing in getting sexy abs, sit-ups aren't a helpful exercise to spend time on.

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Sit-ups do have their benefits. They're a good exercise if you're a total beginner, but you'd still outgrow them in a week or 2. Trust me, you'd have much better results by doing exercises which burn fat from your body than wasting time on sit-ups.

If you really want to get flat abs, you need to workout in the optimal way to burn off belly flab and tone your entire body. You also need to learn to maintain a healthy, fat busting nutrition routine. And no, you don't need to eat like a bird to do this. In fact, you may need to eat more to burn more.

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