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Giving advice is sort of second nature to me. I use to have a column on here but ended up deleting it. Now once again I have decided to give advice again. I value people and their problems and try to help them the best I can.



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Personally one of my favorite quote is by Eleanor Roosevelt. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
If only people would truly realize this, the world would be so much happier.

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I'm not one to be too concerned about my figure- seriously, I don't care if I don't have a bikini bod, and hardly ever watch what I eat too closely. But recently (last few months or so) my stomach has gotten pretty flabby. I'm also beginning to get more concerned about my health...so of course, I should eat more veggies, grains, protein, etc.. But As a health and fitness concern, what exersizes can I do to tone my stomach? A flabby stomach is hardly a sign of good health. Thanks

Try to do cardio. There's something called interval training that you could do if you run, job, or even walk. Interval training is like a 3 minute warm up walking, then for 30 seconds you jog, then you rest by walking for a minute and a half. That helps burn fat, which would help with the flab. If you don't want to do interval training, you can just do cardio exercises like jogging, biking, and the elliptical by themselves. All of those will burn calories, get your heart rate up and burn fat.


After doing cardio try using a stability ball. I'm a huge fan of stability balls. You can do a variety of things with a stability ball like crunches to push ups. Even regulars crunches would help tone your stomach after you've burned some fat. Pilates is also good for toning your stomach. I know a few people who swear by pilates, so who knows? You'll find what work out you like best. All of these work though.

Here's a list of ab workouts from Self-
http://www.self.com/fitness/workouts/search?query=category%3Aabs

List of ab workouts from Fitness Magazine's website-
http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/fitness/category.jhtml?categoryid=/templatedata/fitness/category/data/1145287778138.xml

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(Rating: 5) Thanks- my parents actually have a yoga ball...maybe now I can put it to use! Thanks for the advice, I have to motivate myself to start getting back in shape
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