{"id":4766,"date":"2010-01-28T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:36:40","slug":"great-abs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2010\/01\/28\/great-abs-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Belly Bulge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"amazing abs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2010\/01\/28\/great-abs-today\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4767\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"ab workout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ab-workout.jpg\" alt=\"ab workout\" width=\"191\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ab-workout.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ab-workout-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Now that the holidays are over, you might have noticed a bit of a belly bulge.\u00c2\u00a0 However, you should know that doing hundreds of crunches everyday is NOT the way to make it go away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very Important! <\/strong><strong>Ab muscles are just like any other muscle on your body, they need recovery time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, you should also remember that it isn&#8217;t just the muscles that play into the belly bulge but what is going on inside your stomach.\u00c2\u00a0 Junk food, not enough fiber or water, food intolerances and more can all be guilty in making you look pudgy.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of ways to look leaner today and a simple ab workout that will help to get you in shape for spring. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whittle Your Waist Today:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drink some <a title=\"flat belly diet sassy water recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prevention.com\/health\/weight-loss\/flat-belly-diet\/flat-belly-diet-and-sassy-water\/article\/0bf639ea58957110VgnVCM10000013281eac____\/2\">sassy water<\/a>, part of Prevention&#8217;s Flat Belly Diet, which aids digestion and soothes the GI tract.<\/li>\n<li>Eat clean, or at least cleaner.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting rid of processed foods, even for a week, will help ease bloating and give you more energy.<\/li>\n<li>Cut out all carbonated beverages &#8211; these make you gassy, which makes you puffy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Simple Ab Workout:<\/strong><br \/>\nDo 25 of each every other day. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><a title=\"ab exercises core workout\" href=\"http:\/\/exercisemoves.me\/posts\/workout-ball-crunch\/\">Crunches<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"core workout pilates ab workout\" href=\"http:\/\/pilates.about.com\/od\/pilatesmat\/ss\/FlatAbSeries_7.htm\">Leg Lowers<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"ab workout russian twist oblique exercise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shapefit.com\/abs-exercises-plate-twists.html\">Side to side twist<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"core exercises ab workout\" href=\"http:\/\/exercisemoves.me\/posts\/plank\/\">Plank<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"tone abs flat belly ab workout\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-36972-Nashville-Fitness-Examiner~y2010m1d26-Tips-to-tone-your-abs\">Read more in my Nashville Examiner article: Tips to tone your abs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"health and fitness ab workout flat belly \" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\"><em>WithAmyMac.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the holidays are over, you might have noticed a bit of a belly bulge.\u00c2\u00a0 However, you should know that doing hundreds of crunches everyday is NOT the way to make it go away. Very Important! Ab muscles are just like any other muscle on your body, they need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[751,750,20,752,12,23,9,225,8,93,753,755,475,754,756,21],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ab-workout","tag-abs","tag-amy-mac","tag-belly-bulge","tag-exercise","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-tips","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-look-thinner","tag-nashville-examiner","tag-sassy-water","tag-smaller-stomach","tag-tone-your-abs","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}