Flat stomach - weight loss

You might be surprised that i won't write about any fitness equipment that supports crunches and stomach muscles workout. I would like you to focus more at the machines that will help you burn the fat from stomach. Why is it so important? It's because there is no sense of training stomach muscles unless there is little fat covering them. So in order to be at this point you have to start with exercising your entire body and try to focus on what you eat. Good cardio exercises together with the right diet will do the work for most of people.

You can read about exercises, diet and fat burning foods here:
Cardio exercises for flat stomach
Flat belly diet
Fat burning foods
Before we take a look on the fitness equipment let's check what kind of benefits can we have from cardio training and it's not only flatter stomach.
- better overall look
- better condition
- better health
- increased immunity
- possibility to relieve from stress and emotions
- better overall mood
- increased metabolism

As you can see there are lot of positive benefits from training. Now let's check what kind of devices can help us achieve that.

Stationary bike - this is a classic fitness machine. It's great for the people who like to watch tv and exercise. On the stationary bike you can achieve almost the same results as on normal bike. Most of the bikes allow us to change the velocity and resistance so it's possible to change the intesity level of workout. You could even do interval training with that - 5 minutes of average intensity and then 1 minute of high intense training. It's really easy to change the intensity, you just switch the lever on handle bar.


Here is how your training on stationary bike could look like:

1. Dynamic warm-up. Do a couple of gym exercises to stretch your muscles before you start bike riding.
2. Bike riding.
3. Small break, cool your body.
4. At the end ride with low intensity. In this way you will be able to remove milk acid from your muscles.

What are the additional devices on most of the bikes?

Clock - you can set the training time - for example you can start with 30 minute training.
Velocity monitor - shows current velocity
Distance covered monitor - it is possible to set the distance you want to cover. Before you achieve it alarm will ring.
Burned calories monitor - this one is very helpfull. You can also set an alarm for example at 500 calories.
Heart rate monitor - also very important parameter. You will know at which intensity you are. Is it 80% of you max heart rate or rather 60%.

Elliptical Cross Trainers - this machine trains almost entire body and that is great. You can burn calories pretty fast with this machine and one of the biggest benefits is that you can hardly get bored with it. With elipticial machines you can simulate both walking and running. Great thing is that you can do that also while watching tv. Exercising on this equipment is really easy and almost everybody can do them. One of the benefits is that this kind of training is really safe for the joints in your knees. If you want to train the whole body you can use the hand bars. If not they can stay untouched and you can train your body only below your waist. What is great in elliptical machines is that it combines all of the benefits of bike, treadmill and stepper. You don't need 3 different machines for your training. You can save a lot of money and space with it. When it comes to additional equipment like heart rate monitor, alarms and other it is different for different machines. But the range of those are same as in case of stationary bikes.



Treadmills - great machine with one flaw - it takes a lot of space in the room. However it is the best possible running simulator you can have. What is great in treadmills is that you can choose by yourself the tempo of your training. You can train even if the weather outside is bad and that is really great about it. What are the other benefits? It's better for your joints (knees, ankles) then running outside because the surface is flat. Antother benefit same as in case of bike and elliptical machines is that you can train while watching your favourite tv show. When it comes to additional devices it's the same as for previous ones. You can have heart monitors, calories monitor, alarms, velocity measurement and many more. It all depends on the model and price.

Well we have reviewed the most popular fitness devices which train entire body and are great for fat burning. I won't review any equipment that will help you tone your stomach muscles because it's not so important and there are too many of them available. In fact for stomach crunches and ab workout no additional equipment is neccesary. You can do most of those exercises without complicated machines. If you really need them it's better to go to gym unless you have a lot of space in your apartment and you can afford to buy them. I would rather focus on buying some cardio exercises machines because they are better not only for your stomach but for your overall health.