If you have stomach fat and want to flatten your stomach there are plenty of exercises to do to boost your resting metabolic rate (RMR).

But these exercises are not ab specific exercises like crunches, sit ups, hanging raises or thrusts etc.
They don't boost your resting metabolic rate for long enough after the workouts, even though they do burn some calories during the time you do the workouts.

The right workouts you need to focus most on to boost your metabolism and flatten your stomach are bigger compound movements like lunges, deadlifts, squats etc.

When you do these exercises you force your body to do more work thus burning more calories during the initial workout and after the workout. And when you combine the best workouts you can increase your resting metabolic rate for up to 2 days of burning calories.

That's what I call efficient and fast fat burning.

Even of you think you're not overweight or don't have a lot of fat on your stomach you still need to lose that fat. You must have an as low as possible body-fat percentage before you do any ab exercises to pop out your six pack abs.

Now most people who have a low RMR because of their genes think they can't lose any weight, even though the RMR varies depending on your genes you can still increase your RMR.

Your lean muscle mass influences your RMR, the more you have the more higher your RMR will be and the more calories you will burn.

Therefore you need to put your focus more one multi-joint exercises like weight lifting to increase your RMR and your fat-burning hormones if you ever want to flatten your stomach.

The more muscle you develop the more body fat you'll burn, and the more lean muscle you lose the lower your RMR will be making it harder to lose weight.

That's why fad diets don't work on the longer run when you want to lose weight, in the first place you will lose weight (most often lean muscle) and then you come in a plateau where you lost almost too much muscle where your RMR lowers and then when you start eating normal again you'll gain fat even faster than you lost it.

But weight lifting doesn't mean you need to be a body builder or you'll be one, that's not as easy as you might be thinking.

And for increasing your RMR with weight lifting you don't need to develop huge muscles.

Therefore exercises like lunges, deadlifts, squats, snatches etc. are more effective then ab specific exercises. Because you lose more body-fat your abs will be better visible without even training them.

That's also a reason why most skinny people look like having rock hard abs but the truth is they don't they are just visible instead of being hidden under a layer of fat. (don't get me wrong here, I don't say you'll become skinny)



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