Some of the best exercise to flatten stomach can be learned from the army. Let me show you what kind of trainings we do in the morning, afternoon and night.
Morning Exercises
Exercises involved:
In a typical morning, we are trained (or forced) to continuously do 20 to 40 push-ups repetition per set, then immediately alternate to doing crunches of 25 to 30. And after giving everyone a short 20 second break, we will be told to do jumping jacks.
Jumping jacks involved jumping and slowly expanding the distance between your legs. And each time you jump, you have to leave your hands up as well. You will be required to do 80 repetitions of each set of jumping jumps. Shout out the number of times you have done and you will find this method works, much better than you continue jumping without shouting out loud.
Next, to mix some cardio, in between any of the push-ups, crunches or jumping jacks, the army instructors will instruct you to sprint to the further object he sees. The distance is most likely 100 to 200 meters away. You will have to sprint to the object, take for an example, a tree, and run back. If you fail to come back within the stipulated time, you will have to run back to the object and back again.
In one morning, you will most likely find yourself doing at least 300 push-ups, 200 crunches, 300 jumping jacks and sprinted at least 3 kilometers. After all these training, how can anyone not have solid abdominal muscles and great arms! And do not forget, this is only in the morning.
Afternoon Training
For the afternoon, there will be 2 different programs. Either there will be circuit training in the gym or swimming sessions.
For the circuit training, you will be assigned 6 stations working out the shoulders, back, legs, arms, and abs.
For the swimming sessions, you will be required to swim at least 10 laps of the pool and stay afloat in the water for at least 5 to 10 minutes. (It's more relaxing than the circuit training and we consider this a good relaxation training.)
Night Training
For night training, the concentration will be on push-ups, crunches and sprinting and dips. We will be doing 3 different kinds of push-ups. The diamond push-up (your hands will join to shape a diamond shape), the scorpion push-up (one of your legs will not touch the group, and the final push-up is the normal push-ups (hands place at shoulder width). Total of 20 repetitions per style.
Next there will be a total of 60 to 100 crunches to be done and sprinting will cover around 1 to 1.5 kilometer.
Dips are done by placing your hands behind your back and then lighting your buttocks off the ground. Then bend your arms and feel the weight bearing on your triceps. For best effect, for a higher ground for you to place your arms so that you can bend lower and more weight to push yourself back into position.
Extra Exercises Before Meal Times: We are required to do 4 to 6 chin-ups before each meal and do another 20 push-ups before any breakfast, lunch and dinner.
If you ever have the time, you can try doing any of the exercises I have mentioned. For all the best exercise to flatten stomach, give the morning's army training exercises a try and the results will definitely be great!