Stomach fat and breast fat are choice locations for the body to store fat, or more correctly fatty tissue. Most people will accumulate fat in the abdominal region more easily than in most other areas of their bodies. What this means to the person who wishes to remain lean and trim looking is that getting rid of stomach, or abdominal, fat is often a difficult task to accomplish. It also means that if you want to lose your abdominal fat by dieting or other means which do not replace the fatty layer with muscle you will have a very hard time doing it.

Abdominal muscle, however, is not very difficult to build, and only requires a small amount of exertion although it does require regular exercise to maintain the muscle so that you avoid replacing it with fat again.

Since the abdomen is part of the central core of your body, you should work the muscles of this region regularly anyway. Have a firm abdomen will contribute to good digestion, and as an added advantage voluntary muscle burns calories while fat doesn’t. what that means is that you can eat more and not gain weight if your body is composed of mostly muscle, (in comparison to a fat person of the same weight).

Abdominal muscles are called in the exercise world Abs., and there are three sets of them. You can work them regularly by doing crunches, and crunches are quite easy to do:

• Lie down on you back on a level surface. Begin by lying flat.
• Place your hands together behind your head together, and toward the neck. (this is to brace your head and prevent you form straining your neck by pulling with your arms.
• Keeping your fingers interlaced behind your head, begin to rotate your upper body toward the vertical. There is no need to raise yourself to a sitting position, but the stress of this movement should be exerted by and through your abdominal region.
• When you can feel the tension on your abdominal muscles, hold that position for a count of two.
• Slowly rotate your upper back down to the horizontal.

You should do about ten repetitions of these crunches every day or twenty to forty every other day to begin your regimen. As the instructions say, there is no need to raise your entire upper body off the ground (or mat). Rotate upward until you feel the tension, and then rotate back. That is one repetition.

Another exercise for the abs is even easier. While sitting in a chair, rotate your upper body as far to the left as possible, twisting from as low toward the hips as you can. Hold the position for a count of two and then return to the normal sitting position. Count to two and then repeat in the other direction, (to the right). When you return to the center the second time, you will have completed one repetition, (rep). you may do the twists in conjunction with the crunches or separately, and you may keep the same count of reps for crunches and twists.

These are not specifically aerobix exercises, but you may sweat when you do them and you may be breathing deeper by the time you finish a set. Remember to start easy and build your exercise regimen, just as you ae building your muscle.