The Flat Belly Diet! exercise plan has you working six days a week with a day off on the weekend. Within the period of a week, you will incorporate exercises from each of three groups: cardio, strength, and abs. You’ll be doing cardio exercises daily, in one of two forms of walking. We’re recommending walking because it’s the easiest, most accessible exercise for people to do, however you can apply these workouts to other cardio activities like cycling, swimming, jogging, or cardio machines like stair climbers and elipticals. Additionally, every other day, you’ll add either strength or ab workouts.

The cardio component of the workout has both fat blasting and calorie-revving walking programs. Fat blasting consists of steadily paced walks that, if done properly, are guaranteed to burn off your belly fat. The speed and intensity of these walks will slowly increase as the weeks go on and you become more advanced. The calorie-revving walks are set up to be executed in intervals, meaning periodic bursts of fast and slow pace as a way of raising your caloric burn both during and after your workout. Studies show that interval training keeps metabolism going long after the workout is over. The intervals alternate brisk walking with short bursts of fast walking at an intensity level that is comfortable for you.

The weight training component includes four combination moves geared toward firming up your arms and legs and building muscle. The intention here is to kick your metabolism into high gear and keep it here. By working multiple body parts at the same time, you’ll burn more calories and complete our workout faster than if you exercised body parts separately. Each of these moves also has a balance challenge so your core will be getting a workout too.

The Belly-firming – or abs workout has exercises geared to flattening, toning, and firming your belly. These include some traditional ab moves, core training exercises and some Pilate’s moves. There’s also an advanced workout using a stability ball.

The Flat Belly Diet! exercise program takes care of all your needs with a bundle of exercises, and as promised, there’s not a crunch in the bunch.

To see your Flat Belly Diet exercise plan, just click on the Exercise Tab. Your daily fitness plan appears. You will see the cardio and strength exercises planned for the day, along with detailed explanations of how to do the workout or perform the exercises.

• Use the Day View and Week View buttons to switch between daily and weekly views of your exercise plan.
• Use the previous and next day or week links to see the plans for other days or weeks.
• Click the See demo & details link for information on how to perform a specific exercise.
• Once you have been on the plan for 4 weeks, click Get Advanced Moves to see more strenuous Flat Belly Diet! exercises.

To personalize your exercise program to fit your busy life, follow these steps:

1. Click the Exercise Tab, then click Fitness Preferences.
2. Check (right click) the days you want to do cardio exercises, if any.
3. Check the days you want to do strength exercises, if any.
4. SAVE CHANGES

To get more information from Michele Stanten, your Flat Belly Diet! online Fitness Coach and Prevention’s Fitness Director, click on the link under Need Advice?