do situps make your stomic flat ?

Sit ups use the largest muscles on the sides of the waist called the "obliques". While sit ups can, in the very long run, flatten your stomach, what they normally do is to increase the girth of your waist by increasing the sizes of your obliques.

From my personal experience, you should be doing stomach crunches to target the area of the stomach you want to focus on. Crunches can be done in 3 ways: upper body lifts, lower body lifts and static concentration.

A lot of people do not benefit from crunches because they do not follow instructions about how to breathe correctly during this exercise. It is important to remember to exhales as you press yourstomache muscles.

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Your stomach will get flat over time and yes the soreness will occur because your body is not used to working those muscles. Its a good thing to feel pain because that means your doing them right. Eventually your stomach with stop hurting. My guess is about another week. Good Luck!!!

Of course it's going to hurt at first. Your body is getting used to a new amount of exertion being put on your abs. Any amount of sit ups will help your abs. I'd suggest trying to do a little more each day. Try to do as many as possible. You will see that you can do more and more as you push yourself. Try also laying on your back, and with your feet together, lift them about 6 inches off of the ground and keep your feet there for as long as you can. That will surely help you out. Good luck!

situps do not make your stomach flat - they help to strenghten and tighten the abdominal muscles underneath the fat of your stomach. After losing stomach fat through diet and exercise (cardio) - then the ab muscles can show through.

sit ups tighten your muscles around your abdomen. dont worry about the pain, it is because you did not do any sit ups for a while and all of a sudden you started. keep on doing them for a while, everyday or every other day. but in order to have a slat stomach you need to run, loose some fat around your stomach and do sit ups. if you run few times per week, and do sit ups every other day, you will have a nice looking stomach in almost no time. be patient and determined.

Your stomach is supposed to hurt yes.

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Your using your muscles that you usually don't use to often.

Doing sit up will strengthen your abs, but I don't believe they make your stomach flat.

doing sit ups will only define your abs. To make your stomach flatter if you have fat on it you have to work out to get rid of the fat, then you will be able to see your abs.

It's normal to have sore abs, but 20 is not very many... I know you just started, but you should be able to add more on quickly after the first week.

Keep up the good work.

if your stomach hurts when u cough or whatever you do that involves using the stomach muscules than yes its working. Its breaking down the muscles and re-building them. but it really takes a while. go to the gym too it'll help it a little bit more than just doing it at home. They have equipment that will help get deeper in the muscles.