There are exercises — and then there are EFFECTIVE exercises. The two are not the same thing. Some exercises can actually be detrimental to burning belly flab.

If you want to lose weight and have flat abs, here are the seven exercises you want to make sure to avoid:

1. Leg straight leg raises lying down (Go 45 degrees off of the floor, do only one leg at a time and then do both at the same time) 2. Hanging leg raises with an arched back 3. Sit-ups - feet supported up 4. Sit-ups - straight legs 5. ALL machine based leg exercises 6. ALL twisting exercise 7. Torso twists

Don’t forget that the point is that you want to burn belly fat while developing your abdomen muscles. You don’t want to work on your legs, arms or any other part of your body. The exercises you do need to focus around just your abs and the supporting parts only.

These are the bad exercises that you need to avoid if you ultimate goal is to finally have great abs.

1. Straight-Legged leg raises - This is an excellent exercise but it’s not for your abs. This is great only for your lower abs. Yes, of course any exercise is better than doing nothing, but if you want six pack abs, you don’t want to waste your time with these particular exercises.

2. Hanging leg raises with an arched back: Hanging leg raises with a STRAIGHT back are terrific ab exercises. But when the back is arched, the leg raises do zero to build the abs.

3. Sit-ups with the feet supported: Doing sit-ups with no support below your legs or feet is a great ab exercise, but the minute you put support below your feet, the entire exercise becomes useless.

4. Straight legged sit ups: When the legs are kept straight out during sit ups, the muscles that are being used are in the back and lower abdomen… not the abs!

5. Any machine based ab exercise: Bottomline, no machine can build your abs, there is only one way to earn abs, the hard way.

6. Any machine based twisting exercise: Twisting doesn’t work the abs. Twisting exercises are good exercises to reduce the size of the waist, but that’s all they do.

7. Torso Twists: One more time, twisting does not help flatten your abs and it will not really burn enough belly fat.

Make your exercise session time work FOR you. If you goal is to burn off that sagging stomach and build your abs, squeeze the most advantage out of every minute of your exercise program.

Doing exercises not specifically designed for your end-goal is a waste of time and energy.