The lower ab region starts beneath the navel, everything above is thought of as the upper ab region. Your lower stomach is a difficult place to get flat because there is more fat around this area than any other part of your stomach. You cannot use stomach exercise alone to flatten your lower stomach, you need the lose the excess fat or all of the exercise in the world won’t make it look that much better.

For most people, you want your lower stomach to not stick out beyond the rest of your stomach. That is the natural shape if you have extra fat and sagging skin. You instead want your lower abs to be flat and blend into the rest of your body. This is why you have to lose the fat first! Think about it, it isn’t that you want your lower stomach overly muscular, but you don’t want it to protrude out and look bad. So remember that fat starts to accumulate around your lower stomach first, but it will spread to the rest of your stomach given time and assuming that you don’t change anything with your lifestyle. So you need to start taking the steps to stop the fat accumulation, and start taking the steps to lose stomach fat.

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