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Beat the Belly Bloat With 10 Minutes of Yoga

Yoga is good medicine! Along with keeping your hamstrings flexible and your spine supple, yoga can provide relief when your uncomfortable, distended belly needs a little debloating. Travis Eliot, creator of the Ultimate Yogi DVD series, designed this quick sequence to target your middle with strategic twists to aid digestion. Bonus: these poses are great for toning the abs, too. Grab your mat, press play, and get ready to get your om on.

Having a strong and stable core is essential for every activity from standing to running, from swimming to dancing. This five-minute workout targets the front and back of your body, to create a sleek and balanced torso. Plus, it will help improve your posture, which has endless benefits as well, like looking thinner and decreasing back pain. Talk about a win-win.

Is it possible to stop fat from forming? One study says yes, it is possible.

Researchers from MacMaster University in Canada have found that if we exercise three times a week for less than an hour each time we can help our bodies create less fat. How?

Benefits of Pilates (a super-taut stomach and ballerina-esque legs)

“Pilates puts your muscles - especially the smaller, stabilising ones - under constant tension over a large range of motions to create that long, lean look,”

A simple at-home workout, all you need is a Pilates ball.

Do the following sequences; two to three times a week and repeat each move eight to 10 times, with little to no rest between exercises.