work outs for the tummy??

Pilates is pretty awesome..

Stay away from Crunches and the various twisting movements that you can see people doing. They do little to nothing and you can easily get hurt by them. Sit-ups work the hip flexor muscles not the core muscles. Excellent core exercises are planks as the purpose of your core muscles is not primarily to bend and twist your body, but to hold everything together and provide stability.

A few are: Your basic floor crunches - lye on your back, knees bent and bring your entire torso up to your knees, without locking hands behind your head for additional cheating, best to cross them on your chest infront. Does work hip flexors, but you can limit this more by going lower or higher..

And for your lower parts, lye flat on your back, hands to your sides(tried under my head but my heavy head makes my hands fall asleep, LOL) and raise your legs into an L position, hold for a second and slowly lower(the lowering part is the counter and essential part).

Bicycle kicks, lying flat on your back and "Ride a bike" with your legs.

Planks. Go into a similar push-up position - like a lying bridge ark and weights on your elbows and hold that position - keeping everything tight.

If you have a chin up bar/Power Rack - Hanging leg raises. Hold onto a bar with a comfortable med/wide grip and while keeping yourself stabilized (no swinging) bring your legs up(similar to the lying down one - forming a Y shape) and slowly down for the contraction.

Or hanging knee ups - almost like a froggy kind of motion, Lol, oblique twists you name it.

Ummm.. Oh, or there's Lateral bends.. it's like you hold a weight in one hand(not 2, that would counterbalance it and render it even and useless) stand straight and bend to the right/left whichever the weight is and work obliques

All I can think of....