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What ab exercises can you do to strengthen and tone your abdominal muscles? Your abs are the primary muscles in your stomach and are what can be
seen when you get a flat stomach. Once your extra stomach fat has been burned off, your abdominal muslces can be visibly seen, assuming that they
are toned enough to appear through.
Ab Exercises
Ab exercises are important to getting those visible and sexy abdominal muscles. You need to sculpt and tone those muscles, and you do that with
the best ab exercises. They will cover your upper abs and lower abs. These exercises for abs are just what you need to get a flat stomach!
Exercises For Abs
A flat stomach is not beyond your reach, but you have to be willing to take the steps needed to get it. You can use the ab exercises on this
page to help you. But you actually have to do them on a regular basis. You can't just do it once and expect great results instantly. Your
abdominal muscles need to be sculpted and toned, and that takes time.
For some exercises that specifically target the lower ab muscles, visit the Lower Stomach Exercises page.
When Should You Do These Ab Exercises?
You shouldn't go all out every single day, your abdmonial muscles will need time to recover and absorb what you did the day before. But try to
do a little bit every day. One method is to have on days and off days, where you have a fully encompassing routine one day, and the next only do
a minimal abs exercise routine. If you already have a regular exercise schedule, just find a way to work these ab exercises into them. It's
a popular choice to exercise 3-4 days of the week, which is fine, just remember to give your abdominal muscles time to recover, at the same time
as continuing the best ab exercises for your stomach to build up your abs.
Best Ab Exercises
Bicycle Ab Exercise
- Lie on the floor, face up, and put your hands behind your head.
- Bring both knees up, bent and towards the chest, and lift your shoulder blades off the ground. Dont pull on the neck.
- Straighten your right leg out while at the same time, turning your upper body to the left, while bringing your right elbow towards your left knee.
- Switch the sides. Bring your left elbow towards your right knee.
Alternate side as you go along with the routine as if you were pedaling. Hence the name, 'Bicycle Ab Exercise'.
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Full Vertical Crunch
- Lie on your back and extend your legs straight torwards the ceiling.
- Place your hands behind your head and pull your upper chest and shoulders off the ground like in the traditional crunch.
- Lower your head and repeat for 12-15 reps.
Your legs should always stay straight up torwards the ceiling. Lift your head, neck, chest, shoulders off the ground, but use your stomach muscles to do the lifting.
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Proper Ab Crunch
- Lie on you back and place your feet on the floor as close to your bottom as possible and place your knees together.
- Rest your hands across you chest and relax the neck.
- Slowly raise your shoulders off the floor by contracting only the abdominal muscles, keeping your lower back on the floor.
- Hold that position for a second and breath out forcefully.
- Slowly relax the stomach muscles and allow your shoulders to return to the floor. Repeat 10-12 times. Do as many sets you can with at least a minute rest in between.
This is the similar to the ab crunch, but you come up off the ground at an angle across your body
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Abs Exercise Tips
Remember to do these abs exercises in reps and sets. It is more effective if you do fewer repetitions at a time, divided into sets, than to just
try and do as many as you can at once. You will find that you are able to do more reps if you break it into sets, than if you dont. Also
remember the importance of regular breathing as you go through your abs exercise routine.
To learn about some daily exercise routines, visit the Daily Exercise Workout page.
Final Thoughts
Ab exercises can be a very effective tool to get you a flat stomach, but it takes dedication and consistancy to accomplish it. Don't get
intimidated or discouraged at the thought of regular abs exercise. It will be more difficult at first, but as you get into a regular routine
you will find that it gets easier. And when you start seeing visible results, you will be even more motivated to go the distance.
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