March 26, 2012

Abdominal insights

First and foremost, if you want to lose your beer belly or muffin top, start with a food diary…


This blog and the exercises below may help with losing the layers above your 6 pack but by no means are they the most effective exercises to lose weight.

What these exercises will do, is help you develop core strength which provides benefits such as improving balance, evening out muscle imbalances that can be created through underworked muscle groups during strength training and finally improved sports performance.

The abdominals can be categorised into 4 general sections that can be targeted through core workouts; Upper, inner, outer and lower abdominals. Here is a breakdown of which exercises can target each section;



Upper

Crunches
Cable crunches
Decline crunches

Inner
Planks

Outer/Obliques
Plate twists
Oblique crunches

Lower
Hanging leg raises
Lying leg raises
Reverse crunches.

Post your favourite ab exercises or workouts in the comments section below!!!

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