Fast 6 Abs Blog

No amount of day dreaming will ever help you with your abs training goals, if you don’t know what kind of exercises will work which particular muscles of the abs. I cannot cover all the abs exercises in one post but maybe we can do it over several posts in the next few days.

To start with, the best exercises for abs to me will have to be crunches, reverse crunches, v-sits, leg raises, side bends and twists using a stick.

They are also easy to do and they can all give you better results if you do them using the ball, or an inclined bench, and this is true especially with the crunches.

Crunches on the ball stresses all your abs muscles but especially the upper abs. Crunches on the ball will exercise all your frontal areas including the deeper muscles. They can also affect your intercostals to an extent. Those are the muscles around the sides going up to your back and rib cage.

Reverse crunches train mainly the lower abs and so as leg raises. These are two of the best exercises for abs if done correctly. If you don’t do them right or tend to overextend your movements, then there is a chance the hip flexors and muscles of the hips will be worked, lessening the impact on the lower abs. Reverse crunches is not easy to do but if you master it, it will pay you dividends.

V-sits is best for all around complete abs workout. This is definitely one of the best exercises for abs and it is just a graceful and nice, natural movement to execute. Some people finds the v-sits difficult but that’s okay you don’t have to do 100 reps per set. If you can manage 20 or even 10 per set then that’s also okay. Keep at it and you will be hitting 30, 40 or more in no time.

The last 2 good exercises for abs I want to discuss is the twists and side bends. Side bends according to some people may tend to build too much of your intercostals hence making your waist wider but that’s probably a load of crap. Do more than a few hundreds per set to give your ab muscles a good workout.

There are other good abs exercises which I haven’t covered here so we’ll leave them for next time.

Be very careful before you take on someone else’s workout for abs unless you know that person can be trusted and he’s an expert or at least experienced in the body building, health and fitness  industry.

Okay so you may be thinking nah – ‘you are going overboard’, think again. You may know a lot about fitness and abdominal muscle building methods and exercises. But not everyone is like you.

I know it’s not rocket science to create your own workouts for abs but you can still seriously injure yourself if you don’t think or understand what you are doing. Getting injured folks is not nice. Trust me, that’s the worst thing you can allow to happen to your body. It will put your training back a few weeks or worse.

If you don’t have a choice but to design your own workouts for abs, don’t lose heart. If you are not a fitness enthusiast or not in the industry then read up widely on the subject. Buy books, better still go online for tons of free information, go to the library. Read all you can about body building or muscle building exercises.

Then when you feel you have got the grasp of the basics with a bit more, sit down and start designing your abs workout. 

Here are the kind of things I think about when I am writing my own workouts for abs or writing workouts for my clients.

What kind of results do I want and how fast I want them?  This will then decide how much time I need to commit to it.  Two kind of results I normally go for will be to build more abs muscle mass or just to lose fat and go for firm toned look. 

Have fun creating your workouts for abs – we’ll cover a bit more later because I got to go.