Exercises for Abs
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.
