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Ab Workout - The Detail You Must Know
Abdomen exercises are one of the newest, and yet, most debatable topics in the fitness and exercise industry. Hundreds of ab products, gimmicks, and exercise devices have flooded the market for people expecting sexier and flatter abdominals... that sexy six-pack abs look that everyone seeks.
The issue is that most of the abdominal exercises that are proposed all over the internet, and in magazines, etc, are not necessarily the best technique to get that six-pack abs form. First and foremost, the most important aspect for great looking six pack abs is losing the extra tummy fat that is covering them up. To be honest, most people already have good abdominals underneath, yet the six-pack abs are simply covered up by all of that extra flabby stomach fat.
Instead of focusing very much on abdominal exercises to make your stomach flatter and more like a six-pack, you will lose much more body fat by focusing the majority of your training time with special combinations of high intensity full-body, multi-joint workout. The best exercises for losing that abdominal fat are the exercises that work the largest portions of the body together.
Exercises that work the large muscle groups of the legs, upper and lower back, and chest give you the biggest metabolic hit for your buck in terms of abdominal fat loss. Combining these types of big multi-joint exercises in high strength super-set, tri-set, or circuit mode gives you the biggest fat-burning and metabolism improving response from your workouts.
And that is one of the best kept tricks for flat sexy abdominals that are actually visible as a six-pack!
Now when looking at abdominal-specific exercises, another mistake most people make is mechanically pumping away with hundreds of crunches and other insignificant abs exercises that barely give your abdominals much resistance to work against. If you want to actually develop your abdomen to the best extent possible, don't waste your time with exercises that you can do above 20 or 25 reps... that means you are absolutely not doing an exercise that provides ample resistance to the abs. Exercises that provide you enough resistance to get you down into the 6-15 rep range per set works great for the abs.
Usually, higher resistance abdominal exercises that provide a much larger impulse to the abs come in the form of exercises that require raising/curling the legs and pelvis either upward or inward closer to the trunk. A couple great examples of these higher resistance abdominal exercises are hanging leg raises or knee raises using a "pelvic curl up", or an exercise like lying hip thrusts. Several times, the same people that can do 50 or 100 crunches, can't even complete more than 2 or 3 properly performed hanging leg raises.
If you really want better flatter abdominals that appear like a six-pack, understand that losing that extra body fat is the MOST essential factor. Also, when it comes to abdominal-specific workouts, always remember higher resistance exercises that include curling/raising the legs and pelvis upward or inward are the ones that develop the ab muscles to the best extent possible.
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