Effective Tummy Exercises for Everyone,
from Novices To The Toughest Sportsmen
| Your stomach muscles form the core center of your body and it's very important to staying in shape, to keep firm, strong abdominals.
Your tummy muscles have to keep your organs firmly in place and are the centre of all the movement you do.
And they're very important in supporting your back. So by getting your stomach muscles in shape, you get in shape! Before I go into a series of tummy... er.. abdominal exercises, it's very important to know the following: |
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If you support your tummy exercises with these actions below, you will succeed much faster at having a flat, attractive stomach:
- Generally eating less, especially at night before going to sleep
- Eat smaller meals, so you don't even produce a bloated, larger stomach
- Eat less fat and carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and rice and more foods which contain water, such as fruits and vegetables.
- Drink lots of water during the day, and keep away from soda drinks which contain sugar
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Seeing that we all have perfect abdominal, which are mostly hidden by fat, our first step is to reduce our body fat content.
Now we can take step two, which is doing effective tummy exercises to firm up your stomach and and get you looking great again.
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- Crunch on a Swiss ball
This exercise is easy and one of the most effective exercises for your tummy muscles, as it prevents hips movements and isolates your stomach muscles.
Lie on the Swiss ball with your feet flat on the ground and your thighs and torso parrallel to the floor. Your back is arched, and your head is almost upside-down.
Raise your head slowly, so your head and your body are in one vertical, straight line. Don't bend at the hips, like you would do with a normal situp.
- Bicycle Abs
Lie on the ground and press your back on the ground.
Now, put your hands loosely beside your head.
Raise your knees to a 45-degree angle and slowly pedal as though you're riding a bicycle. To make the exercise tougher, reach out your left elbow to touch your right knee, and your right elbow to touch your left knee.
- Simple Hanging Knee Kick
For this exercise you need to be able to hang on a bar.
You start off by hanging on a bar with your legs dangling. Now slowly lift your knees in toward your chest. Return to the starting position. You can also vary the exercise by bringing your knees up slightly to the left or right of your chest. Be sure to raise and drop your knees in a controlled fashion.
- Cable Woodchop
For this exercise your need a Cable Crossover Machine.
With this exercise your train the transversus and external oblique muscles which lie between your tummy muscles, your rib cage and your back. They're responsible for keeping your stomach muscles flat.
You do a wood chopping motion by pulling the cable diagonally down from your shoulders, as if you're chopping a log of wood. It's probably one of the most effective exercises your can do to generate a flat stomach.
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