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Abdominal Activities - The Fact You Must Learn
Ab exercises are one of the hottest, and yet, most contentious topics in the fitness and exercise industry. Hundreds of ab products, gimmicks, and exercise machines have flooded the market for people expecting sexier and flatter abdominals... that sexy six-pack abs look that everyone seeks.
The problem is that most of the abdominal exercises that are suggested all over the internet, and in magazines, etc, are not necessarily the best technique to get that six-pack abs look. First and foremost, the vital aspect for great looking six pack abdominals is losing the extra stomach fat that is covering them up. To be honest, most people already have proper abdominals underneath, yet the six-pack abs are simply covered up by all of that added flabby stomach fat.
Instead of focusing so much on abdominal exercises to make your tummy flatter and more like a six-pack, you will lose much more body fat by focusing a large amount of your training time with special patterns of high intensity full-body, multi-joint workout. The best exercises for losing that abdominal fat are the exercises that work the main portions of the body at once.
Exercises that work the large muscle units of the legs, upper and lower vertebrae, and chest give you the biggest metabolic bang for your buck in terms of abdominal fat loss. Joining these types of big multi-joint exercises in high intensity super-set, tri-set, or circuit mode gives you the biggest fat-burning and metabolism increasing response from your exercises.
And that is one of the best kept tricks for flat sexy abdominals that are actually visible as a six-pack!
Now when it comes to abdominal-specific exercises, another mistake most people make is mindlessly pumping away with hundreds of crunches and other unimportant abs exercises that hardly give your abdominals much resistance to work against. If you want to actually develop your abs to the best extent possible, don't expend your time with exercises that you can do more than 20 or 25 reps... that means you are definitely not doing an exercise that provides ample resistance to the abs. Exercises that give you enough resistance to move you down into the 6-15 rep range per set acts great for the abs.
In general, 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 inside closer to the torso. A couple great examples of these greater resistance abdominal exercises are hanging leg raises or knee raises by means of a "pelvic curl up", or an exercise like lying hip thrusts. Many times, the same people that can carry out 50 or 100 crunches, can't even complete more than 2 or 3 properly implemented hanging leg raises.
If you really want tighter flatter abdominals that appear like a six-pack, remember that shedding that extra belly fat is the MOST critical factor. Also, when looking at abdominal-specific exercises, always remember higher resistance exercises that involve 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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