Lets Get to The Core Once upon a time Britney Spears shared with the world that she did one thousand crunches a day, the secret to her rock hard abs. However, it’s not all about quantity Britney - it’s about quality and of course, as always noted what you eat. And when it comes to your best body ever, the goal is not only aesthetics but also to reap all of the benefits from the work that you put in. You want washboard abs a la Britney Spears to work as well as they look, right? Well then, your focus should be on your core. The body works in unison - each moving part relying on the other for support. The core is the central part of your body - it is the foundation of your body and key to good posture, a strong back and defined midsection. A good, solid core will get you your good, solid abs but also make you stronger in all fitness arenas. Being consistent and having variety in your core training will keep it fun, challenging and help target all of the little muscles from all of their different angles ensuring that your strength is always up to par. …show more content…
Bicycle Crunch 1. Simply lay on your back flat on the floor, keep your core tight (by pulling your navel in) 2. Place your hands behind your head, and bring your knees towards your chest and lift your shoulder blades off the ground (Right Elbow and Left Knee, then Left Elbow and Right Knee) Leg Lifting 1. Laying flat on your
Take a deep breath, reaching your arms up above your head as you inhale, and lowering your arms out to the sides and down as you exhale.
It's clear that crunches are not helping people get the six-pack they want. In fact, crunches are known to cause an aged spine, lower back stress, and injury that can end your ability to workout hard for the type of results you want. The fact is that there has to be a better way.
Lie prone on the floor. Stretch your legs back, tops of the feet on the floor. Spread your hands on the floor under your shoulders. Hug the elbows back into your body.
The first step is to place a bolster along the wall and lie down on your sides while your hips lie on the bolster. The next step is to get the hips close to your chests so that the soles of the feet rest on the wall’s surface and then slowly try to raise the feet onto the wall while trying to roll the hips closed to the wall on the bolster. The last step is to move closer to the wall and raise your legs straight on the wall and stay on for five minutes before release.
Gently lower ear to shoulder and hold for 10 seconds. Slowly roll chin to chest and up to other shoulder and hold for 10 seconds. Repeat several times and be careful not to extend your neck back too far.
Point both feet up toward the ceiling. Inhale, and stretch the arms up over the head. Following the direction of the hands, at the same time lengthen the entire spine upwards. Exhale and bend forward from the hips keeping the spine as lengthened as possible and reaching towards the feet with the hands as coming down. Reach the feet if possible, If can not reach the feet, let the hands fall easily on top of the shins or thighs, or alongside the legs on the floor, or wherever they can comfortably rest. Try to avoid a lot of curvature in central part of the spine during this pose. Try and keep the back straighter. Assure the feet are kept together pointed straight up towards the ceiling. When in position the gently pull with the arms on the feet or legs, stretching the head more towards the feet and giving an additional stretch to the spine and backs of the legs, hold the pose, relax as much as possible, particularly in the shoulders and hips. With each exhale let the breath do the work - ideally the abdomen should fall closer toward the thighs, the chest toward the knees and the head towards the feet. Hold the asana for 30 seconds. To come out of the seated forward bend, inhale and stretch the hands past the feet, come up with a flat back stretching the arms and spine up as the body comes up. Exhale and relax the arms
To start, you have to be standing in front of a mirror with your feet shoulder width apart. Have your elbow at 90 degree angles and your palms facing each other. Put your right hand at your eyes in the front of you, and your left hand at your butt. When you say “GO” as fast as you can bring your knees half way up, stay in place, while doing this make sure that your knees point straight ahead, and that your heels do not tough the ground. Your hands should just graze your pockets. You should count how many times your right foot hits the floor. Perform this five times for twenty seconds with a one minute break in between. The equipment needed to complete this exercise is a mirror and a stop watch.
Many of you must be thinking that to work your abdominals, you have to do typical targeted ab exercises like sit ups or crunches, etc. These ab exercises are good at targeting your abs area. However, there are actually some exercises out there that can actually benefit more to your abs than those typical abs workouts.
Ab Toning Exercises For Chiseled AbsMany of us yearn for a perfectly toned washboard stomach. But, many of us do not know how to get it. Well, this article will show you ab-toning exercises for chiseled abs, so that you can do the right kinds of exercises in the right way to make sure that you quickly build your washboard stomach for this upcoming summer season.Before you begin, you should realize that the abdominal muscles are the hardest to work on, especially if you are dealing with weight issues on top of the desire to tone and strengthen. The best thing you can do is decrease your caloric intake, while increasing your level of physical activity so that you may begin to shed some of those extra pounds.Now, realize that abdominal workouts can be performed without the use of exercise equipment that you
1. Front Crunches. First you have the front crunch. Lay flat down on the ground and slowly crunch your upper body up as far as you can comfortably go.
To begin, lie supine (on your back). Fold your knees and keep your feet hip distance apart on the floor, ten to twelve inches from your pelvis, with your knees and ankles in a straight line. With your arms beside your body, place your palms faced down.
-Stretch #2- this stretch is called the upper pecs and anterior deltoids stretch. You put both arms behind your back and clasp them. Next step
Exercises are very important to your body. You need to create time to do a few exercises from time to time. You can decide to be performing these exercises early in the morning or late in the evening. You can also consider performing them in the afternoon. You will note that there a wide range of exercises that can benefit your body. These include swimming, jogging, squatting and so forth. Ab workouts are aslo very important for your body. Regardless of age, gender, level of fitness or even type of body, people that want to transform their bodies usually look at ways to improve the definition of the stomach first. You will note that during summer, having a flat, tight stomach is great when wearing a swimming suit. You will also note that when wearing a regular clothing, a toned stomach also improves the overall look and the way clothes fit. In addition, achieving a flat, tight and toned stomach also boosts confidence. This is the reason why ab workouts are important. The following tips can helps you in performing ab workouts:
Our sedentary lives do not require us to use our core and lower body generally, and due to this fact, we build up fat in these areas, as well as creating problems such as back aches, pinched nerves, slipped disks and other debilitating injuries that may be avoided with a muscular core from using lower back exercises and core exercises.
Although targeted exercise don't reduce belly fat, they do tone and strengthen your abdominal muscles under the fat. When your belly slims down, you'll have a tight, well-defined tummy. These exercises can be part of your strength training regimen. In addition to basic crunches for your rectus abdominis, you can do reverse crunches to target the lower part of your rectus abdominis, and elbow-to-knee crunches to target your obliques at the sides of your waist. Also include exercises, such as front and side planks, to strengthen your entire core. (See References 6)