5 Simple Ways to Change Your Ab Workouts Forever.
December 1, 2009 by Linda Johnson
Filed under Diabetes Health and Fitness
Why stay with old routines that don’t eliminate fat from your abs and barely even tone them up, because they’re so unendingly specific? Instead, go with some of the new routines, and ignore all that old junk.
Here are 5 reasons those classic routines no longer work.
#5: Ab Workouts of the Future — No More Crunches!
Most professional trainers have been leaving crunches behind over the past several years — they’re simply too limited as an exercise to really work properly, as they only target one specific part of your abs.
Plus, a culture of repetition built up around them that wasn’t very safe or worthwhile, meaning an entire generation of exercisers wasted a lot of time in the gym.
#4: Forget the Exercise Tools, Too.
If you’re about to spend some big cash on some kind of infomercial advice dedicated entirely to your abs, don’t bother — all the best and most effective moves you can do with just your body.
Of course, if a piece of equipment provides the motivational spark that allows you to actually get your ab workouts done, there’s no harm in using it — just don’t expect any sort of miracle devices.
#3: An Abdominal Workout That Targets Your Upper & Lower Abs Separately? Forget It.
Most people can’t target one or the other of their ab muscles — when you’re doing exercise, you’re just exercising the whole thing, even if it’s designed to only ‘hit’ one specific part.
Stay consistent when it comes to your ab exercises and don’t obsess over separating your upper and lower regions.
#2: Variety is the Key.
One of the problems with the classic ab approach was that it focused entirely on a maximum of about 3 different ab exercises — usually some form of crunch, and then, hey — another type of crunch!
Every single study done since then has proven that sticking to these limited amounts of exercise keeps your abs from really developing as they should — variety really is important.
#1: A Fitness Ab Workout Needs to Include the Bicycle.
Because of its intensity, it’s not easy to sell people on the famous bicycle routine. Once you see how to perform the exercise (check Youtube), you’ll probably understand why.
But recently it has been proven that no other exercise is as fundamentally effective in working your abs. If a crunch gives you 100% activity, a bicycle gives you 278%.
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