Get Strong, Toned Abs With These Tips!

Who doesn't want a flat stomach and a toned six pack? Getting the midriff of your dreams is hard work. With a proper diet and a solid fitness program a six pack is possible. Follow these exercise tips for achieving perfect abs.

Five Exercise Tips For Solid Abs

1. Use a stability ball. Lay on your back and roll backward to your mid back. At this point, the supporting weight is in your low back, legs and butt. Rolling back on the ball farther than your shoulder blades, creates body weight resistance for your crunches. This builds abdominal muscles.

2. Go slow and hold every crunch in the contracted position. Concentration during crunches ensures they are performed properly. Make sure to direct focus in to your abs and feel the"crunch" with every rep.

3. Add Weight. Add resistance to your crunches by holding a weight on your chest or behind your head. You can also use a cable machine kneeling with the weight behind your head or in front of your chest. Weighted crunches build muscle.

4. Treat your abs like any other muscle group. Use body weight and weighted exercises. Fatigue at 10-15 reps and do 2-3 sets per exercise. Multiple sets directs blood flow in to the targeted muscle and promote growth.

5. Raise your legs during ab exercises to work the lower portion of your abs. Make sure you also do bicycle crunches and other exercises that target the obliques, which are the abdominal muscles on the sides of your torso.

Use these tips and make sure to always surprise your body to see the best results. Rotate exercises regularly using body weight, stability balls and tightening exercises such as planks and side planks to get the six pack of your dreams. Remember to do low back exercises like the alternating superman and back extensions on a stability ball or a machine to create muscular balance through out the core.

When you are working out other body parts use exercises that will also target the core, for extra conditioning. Try squats on the BOSU and walking lunges with a weighted twist for all over fantastic results.

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