BEST AB WORKOUT
September 24, 2008 by admin
Need To Tighten Those Abs Quick? Well, Here’s One Of The Best Ab Workouts For You. Takes Up To 30mins A Day And You’ll Have Those Abs You’ve Always Dreamed Of In No Time.
Target Muscles: rectos abdominals, oblique
Lie supine on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Place your fingers lightly behind your head for support; do not pull on your head. Allow your elbows to flare out from your ears.
Action: Exhale and curl up, shortening the distance between your ribcage and your hips, lifting your head, shoulders and upper back off of the floor. Slowly lower to the start position and repeat.
Do three sets of 15 reps.
Target Muscles: rectus abdominis, obliques, iliopsoas, sartorius
Lie supine on the floor with your legs extended in the air directly above your hips and your hands under your hips.

Action: Initiate the movement from your lower abs and curl your hips up off the floor and slightly towards your head. Hold at the top of the movement for a second and reverse the motion slowly to the starting position and repeat.
Do three sets of 15 reps.
Target Muscles: obliques
Lie supine on the floor with your hips and knees bent to 90 degrees and your feet off the floor. Place your fingers lightly behind your head for support, do not pull on your head. Allow your elbows to flare out from your ears.
Action: Exhale and lift your right shoulder toward your left knee as your extend your right leg away from you. Repeat, alternating sides in a bicycle motion.
Do three sets of 20 reps.
V-UP
Target Muscles: rectus abdominis, iliopsoas, obliques, sartorius
Sit with your hands just behind your hips and your legs extended in front of you. Lean back on your hands and lift your legs off the ground about six inches, keeping them straight and together. You should be balancing on your butt.

Action: Keeping your back straight and your chin lifted, curl your knees in toward your chest. Slowly return to the start position and repeat.
Do three sets of 12 reps.
Target Muscles: rectus abdominis
Lie supine on the floor with your hands under your bum. With your legs together extend them away from you. Lift your legs, head and upper shoulders off the ground, this is your starting position.

Action: Exhale and curl up, shortening the distance between your hips and ribcages. At the same time bend your knees allowing them to separate as wide as possible but keeping the balls of your feet together and curl your right knee in towards your right shoulder and your left knee in towards your left shoulder. Hold here for a moment, return to start position and repeat.
Do three sets of 12 reps.





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