Abdominal Exercises Progression
January 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under General Health
Abdominal Exercises can provide stronger and muscular abs; if you do it right. One of the most important things to remember is that you can not exercise just one part of your body for example your abs and expect to firm them up correctly. You must exercise your whole body and eat right and take vitamins.
The first thing you must do in order to firm up any part of your body is to learn to breathe. Take long deep breaths and breathe from deep within those stomach muscles. You will feel your stomach move inward and you take those deep breathes and your stomach will move out ward as you exhale. This should be practiced so that when you are working on your abdominal region it is done correctly.
An abdominal exercise not only strengthens your abs but will strengthen your lower back region, your buttocks, and your tale bone and supply your body with oxygen when you do the breathing exercises correctly. You will not only feel better about your body because you have taken pride in your exercises, you will just plain feel better.
The use of exercise machines can also help in developing firm abs; however they won’t do you a lot of good if you don’t use them. Exercise equipment such as an abs roller will not help you to lose the unwanted flab around your abdominal area but it will help you to firm up your abs. This is way people don’t realize. The use of exercise equipment will not help you to lose weight. Most of the exercise equipment is built to help you firm up muscles after the weight is already lost, or while you are losing the weight.
Abdominal Exercises
We all had gym classes in school. So I won’t describe in full detail the exercises I am about to mention.
Push ups – these help to strengthen your arm muscles, leg muscles and stomach muscles
Sit ups – these can be done in various ways to help stomach and back muscles such as laying flat on the floor your feet together and they lift your legs up about 10 inches off the floor and hold them there for thru the count of 10. Lie flat on your back and then do sit ups arms stretched out reaching for your toes. Lie flat on your back and lift you butt off the floor hands placed palms down on the floor. Lift and hold to the count of 10.
The ball – you can use a large exercise ball to lie flat on your back and roll the ball downward toward the top of your head and back. You can also lie on your stomach and roll toward the top of your head.
Water exercise – a ½ hour workout is like 3 to 6 hours of workout out of the water. If you are a beginner start out in shallow water doing leg lifts, arm circles, etc. If you can tolerate deeper water the work out can be more intense. Walk and lift your legs as high as you can as if you are marching. If you swim, swimming by kicking your feet and moving your arms will help stretch those abdominal muscles and help to firm them up. Hold on to the side of the pool and kick your legs, or use a floating device to hold on too.
Water exercise is not only good for you, provides you with full body exercise, but also aides in support for your back as you exercise. Regardless of what kind of exercise you choose to strengthen your abdominal area, abdominal exercise progression takes work.
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