Easy Ab Exercises You Can Do At Home
If you’re looking for easy ab exercises that help with getting rid of stomach fat and developing a flat tummy, then you need to address three important issues. Of course, you need to exercise to develop your abs. But you also need to address the two layers of fat that reside in your abdomen. If you don’t address these fatty layers, then unfortunately no amount of ab exercises will get you the stomach you want.
What Are The Best Easy Ab Exercises?
The best simple ab exercises focus on interval training more than on cardio training. Why? Because the right approach is a basic combination of body weight exercises which properly work the whole body core.
There is much more to ab training than working the abs! That is why so many of the so-called ab training plans fail. Sure, you might develop your ab muscles, but neither you nor anybody else will see them, and you’ll still have those two layers of nasty stomach fat – unsightly, and very bad for you!
The Correct Approach
It is best to begin with an appropriate combination of easy ab exercises which focus on body weight routines, incorporating squats, lunges, step-ups, body rows (inverted). These can be combined with some basic overhead presses and rows (using dumbbells).
You should not focus too much on cardio, despite what so-called experts may tell you. Believe me, you’ll build up more of a sweat with the above exercises, and you’ll get the cardio benefit, but you’ll also be training your body to continue burning the fat that you need to eliminate for the stomach you want to have.
Even with the most simple ab exercises, you’ll get the cardio benefit, without the cardio!
At the end of the day, your goal is to get your body fat percentage to the right level. Achieving abdominal muscles that you can actually see, and the flat stomach (front and sides) that you want, is all about getting your body fat to the desired levels.
For men, this should be less than 10%. For women, less than 16%.
If you take away anything from this page it should be this:
Ab specific exercises are not the answer to a flat stomach!
The key is to combine appropriate exercise with a sensible nutritious diet that you can enjoy and maintain for life.
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More Useful Resources
- Duke University: Exercise and Depression
- Wikipedia – Abdominal Exercise
- About.com – Best Ab Exercises
- Better Health Channel: Ab Muscles
- Exercise-Related Abdominal Pain
