Cape One Health

25 March 2009

Easy Ways to Achieve a Healthy Looking Abdomen

Filed under: General Health, Exercise — admin @ 4:42 pm

To achieve and maintain a healthy looking abs, we need to make a sacrifice on a few things. Do not worry achieving a perfect six-pack abdomen is not hard with the help of Abs Exercises available today. Aside from Abs Exercises, we also need to focus on our daily diets. We may need to lessen our food intake and our consumption of alcoholic beverages. This for the reason that high intake of alcohol and foods with high fat contents can increase the amount of belly fat. Although Abs Exercises are effective way to remove belly fat, to maintain it for a period of time needs making a few changes in our diet.

Our attitude towards achieving a healthy abs will also affect how we are going to go about it. There should be dedication in order to attain these things. The Abs Exercises that we are going to do will only be affective if we are going to exercise regularly. We just need to allot at least 30 minutes of our daily time in these exercises. If you are too busy in your daily activities and do not have a free time of at least 30 minutes, you can divide this 30-minute exercise into several ones and distribute it throughout the day. If we are to follow these Abs Exercises routine regularly, in just a few weeks time will be able to attain that six-pack abs we are dreaming.

This only proves that achieving a healthy looking abdomen is not that hard.

Ab Workout: Hitting the lower Abs

Filed under: General Health, Exercise — admin @ 4:19 pm

The lower Abs requires a lot of work to maintain, and there are a couple of Ab workouts that target these problem areas specifically. Two great exercises are the Reverse Crunch and the Full Vertical Crunch, both are simple and can be done in the comfort of your own home with no specialist equipment.

Reverse Crunch
The Reverse Crunch is the mother of all Ab workouts and will really tone up the lower abs quickly. To do this ensure that you have plenty of space and the;

  1. Lie on the floor and cross your legs at the ankle, knees slightly bent
  2. Contract the Abs and lift you bottom off the floor, lifting your feet toward the ceiling
  3. Gently hold and relax the abs slowly and repeat

This is a serious work out and you should take care to be gentle with your lower back, the lifting should be done by your abs not the back.

The Full Vertical Crunch
Again makes sure you have plenty of room to manoeuvre and;

  1. Lie on your back and raise your legs until your toes are pointing at the ceiling
  2. Place your hands behind your neck and gently lock the fingers to support the neck
  3. Using the Abs, contract your body so that your head comes up and your legs lift toward the ceiling
  4. Relax back and repeat

Again care should be taken with the lower back and neck.

These provide for a serious lower Ab workout and will help to maintain and improve tone and sculpting of the Ab area.

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