The Secrets of Abdomen Toning Revealed
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The Secrets of Abdomen Toning Revealed
Mark Hanson is an author and fitness expert. For more information about muscle gain and weight loss, visit his website at http://www.FastMuscleGainSecrets.com/
Many people think that abdomen toning can be accomplished by simply doing sit ups. Sit-ups alone will never produce the results you’re looking for.
How many sit ups have you done over the years anyway? Thousands. Maybe tens of thousands. How much good have they done you? Not much.
Here is the secret on how to tone your abs faster than you thought possible. – Unbalanced Exercises
Recent discoveries indicate that exercises that require you to maintain your balance while performing them are better for you than those that don’t. Why? Because you must contract (use) more muscles in the core of your body to maintain your balance AND do the exercise.
Here are a few examples of what I’m talking about:
- One leg squat
- One arm shoulder press
- One leg, bent over dumbbell row
Attempt these exercises while trying not to contract your ab muscles and you’ll soon discover that it’s impossible.
Abdominal Muscles and the Core of Your Body
The core of your body is where your ab muscles are located. If you have to contract them to do other exercises, like one leg squats, then ab work becomes a valuable bi-product of other exercises. In a way, you are killing two birds with one stone, working a leg or shoulder muscle while simultaneously toning your abdominal muscles.
I confess you aren’t going to get ripped abs by doing unbalanced exercises alone but they will help shorten the journey to get there. Unbalanced exercising allows you to work your abs more often than just the two or three times per week when you do focused abdominal exercises.
Create your own ab workouts
Ab workouts are easy to create. If you work out in a gym or own some fitness equipment like a floor mat, dumbbells, barbell, chin-up bar and stability ball you’re good to go.
Here are a few suggestions for ab exercises:
- Use a chin-up bar to do hanging leg raises.
- Use a stability ball to do abdominal crunches.
- Do barbell abdominal rollouts (really focus on contracting your abs while performing this exercise)
- Do abdominal flutter kicks on your floor mat. Increase the difficulty by adding ankle weights
Conclusion
We are always on the lookout to get faster results from our workouts. Following the tips in this article by adding unbalanced exercises to your workout routine will do just that.
You now know what a lot of people don’t know, that unbalanced exercises work the core of your body and therefore your abs. Now go out and do it! Add a few unbalanced exercises to your workouts and see how they affect your abs.
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