Six Pack Ab Workouts
Abdominal Exercises, Including Leg Lifts and Six Inches
Like David's Michaelangelo, a set of six pack abs is the goal of many of the physically fit around the world. There are a multitude of exercises that canbe done to mold or form your abdominals, and the three following ones will set you on your way to working both your lower and upper abs.
Six Pack Workouts
Six inches are a simple abdominal exercise practiced by people throughout the world, including many students in grade school. Six inches is a beginner’s exercise that can be carried out for usually up to a minute at a time, for two or three set.
The starting position of six inches is simply lying on the ground with your back, neck, arms, and legs straight. The six inches exercise is executed by lifting your feet six inches off of the ground and holding them there. The exercise is meant to tighten and strengthen the abdominal muscles used to lift the legs off of the ground. The exercise can be complemented by altering the elevation of your legs relative to the ground.
Ab Exercises
Another of the most difficult abdominal to carry out, hanging sit-ups always require either a spotter or a specific piece of equipment. The piece of equipment is common to some in home gyms, and is used to flip the body upside down, while the feet are securely suspended from the top of the machine.
Hanging sit-ups begin with the body in the upside down position, either hanging from the special machine, or hanging from straps attached to a doorway, for example. The body remains relaxed upside down, with the arms folded over the chest or behind or beside the head like a regular sit-up.
Hanging Sit Up
With the legs straight, the abs are then used to lift the body to a 90 degree angle to the rest of the body, as a regular sit up.A different variation of the exercise can be done more simply. With your body lying on an exercise bench, slide your upper half off of the bench so that your back is resting on air, and your feet are supported by a spotter, so you don’t slide off of the bench. With your upper body at an obtuse angle, life your chest up to your bent knees.
Leg Lifts
Leg lifts are popular abdominal exercises used to work the very lower abdominals and to achieve the V-cut desire by many. They can be a beginner or intermediate level exercise, are can be supplemented with a oblique exercise.
In a leg lift, the body begins lying flat on the ground. The upper body does no work in this exercise. The leg lift is executed by lifting the straight legs off of the ground and into a 90 degree angle with the rest of the body. The abs are used to lift the legs up, and to bring them back down to a flat position before repeating 10-15 times.
There are many other workouts that can shape your abdominals into the "washboard" look that you desire, and these include:
Reverse Crunch and Double Crunch
and
Weighted Crunch and Exercise Ball Crunch
Male abdominals
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