Training Our Abs Basic Techniques

Are you conscious of what your ab muscles are doing when you are sitting down? Or how your abs and lower back muscles relate to each other and the rest of the body?

For basic information, whenever we bend, twist, or arch backward, our central muscles spring into action and their main function is to work together, so that we can stand upright with relative comfort and security. If they did not, we'll be walking around on all fours like other warm blooded mammals.

Hence, to get the most from our abs training efforts, we will need some basic techniques.

When doing exercises, first of all, we should remember to exhale through the mouth as we exert an effort and inhale through our nose as we release the effort. This will remind us to use our abdominals since more of our abdominal muscle fibers get into the act when we breathe forcefully.

Monitoring your speed when exercising is also a crucial consideration. Always work slowly with control. You know you are moving at the right speed if you feel a continuous contraction (strong pull) through your muscles when both exerting and releasing efforts.

During any exercise in which you are lying on your back, keep your lower back pressed firmly onto the floor, unless that exercise specifically states lifting your entire back off the floor. This is to protect your lower back from injury and to remind you to engage all your muscles for the entire duration of the exercise.

If you feel pain anywhere else, slow down the exercise and review through the process carefully again. If the pain continues, stop the exercise immediately. Try all the exercises so you can know which are the ones you can do and which ones you cannot do.

For the exercises to be really effective, you must focus your attention on the muscles being trained. Bending or exercising your muscles a few dozen times do not always mean you've worked your abs. You must be clear where you are supposed to be concentrating on, what the exercise is supposed to feel like, and where you are supposed to feel it.

Before you start exercising, make sure you know what you doing and are doing things right, to gain maximum benefit from them. Getting the basic techniques correct is the important first step.

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