Tuesday, December 29, 2009

How to Lose Your Love Handles With Abs Exercises



People want to look fit, but hey know that the main obstacle in their way is the belly fat, and to be more specific they know that it's about losing the "love handles". These are deposits of body fat located at both sides of our torso, covering the oblique muscles. So, it is important to know also how to lose your love handles.

The traditional exercises will not work for this purpose because exercises like crunches and sit-ups don't work on your obliques; rather they center their efforts on the rectus abdominus. However there are good exercises that rigger the obliques and let you lose the love handles along with a healthy diet. Let's have a look at them:

Side Bend

These is my personal favorite exercise to lose the love handles.

1. Stand upright with feet shoulder width apart and your knees slightly bent.

2. Lower you torso to one side and then to the other slowly and with control. Be sure to lean side to side only.

Torso Twist

Do this after the side bends.

1. Stand like in the side bend.

2. Twist the body to the right, then to the left. NOTE: Twist form the torso not from the hips. The twisting must be done with your obliques.

Side Crunch

Time to lie down on the floor! You can use an exercise mat or a towel to soften the surface. 1. Lie down on the right side.

2. Bring your right arm across your waist and let it rest

3. Touch your ear with the fingertips of your left hand, so that your left elbows winds up pointing straight upward.

4. Lift your shoulders of the floor 30cm contracting your obliques.

5. Repeat for a full set and change sides.

Seated Knee Drop

1. Rest on your hipbones on the floor. You can stabilize yourself with your hands behind you.

2. Bend your knees and put your feet flat on the surface with your ankles together.

3. Lower your knees to the right. Your feet should roll to, but still rest on the floor.

4. Continue until your knees are 6 inches above the floor, hold for a second and repeat on the other side.

5. The key here is control of movement, instead of using momentum.

Now you know how to lose your love handles. These are pretty simple exercises that require nothing but time to do. Stick to them every day or leaving a day off and you'll start seeing results in no time!

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Abs Exercise Machines - Do You Really Need One?



Many people say that abs exercise machines are the quickest, easiest and best way to get six pack abs. In one sense they're right, but in another totally different sense they're wrong. Keep reading and I'll explain why, and also why you don't need abs exercise machines to get the flat abs you want.

First, let's have a look at the different types of abs exercise machines that are available to buy.

1. Crunchers. These are the big odd looking cage type contraptions which you use to help guide you when you're doing crunches. You lie on your back with your head on a small pillow, and rest on your arms on the cruncher's side bars. As your contract your abs, the cage rolls up with your shoulder blades offering them extra support.

These machines (while although they're not technically "machines" in the sense that they have moving parts) are a waste of time. They offer no real benefit other than making you look like you're in an exercise DVD. You can easily perform exactly the same motion without the machine, and it's a lot cheaper!

2. Complicated gym machines. By this I mean the great big chairs, tables and who knows what else that make you feel like you're either going to the dentist, or being abducted by aliens! If you have to strap yourself in, hold on for fear of falling off or contort yourself and spend ages fiddling with various settings, it's not worth it.

There is one decent abs exercise machine in your local gym though, and that's the "Captain's Chair". This is basically a chair without a seat raised into the air. You stand up and grip the "arms" of the chair, brace your back against the chairs back, and then lift your knees to your chest. This exercise can be performed similarly by lying on the floor and raising your knees to your chest, but the Captain's Chair forces you to exert more effort and control over your entire core.

3. Electric ab belts. Have you ever used one of these? I'm talking about the ab belts which you strap around your waist, then plug into the wall. They zap you with small electrical charges for a few seconds, every few seconds. This forces your abdominal muscles to contract and tense. If you leave it on for a week, you should come out with six pack abs.. at least that's the theory.

Some people do have good results with electric ab belts, especially if they have a very busy lifestyle and can't afford 30 minutes a day for a little exercise. But generally the results you'll get from electric ab belts will be cosmetic - you won't see drastic improvements in your overall core strength, and it can be a pain to have to keep moving the electric pads around so you hit all the muscles you should.

4. Fitness wheels. These devices are a little hard to imagine if you haven't seen one already. Basically, it's a wheel with a handle sticking out of the center on either side. This means you can hold both handles and run the wheel along the floor. To use the machine, you lie on your front, putting your body weight on your toes and on your hands (holding onto the wheel). Now by contracting your abs you will pull the wheel towards you, and essentially do an upside down situp. When you release your abs, the wheel rolls away from you and you flatten out.

These machines can be tough to use - it takes a lot of balance and there is a distinct possibility of the wheel running away from you and you injuring yourself.

All in all, while ab exercise machines can be a bit of fun, they shouldn't replace a proper manual ab workout. All you need is a training mat, some floor space, some music if you want it, 30 minutes a day and a bit of elbow grease.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

The Process Of Obtaining Or Trying To Obtain The Stereotypical Perfect Flat Abs



Flat abs. Other benefits include higher energy levels, more endurance power, more flexibility, and a flat abs. Six meals a day plus snacks does not equal flat abs and sexy muscles.

And the rest do sit-ups and crunches until they are blue in the face just to find that flat abs are still thousands of crunches away. Here we mention a couple of easy-to-do, great exercises for flat abs and they are 3 simple free workout routines to get a ripped abs without even doing 100 abdominal exercises every day. Many crunches will give you firm abs Performing loads of ab exercises will absolutely not give you a flat abs unless you can loose any undesirable fat that may be camouflages your stomach.

The process of obtaining or trying to obtain the stereotypical perfect flat abs is long and does require a high level of commitment. One can have convenient azimuth degree markings molded in heavy duty ABS flat base. She is naturally tall and thin with wide hips and very flat abs.

If you had to pick 3 things that work time and time again to get flat abs, what would they be. "I don't have time to...have flat abs" "I can't ...have flat abs" "I not able to . Have flat abs".

Well, the gym will give you the flat abs and toned arms and legs that you can flaunt. Flat abs and six packs are difficult to achieve. The truth is we all have flat abs.

The first and most important thing to get control of in order to get flat abs is cleaning up your diet. And all that is interpreted as "I choose not to have flat abs" Anyone can achieve their ideal body (within genetic capacity) if they dedicate themselves. If your answer to the above is a loud "I don't have time", "I can't" or "I'm not able to" Then you should follow it up with the words "have flat abs".

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