The 3 Ab Exercises You Must NOT DoBy Craig Ballantyne [Fitness]
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Just say no to crunches! Craig Ballantyne explains the right way to train for a flat belly and six-pack abs.  Like Charlene, most of my clients have been very focused on the high-repetition ab workouts featured in the latest fitness magazine, but all these exercises did was waste their time and give them a pain in the neck. It wasn’t until Charlene dropped three exercises from her program and switched to fat burning interval training that she finally had a flat belly for swimsuit season. Are you sick and tired of doing the same old abdominal exercises but getting no results? Have you spent so much time on your back doing crunches that when you close your eyes at night you picture the ceiling of your gym? If so, you’ll love what I have to say. The 3 Exercises To Avoid If you’ve had enough with lying on dirty floors and crunching away until you get a stiff neck, but you still don’t have a firm belly, then it’s time to give up crunches, sit-ups and bicycles for good. In my book, those three exercises should really be called lame, harmful and useless. You literally never need to do those three abdominal exercises ever again and you can still lose belly fat, flatten your stomach and define your six-pack abs. If you rely on boring, back breaking abdominal crunches and sit-ups to burn belly fat, you'll never lose the ugly belly fat covering your abs. To get more fat burning results in less time, use fat burning interval training and total body abdominal exercises instead. Research shows that most abdominal crunches, sit-ups and machines are extremely dangerous for your lower back. You can do simple, safe and effective abdominal bodyweight exercises and interval training at home to flatten your stomach. Ready For 21st Century Ab Exercises? You need to use ab exercises where the focus isn't on crunching or spinal flexion, but instead offer stabilization and resistance to rotation (rather than doing a lot of rotation like in old school bicycle crunches). These new types of exercises include planks, side planks, exercise ball jackknives, exercise ball pikes and many, many more. All of these can be done at home, but without the indignity of lying on your back in the dirt! Just because these abdominal exercises aren't your traditional crunches, doesn't mean that you won't get that great ab burning feeling following your workout. These core exercises will still help you build six-pack abs, but in a much safer way that will reduce the incidence of lower back pain. |
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