What do you do for your lower abdominals?
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renae161
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What exercises do you do for your lower abdomen?
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Squat, deadlift, bench, lunge, push up, pull up8
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The best ab exercise from lower to upper is the hanging straight leg raise, where you hang from a bar and lift your legs w/o bending your knees to touch the bar w/your shins or toes.
Very difficult to do but nothing really better to work your abs. Secondary benefit of this compound movement is the strengthening of your obliques and lower back (which together w/the abs make up your core), hip flexors, arms, shoulders and grip. Far superior to sit-ups and crunches which are isolation exercises of limited utility and greater potential for injury.
If you can't do them, you can work up to them in a progression which is well documented on the Net. Hanging knee raises and the 1/2 leg raise (in the L position) are the 2 stages below doing a full hanging straight leg raise. Beyond that are the V position (where you hold your legs at the bar), the "windshield wiper" and other variations. Just Google "hanging leg raise progression" for further information.2 -
Reverse Crunches or Leg Raises1
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To reduce fat? Eating less.
To build muscle? Hanging leg raises, dragon flag, V sits.2 -
GF Bangs3
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Hanging leg raises.1
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Hanging leg raises and inverted pike headstands.2
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The exercises I currently notice a difference from are fork put-downs and Spanx squeezes. I also do front squats and deadlifts which I'm told work my abs along with a bunch of other muscles.2
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I see that no one has made the annoying "can't spot reduce fat" remark yet, so i will.1
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Cherimoose wrote: »I see that no one has made the annoying "can't spot reduce fat" remark yet, so i will.
The OP's question was what exercises can you do for the lower abs, not how to get rid of ab/belly fat. So, a "you can't spot reduce" response would NOT be relevant.7 -
Um...I wasn't spot reducing. I am aware how exercising works. I was just making sure I included something that included that area as well. I'm told crunches are no good for the abdominal area, but squats, dead lifts, push ups and things like that are. I am doing push ups, planks, squats and things like that, but I didn't know what exercises target what. I downloaded an app to tell me what exercises they have listed do what.0
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I have a few more on my phone I got today, but the one I was mentioning is called fitness and body building idk if Iphones have it, but it's free in the app store for android user's.0
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Here's a great read on the abdominals and which exercises give you the most bang for your buck: https://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/muscles/abdominals/
(Warning: Sales pitch at the top of the page, but you can scroll right past it)3 -
Ok, great thank you! I will read it tonight before I go workout. I'm half torn if I should go for a run this evening or not. Usually I just go workout for 30 min and the occasional walk every so often, but I wanted to go for a run this week. The only problem is people have sighted more of those "killer clowns" popping up around town the closer Halloween approaches.0
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There's only one gym in my town and it's fairly small and doesnt have much room, so I'd rather just workout at home and do my own thing. But, the workout routine I got going on is showing great results. And, I'm keeping up on top of it. Doing it everyday. Last night I actually took it up a notch and felt great afterwards.
And, last time I saw a professional he tried to sell me on a pitch about how I need a personal trainer and then proceeded by showing me a body building fitness model that was super muscular everywhere and had her stomach pulled in way too much in the picture and just didn't look healthy to me. It was just really off putting and I told them no cause that's not what I'm looking for. Plus on here I can ask any questions I may have to help me.
I will gradually buy more home equipment over time and take any advice or suggestion's into consideration if they're a possibility for me.1 -
I have a yoga mat at home and set a timer for 15 minutes of planks. 30 seconds on and 30 seconds rest.1
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I have a yoga mat and do planks too, but I need to buy a new mat. Mine is wearing down and cracking now.0
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