How to Build stomach Muscles at home? Help

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Try this workout: http://www.self.com/flat-abs-guide/on-your-feet-ab-firmers-slideshow#slide=1

I definitely feel it, and even better it has improved my balance by quite a lot.

Bump! I'm specifically looking for something to work the obliques. I use the Swiss ball for upper and lower abs, but the only Swiss ball excercise I know of that's supposed to be for obliques just doesn't work for me. I've even tried it with the help of a trainer, but it just feels awkward and I end up feeling the burn in the leg that's supporting my weight instead of in my abs. Any ideas?

Have you tried a side plank? Great for the obliques. Other than just holding that position, you can tap your hip 10 times towards the end.

I like "Russian Twists" as well. You sit on the floor with your legs bent at a 90 degree angle (you can raise your feet off the floor or keep them on the floor). With either a medicine ball or light weight held at your chest, rotate from side to side. Try to keep your lower half from moving.

Thank You All You Are Wonderful Whats The Correct Way To Do Crunches??

When you do a crunch you want to keep your spine neutral the entire time, you don't want it to bend and you only want to come up about 30-45 degrees, nothing more. You should never bend your neck your head should stay neutral with your eyes looking straight into the ceiling. Always exhale coming up and inhale going back down.

I was gonna get started but I'm too sleepy. But to answer your question:

Squats.

When you've mastered the squat, you won't need to do crunches anymore. To sum up, if you mastered your core lifts, (and by core I don't mean the over marketed product selling nonsense word that means your mid section,) but your basic fundamental compound movements of squatting, pressing, deadlifting,and rowing, you won't need ab work. For one, the abdominal wall is hard to build up. You probably won't build it enough to notice anytime soon, especially while eating at a deficit which means, for 99.9% of people, that they are not giving their muscles adequate energy or nutrition to grow or recover. Yes you can do 8 billion things to get a burn, but so can the shake weight. I would say not to even worry about it, and take the time you'd waste on the much coveted "abs" region and do real work for your body. Showing ab muscles or getting a flat stomach is a matter of 90 percent dietary protocol, and 10 percent workout.

A proper crunch...just don't swing too hard and don't tuck your chin. Imagine you're holding a grapefruit under your chin and you don't want to drop it. Otherwise, just slightly curl up enough to get your upper back off of the ground. Curl like you're trying to wrap your chest bone around a basketball you're holding on your stomach.

And stay away from the much marketed"watch me try to render my spine and everything else unstable workout balls" ....because contrary to popular nonsense of "hey you like bouncy balls buy this one because your "core" has to work harder to stabilize you while you do this or that exercise" marketing guru crap, stability is the first thing you need as a beginner, intermediate, or advanced practitioner.

Yes I love run on sentences.

Try it modified by keeping one knee on the ground to help support your weight. The outer leg extended, then bring your arm down beneath you. and then reach it back to the sky it is an awesome reach.