These gut-wrenching exercises will help get you those flat sexy abs in no time.
The first three exercises work on your upper and lower abs. The fourth slims and strengthens your sides. Add one or more of these moves to your ab routine every time and soon you will be showing off your new abs.
Standard Crunch
Lie on your back with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Hands behind your head, elbows out to the sides. Looking straight up and using just your abs, lift your upper body off the floor. Your head, shoulders and back should be off the floor, then slowly return to the starting position. Don’t pull your head with your hands! Think of someone grabbing your shirt at your chest and pulling you up.
Do as many as you can, try building up reps each time you do them.
Bicycle
Lie on your back on the floor with your hands behind your head. Raise your legs bent at the knees. Your lower legs should be parallel to the floor. Bring one knee back toward your head and straighten out the other leg. At the same time your doing this raise your upper body and touch your knee with the opposite elbow. In other words, right elbow to left knee and visa versa. Then switch legs.
Again do as many as you can. Make sure to build up your reps each time you do them.
Marine Crunch
Lie on your back, bring your legs up over your hips, toes toward the ceiling. Now raise your arms up, fingers toward the ceiling. Raise your upper body so that your fingers reach for your toes at the same time raise your tailbone off the floor. If this is to hard to do you can switch between raising your upper body then your hips. (I think this one is a killer) Do as many as you can building up your reps as it gets easier.
Side Plank
Lie on one side with your body straight. Place your arm underneath you, elbow bent, forearm on the floor. The only thing touching the floor should be your forearm and the side of one foot. Hold for as long as you can. Then switch sides. As this becomes easier to do straighten out your arm so only your hand is touching the floor. Make sure your arm is even with your shoulder.
When working your abs I would rest for 30 to 60 seconds between exercises. As you get better at these I would cut your rest down by 10 seconds. Make sure you eat a healthy diet plan and before long you will have those flat, sexy abs that you have been longing for.