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Cut Lean Abs with These Scissor Kicks

JORGE’S DAILY FIT TIP

BY Jorge Cruise, Chief Diet and Fitness Expert

Published March 20, 2009

Your ab muscles haven’t been worked all season, despite your New Year’s resolution to build a sexy six-pack. No need to hang your head in shame: TV-watching and binge eating seduces even the most motivated fitness buffs. But today it’s time to renew your promise to trim that sagging torso. Let’s re-start your game plan with these easy, fast-moving scissor kicks:

Step 1: Lie on your back with your legs extended. Place your hands flat on the ground with palms down, wedging them under your butt slightly to create leverage.

Step 2: Raise your feet about a foot off the ground. Kick your feet back and forth from side-to-side, imitating the movement of scissors. Focus on your lower abdominal region as you complete 12-15 reps. (Be sure to breathe steadily throughout the workout.)

Step 3: Rest for 15-30 seconds.

Step 4: Repeat the set three times,

Seated Broomstick Twist

JORGE’S DAILY FIT TIP

By Jorge Cruise, Chief Diet and Fitness Expert

Published March 17, 2009

The broomstick twist is the perfect move to work your obliques, the muscles that run along the sides of your belly. This will help slim your “love handles,” the dreaded fat that accumulates just above the hip. Are you ready? Let’s begin:

Step 1: Place a broomstick across the back of your shoulders, grip with your hands, and sit on the ball with your back straight, abs tight, and chin up. Twist your upper body to one side.

Step 2: With your chin up and abs squeezed tight, feather your breathing as you slowly twist to the other side though a count of 10 seconds.

Step 3: Hold and squeeze for 2 seconds at the maximum tension point.

Step 4: Return to the starting position through a count of 10.

Step 5: Repeat three times without resting.

How to Get the Perfect Abs

By Tom Philip

Some exercise are simple and does not alternate for hard workouts but some routines could be done on your own with high potency.

Working out at least twice a week is good enough to develop your abdominal muscles. Don’t forget to concurrently blend these easy ab exercises with a healthy diet to see the perfect abs that you are hoping for.

The most easiest of it is the contraction of the belly region and loosening it activates your transverse muscles.

The easiest 3 workouts that can be performed in your house are listed here :

1) Crunches 2) Standing Side Bends 3) Double crunches

Easy ab exercises 1 – Crunches

Lie flat on your back on the ground. Now raise your body slowly with your legs still, your body must be at an angle of 45 degree keep in mind to breathe during this process. Avoid snatching your neck as it causes stress and strain. Stay in this position for 2 to 3 secs and then return to your normal position.

Proposed repetitions : 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps.

Workout 2 – Standing side bends

Stand up straight and suck in your stomach. Keeping your legs straight and your arms at your sides, lean from left to right. Make sure you don’t rotate at the hips; rather, keep your upper body in a forward-facing position and simply tilt your body left and right. This mainly helps in developing your side abdominal and lower back muscles .

Proposed Repetition : 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps.

Workout 3 – Double crunches

It is a combination of knee raise and crunches and helps in developing lower abdominal region.

Rest on the back with your leg raised with your calf muscle parallel to the floor. Take a deep breath, suck in your stomach, look up, and raise your upper body off the ground until it is at a 45-degree angle with the floor. Don’t snatch your neck as it only causes stress only so avoid it.

Recommended Reps : 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps.

By following these easy ab exercises, you will be effectively working on your core muscles. In combination with good nutritional diet, these ab exercises can help you get the perfect abs in no time.

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AB Workout

Lets face it girls You need to get in shape, if you want to have a waist line. Exercise = in shape. With your cardio workout the best exercise is abdominals. You need to have a solid core, it stabilizes and supports the back. Strong supporting muscles around the spine also reduce lower back pain, as well as the risk for lower-back injury. Your Ab workout should consist of machines (if available) and non machine exercises. Below I have listed exercises that are good for your abs. My personal preferences are the ones with the medicine ball. You don’t have to do them all. Just pick a few and remember good abs…great shape…a win win..workout! Get Great Abs See How Click Here!

MACHINES:

Ab Crunch Machine

Exercise Data: Isolation

This is like a crunch, but the machine helps you to add resistance. Always follow the directions on the machine that you choose. Be sure to go slow and concentrate on using your abs to push the weight while relaxing your legs and feet. Exhale on the crunch and inhale on way back up. 3 sets/12-15 reps increase to 25 reps

Knee / Hip Raise On Parallel Bars

Exercise Data: Isolation

This exercise is great because it works your lower abs. Use your abs to pull your legs up.Then rotate your pelvis fore ward to really “crunch” your abs. Try not to swing. Using momentum in any exercise is cheating! Exhale and squeeze your abs at the top! Keep your legs together. 3 sets/12-15 reps

NON-MACHINE

Ab Roller

Exercise Data: Compound

Using the ab roller, start on the floor on your hands and knees. Slowly roll the ab roller forward, stretching your body into a straight position. Go down as far as you can without touching the floor with your body. Pause and pull yourself back to the starting position. Repeat for the desired number of reps. Go slow and do not touch the ground! 3 sets/10 reps increase gradually

Light Weight Side Bend

Exercise Data: Isolation

Works your obliques. Stand straight up with your feet shoulder width apart. Place a light weight (start out with 3-5 lb weight increase gradually) on your shoulders. Keep your back straight and your head up. Bend to the right as far as possible then bend to the left as far as possible. Bend at your waist only, not at your hips or knees. You can also do this seated, or with light weights or a medicine ball in your hands. 3 sets/12-15 reps

Seated Light Weight Twist

Exercise Data: Isolation

Another workout for your obliques. Place a light weight (start out with 3-5lb weight) on your shoulders and sit at the end of a flat bench with your feet firmly on the floor. Twist your torso to the right, then to the left by twisting at your waist only. Do not move your head from side to side. Keep your back straight and your head up. Can also be done standing or by holding a light weight or medicine ball close to your chest. 3 sets/12-15 reps

Seated Flat Bench Leg Pull-In

Exercise Data: Compound

Sit on the end of a flat bench. Place your hands behind you and grab the sides of the bench. Extend your legs straight out. Bend your knees and pull your legs into your midsection. Return to the starting position Concentrate on working the abs. Another position is to lie down. Place your hand above your head and grab the sides of the bench. 3sets/12-15 reps

Side Bridge

Exercise Data: Compound

Works your obliques and helps stabilize your spine. Lie on your side and support your body between your forearm and knee to your feet. Hold position for two to four seconds. Repeat on the other side. Build up to at least 60 seconds on each side of your body! 3 sets/12-15 reps

Sit-Up

Exercise Data: Isolation

Lie on your back on the floor with your feet about shoulder width apart. You may find it easier to put your feet under something. While you lift up exhale then bend at the waist, until you’re sitting up vertically. Keep your arms at your sides, crossed in front of you, or behind your head. Do not raise your feet off of the ground. Smoothly lower your body back to the floor. Repeat. 3 sets/12-15 reps

Toe Touches

Exercise Data: Isolation

Lie back on the floor and elevate your legs up into the air. Make sure you keep your lower back pressed flat into the ground. Exhale and crunch forward to touch your toes. Remember, don’t pull your chin down towards your chest. Keep your head in a neutral position. 3 sets/12-15 reps

Tuck Crunch

Exercise Data: Isolation

Lie on the floor with your hands either crossed over your chest or behind your head. Bend your knees and hips to form a right angle. Keep your lower legs parallel to the floor and your feet crossed. Lift your shoulder blades a few inches off the floor by curling up. Slowly return to the starting position after squeezing your abs. 3 sets/12-15 reps

Weighted Sit Ups – With Bands

Exercise Data: Isolation

This one is for the gym, while using a decline bench, you can fix the band around the base of the bench and perform weighted decline sit-ups on that. Otherwise at home, fix the band around a stationary post and lie on the floor facing away from the post. Holding you hands by your head, perform sit-ups or crunches. 3 sets/12-15 reps.

Russian Twist

Exercise Data: Compound

Secure your feet either by placing them under something or by having a partner hold them. Lean slightly back and clasp your hands in front of you. Moving only at the midsection, rotate to one side. At the end of your range of motion, quickly reverse the movement and rotate to the opposite side. Repeat. You can also hold a weight or medicine ball to increase the difficulty. 3 sets/12-15 reps

Exercise Ball Pull-In

Exercise Data: Compound

Works more for the lower abs. Start in a push-up position and place your lower legs on top of the exercise ball. While keeping your back completely straight, pull your knees in towards your chest, allowing the ball to roll forward under your ankles. Squeeze your abs and then straighten your legs, rolling the ball back to the starting position. 3 sets/12-15 reps increase to 25 reps.

Cross Body Crunch

Exercise Data: Compound

Lie on your back and bend your knees about 60 degrees and keep your feet flat on the floor. Place your hands loosely behind your head. Curl up and bring your right elbow and shoulder across your body while bring your left knee in toward your left shoulder at the same time. Reach with your elbow and try to touch your knee. Do one side for all your reps, then switch to the other side. Try to bring your shoulder up towards your knee rather than just your elbow for an extra crunch. This was a favorite of my trainer. 3 sets/12-15 reps.

Crunch-Legs on Exercise Ball

Exercise Data: Isolation

Lie flat on your back with your feet resting on an exercise ball with your knees bent at a 90 degree angle. Place your feet three to four inches apart and point your toes inward so they touch. Place your hands lightly on either side of your head keeping your elbows in. Push the small of your back down in the floor and concentrate on your ab muscles. Begin to roll your shoulders off the floor. Continue to push down as hard as you can with your lower back. Your shoulders should come up off the floor only about four inches, and your lower back should remain on the floor. Focus on slow, controlled movement – don’t cheat yourself by using momentum! 3 sets/12-15 reps increase to 25 reps.

Crunches

Exercise Data: Isolation

Lie flat on your back with your feet flat on the ground, or resting on a bench with your knees bent at a 90 degree angle. If you are resting your feet on a bench, place them three to four inches apart and point your toes inward so they touch. Place your hands lightly on either side of your head keeping your elbows in. Push the small of your back down in the floor to isolate your ab muscles. Begin to roll your shoulders off the floor. Continue to push down as hard as you can with your lower back. Your shoulders should come up off the floor only about four inches, and your lower back should remain on the floor. Focus on slow, controlled movement. 3 sets/12-15 reps increase to 25 reps.

Exercise Ball Crunch

Exercise Data: Isolation

Sit on top of an exercise ball with your feet placed firmly on the floor. Roll until your lower back is centered on top of the ball. Place your hands on the sides of your head, but don’t use your hands to pull. Crunch your upper body forward and roll your shoulders towards your hips. Squeeze at the top! Then lower back to the starting position and repeat. You can hold a weight or medicine on your chest or above your head to increase the difficulty. My trainer suggests 3-6 sets/25 reps each and holding a 8lb. medicine ball.

Get Sexy Legs and Abs in One Easy Move

JORGE’S DAILY FIT TIP

By Jorge Cruise, Chief Diet and Fitness Expert

Published March 26, 2009

The leg lift is a simple exercise that works your front and inner thigh muscles… with a bonus: It also tones your abdominal muscles. One easy exercise can help chisel down two problem areas – what could be better? Here’s the leg lift in its most basic form:

Step 1: Lie on your back with your palms down and hands underneath your behind. Crunch up and hold your upper abs tight so that your shoulder blades are off the ground. Lift your legs about 2 inches off the ground.

Step 2: Keep your abs tight and chin up, and breathe slowly and rhythmically as you lift your legs through a count of 10 seconds.

Step 3: Hold and squeeze at the maximum tension point for 2 seconds.

Step 4: Lower your legs to the starting point through a count of 10 seconds.

Step 5: Repeat three times without resting.