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Regularly doing some good ab workouts at home, such as the seven below, will give you a flat belly ASAP.
1. Barbell Squat
Good Ab Workouts - Barbell Squat
A squat is a great way of activating the muscle fiber rates in the rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, and also in your internal and external obliques.
This is one of those good ab workouts that can’t be missed, especially when you’re performing your flat abs workout routine.
How to do it right:
Keep your feet shoulder-width apart, and the barbell on the back of your shoulders.
Now, lower your body toward the floor and send your hips back and down while you bend your knees.
Push back your heels to get back to the start position. Ensure that your back is flat and your head stays straight while you maintain the movement.
2. V Ups
Good Ab Workouts - V Ups
This move helps activate all of the abdominal muscles and that includes rectus abdominis, internal and external obliques, and also the transverse abdominis. The movement is not very difficult to follow either.
How to do it right:
Lie down on the floor and relax while you extend your arms right above your head and raise your legs keeping it suspended in the air at a 45-degree angle.
Breathe deep and try to roll your head and shoulders off the mat while you continue to push your ribs down toward your hip bones and gently breathe out.
Lift your torso off the mat while you keep your core engaged.
Position your arms in a way that your arms and legs are parallel to one another. Stay in the position for two steady counts and keep breathing gently.
Roll back to the starting position and back to the mat.
3. Reverse Pushup
Good Ab Workouts - Inverted Row
The reverse pushup is a bodyweight exercise and is also known as an inverted row. It works on your core and upper body muscles, shoulders, arms, also your legs and back.
How to do it right:
Lie down with your back under a fixed horizontal bar.
Grab the bar with an overhand grip, maintain a shoulder-width distance.
The bar should help you stretch your arms to the maximum extent and your upper back does not touch the floor.
Position your heels on an exercise bench and maintain a distance of hip-width apart.
Align your legs and upper body in a straight line and raise your upper body.
Get back to the starting position till your arms are fully stretched again. Do at least three sets of it with 10 exercises each.
4. Plank Reach Out
Good Ab Workouts - Plank Reach Out
This exercise works your entire core. It is one of the best exercises to do at home for abs.
How to do it right:
Start with a push-up position; and maintain a straight alignment from your shoulders till it reaches your toes.
Lift your right hand and the opposite leg.
Get back into the plank position and then repeat the process on the other side, that is one arm and opposite leg. This completes one leg.
Don't listen to these guys^. but the one guy was right about being lean. You can't shape your abs, some people are born with genetics with a 4 pack, others with 6,8,2 whatever. If u have a 4 pack u will NEVER get any more or less than that. Now for exercises. I personally like weighted hanging leg raises and decline weighted sit ups. YouTube both of those and you will add mass to your abs making them better looking and more defined. Once u add desired strength and mass, you have to diet. You will NOT get your abs to show just doing exercises. You need a bf% of around 12% at least for them to start showing. 5-7% is a great range for visability of the abdominals. I am currently at 11.5% bf. Any other fitness questions, just ask me!
90% of "perfect abs" is being lean enough to see the muscles in the first place. The most efficient abdominal exercise I know of is called the bicycle. See embedded video.
Yes situps and such, but I also find that bi-cep curls are helping my abs too because it tightens them up when I'm curling. Inclined push ups too.
The best way to have that sexy abs is sit ups. It ca really help you a lot to shape up our body. It is the most precise exercise.
streaches, runing, press ups, dancing, having fun is the best
I think the best exercise for perfect abs is plank.
crunches and situps
