Best Exercises To Get Hard Abdominal Muscles

When most people say they want to lose weight, they actually want to get rid of their fat belly! There are many reasons why you are starting to accumulate more fats around your abdominal area. It may be due to your metabolism slowing down as you age, or may be due to you leading an 'unhealthy' lifestyle. However, you might have tried exercises like sit ups before to get rid of your belly fat and tone up your abdominal muscles! If you have done that before, you will probably find that regardless of the amount of sit ups you perform, chances are low that you now have a slim and sexy stomach. There are better exercises to help you tone up your stomach muscles. If you have been reading fitness websites, you will probably realize that many experts tell you a slim stomach is the result of dieting, and not exercising. I agree with that, but I feel that exercising can help you firm up the muscles underneath the fats, and when you finally shed away all your fats through dieting, your six pack abdominal muscles will show up within a shorter period of time!

The following are some of the most effective exercises in strengthening and building your abdominal muscles.

The first one will be the leg raise. Leg raises are a great exercise for you to end off your routine with. To perform a leg raise, you should position yourself between two chairs, while holding onto the back of the chairs with your hands. Now, you will simply raise your legs towards your waist, the whole time holding a bent knee posture. When you first start performing this exercise, you should do less repetitions and sets of it. You will then build up the intensity levels as you progress. This is a great exercise which works out your entire core and your lower abdominal region in particular.

The next stomach exercise will be the side leg lift. It works every single muscle group in your core. Many people have seen vast improvements in the way they look simply by doing this one exercise alone! One can only imagine if you perform other exercises on top of this!

The way to perform side leg lifts is to first lie down on your back. Now, you will raise both of your legs so that you form an 'L' shape with your body. Now, keeping your legs straight together, you will slowly move them towards your left until your legs almost touch the floor. You will then slowly raise them up to the initial position and repeat this same motion, albeit to your right! These motions are then repeated.