For some women, the hardest area for them to tone seems to be their core. After a few weeks of strength training, you see definition in your biceps and triceps, or see firmer-looking legs, but at times you feel like no matter how hard you work your core, it just doesn’t look much different.
All you really need is to find a few exercise that really work your core muscles and to start seeing results! Here are 7 exercises that will help give you killer abs.
Modification (advanced): To really challenge yourself, position your elbows even further ahead so that there is more distance between your elbows and toes.
3. Russian Twist: This exercise is great when done correctly! And, as is the case with many of these, it can be intensified with a medicine ball, hand weight, etc.
Learn more about this move here.
4. Bicycle Crunch: This classic workout is a great one that engages all your stomach muscles! For this exercise to work, the movement has to come from your abs; simply swinging your elbows from side to side doesn’t work your stomach.
Click here to see how to do a bicycle crunch.
8. Healthy Diet: Great abdominals start in the kitchen. This isn’t an exercise per se, but it is an exercise in willpower. You can do
crunches all day long, but if you don’t alter your diet then you won’t see a big change. You have to
fight the belly fat in order to show off the muscle definition that the exercises are accomplishing. Some great abdominal friendly foods include:
walnuts,
olive oil,
pistachios,
almonds,
avocado,
flax seed oil, macadamia nuts, natural
peanut butter,
sunflower seeds and
dark or semi sweet chocolate.
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