Ab Exercise Equipment, Quick Ab Workouts At Home

If you’ve been wondering what are the best abdominal exercises and the best parabody exercise equipment read this article. It’s one personal trainer’s perspective to help you find the best exercises for your body.

Since I am a personal trainer, I am often asked… What is the Best Abdominal Exercise?

And my answer is often it depends. It depends on the goal. Now, I know most people want to know what is the best abdominal exercise to get rid of fat on their stomach, but unfortunately ab exercises by themselves do very little to help you get rid of stomach fat.

This is known as the spot reduction myth. Because of the powerful marketing companies, consumers continually think that they can work a spot on their body as magically melt fat away from that spot, but that is not how the body works.

Abdominal Exercises are useful for supporting good posture, preventing lower back pain, and improving function and sports performance. Abdominal Exercises are not good for spot reduction of belly fat.

Okay, back to the best abdominal exercise…

What exercises burn more fat in the stomach to get a 6 pack? There was a study done called finding the safest abdominal challenge measuring work to compression ratio. This study looked at 9 ab exercises and compared the muscle work in the abs to the pressure in the lower back during each exercise.

According to this study, the exercise that worked the abdominal muscles the hardest while putting the least pressure on the lower back was crunches with the feet on a bench or ball. When the feet are lifted it takes away some of the arch in the lower back and takes some pressure off the joints.

In addition, the exercise that worked the abdominal muscles the hardest also put the most pressure on the lower back and that exercise was double hanging leg raises.

To determine which exercise is the best you must take into consideration the fitness goal. For example if someone has a slightly achy lower back, crunches with the feet up may be the best abdominal exercise because it works the abs really hard but doesn’t put a ton of pressure on the lower back. However, if you are an athlete looking for serious core strength, double hanging leg raises might be the best abdominal exercise for you.

Nearly all exercises have a benefit, so the most important thing is to be active and exercise. The best exercise for you may be the one that you like the most because you can.

Directory of Abdominal Exercises
Here is a directory with picture and instructions of almost 100 abdominal exercises.

Rediscovering the Most Suitable Abdominal Exercise
Upper Back ExercisesThere are a lot of recommended exercises on the internet and in fitness magazines, but relatively few of them offer a safe back exercise. 

Determining the Appropriate Abdominal Exercise
Upper Back ExercisesEven though there are thousands of ways to get in shape, there are not a lot of safe back exercise routines. 

The 3 Ab Exercises You Must NOT Do
Research shows that fef most abdominal crunches, sit-ups and machines are extremely dangerous for your lower back. You can do simple, safe and effective abdominal bodyweight exercises and interval training at home to flatten your stomach.

IPPT training part 1 – situps
Firstly there has been some debate as to whether the sit up is a safe exercise. Well… all exercises have some form of risk and the way that I see some people do situps, yes they are unsalfe. they look like a fish who has just been … for the back and of course slaming the head back and forth like that…can give neck prob fef lems as well. Now… there is one key to managing the risk of the situp (besides doing them in a controled fashion).

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