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Easy Ab Exercises That Can be Done at Home

Quick-fix exercises are generally poor substitutes for hard work, but the following exercises are simple enough to do in the comfort of your own home without sacrificing effectiveness. Just perform these ab exercises a few times a week is suffice enough to stimulate your abdominal muscles enough to keep your core muscles strong. Do keep in mind that you have to concurrently combine these easy ab exercises with a healthy diet to see the perfects abs that you are hoping for.

For all of the easy ab exercises, you will have to suck in your stomach to activate your transversus abdominals, the muscle that should always fire before any other core musle.

The 3 easy abs exercises that can be performed at home are as follows :

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

Easy ab exercises 1 – Crunches

Lie flat on your back on the floor. Take a deep breath, suck in your stomach, keep your eyes focused on the ceiling, and raise your upper body off the ground until it is at a 45-degree angle with the floor. Don’t pull on your neck, as this can lead to forward head posture, neck pain and, in extreme cases, migraine headaches. Hold the contraction for 2 to 3 seconds and slowly return to the starting position. Perform 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps.

Easy ab exercises 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 easy ab exercise primarily works the obliques, but it also engages the entire abdominal wall and some of the lower back muscles. Perform 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps.

Easy ab exercises 3 - Double crunches

The double crunch combines the crunch and another exercise called the knee raise, which will place more emphasis on the lower abdominal region.

Lie flat on your back against the floor with your legs in the air and your knees bent at a 90-degree angle so that your calves are parallel with the floor. Take a deep breath, suck in your stomach, keep your eyes focused on the ceiling, and raise your upper body off the ground until it is at a 45-degree angle with the floor. Once again, make sure not to pull your neck. Hold the contraction for 2 to 3 seconds and slowly return to the starting position. Perform 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps.

By following these easy ab exercises that can be done at home, you will be effectively working on your core muscles. In combination with good nutritional diet, these ab exercises can help you get easy 6 pack abs in no time.

Alan Tii

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