There isn’t much to the recipe for six-pack abs: Eat a nutrient-rich diet, work out your abs, and limit the number of late-night burgers you eat while watching your favourite series. Ab training is typically performed with little to no equipment and focuses more on burning out the muscle than on the caliber of each repetition and activity. To get flat abs at home, you can do some floor exercises listed below:
Hard planks
Are you familiar with planks? The secret to doing hard planks is to take diaphoretic breaths throughout the hold and clench every part of your body as tightly as you can, including your quadriceps, glutes, core, back, and fists.
How to do it
Assume a forearm plank position while lying face down on the floor. Make sure your hands are in fists and your elbows are in line beneath your shoulders. Make sure your forearms are parallel to each other. Hold each set for 10-20 seconds.
Heel taps
This is most effective when you gently contract your obliques and abdominals to raise your upper body an inch or so off the ground without creating too much friction.
How to do it
With your feet flat on the floor, lie flat on your back. Tuck your knees high near your glutes and keep your feet together. Press your left obliques to your left heel with your left hand while keeping your hands by your sides. Then, instantly press your right obliques to your right heel with your right hand. This is equivalent to one rep. To get the desired sets and repetitions, keep doing this activity. Start with three sets of thirty (each heel), then increase as you improve.
Deadbug
As a vital precondition for the majority of strength-training exercises, the core helps you move your limbs while supporting your spine. The deadbug prevents you from wasting energy and shields your lower back during moving.
How to do It
To begin, lie on your back with your knees and hips bent at a 90-degree angle. Pull your lower back to the floor while raising both arms toward the ceiling. To keep your lower back firmly planted on the ground, press one leg out, tapping the heel to the ground, and release as much breath as you can. Return your knee to its initial position. Holding weight in your hands or lowering the opposing arm and leg will make this more challenging.
Waist raise
An excellent addition to your
lower ab exercises
is the W-Raise. This difficult workout, which consists of three parts and involves creating an upside-down “W” with our legs, is a variant on reverse crunches.
How to do it
The starting position is to stretch your legs at the low point of the outer leg of the “W” while resting face up flat on the floor. As you ascend, carefully lower your legs halfway down while maintaining a strong core and straight legs. Use your core strength to eventually descend all the way to the opposite outer leg of the W after raising your legs back up to the top while keeping them in a straight line. After that, you flip the “W” to go back to the beginning.
Bear crawls
When we crawled as toddlers, we learned how to engage our core muscles and maintain the integrity of our shoulders and hips. This skill can also be useful as we get older. Bear crawls are excellent warm-ups, finishers, and conditioning exercises for abs.
How to do it
To begin, drop your hands beneath your shoulders and place your knees beneath your hips. Keep your knees low and raise them an inch or two off the floor. As though to prevent a sharp object from jabbing you in the sternum, keep your chest pulled away from the floor. Using your opposing arms and legs, begin to move forward while keeping your head up so that you are only gazing ahead. With every step, try to stay afloat.
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