FitSuperMom's Weight Loss Tips

Abs are one of those body parts where we want perfection or as close as we can get to it, but for most of us this is the one body part that seldom gets a workout.  We’ll follow all of the weight loss tips to the letter, but can’t seem to do the same thing with the ab workout. Have you ever noticed that a lot of the people you see doing abs exercises are the ones who need it the least? This is because there is only a hand full of ab machines and a lot of people want to use them. A good lean mid-section is about much more than just having a nice part of your body to show off. Having strong abdominals is a great way to prevent back problems, because the abs and the lower back work together to support the entire upper body.

For someone reason, in spite of the lack of use, this is still one of the most popular home gym machines being pitched on late night television.  However, if you watch close, very few of them are going to tell you how hard you have to work and for how long.  They all want to make it sound easy.

I’ve tried a lot of different ab exercises and frankly there are too many to list in this article but I did want to give you the best I’ve found. If it is an ab exercise routine you want I think I may have it.  The best routine I have seen thus far comes from Tony Horton’s P90X.  The Ab Ripper X routine targets every area of your abdominals with eleven different moves and over 300 reps total.  Here is the 11 abs exercise;

1. In & Outs – 25 reps, Very effective for lower abs
2. Bicycle – 25 reps forward and back
3. Crunchy Frogs – 25 reps, Entire abdominal exercise
4. Cross Leg, Wide Leg Sit-ups – 25 reps, Revised version of the classic sit-up and more effective
5. Fifer Scissor – 25 reps, Isolates left and right sides
6. Hip Rock -N- Raise – 25 reps, Make sure you lower your back to the floor slow and easy for a more effective exercise.
7. Pulse Up or Heels to Heaven – 25 reps, again lower your back to the floor easy so you’re working up and down.
8. V-Up, Roll Combo – 25 reps, very difficult due to its placement in the lineup and highly effective, feel free to move it to the beginning.
9. Oblique V-Up Left and Right – 25 reps, serious pain with these, my obliques were very sore!
10. Leg Climb – 25 reps, this is the only abs exercise that I feel can be removed from this workout; because it is too easy I never felt anything.
11. Kayak (Mason) Twist – 30 reps+, by the time you get to this and you do more than 30 you are a CHAMPION!