Start Working Out Your Abdominal Muscle Correctly

One exercise that can be really instrumental in getting those six pack abs is the "sit ups" exercise

. Lie down onto the floor with your back flat on the ground. Bend your knees so that your knees are facing upwards and your feet are positioned to be flat on the floor. Cross both of your arms across your chest, so that each tip of your index finger touches the bottom tip of the opposite ear. Now use all the force in your abs to raise your shoulders off the floor, and also lift your back off the floor, all the way up to come to a sitting position.

Now slowly release your back muscles and come all the way down to rest on the floor. Repeat this exercise. You could start with an initial set of 12 reps. Once you start getting comfortable with this exercise, you can increase the number of sets. This is an exercise that is quite easy to perform, and as such you can top it up with a few challenges for endurance training of your abs muscles.

With time you could find yourself an incline bench or some inclined exercise to perform the same exercise, with your head nearer to the floor and your feet at an elevation, along the elevated surface of the inclined surface on which you are lying. As you get comfortable with this routine as well, you could now challenge yourself a little more by placing weights in your arms and supported by your chest, while you do these sit up exercises. As you begin to get more and more comfortable with this routine as well, begin piling on the weights that you can handle.

Another really effective exercise for getting those six pack abs are bicycle crunches. Basically, it's the same thing as the sit ups exercise, the only variation being that you alternately lift off each leg in the air as you perform these sit ups. So what you are basically doing is pretending like your cycling in the air, each time your back is off the ground while performing these sit ups.

As you get comfortable with this, you could challenge yourself further by having alternating cross-elbow-knee touches. So that each time you are cycling in the air during these sit ups your right elbow touches the left knee and alternately in the next step your left elbow touches your right knee.

Finally, a third exercise for those six pack abs to start showing up, is the leg lifts exercise. Lie down on your back on the floor with your hands down on the floor, on either sides of your body, and your legs straight up in the air, perpendicular to the floor. Now bring your legs all the way down, and just before they can touch the floor, reverse the direction of movement of your legs and lift them back, off into the air and back to the earlier perpendicular position. You could test yourself further by raising your back off the floor, while keeping your legs straight, until your legs are parallel to the floor and pointing in the direction of your head. Do this second variation only after you build a lot of strength, to prevent rolling off your neck on to the other side, thereby causing your entire body weight to fall on your neck and head in a jerk, and causing serious injuries, or even death.

Armed with these exercises, you are all set to flaunt beach-worthy, party-worthy and even photo-ops worthy six pack abs wherever you go.

by: Matthew J Hodgson

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