As any fitness buff can attest to, working on the abdominals can be the most difficult part of the body to work on. When trying to burn excess fat through a weight-loss program, belly fat is usually the last to go. Frustration is so great sometimes that people even give-up going to the gym altogether.
The human body is predisposed to store body fat around the midsection. For women, one of the most unappealing things is to have a potbelly while strolling on the beach in a bathing suit.
Gym exercises require repetitions that can become tiresome and boring after a while. With lower ab exercises for women, it's tougher to stay motivated because their body fat is usually found in the lower part of the belly, hips and thighs.
Since the early days of organized exercise programs, developing and trimming-down the midsection (especially the lower abs) has appeared to be a slow and tedious process because muscle definition doesn't come into view until most of the belly fat is burned-off.
Isolating the lower part of the rectus abdominus by trying to target the lower abs is quite impossible because it's really all one single muscle. There are lower ab exercises however that put more stress on that area: air-pedaling while on one's back, vertical and horizontal leg raises, and different versions of such.
Since the monotony of exercises are the main hindrance to sticking to an ab workout program (or any exercise program for that matter), the key to developing abdominal muscles then is eliminating the boredom factor. Changing-up these lower ab exercises every now and then would be highly effective in helping you stick to your workouts by increasing the fun factor and preventing your abdominal muscles from getting 'bored'.
When our bodies adapt to a certain type of exercise, the muscles get 'bored' after a while and development slows down. We can either add more reps, or better yet, switch to other types of lower ab exercise when we start to notice lack of progress.
Making it a point to have fun in doing lower ab exercises will enable you to keep hitting the gym and avoid the corner pub after work. Consistency is key and this will ultimately bring you a chiseled six pack faster. - 16004
The human body is predisposed to store body fat around the midsection. For women, one of the most unappealing things is to have a potbelly while strolling on the beach in a bathing suit.
Gym exercises require repetitions that can become tiresome and boring after a while. With lower ab exercises for women, it's tougher to stay motivated because their body fat is usually found in the lower part of the belly, hips and thighs.
Since the early days of organized exercise programs, developing and trimming-down the midsection (especially the lower abs) has appeared to be a slow and tedious process because muscle definition doesn't come into view until most of the belly fat is burned-off.
Isolating the lower part of the rectus abdominus by trying to target the lower abs is quite impossible because it's really all one single muscle. There are lower ab exercises however that put more stress on that area: air-pedaling while on one's back, vertical and horizontal leg raises, and different versions of such.
Since the monotony of exercises are the main hindrance to sticking to an ab workout program (or any exercise program for that matter), the key to developing abdominal muscles then is eliminating the boredom factor. Changing-up these lower ab exercises every now and then would be highly effective in helping you stick to your workouts by increasing the fun factor and preventing your abdominal muscles from getting 'bored'.
When our bodies adapt to a certain type of exercise, the muscles get 'bored' after a while and development slows down. We can either add more reps, or better yet, switch to other types of lower ab exercise when we start to notice lack of progress.
Making it a point to have fun in doing lower ab exercises will enable you to keep hitting the gym and avoid the corner pub after work. Consistency is key and this will ultimately bring you a chiseled six pack faster. - 16004
