[ailsa1208]

After almost two months of working out, I find out that my waistline has not changed at all! My abs' fat are all around my belly button, which means they're at my lower abs, but I don't think any of the machine in the gym are focus on this area- that's how I feel when I'm exercising. So...any good tips about that? Any useful and inexpensive tools I can use at home will be very helpful, thanks!

[jondoe0069]

Get on the floor and start doing it the old fashioned way!

I used to use the machines at the gym ten I found this great video called 8 Minute Abs. It is an 8 minute straight ab workout that hits every section of the abs. Although I had been training on the ab machines at the gym, I still was too sore the day after my first time using the video to even get up without cringing.

I don't know if the video is still for sale anywhere, but I definitely found out that old fasioned on your back ab exercises work really well.

MM
HowILost80Lbs.com

[sillyputty]

want to show you two abdominal exercises, using the captain's chair and a chin up bar. First let's do the one with the captain's chair, you're going to stand up on the pegs and get your back flat against the pad behind you and go ahead and scoot down until your elbows and forearms are gently against the pad and go ahead and grip the handles and take your feet off the pegs. Now you're going to do the bent knee leg rise. Go ahead and bring the knees up until they're at about a 90 degree angle and back down. Make sure your back is against that pad the whole time. This is a really great exercise for the erectus abdominus and you can flatten that stomach. This next exercise I'm going to be using the chin up bar, go ahead and grab the bar and just hang your weight down. Take your feet off the pegs and just feel that stretch in your arms, now we're going to bring your toes all the way up touching the chin up bar, keeping your legs straight at all times, make sure your back is rounded during this whole movement. We're going to bring them up, and back down. Go ahead and put your feet back on the pegs, pull yourself up, where you're in a position to safely get off the captain's chair.
For more great ab exercises.
beauty.expertvillage.com/videos/abs-leg-rise

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[lovelines]

Have you tried some basic crunches, oblique crunches, and situps? Also, many yoga and pilates moves (plank position, anyone?) work the ab muscles hard.

Good luck!





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[wlifter]

All ab exercises work your ab muscles, but none of them can spot target stomach fat. The only way to get the abs you're looking for is to lower your body fat.

[dfandsf]

Wlifter is right you cannot spot reduce. Your body doesnt just burn fat directly from the area of the muscle you are working it burns where it wants to burn. You probably are getting results, you just don't see them because your body hasn't decided to start burning fat around your abs yet. Also machines are at best as good as old fashioned crunches and leg lifts and usally are not even as good.