Most of the gym goers give much attention to their abdominals while exercising. Often, they are on the lookout for most effective ab exercises. Below cited are top 10 effective ab exercises, which will assure you a well shaped abs: 1. Ab Crunch: Here, you need to lie flat over the floor by bending knees and relax yourself by taking a deep breath. After sometime, tighten the abs slowly and bend forward slowly. The force will come inside from the stomach not from your neck. You need to grip this pose for sometime and then release and go down gradually. 2 . Ab Reverse Crunch: This workout will strengthen your rectus abdominis, a responsible muscle for the 6-pack abs. Here, you need to lie flat over the floor with straight feet and then hold your buttocks and back aligned, and then gradually widen your legs to 45 degrees. Again, you need to grip this pose for sometime, but don’t interlock your knees. 3 . Bicycle Ab Exercise: This workout is considered as the most useful ab workout, where you need to just lie flat over the floow and widen your legs at the angle of 45 degrees and then take a pedal movement. After this, touch your right side elbow slowly to the left side knee and contrariwise while taking a bicycle pedal movement. Credit : arthritistoday.org 4 . Captain’s Chair Ab Exercise: This exercise targets your rectus abdominis muscle. This exercise is also called as the lynching leg lifts. Here, you need to have a big captain’s chair found mostly in the gyms. And then lift your bent legs gradually toward the chest. Credit : ehow.com 5 . Use stability ball for doing the crunches: Set yourself on to the ball and slowly start rolling the ball, till your body attains a position parallel to the ground and you are in a reclining position. Now try lifting the upper portion of your body at an angle of 45deg and start curling. This kind of workout makes the total muscle group of the stomach to workout. Credit : rosewetzel 6 . Using medicine ball for seated oblique twist: this exercise is mainly targeted to the abdominals, rectus, internal and external oblique muscles. Get seated on the floor, bending your knees and legs reclined at an angle of 45 degrees. Try holding

the ball at the center and you have to gradually move from one side to the other, holding at one position atleast for a few minutes. Credit : about.com 7 . Oblique Crunch: As the name suggests, this exercise is mainly targeted to the rectus abdominals as well as oblique muscles. Bend your legs and feet and lie down flat on the floor. Now start twisting your body to the left and to the right start gradually. Now raise your body to the crunch position and then towards the side, but at the opposite direction, where your lower body has been twisted. Using this same technique, repeat the same for the other side. Credit : howstuffworks 8 . The cross over crunch: Bend your legs and knees and lie down flat on the floor. Position your right leg on to the left leg so as to make the right ankle rest on your left knee. Now carefully raise and position yourself to a crunch position thereby bending towards opposite side of the raised knee. Credit : arthritistoday 9 . Alternating Superman: This exercise is especially for the strength of your core muscles. You have to lie down flat on the floor, with your face positioned on the floor and the hands raised up in the air, quite similar to the superman flying. Now slowly raise your left leg and right arm and hold it in one position for some time and repeat the same for the other arm and leg. Now head your face down so as to ensure that your spine is properly aligned. Credit : fitnessfirst-weightloss.blogspot 10 . Plank exercise: The strength and stability of your core muscles lie flat with your facing downwards on the floor. This position will be quite similar to the pushup position. Your toes and forearms should be properly secured on floor. Now start lifting your body slowly and hold on to that position atleast for ten seconds. For perfect alignment of the spine, your face should be properly positioned downwards. Credit : exercise.about Above listed are few of the effective abs workouts that have been rated by some good exercise experts that have proved to be effective and are mainly targeted to the groups of muscles in the stomach

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