Abdominal workouts ware for training your abdominal muscles on your stomach and ultimately give you the elusive six-pack on your belly. To attain this, you need to know how well to work out without hurting yourself and your back and gain the abs you have always wanted. There are several routines that can be practiced at home with no equipment needed and others that require certain tools and even probably registering to a gym.

If you are a beginner, here are some basic techniques that you can start at home without any tools or spending money. The first one is known as Crunches. This technique involves you lying down flat with your hands either crossed at the back of your head or onto your chest. The idea is not to pull yourself up with them. At that position, bent your knees up a bit and but keep feet on the floor, contract your abdomen muscles and lift your head and shoulders off the floor. This way you will be bringing the rib cage towards the lower part of your belly. Now slowly return back to start position and repeat that several of times. You should be experiencing muscle tightening at the abs.

You can also do the reverse crunches which is by lying on your back on a flat surface with the knees bent about 90 degrees. You then contract the abdominal muscle and start lowering the feet towards the floor slowly still keeping the knees bent. You then rotate the pelvis upwards and bring the knees back towards the ribcage without arching your back. If you have an exercising ball, you can do ball crunches.

Here, you are required to lie on the ball with your lower back area and put your hands crossed behind your head. Now contract your abdominal muscles so as to lift the torso from the exercise ball, pull the rib cage bottom downwards to your hips and as you do all this, keep the ball stable behind you. if you manage to get used to that, try the bicycle routines, medicine ball crunches and plank which are intermediate level routines and then graduate to all round crunches and other routines such as ball squeeze and lift, plank with Ab-roll, Side plank with Oblique Twist and many others. By setting a considerable number of repetitions, you will start noticing changes quite soon.

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