You Must be Physically Fit to Do this Lower Abdominal Exercise
The Advanced Exercise for Lower Abdominal Muscles
Watch legs raise video explanation
Legs raise is perfect lower abdominal exercises, because after doing 20 repetitions your lower abdominal muscles burn and you feel your belly well trained.
How to do legs raise?
Lie face up on the floor, lift legs stretched over your body. For this exercise is very, very important to firmly push your waist to the floor.
Tip: How to push your waist to the floor?
1. When you lift head and shoulders (hands behind the neck, don’t cross fingers) your waist naturally lowers to the floor and in this position your lower back is isolated and you can’t hurt it.
2. The easiest way (I recommend this to the beginners) is to slip your hands under your buttocks, the results is that your waist lowers to the floor.
While you become more familiar with this lower abdominal exercise you will start to prefer the first way, because you have bigger control over your body and you tightened not only your lower abdominal area but also your upper abdominal muscles.
The movement:
Slowly lower both legs towards the floor (don’t touch it) and slowly raise legs towards the body. Exercise is more efficient with stretched legs, but if this is too challenging, than lightly bent knees.
Tip: Do how many reps you can with stretched legs and than do some more with lightly bent knees – you will pull the maximum from this lower abdominal exercise.
The proper breathing:
If you learn how to breathe during the legs raise, you will better workout lower abdominal muscles. Believe me breathing takes away the pain and fatigue during the execution.
Breathing while doing exercise for lower abdominal muscles:
Inhale in starting position, and then lower legs and exhale. Raise legs towards the body and breathe in.
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by fitness
Filed under: Abs exercises
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