Lower abdominal exercises are all movements associated with lifting legs or lower body towards the torso. In other words your lower abdominal muscles are responsible for moving lower body (from buttocks to toes) to your upper body.
When you are doing lower abdominal exercises you have to feel effort in your belly (under your bellybutton). At the beginning it is very difficult to target lower abs, because when your lower belly muscles are not strong you are trying to help yourself with lower back muscles and the result is pain around waist area.
You have two possible solutions. The first one is to lift the head when you are lying and to put hands behind the head. The result is that you push your waist towards the floor and you isolate the waist area. This is the more difficult solution and is suitable for more advanced people.
The easiest way to isolate the waist area is to put your hands under your buttocks. The result is that you lift a little bit your buttocks and your waist naturally lay on the floor.
I like more the first solution, but at the beginning the second one is easier.
Benefits by doing lower abdominal exercisesPeople who have problems with natural bowel movements will experience improvement.
Many women report lighter PMS and regular periods.
List of lower abdominal exercises:
Lower Abdominal Exercise – Reverse CrunchesReverse crunch – this is the best lower abdominal exercise. Watch reverse crunch exercise videos with proper execution of this lower abdominal exercise.
Lower abdominal exercises are difficult for beginners, that’s why I want to show you my modifications especially for lower abdominal beginner exercises.
Legs raise is lower abdominal exercise for physically fit people. Watch my video explanation what is the proper breathing and execution of this exercise for lower abdominal muscles.
Raising knee to the opposite elbow is lower abdominal exercise in combination with side crunches. Watch my video explanation