Ab workouts. Strengthen your very Core! Tone and chisel it with ab workouts.

There are many ab exercises which targets your lower as well as upper ab dominal muscles. Ab muscle building exercises are vital in building your very own six packs or washboard abs. Knowing what ab workouts targets the lower abdominal muscles and how to build and increase abdominal muscle mass is vital to anyone who thinks of strengthening one's core region. This article aims to tell you many interesting things about your own abdominal muscles and how to effectively do abdominal exercises or workouts to strengthen, tone and chisel them, the way you want.

First let us see how our stomach muscles are organized. The muscles below your navel line are known as lower abdominal muscles as the muscles above the navel, are considered the upper ab muscles. There are various whole body exercises as well as ab exercises which targets your lower ab muscles and your upper ab muscles. But your lower stomach area poses a greater difficulty when it comes to reducing fat. You may see that your fat layer is much thicker around your lower abs area than in your upper abdominal region than your upper ab region. thus it is much difficult to lose fat around your lower region of your core area with ab workouts.

You must also know that by abdominal workouts alone, you can not lose you overall body fat. You will eventually have to do fitness exercises to lose that fat. For fitness exercise, you won't have to do any long periods of cardiovascular exercise. This kind of exercise might even last for about 60 minutes. But instead of wasting your time on this, try HIIT (high intensity interval training) which is far more efficient.

Back to abdominal workouts. The basic of all ab workouts is none other than the ab crunch. Almost all other absmoinal exercises are variations of this fundamental ab exercise. The ab crunch uses your your upper abdominal muscles, to curl your self up and thus the resistence is none other than your own body's weight. Keep your hands behind your ears and then with your stomach muscles curl and lift your self up. The ab crunch mostly focusses on your upper ab muscles.

The reverse crunch is known to be a very effective lower ab workout (targets your lower ab muscles). This is quite the opposite of the ab crunch. Instead of pulling up and curling your upper body, you lift your legs from your hip region, using your lower ab muscles while keeping you upper body flat on the ground.

You must also give a rest to your abs after your ab workouts. Imagine you do a few crunches today. Then on the next day give your abs a rest. Rest is crucial for muscles to repair their muscle fibre.

Do not overtrain your abs on your first few days. About 10 reps is ok. If you do about 15-20 or more crunches, reverse or the normal one your abs will hurt the next day. Then you will have to refrain from doing any other ab workout untill about 1 week or your pain is gone. You will not even be able to laugh out loud, as laughing contracts your ab muscles. Never overtrain your abs.

I hope that this article was of some use to you regarding ab workouts and ab muscles.

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