If you're looking to tighten up your abs for that tight sexy mid section then we've got a whole selection of ab workouts just for women. As women we don't want our abs too thick or muscular but we don't want a soft, untoned belly either! It's for that reason alone this site is catered to womens ab exercises and ones that most people can do within 10-15 minutes under any work or life schedule.

Few Easy Ab Workouts For Women

There is not a single woman who doesn’t want to have a nice and beautiful waist or Abs, to look more beautiful, gorgeous, to attract guys and show off to their friends to make them envy your abs. There are ab workouts for women , which are easy and to build such beautiful abs you must do abs related exercises to build it and also very important to maintain it.

To workout on abs you don’t need any weight or dumbbells to lift because it is a unique part of the body and it only needs few effective ab workouts for women that can put tension on it and make it become visible for you. The exercises will be effective for those women who perform with complete concentration and discipline. Let’s see some exercises that will work great with every woman in future post.

Crunches – Basic

Normal crunches are the basic exercise for stimulating abs and it aims on the upper abs. For a complete novice this exercise will be a little tough but in few days the person will get used to it and will be able to do many reps and sets. To begin this exercise just lay flat on the ground, bend your knees while feet on the ground and put your hands on the chest to less the stress on the back now raise your shoulder to your knees and back to the ground this is one rep. Start the exercise with minimum reps.

Crunches – Reverse

This exercise targets the lower abs but you can feel the tension on your whole abs. Start the reverse crunching by lie on the floor, raising the knees up now bent your knees close to the chest but don’t let it touch the chest also when doing this raise the hips. Start it with few reps because it puts lots of stress on the abs so it hurt a little in the start.

Leg Raising

This exercise puts an extra stress on the back so it is best to support the back by putting your hands under the hips (palm down). As you lie down with the legs stretched, stick both legs and gently raise them nearly 10 to 12 inches off the ground and then lower them but don’t touch the ground. Inhaling and exhaling while exercising is also necessary. Again at first this exercise would seem a little tough but by the time you will get the hang of it. The target of this exercise is to work on the lump of the belly that hangs below the belt. You will definitely love this exercise.

Exercising Ball

Which is also called a stabilizer ball is a very unique and effective support that helps you easily support the back and keep the body flexed. You will get used to the ball, feel comfortable exercising on it and the main aim here is the midsection of your body. To do crunches on this ball, lay on the ball with half your back on it and legs parallel to the ground. Now raise the shoulders – for starters don’t worry about rising too high – and tighten the abs by contracting it and try to reach to the knees. Doing this exercise on the ball is very easy so do as many reps as you feel comfortable, like 15 to 20 repetitions with 3 sets. Increase the sets or the reps by the time.

Scissors Exercise

The leg scissors exercise aims the lower abs of the body as well as the inner thigh. Lift the legs alternately in such a way that the bottoms of the feet points toward the ceiling, then lift down your legs to the sides. Start this exercise with minimum 10 reps with 2 or 3 sets.

The above ab workouts for women are practical and easy and can be done at home.

Posted: May 26th, 2010 under Ab Workouts for Women.
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Choosing Effective Exercises for Ab Workout

When scheduling the abs workout, you should pick 3 to 5 exercises that you can perform 2 to 4 times or 5 in a week. You should elect such exercises for your abs development that you think is comfortable and can be adjust in the schedule. Also as you are a novice, you should start the exercises with normal number of reps i.e. repetitions, you can increase the number after a week or two. Don’t pick all the exercises; only choose few that are best and effective.  Here are some of the best abs exercises

Push up exercise – a very good and also a warming up exercise that should be done every time you start an exercise. It can be done in many different ways like doing normally on a floor or placing your legs on a higher surface while the palms on the ground.

Sit up exercise – another excellent exercise for abs and also have variant ways (weighted, full or half sit ups). The exercise can be done either on the floor or an exercise ball.

Bicycle Maneuver – a very effective exercise that stimulates the central muscles like the abs, back muscles and also the pelvic part. If this exercise is done regularly the results of this exercise would be seen in a week.

Plank – this exercise puts enough tension on the muscle while keeping the muscles from contracting. Also it is the easiest exercise to do.

Knee raise exercise while hanging – this exercise can be called a compound exercise because it not only develops the abs but also put tension on the shoulder and arms. As it is a hanging exercise so, you are required to hang onto a bar or something fixed on the ceiling or machine.

Pilates workout – the exercise develops strength and flexibility on the central part of the muscles. There are lots of pilate equipments in the market, the famous is an exercise ball.

Posted: June 14th, 2010 under Ab Workouts for Women.
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Women Abs Workouts

The exercises that invigorate the muscles of internal/external obliques and the upper/lower abdomen of the body are considered the best women’s abs exercises. There are various exercises for the sole purpose for developing nice and sexy abs, also there are equipments available in the market. The only problem with the exercise equipments or machines is that these are non-dependable so, it would be better that we stick to the manual exercises to get the desired results. As we are talking about women here, they are the busiest beings because they are occupied with their jobs and on returning home daily nonstop house chores, of course taking out some time to go gym is out of the question, so they try to look for such exercises that can be done from home and fit in their daily schedules.

Few important points must be given attention when starting the exercises for building up abs. Unlike men, women are not that strong so before starting these exercises they must develop high tolerance of pain because when doing abs workout the muscles of abs experience too much stress than other parts of the body. The exercise should be done with such intensity and concentration that even 2 minutes seems like 15mins. These exercises need full concentration on the abs only, do not use the legs or the hip flexors because if you use them the needed stress would not reach the abs. The last and important point is that you should know the exact way of the exercise that you are doing. If the exercise is done in a wrong way the end result would be ugly abs then.

Posted: June 14th, 2010 under Ab Workouts for Women.
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