The cousin of full sit ups crunches involve lying on your back feet either flat on the floor or elevated in the air with knees bent.
Crunches on the floor and grabs his stomach.
Place a pair of dumbbells about shoulder width apart on the floor.
They don t have the capability however to reduce the size of your stomach or make an impact on any excess fat you have at your tummy.
Perform small contractions of your abdominal muscles to raise and lower your torso a few inches.
Take a 15 sec break between.
Here s how to combine these types of crunches and create an amazing ab workout for women.
You can do these with hands by your sides or behind your head for support.
Lying on the floor with your knees bent feet flat on the ground and hand to side of the head sit up and back down again slowly and controlled.
Maximuscle shows you how to do stomach crunches.
Follow this progression to work your way up to the more challenging crunches we discuss today.
Start by doing three sets of 10 crunches and increase the number once you get comfortable.
Crunches offer numerous health benefits including that they tone and strengthen your abdominals which helps you maintain proper alignment of your spine and lower your risk of back pain.
A grab the handles and position yourself in a pushup position b lower your body to the floor and then press back up c once.
Do 2 3 sets of 10 repetitions.