3 Easy Stomach Exercises To Strengthen And Tone The Abs

If you want some easy stomach exercises to do, we’ve got just the thing for you today. Do keep in mind that these exercises won’t give you a flat belly on their own. You need to make them part of a balanced diet and all over body exercise plan in order to really flatten your stomach.

With that said, here are three of the best stomach toning exercises around.

3 Easy Stomach Exercises

Reverse Crunch

You probably know the basic crunch pretty well. The reverse crunch just goes the other way, and is one of those great beginner abdominal exercises.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Lie flat on the floor and place your hands palm down next to your body.

2. Raise your legs off the floor and bring your knees towards your chest until they’re bent at a 90 degree angle.

3. Lift your hips slightly off the floor, concentrating on letting your abs do the work here.

4. Lower everything until your legs are straight again. For a little more resistance to the lower abs, don’t let your legs rest on the floor after a rep, but instead let them hover just above it.

For maximum benefit, do it slowly so you don’t use the momentum of your legs.

Mountain Climber

The mountain climber is always part of the best ab workout I recommend to people.

1. Assume a pushup position.

2. Slowly step forward with your right leg, bringing the knee to your chest.

3. Repeat with the other leg.

Maintain strong posture so you feel your abs working.

The Bicycle

The bicycle is one of the best stomach toning exercises around and targets both the obliques and your six pack area.

1. Start by lying flat on the floor with your hands next to your head or lightly hooked around your ears.

2. Lift your knees off the ground at about a 45 degree angle.

3. What you do now is straighten you right leg, while lifting your shoulder blades to touch your left knee (bent) with your right elbow.

4. Next, straighten your left leg and touch your bent right knee with your left elbow.

So, you’re just touching the opposite elbows and knees while your legs simulate the motion of riding a bicycle.

With all these easy stomach exercises it is important to remember not to jerk yourself up. The best benefit is when you let the abdominal muscle do the work, not your momentum.

Once you need to start jerking to complete a rep, it’s time to quit the exercise or take a rest because it can lead to injury, and it also means your momentum is doing the work, not your stomach muscles.

To enhance the benefit of any exercise routine you do, you need to fix your diet and speed up your metabolism. You can read more on how to do this below.

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