Abdominal Exercise Equipment For Abdominal Weight Loss

Many people, mostly men, are suffering from chubbier and heavier abdomen. They find their stomach a major trouble spot, the reason that they all appeal to certain exercises and fitness trainings that will help strengthen and tone their abdominal muscles. Fortunately, more and more abdominal exercise techniques are now made available for these people to practice. The exercises are offered in a myriad of gyms and other fitness training facilities to promote a better shape and general well-being. However, the exercises won't be made more successful if certain equipments are not present; the reason that every interested individual must make sure that one or a pair of abdominal exercise equipment is available for them to use.

The abdominal exercise equipment comes in a wide variety. They are available in a number of forms; each has a role to play in abdominal training. Of the available equipments, below are the most popular. Take note of the following:

Bicycle Maneuver - One of the most commonly used abdominal exercise equipment or gadgets, this material is used while the person is lying flat on his or her back with the knees bent 45 degrees with the chest. While on this position, one must place both hands nearest to the head. Do the initial movement by trying to reach the elbow with the knee. If the target is the right elbow, the right knee should be used. The opposite happens when the left elbow is involved. This "reaching" and "touching" movement must be performed simultaneously to tense the muscles in the abdomen. To obtain the best result, the exercise must be done regularly with the bicycle maneuver.

Exercise Ball - If you will be doing crunches, obtaining abdominal exercise equipment they call as exercise ball can be one great move to take. This material is used primarily for such exercises with the user sitting on it while keeping feet apart. The body must also be aligned, and in order to obtain the best effects, one should lift the trunk off the ball in repetition. Yes, this movement must be repeated for several times.

Roman Chair - Designed to consist parallel arms with a padded straight and high back, the roman chair is by far the most common of the abdominal exercise equipments available. To use it, one should place his or her forearms on the parallel arm rest that the equipment carries. While on this position, the back should be aligned with the chair's back rest. To make you feel comfortable, consider adjusting the height of the chair, but make sure that your legs are dangling straight down especially when you are preparing for the initial step. The exercise performed on this equipment involves the bending of the legs to bring the knees near the chest. Once the knees are brought closer to the chest, stay there for quite sometime, and go back to the original position. Just like the rest of the abdominal exercises, this too must be repeated for several times.

A lot more equipments are available out there for abdominal exercise training. The best way to obtain the right abdominal exercise equipment is to know first what you will be doing. Talk to an expert if you are not sure which equipment to take.

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Learn the Truth About Weight Loss and Getting Great Abs

Debunking The Ab Myth

Ab training has been done to death but it's time

to take another look. Why? Because people are still

training their abs wrong so all that ab training

information must not be doing the job.

1 - No Spot Reducing - Endless crunches will not

melt away the fat from your midsection. It just

doesn't work that way. And despite the "burn" of

high rep ab exercises, you barely burn any calories

while doing those endless crunches.

Your fat burning time is best spent elsewhere on

more effective training. You also don't work the

ab muscle intensely enough to develop it.

So endless high rep crunches fail on both counts -

poor muscle building and poor fat burning. Two

thumbs down as the cliche goes.

2 - The Abs are a Muscle and should be trained as such.

You don't need high reps and lots of sets to work

your abs. This just leads to overtraining.

Now, abs are a more endurance oriented muscle so

slightly higher reps may be more effective. However,

you should keep the reps at 20 or lower and work on

increasing the resistance.

Yes, you should be increasing the weights on ab

exercises, just like your other exercises. The stronger

your abs, the better they will look when the fat

is stripped away.

Ever see a really thin guy with a flat stomach but

no abs? The abs haven't been trained and aren't

developed enough to stand out even when the fat is

stripped away.

3 - Don't train the abs - What the heck do I mean

by this? Well, your abs get a lot of indirect work

from other exercises so you really won't need more

than a couple of hard sets of weighted crunches to

work your abs.

Your abs are a factor in exercises such as squats,

deadlifts, seated or standing presses, dumbbell

pullovers, pulldowns, etc. Don't believe me?

Next time you work out, do a few hard sets of standing

stiff armed pulldowns on the lat machine and tell

me your abs aren't sore the next day. I did them

yesterday and my abs are more sore than my back today.

If you want to develop a flat stomach with your abs

visible, you need to treat your abs like a muscle

and train that way. And you need to strip away

the fat with a proper training and nutrition program

designed around total fat loss, not trying to spot

reduce through endless crunches.

Is there anything out there in the fitness world

suffering from more misinformation that how to get

abs?

The number of ab machines constantly coming to

market is mind boggling. Especially considering

that they aren't needed and won't give you the

results that you want.

Let's set the record straight on ab training right

now and give you the real information you need so

you can say no to the next infomercial ab machine

and yes to actual abs.

1 - Training your abs consistently will eventually

give you the flat stomach or six-pack that you want.

No. It's not gonna happen if your abs are covered

by a layer of body fat and doing endless sets of ab

exercises is not the way to rid yourself of that

excess body fat.

2 - Train your abs everyday for best results.

Again, no. Your abs are a muscle, just like your

chest, lats, arms and so on. You should train your

abs just like these other muscles, with progressive

resistance and high intensity - then allow them to

rest and recover. Never train your abs more than 3

days a week.

3 - You need to do hundreds or reps and feel the burn

to get great abs.

Yep, again the answer is no. The abs a muscle just

like I mentioned above. To get six pack abs you

need to strip off the fat, but you also need to build

the abs to get them to really pop out.

If the muscle isn't developed, you'll just have a

flat stomach but no abs. The name of the game is

progressive resistance for sets of 8 - 20 reps, just

like your other muscles.

4 - Train the abs with lots of sets and high reps to

burn off stomach fat.

You guessed it. This is also false. Spot reduction

just isn't going to happen as much as we'd all like

it to. You can't burn fat on your stomach by doing

endless crunches.

You need to put together a proper weight lifting

program, nutrition plan, and cardio in order to rid your

stomach of that stubborn layer of fat and bring yout

your abs.

Gregg Gillies

Gregg Gillies is a speaker, consultant, fat loss expert, trainer and author. He teaches fitness via his articles, books and courses at his web site http://www.buildleanmuscle.com . He is the author of two books: Complete information on his books, along with lots of free articles are available at his site. And while there, don't forget to sign up for his free newsletter, "Fit Physique".