Body Building For Men - Do You Workout Like A Little Girl?Posted by Bering Bach on January 16th, 2021 When you think of ab exercises, what is the first thing that you think of? Sit ups and crunches. I'm about to tell you a secret: They don't work. Yep, I said it, sit ups will not help you get a flatter stomach. Why? Because the muscle fibers are the wrong direction! Don't believe me? Lay down on the floor and place your hand on your stomach. Then do the typical sit up or crunch and feel what happens. Your stomach naturally bulges outwards. What most people are looking for is a reduction in girth of their waistline. Sit ups will not help you with that.In order to get a tight stomach, you have to work your transversus. Your transversus is a thin sheet of muscle that connects to your eight pack and runs around the sides of your body. Along with your internal and external obliques (also along the sides of your torso) these are the main muscles that you need to work in order to get that tight gut that you are looking for. In other words, exercises that target your sides are ideal in that respect. Once you strengthen your sides as well as add some rectus abdominus strength, your original six pack should be showing. This will most likely also require a drop in total body fat in order to get the really nice definition that you want.I said that once you do this that your six pack should be showing. But wait Hyperbolic Stretching . Earlier I said that you should really be shooting for an eight pack, not six pack. For most people, getting the six pack is the easy part (relatively). What evades even most of the biggest gym rats and fitness buffs are the lower abs. To turn your six pack into an eight pack you must get the lower abs to show.Like it? Share it! |