Lower Ab Workouts - Finding the Best Lower Abdominal Exercises

Are you looking to really work your lower abs?

Are you looking for that last piece of the puzzle in your complete ab workout?

Are you just looking for some ways to strengthen your lower abdominals?

Read on for some advice for making up good lower ab workouts.

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If the reason you are looking at lower ab workouts is to uncover a flat, tone tummy or develop the perfect 6 pack abs, you really need to look at your diet before you get started. You can do lower ab workouts until the cows come home, but if you have a bunch of belly fat, you won't ever see them.

The first thing you can do to improve your diet is to drink a lot of water. The best thing to do is to replace all of your sugary and caffeinated drinks with water. You should keep track of how much water you drink and strive for drinking 1 gallon of water or more every day.

Another simple change that can make a drastic improvement to your diet is to make sure you have a vegetable with every meal. If you start out your meal with a salad or include some green beans or mixed vegetables, you will be getting a lot of critical vitamins and it will help you reduce the amount of higher calorie and fatty foods you eat.

If you really want to take your diet to the next level, you can invest in a juicer and make fresh fruit and vegetable juices. This way you get a ton ov nutrients all at once and your body absorbs the nutrients in the juice almost immediately.

If you make a few simple changes to your diet, you will see much better results from your lower ab workouts. You will also feel better, have more energy, and get sick less. There really is no downside to eating healthy!

I have included some examples of lower abdominal exercises you can do. I recommend that you do lower abdominal exercises twice a week as part of a full ab workout.  Cardio vascular exercise is also a must for any complete health and fitness program.  It is good for your heart and you burn more calories.  Another really good idea is to do some strength training as that will build muscle and musle burns more calories than fat .

Without further ado, here are some great lower abdomnal exercises for you.

The idea of this exercise is to be suspended off the ground and raise your legs up which focuses on your lower abdominals. Many gyms have a station that kinda looks like a chair with no seat. You put your forearms on the arms and support yourself off the ground. Another common thing is arm straps that support you in the upper arm area. You can also use a pull up bar to hang from, but that requires you to have a pretty good grip. Ok, now that you are suspended in the air, you can do one of two things. The easiest is to lift your knees up towards your body. You let your legs bend when you do this. After a few reps you will feel the burn in your lower abs. As you get stronger you can go to leg raises where you keep your legs straight and raise them up until they are parallel to the floor. With your legs straight, it is harder to raise them and thus a better workout for your lower abs. Whichever way you go, I recommend doing them until you can’t do any more. This exercise is a staple in many lower ab workouts and I think is one of the best lower abdominal exercises around.

I don’t know if there is a better name for this exercise, but it is pretty simple. Again, you lay on your back with your legs straight. First you lift your lets up and point your toes at the ceiling. Your body will basically form an “L” shape. Lift your hips off the ground as you extend your legs towards the ceiling. You can either try to hold this position or lower back down and do it again and perform multiple reps. You may want to work this one into your lower ab workouts, but if you aren’t very flexible, this one will be kinda hard to do.

A variation of the leg lift is bring one knee up towards your chest at a time while the other leg is straight. You alternate which leg is straight and which knee is brought up towards your chest. As you alternate between bent leg and straight, you will see how this resembles peddling a bicycle. You can take this exercise to the next level by putting your hands behind your head and doing a rotating crunch bringing your elbow over to the opposite knee when you bring the knee towards your chest. You don’t need to touch the knee; the action of lifting up and twisting is plenty. This is another great addition to any lower ab workout.

Another common exercise in lower ab workouts is the leg lift. For this exercise, you lay on the ground and with your legs straight. You simply raise your legs off the ground and hold. You can either hold as long as you can or have a predetermined count like 10 and after you count to 10 you lower your legs briefly then bring them back up to do another rep.

If you have ever worked out on an exercise ball, you know how difficult it can be just balancing. The good news is that as you get better at balancing, the thing you are doing is strengthening you’re your core (aka abdominals). The simple act of exercising on an exercise ball is kind of like doing lower ab workouts even if you aren’t focusing on that area. You can also do ab exercises on the exercise ball. Even if you don’t plan to do lower ab workouts on an exercise ball, I would recommend getting one as it is a great workout for your abs even when you aren’t trying.