A Workout To Blast Every Section of Your Abs

Did you know that your stomach consists of 4 main muscles?

This means that achieving a six-pack isn’t as simple as doing a few crunches as an end-of-workout after thought. The fact is, each area of your abdominal muscles must be targeted in order to truly train and flatten that belly.

We’ve all seen people who have great upper abs, but a saggy area below the belly button; or a little bit more around the love handles area than what they’d really love! Good from afar, but far from great, right?

If you think you might have been skipping part of your tummy workout without realising it, give this one a go…

It’s specifically designed to target every fibre of every muscle in your abdominal region.

1. Top – Bottom Wood Chop (begin movement at bottom and “chop” up)

2. Bottom – Top Wood Chop (begin movement at top and “chop” down)

3. Swiss Ball Crunches

4. 4-point Drawing In Manoeuvre

• Assume a position on all 4s with your hips aligned over your knees and your shoulders aligned over your hands.
• Keep your abdominals relaxes while ensuring your spine is in neutral (its natural position).
• Take a deep breath in and let your belly drop towards the floor.
• Exhale and draw your belly button in toward your spine (activating the TVA muscle), while keeping your back in the start position - do not arch it.
• Ensure you maintain neutral spinal alignment throughout and do not move your spine.
• Hold for as long as you comfortably can, then relax.
• Repeat up to 10 reps.

This workout is simple, it won’t take you long and is guaranteed to be far more effective than the old standard of 100 crunches every day.

It’s a great workout to do by itself, or add it on to the end of your current program. Be sure to take out any current stomach exercises on that program if you do this, or you could risk fatiguing the muscles and straining your back. Besides which, perhaps those exercises are best waved goodbye to if they weren’t working for you!