Tone Stomach

Tone Your Stomach With These Exercises

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

So you want to tone your stomach? Most all stomach exercises can give and add muscle mass to your abdominal area. But not every exercise can tone your stomach and give you a six pack. But that is really what you are after, right? You don't want to go through the effort if you do not achieve visible results! So if you are already in the process of losing enough weight to be able to see your ab muscles, look below to see how you can get ab muscles TO show.

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Tone Stomach

Tone stomach exercises range from easy levels to hard levels. There are exercises that can seriously strengthen your stomach, but it doesn't really give the appearance of being toned or defined. Here are some exercises that are specifically designed to tone your stomach and make them clear and visible.

Lying Leg Raises
Proper Ab Crunch
The 'Anywhere' Tone Stomach Exercise

Toning Your Stomach

Lying Leg Raises

  

Be sure that your legs are slightly bent throughout this exercise.

  1.) Step One
Lie on your back with your hands, palms down under your buttocks.
  2.) Step Two
Slowly raise your legs about a foot off the floor and hold them there.
  3.) Step Three
Using just your lower abs, tilt your pelvis and raise your legs a further.
  4.) Step Four
Hold for a few seconds then return to your original position. Keep going until you can feel it burning in your abs.
 

Proper Ab Crunch
  1.) Step One
Lie on you back.
  2.) Step Two
Place your feet on the floor as close to your bottom as possible and place your knees together.
  3.) Step Three
Rest your hands across you chest.
  4.) Step Four
Slowly raise your shoulders off the floor by contracting only the abdominal muscles, keeping your lower back on the floor.
  5.) Step Five
Hold that position for a second and breath out forcefully.
  6.) Step Six
Slowly relax the stomach muscles and allow your shoulders to return to the floor. Repeat 10-12 times. Do as many sets you can with at least a minute rest in between.

Anywhere Ab Tone

  
  1.) Step One
Stand Up Straight.
  2.) Step Two
Lightly tighten you stomach muscles.
  3.) Step Three
Hold for a second while tightened.
  4.) Step Four
Take slow, deep breaths, in and then slowly out, all the while holding your stomach muscles tight. Keep taking breaths until you get tired.


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