What can I do?

Cheetah Designs · 27 Jun 2007 at 22:31

Hi there,

What can I do to exercise my lower abdominal muscles?

I mean exercise at home without any equipment.

Thanks.

semi-pro waster · 27 Jun 2007 at 22:35

Reverse crunches or perhaps burpees would be a good start if you have no equipment. I'm no expert though.

What other exercise do you do? If you want a '6-pack' your diet is almost certainly more important than doing lots of exercises for the abs.

Morba · 27 Jun 2007 at 23:00

What is your goal?

Styles · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:48

REALLY huge lower abs!

No but seriously, what is your goal?

Chong Warrior · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:50

semi-pro waster said:
Reverse crunches or perhaps burpees would be a good start if you have no equipment. I'm no expert though.

What other exercise do you do? If you want a '6-pack' your diet is almost certainly more important than doing lots of exercises for the abs.

Expert or not, good post

Cheetah Designs · 2 Jul 2007 at 20:13

Just to exercise the lower abs - are there different things I could be doing it for?

semi-pro waster · 3 Jul 2007 at 07:25

Cheetah Designs said:
Just to exercise the lower abs - are there different things I could be doing it for?

I'm not sure I follow your sentence here. There are quite a few good reasons to exercise the abs and only one of them is to increase the appearance of a '6-pack' but as I hinted above no matter how much you do it is unlikely to actually show without commitment to your diet.

Also don't just do ab exercises in isolation a) it won't really show because the body likes to grow together (e.g. you need to exercise pretty much everything to create the balance) and b) you run the risk of injuring yourself if you either aren't doing it correctly or aren't exercising the supporting muscles as per point a). Those are the primary reasons why people are asking what else you do.