Develop Your AbsMidriff with Ab Lower Exercises

Maybe you don’t have the six-pack of abdominal squares neatly painted across your abdomen, but that doesn’t mean you have to live with a sub-par midriff.

Although the upper part of the abdominal area is rather easy to train, the ab lower region, between the navel and the top of the pelvis, is among the hardest regions to tighten.

The ab lower region of the rectus abdomnis is hard to develop, because the fibers in this region are weak and shorten very little in most exercises. The best workout abdominal exercises force the muscle fibers to shorten under tension and this tightens the fibers in the abdomen.

There are a few good ab exercises lower region that work toward a stronger midsection, roman chair leg raises, hanging leg raises, bicycle exercise, vertical crunch, reverse crunch on a bench, cable crunches with rope attachment and crunches on an exercise ball.

It’s important to recognize that no ab workouts lower exercise will perfectly flatten your stomach if there is too much fat covering the abdominal wall. The best strategy is to engage in aerobic training to utilize the fat calories as an energy source and use ab exercises lower such as vertical bench leg raise to tighten and strengthen the lower abdomen.