Want to show off your muscles? These eight tricks will help you build abdominal muscles

　　Everyone wants to have a perfect and strong figure, especially with the strengthening of people’s fitness concept in recent years and the rise of gyms everywhere, people exercise There are more professional venues. The recent trend of "showing off your abdominal muscles" has brought many people back to the gym. Even those who don't usually exercise have begun to exercise in order to catch up with the fitness trend.

　　How to build abdominal muscles

　　1. Frequency

　　Work out your abs every other day. In terms of quantity, although many people do hundreds of sit-ups at one time, it is recommended to choose 2 to 4 exercises that are most effective for you, and only do three groups of 30 to 50 times each, and each group should reach complete failure.

　　2. Weight

　　The more weight you use when training your abdominal muscles, the more likely it is that your movements will be irregular, and it will also make your waist thicker. The idea that adding weight will burn more fat is wrong. Therefore, it is recommended to use tension and control instead of weight-bearing, and use your mind to use external weight to tighten and stimulate the abdominal muscles.

　　3. Correct the situation

　　When training your abs, keep your abs tense throughout the entire set and don't let them relax, either at the beginning or at the end of the movement. Always reach complete failure, every set should be done to complete failure, don't count the reps, keep doing it until you can no longer contract your abdominal muscles. It doesn't have to be completely straight. When practicing abdominal muscles, don't arch your back but keep your chest slightly inward. To focus the tension on the abdomen. The straighter the upper body is stretched, the more force the buttocks participate in, which not only reduces the stress on the abdominal muscles, but also increases the risk of straining the lower back.

　　4. Hanging leg raise

　　When doing this action, you should first pay attention to avoid swaying, tighten your body, and control the speed of the action. To stimulate the intercostal muscles, rotate the knees from side to side, which also works the obliques. The key to a correct leg raise is to extend your hips slightly forward. It's certainly comfortable if you just simply raise your legs, but that's just stimulating your glutes and not your abs. Doing it this way, it's a very tough exercise but will totally stimulate your abdominals. The speed of movement will vary from person to person, but make sure you lower your legs slowly. to prevent swaying. Remember the goal is to build abs. Instead of lifting your legs any way you can. If you find it difficult to do this with your legs fully straightened, you can do it with your knees bent. When your abdominal muscles become stronger, gradually straighten your legs.

　　5. Sitting and raising legs

　　This action can better stimulate the lower abdominal muscles. Sit on the edge of the bench, stretch your legs forward and downward, lean back about 10 degrees, and hold on to the edge of the bench to maintain balance. Without bending your knees, lift your legs upward. Until the toes are parallel to the eyes, then control. Control and tension are crucial throughout the movement. A slight negligence may cause lower back injury. As your abdominal muscles become more and more fatigued, you can gradually bend your knees until complete exhaustion. Many people like to lie flat on a bench to do this action, which will cause the buttocks and abdomen to reduce the arc tension of the abdomen, focusing more tension on the buttocks rather than the lower part of the abdominal muscles.

　　6. Lying on your back

　　The starting position is lying on your back on a flat mat or on an inclined board with your head up. Hold the fixed object behind the head with both hands, contract the abdominal muscles during the whole body straightening movement, and bend the straight legs upward to the maximum extent possible. Hold for a second, then slowly lower your legs. Breathing method: Inhale when you bend your legs upwards, and exhale when you lower them back. Note that when lowering your legs, you still need to control your abdominal muscles and don't let them fall too fast.

　　7. Kick in the air

　　Friends who have practiced abdominal muscles know that mid-air leg kicks are very effective in strengthening the abdominal muscles, which can be clearly felt during the exercise. However, when doing air kicks, you need to pay attention to the fact that when lying on your back on the floor, your lower back needs to be tightly attached to the ground without leaving any gap with the ground. This can easily put stress on the waist and cause waist injury.

　　8. Abdominal crunches

　　Whether it is fitness ball crunches, leg raises, or other crunches, you must pay attention to the neutral position of the pelvis. If you have experienced a back injury, you can also choose to tilt the pelvis posteriorly, but you must not tilt the pelvis forward, as this can easily injure the lumbar spine. Doing crunches in a position that ensures the pelvis is neutral or tilted backwards can ensure that the rectus abdominis is isolated, eliminating the need for the lumbar spine and other muscle groups to participate in the movement, thus protecting the waist well. (Reference website: Medical Network)