Abdominal Exercises You Can Do Anywhere

You get up in the morning and look outside the window where you see a thick layer of frost covering the glass and what looks like ten foot snow drifts covering your driveway. The last thing you want to do is put on your layered workout clothes, pack your gym bag, scrape the ice off your windshield and freeze half to death on the way to the gym. Once you get to the gym you need to change all over again into something less bulky and warm since the inside of the facility is heated (that or everyone inside is frozen solid). You have already spent about an hour and you still have not even started your workout. If you are like most people, you would have to get up at five in the morning in order to reach the gym by six, workout for one hour until seven, then back home by, hopefully, 7:30 am or thereabouts and then off to work. It is exhausting just thinking about it and totally unnecessary.

You heard right: totally unnecessary. You can get just as great a workout at home and save yourself about two hours of wasted time and motion. All you need is a little planning and you can get fit in the comfort and warmth of your own home. Even if you dont live in an icy climate you should still get to know the all of the great abdominal exercises and isometric routines that leading fitness experts around the world recommend. Although most hotels have gyms these days, it is still good to know that you can get a quick, effective workout in your own hotel room every morning when you are traveling on business or pleasure.

One of the best abdominal exercises you can do is the Basic Ab Crunch. This great ab workout will tighten your ab muscles and give you much more strength to support your back. People dont always realize that one of the leading causes of back pain is the inability of our abs to support our weight, causing the back muscles to spasm and overexert. The Ab Crunch is simple and quick and one of the best abdominal exercises available. Just lay down on any flat surface and tuck your knees up with your feet flat on the ground. Put your hands crossed over your midsection and gently raise your head until you feel your ab muscles contracting. Make sure you do this exercise slowly and hold the position as long as you can at the top. When you put your head back down do it slowly.

Another one of the great abdominal exercises you can do anywhere at any time are leg lifts. You will need to improvise a bench of some sort, but two chairs placed together should suffice if no bench is available. Do not try this exercise on the bed as it is too soft and may hurt your back. Lay down on the bench with your legs dangling off one end. With your back straight place your hands behind your head and hold on to the bench. Slowly lift your legs off the floor and pushed together. Slowly lift them until they are over your body then slowly bring them back down. You should feel a strong tightening of your abs and this tells you the exercise is working. Pretty soon it will start to burn and the next day it will probably be sore, but these are all good signs of effectiveness.