Lower Abs Workout

After giving birth to my son I did some lower abs workout without knowing that some of them were actually dangerous and could harm my body. Please take my advice: you really need somebody to tell you which abs exercises to avoid. Just because you see some people doing it doesn’t mean they know what they are doing. Abdominal muscles are the most wanted muscles and some people will do whatever they think can give them the six pack abs they always dream of.

Sit-ups

Sit-ups are not the best workout for lower abs, in fact they probably the worst abs exercise to trim your belly fat. Excessive sit-ups will only lead to lumbar lordosis and back pain especially when done the wrong way.

What is lumbar lordosis?

Too much of a curve in the low back will put pressure on your entire back. When the low back curves too far in (observed from the side with no clothes on), a person looks “swaybacked.” This is called lumbar lordosis and straight leg sit-ups are known to be the culprit of it. When you do sit-ups with straight legs you will arch your back badly and create strain and overextension around your lower back area.

Crunches

Crunches are considered to be the lower abs workout alternative to sit-ups because people think they are safer. Are they? Find out what the expert said about crunches:

“We stopped teaching people to do crunches a long, long time ago,” says Dr. Richard Guyer, president of the Texas Back Institute. That’s because the “full flex” movement—the actual “crunch” part of crunches – puts an unhealthy strain on your back at its weakest point. The section with the most nerves (and most potential for nerve damage) is in the back of the spine, which is the very part that bends and strains during a sit-up. Yikes!

Twisting or Side Bending

Some people do twisting or side bending to reduce their love handles. Again, love handles are basically fat and you can’t get rid of them by only doing an isolation workout. Just like sit-ups and crunches these exercises involved your back spine as well. Be careful, you don’t want to risk your disks there.

Those workouts above are three lower abs workouts most people do to remove their tummy fat. Please don’t repeat the same mistakes people have been doing. There are a lot of different ways to bring your abs muscles exposed and yet safer to your body.