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The 2 BIG MISTAKES Keeping You From The Ab Results You Want

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T he 2 BIG MISTAKES Keeping You From The Ab Results You Want. BIG MISTAKE #1: Your Core Simply Isn’t Working Properly Did you know that your core (i.e. all the muscles of your midsection) are at the foundation of every movement you make and they are the first group of muscles to fire during ANY movement? And did you know that if these muscles aren’t working properly, it doesn’t matter how many ab exercises you do because you will never get the waist shrinking results you really want. Just as the muscles in my “broken” leg weren’t working properly after being in a cast, your core muscles are likely experiencing the same thing… Especially if you’ve spent any amount of time: Sitting (especially more than 2 hours per day)  – since this position puts your core muscles to sleep… Doing sit-ups  – since they impose excess stress on your hip muscles that further weaken your core… Working out with machine s – since, like with sitting, these don’t require your core muscles to activate… D...
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The 14 Best Ab Exercises for a Rock Solid Core

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The 14 Best Ab Exercises for a Rock Solid Core What if I told you that the best ab exercises are not the ones you see in most magazines? In fact, many of them are the  worst ab exercises  you could be doing, and most of them do nothing to burn belly fat. ( 1 ) What if I also told you that most “old school” ab exercises, like sit-ups, impose greater stress loads on your lumbar spine that can cause low back pain? ( 2 ) Well, that’s the truth and that’s why today I’m going to share some fitness tips on how to train smarter with the 14 best ab exercises that strengthen and tone your core without the side effects of hip-flexion dominant exercises like sit-ups and crunches. In this post, I’ll show you how these ab exercises work which muscles, and which ab exercises are most effective for getting a rock solid core. For reference, this anatomical image shows you some of the ab muscles will be talking about.  Note:  it doesn’t show your deeper core muscles. Bu...
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