Easy Ab Workouts At Home

Here are the easy ab workouts you can do at home. You really don't need to use ab exercise machines if you want to work out your abs because these simple home ab exercises can deliver a great ab workout.

Your floor is the cheapest ab machine you will ever find!


You can do these easy ab workouts at home in a circuit or super set workout.

1. Ab Crunches:
Ab Crunches are great to workout you upper abs.

Perform 10-20 repetitions of Crunches and then with no rest move on to the second ab exercise.
  

2. Reverse Ab Crunches:
Reverse ab crunches is a simple exercise that move the lower part of your spine it also works out more on the lower abs.
By combining regular crunches and reverse crunches you are exercising your spine in 2 different directions and slightly changing the intensity in the upper abs and lower abs.

Perform 10-20 repetitions, and then move on to the next exercise.

3. Ab Bicycle Crunches
Ab bicycle crunches is one of the most effective ab exercises you can do at home. If you only had time to do one ab exercise, this is the recommended exercise. Bicycle Crunches targets both the 6 pack and the obliques.

Perform 15-25 repetitions on each side, and then move on to the last exercise.

4. The Plank
The plank ab exercise is a great stabilization exercise, and you can do this exercise anywhere. It focuses on the deep abdominal muscles and the transversus abdominus. This is an isometric exercise, which means that there is no movement.

Hold the plank position for 10-60 seconds.

Use these 4 at home ab exercises to build up your abdominal strength. Repeat the circuit 2-3 times.

11 Biggest Health Excuses That Hold You Back

By Jessie Knadler, Prevention


What's Holding Your Health Back?

As busy women know, coming up with good-for-you goals, such as snacking on more veggies or carving out enough "me time," isn't the issue. It's making them stick—after January resolution season ends, when the going gets tough at work, when the kids need you. But, thankfully, there is plenty of good science on how to make your health or fitness goals last for the long haul.

How? Successful changers seek out or stumble onto the right strategies. Weight loss, for instance, is challenging, but researchers have learned that regular weigh-ins increase the chances of success by more than 80%. And when you're trying to get yourself up off the couch, having a plan B (like using an exercise DVD when rain dampens your enthusiasm for a power walk) makes you 20% more likely to become a habitual exerciser.

Fun Ways To Help You Loss Weight!

The Fun Ways:

Spend some time playing with your kids. Play games that require physical activities. You will not just benefit from these activities but you also spend some precious time with them.

Substitute activities for eating. When the cravings strike, go talk to a friend, check your emails or facebook or play your favorite game.