Abs Workout: 7 Exercises To Do At Home

Abs workout can help you lose fat

Abdominal muscle training is done by many women precisely to lose fat around the stomach and waist.

Exercise and exercise are generally a good idea, but abdominal exercises do not only melt fat on the stomach.

Abs workout – what for?

Everywhere you read that targeted abdominal muscle training also specifically melts the fat on your stomach.

This is nonsense, but muscle training generally helps burn calories. Trained abdominal muscles ensure better posture and a higher basal metabolic rate. We’ll show you 7 simple but effective exercises!

It is important that you do the exercises regularly to get a training effect. It is best to choose a fixed time of day, for example in the evening, before you go to the bathroom.

Do not overdo it, but you should train every other day, otherwise your exertion is of little use.

The exercises are child’s play anywhere: at home in the bedroom or living room or when traveling in a hotel room, on the beach or while sunbathing on the lawn. You don’t need any accessories or devices and you don’t have to buy expensive sports equipment.

Plank

The exercise “Plank” is simply called “Unterarmstütz” in German, but that sounds boring, which is why the English term has established itself.

In the forearm support exercise, only your own body weight is effective and the training effect is achieved through static holding, not through movement.

First and foremost, your abdominal muscles are strengthened, but also a variety of other muscle parts such as triceps, shoulder, chest and leg muscles.

If the exercise is too difficult for you, try to position your forearms a little higher, for example on a bench, a high cushion, a mattress or something similar.

Crunch

Here, too, the English term for “belly press” has established itself.

Put your feet under your bed or a closet, lie on your back, and stand up with your back straight.

Alternatively, you can bend your legs, which is easier. Variations:  Tap your left knee with your right elbow, put your upper body down and now tap your right knee with your left elbow.

Jackknife

Lie stretched out on the floor with your arms next to you. Now lift your upper body and legs straight up at the same time, so that your hips fold up like a jackknife. Do you feel the abs work?

If you are doing these exercises at home, it is best to lie down on the carpet. But maybe you also have a yoga mat or exercise mat?

Please do not do the exercises in bed, a mattress is too soft for that! Alternatively, you can fold a woolen blanket and lie on it with your back. What are you waiting for? Get off the couch, up on the carpet and go!

Edge of the table

An exercise that you can do anywhere you can sit on a hard edge. A table, a wall, a landing, … Please no bed or sofa, it’s too soft!

It’s very simple: sit on the edge and hold on to it with your hands as in the photo. Sit up straight and then stretch both legs forward horizontally.

Keep your back straight and don’t forget to breathe! Then slowly pull your legs back towards your body and use the strength of your abdominal muscles, the arms only stabilize and do not pull with you!

Air wheel

Lie on your back, cross your arms over your chest or stretch them forward and lift your upper body.

Now ride the air wheels with your legs bent and don’t forget to breathe evenly into your stomach. Keep your head straight and do not rest it on your chest, it should form a straight line with your spine.

candle

Lie on your back, cross your arms behind your head or place them next to your body and stretch your legs straight up as straight as possible. It is ideal if you point the soles of your feet parallel to the ceiling at hip level.

Now lift your bottom without the help of your arms by pushing the “candle” towards the ceiling. Slowly raise and lower.

pushups

The push-up is an exercise that trains many muscle groups at the same time and very effectively without the need for additional equipment.

Quasi a “workout on a small scale”. The push-ups train muscle groups in the arms, legs, shoulders, buttocks, back – and also the abdomen.

The “straight abdominal muscle” is what many like to see as a “six-pack”. And it is precisely this muscle that benefits in the stomach when you do push-ups!