How To Perform Ab Crunches Properly

There’s a mountain of controversy whether ab crunches are an effective exercise to help lose stomach fat.

The simple fact is, ab crunches alone won’t lead you to getting a sexy six pack.

Realistically you need to concentrate on reducing your overall calorie intake as well as increasing the calories you burn on a daily basis, as well as increasing your overall muscle mass, which helps a great deal in your mission for weight loss.

Just the same, ab crunches are a very simple, convenient and extremely effective exercise to help you in your fight to lose stomach fat.

The real trick to help you lose belly fat with this humble exercise and get real results in a relatively short space of time is simple.

Perform crunches with solid form and a slow cadence for outstanding results!

Performing 30 ab crunches with slow and solid form is a whole lot better for your body and will provide much better results than blasting out 200 ab crunches with bad form.

Doing ab crunches in a fast and uncontrolled manner will not only cheat you of the results your looking for but also increase your chances of serious back injury.

A really good point to remember when performing any exercise, is that if your performing the exercise in a way which makes it harder, then your probably doing the exercise better. So remember, slow down and concentrate on performing the exercise with good solid form!

Remember it’s not about how many crunches you do that counts, but the amount of effort and energy you expend performing the crunches which makes all the difference and will ultimately help you get the results your after.

So how to lose stomach fat with the help of ab crunches.

The first rule of performing ab crunches is ’slow down’. A complete crunch should be performed in six counts, count to two on the way up and squeeze at the very top for one count and then slowly lower your upper torso back to the floor during the remaining two counts.

Up – 1 -2 – ‘Squeeze’ – Down – 4 – 5 – 6

Performing ab crunches this way forces you to make a much more concentrated and powerful muscle contraction with your abdominals, especially the concentrated ’squeeze’ at the top of the ab crunch. Even if you can only do five or seven ab crunches this way don’t despair, the fact that you can’t physically do another crunch is a good thing! It means you have totally exhausted your abdominal muscles, which in turn will force these muscles to adapt by growing larger and stronger.