Beginner’s Guide to Abdominal Exercises and Workout: Part 3

When we diet we often losing fat as well as muscle. This decrease in muscle mass will cause our metabolism to slow down. So we are unable to burn as many calories throughout the day, evn after you’ve done doing your cardio routine and abdominal exercises. As we age this naturally begins to occur. After our mid 20s our metabolic rate decrease, by approximately five percent per decade. One explanation for this is that our muscle mass decreases and our body fat increases due to inactivity. We get caught up in our work and spend our leisure time in front of the TV instead of doing cardio exercise, your abdominal exercises, etc. Being overweight in one of the major causes of hypertension, high blood pressure, certain types of cancer and an overall lackluster feeling.

As many dieters know, the weight is going to come back faster and faster the more you diet. Whether you're eating pre-packaged foods, diet shakes, or grapefruits and water, you're not going to be able to stay with it forever without going crazy. When you see that chocolate cake you won't be able to just have one piece you're likely to eat the whole thing. It's a vicious cycle. Then you’ll lose motivation and won’t ever want to do your abdominal exercises, cardio routine, etc.

There is good news. Something can break this cycle—exercise (cardio exercise, abdominal exercises and other weightlifting exercises. In order to lose weight we must create a caloric deficit, that is. We must expend more calories that we are consuming. This is done through abdominal exercise and other exercises and proper nutrition, not fad diets. Through exercise we are able to burn calories and add muscle. For every pound of muscle we obtain, an extra 350 calories per week is burned in order to sustain this. We'll be using up extra calories even while we sleep.

In order to shape and tone our bodies we need to do body shaping exercises, abdominal exercises and other strength training exercises, etc. This will add muscle and firmness to our physiques. Many women tend to deposit fat around their thighs and buttocks, while males tend to put fat around their stomachs.

Here are a few exercises that can help tighten these areas.

Outer thigh lift: Lying on your right side with your hips and ankles in line with your shoulders, slowly lift your left leg as high as possible, hold, then return to the starting position. Do 10 repetitions and switch sides.

Inner thigh lift: Lying on your left side with your hips and ankles in line with your shoulder. right knee is bent to 90* angle. Slowly lift your left leg as high as possible. hold, then return to the starting position. Do 10 repetitions and switch sides.

Abdominal crunches: Lying on your back with knees bent and hand behind your head, slowly curl your shoulders up. pause, slowly lower to the starting position. Do 10 repetitions. This is an excellent abdominal exercise.

You will notice that you will be much more conscience of the foods you're eating when you exercise. Since you'll be taking care of your body you won't want to fill it up with junk foods.

It is best to eat three well balanced meals and two nutritious snacks in between. This will help eliminate the binge eating that often happens when meals are skipped. Try to drink plenty of water and eat high fiber foods since this will give you a full feeling without adding extra calories.

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Beginner Ab Exercise Guide Part 1
Beginner Ab Exercise Guide Part 2
Beginner Ab Exercise Guide Part 3