One of the main goals of those who exercise is to achieve a flat and toned stomach. It’s common for people to try to lose weight by doing just cardio, but this strategy rarely works. Abdominal flaccidity is difficult to treat, but there are exercises you can do to strengthen and tone your abdominal muscles.
Weight loss offers numerous health and aesthetic benefits. However, rapid weight loss has a negative side effect: drooping skin. Skin elasticity decreases with age because it is made of proteins like elastin and collagen, which break down over time.
Here are 4 workouts that not only help you lose belly fat, but also strengthen your core and prevent abdominal flaccidity.
Inverted crunches
Lie on the floor on your back with your legs bent, as if you were going to do a classic ab exercise.
Place your palms down on the ground at your sides.Relieve tension in your neck, shoulders, and back by lifting your gaze to the ceiling.
Draw your shins in closer your chest and bend your knees. Don’t arch your back or move your pelvis too much when you carry out this exercise.
During this time, be sure to tense your ab muscles.
Hold for a second, and then slowly go back to where you started.
Do this exercise between 10 and 20 times.
Cross Mountain Climber
Position yourself in a high plank for this workout.
Imitate a climbing action, keep moving your left knee to your right arm, then bring it back to the starting position, and finally, bring your right knee to your left arm.
Keep your legs apart and count to 30.
Russian Twist
Get down on the mat in a relaxed seated position with your knees bent and your elbows relaxed, and your hands clasped.
To accomplish one rep, start in this position and slowly rotate to the right, touching the ground near the hips as you go.
Keep in mind that the motion is not large and must come from the rotation of the trunk.
Maintain a tight core and a slow, controlled motion to maximize the benefits.
Do 30 reps.
Scissor Kicks
To get started, lay face up on the floor with your arms out.
After that, raise your left leg. Drop it and as you do so, raise your right leg.
It’s important to keep your heels off the floor throughout the entire exercise.
Do 30 reps, 15 on each leg.
