Fitness Advice for Life

Sit-Ups

sit-up          Sit-ups are a pretty awesome work out. I mean, who doesn’t want that perfectly sculpted 6-pack. All you need to do is find about 15 minutes a day probably 4 times a week to work them out. There are so many work outs that you can do to work out your ABS. Try doing 6 different AB workouts. Start with 3 one day, then the next day do the other 3. After about 3 weeks, start to work in different AB workouts. Make sure to switch them up and don’t always do them in the same order, they don’t call it muscle memory for no reason.  Look below for some examples.

 

Week 1:

 

Day 1:                                                                                    Day 2:

1. Regular Sit-up (Feet help down)                                    1. Bicycle Crunch

2. Planks (45sec)                                                                   2. Leg and Ball Crunch

3. Exercise Ball Crunch                                                        3. Regular Sit-up (no weight on feet)

 

Switch up the order of when you do them for the next 3 weeks. Then on your 4th week, add a different ab work out to each day. And repeat for another 3 weeks and then start over.

 

If you want more advise, check back for my 12-week work out plan. You can also try talking with a personal trainer.

Push Up

         Push ups are one of the most convenient work outs around. Push ups help to build your chest, shoulders, arms, upper back, and possibly your abs. Now there are many different ways to do a push up. Which ever way you do it, you need to make sure to use proper form, i.e don’t rush it. Your hands need to be at shoulders length with fingers pointed forward and on your toes. Bring your chest approximately 1 to 2 inches off the ground and go all the way up and when you go all the way up you squeeze your pectoral muscles together. You can also try incline, decline, and hands close together as well.