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Add a twist to your crunch for better women's abs

The twisting crunch for sexy abs

Women’s abs workouts and exercises often fail to mention that adding a twist is a great way to increase the tension on the common crunch. Check it out!

The basic crunch

The basic crunch is one of the best motions to build up your midsection and abs. However, there are ways to intensify the crunch and it seems that many women’s fitness site’s and blogs have forgotten to mention that.

How to do the crunch twist

Here is how you do the perfect crunch with an added twist:

• Lay on the floor with your lower back flat on the ground.
• Place your hands by the side of your head, fingers touching your temples.
• Place your feet flat on the floor and about shoulder width apart.
• Tense your abs and using that tension slowly roll your upper body up into a crunch position.
• Once you are near the top of the crunch position you should twist to the side so that your left elbow touches your right leg somewhere.
• Twist back to the center and then lower your body back down.
• Start the next repetition BEFORE your body lays fully down so that your abs get no time to rest inbetween reps.

Tips for the twisting crunch

Many people think that the twisting crunch has to be done in a locked position. That is, each time you should twist and touch your elbow on exactly the same spot and with exactly the same speed. I disagree with this and take a different approach.

One of the best ways to improve your abs is to hit them from all different angle and with a whole lot of different exercises. Today we are looking at the twisting crunch which increases the ‘crunch’ on our abs. We can better this exercise even further by altering where we do the twist. For example, sometimes I will touch my elbow to my knee which doesn’t allow my abs to crunch completely. In the next set I will then try to get my elbow all the way over to the other side of my leg as if I was trying to touch it to the ground. This increases the tension quite a lot.

One of the best tips for the twisting crunch is that you should never follow the motion and get stuck in it. Each movement and crunch should be a crisp separate motion. You should not be going as fast as you can pumping them out and just PLACING yourself in a twisted position.

Instead, you really should make sure that you make the twist a crunching movement in itself. So, the first part of the movement where you crunch up normally should be very separate in your mind from the next part where you twist to the side. This is a great way to keep your technique on track.

The most important thing for sexy women’s abs

If you want some nice abs then you really do need to remember the basics of abs training.

1. If you have a layer of fat covering your abs they will never be seen by anyone. This is the most important tip that you can take note of as you might be able to save a whole lot of time and effort if you just lose a little bit of weight as opposed to trying to build a sexy six pack by doing a million crunches.
2. Technique is the most important thing. If you find you can only do ten crunches or sit ups or reverse crunches that is fine as long as they are done with good technique. There are always those people at the gym who just throw their bodies into the crunch position going as fast as they can like they need to do 50 crunches in one minute or they are going to die. No. It’s wrong. Go slow, watch your technique and make sure you are mentally crunching your abs as you go along.
3. Add weight. Women are often afraid to add weight to their gym workouts and weight lifting exercises for fear of becoming big and bulky. This won’t happen ladies! Adding weight is a great way to stress the muscles more and as such speed up your progress. You should try to add weight or increase the resistance some way each time you do an abs workout.

Conclusion
Abs training really isn’t as hard as the industry makes it out to be. A sexy, flat, toned stomach isn’t that far away as long as you remember the basics and you remember to remember them!

Does anyone have any other tips that they have found particularly helpful for their abs?

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