Some Myths About Ab Exercises

1) Doing ab exercises everyday will give you the best results. FALSE! In contrast doing ab exercises everyday may wear at muscles if done without any rest. Muscles develop during rest periods, therefore you are just breaking down your muscles and ultimately not giving the muscles any time to grow.

2) Just doing ab exercises will get you a flat stomach. FALSE!!! You cannot reduce fat in your midsection if you just do ab exercises. You have to include cardio in your workouts to shed the fat first and then develop the muscles. Otherwise you will just have muscles over fat.

3) Placing you hands behind you head is good support for your abs and body. FALSE! In actuality if you do this you are likely to cause strain in your neck muscles and not no use your abdominals properly. The point is to contract the ab muscles and not the neck. Instead place your hands across your chest or place your fist at your ears.

4) The lower and upper abdominals are separate. FALSE! Abs are abs, and one long sheet of muscles. Whether you do an upper or lower ab exercise the exercise should target all abdominal spots.