Can doing abdominal crunches train your abdominal muscles?

If we choose to exercise by tightening our abdomen, can we get the effect of abdominal muscle training? When exercising abdominal muscles, it must be reasonable. Many exercises can help us to exercise good abdominal muscles. When exercising abdominal muscles, we must keep up with the rhythm, and each time we exercise abdominal muscles, we must be reasonable and master the regular method. Many people will use the method of tightening their abdomen to do abdominal muscle training, so can tightening the abdomen train abdominal muscles?

1. Cross-tighten your abdomen

This movement is also called aerial bicycle pedaling. Lie flat on the ground with your arms bent and your hands placed on your ears. Bend your left leg and do the bicycle pedaling movement. At the same time, contract your abdomen and lift your upper body so that your right elbow touches your left knee. Pause for a moment when it is in place, then slowly put it down. Follow this method for your right leg and left elbow. The benefit of this movement is that it can fully exercise the muscles in the abdomen. Do three sets a day, 12-14 reps in each set.

2. Leg lift and abdominal contraction

This movement mainly exercises the rectus abdominis, which is a muscle that most friends who do sit-ups ignore. Lie flat on the mat, place your hands naturally on both sides of your body, keep your legs together, lift them up, and when your hips are slightly off the ground, pause for a moment, then slowly lower them. There are two points to note in this movement. First, keep the thighs and calves vertical when retracting the legs. Second, do not place the legs completely on the mat when lowering them. You can stop when they are 10 centimeters off the ground and start the next movement.

3. Air Crunches

As the name suggests, this move must be performed in the air. Find a horizontal bar, hang yourself on it, put your legs together, turn your body slightly, and contract sideways, alternating between left and right. Pay attention to keeping the upper body vertical, the movement must be smooth, and pause for a moment after contracting to the highest point. This movement can effectively engage the external oblique muscles of the abdomen.

You can practice yoga by tightening your abdomen, but you must follow the methods we pointed out above to exercise your abdominal muscles. This way of tightening the abdomen is actually a way to practice the abdominal muscles, but many people can't master it, so they can't get better abdominal muscle training results. When doing abdominal muscle exercises, you must ensure that your food is nutritious enough.