How to Exercise Your Abs with Dumbbells

Dumbbells are a simple piece of equipment that we commonly use for exercise. They are mainly used for muscle training and can also be used for resistance exercise. Dumbbells are mainly made of stone or iron. Scientific use of dumbbells can achieve the effect of exercise, and can build bodybuilding muscles. However, many people want to use dumbbells to exercise their abdominal muscles. Can dumbbells be used to exercise abdominal muscles? Let us briefly introduce it below.

Dumbbells can not only keep fit but also shape muscle lines and increase muscle endurance. Many people go to the gym to do dumbbell exercises. The main target is not the upper limb muscles, but the abdomen. Below we will briefly introduce how to do dumbbell exercises for the abdominal muscles.

The main goal is not to be afraid of difficulties, but to focus on the abdomen. Below we will briefly introduce how to exercise the abdomen.

1. Bench press: mainly trains the thickness of the pectoralis major and the chest groove. Action: Lie on a bench with dumbbells in both hands, with the dumbbells at the level of your shoulders and your palms facing up. Push up the dumbbells with your arms straight, slightly pushing up and down in an arc so that the pectoralis major muscles can be fully contracted and thoroughly stretched, then slowly return to the original position.

2 Use dumbbells to do throwing movements - exercise the triceps, triceps, and triceps; bench press: mainly exercise the thickness of the pectoralis major and the chest groove. Action: Lie on a bench with dumbbells in both hands, place the dumbbells on your shoulders, palms facing up, push the dumbbells up until your arms are straight, pause for a moment, push up and down in an arc, so that the pectoralis major muscles can be fully contracted and thoroughly stretched. Then slowly restore.

3. Incline press: mainly trains the upper chest muscles. Action: The action is the same as the bench press, the difference is that the bench surface is adjusted to an angle of 30 to 40 degrees, and you lie on it diagonally.

4. Lying Fly: Mainly exercises the middle groove of the chest. Action: Lie on a flat bench with your feet on the ground. Press a pair of dumbbells above your chest with your palms facing each other. Keep your arms slightly bent, slowly lower the dumbbells along the arc until your upper arms are level with the ground, fully stretch your chest muscles, contract your chest muscles to raise your arms in an arc, pause, then restore the dumbbells to the starting position along the same arc, and repeat.

There are mainly several common training methods for abdominal muscles with dumbbells. In daily life, you must persist in using dumbbells to train abdominal muscles for a long time. Dumbbell training has a very good fitness effect. It not only exercises the upper limbs but also exercises muscles in many other parts of the body. People who exercise for a long time can also exercise the compound abdominal muscle exercises, which can increase the lines of the muscles in the exercised parts and produce muscle endurance.