What are some abdominal exercise equipment?

Young men nowadays all want to have beautiful abdominal muscles, and even many girls want to train their abdominal muscles. Therefore, in the city’s gyms, you can always see many people exercising. Fitness exercise is a good habit and has a good effect on weight loss and body building. Regular fitness is also beneficial to physical health. If you want to exercise your abdominal muscles, you must learn the correct method. Here are some equipment that can be used to exercise the abdomen.

Gym abdominal exercise equipment:

1. Use the abdominal crunch machine

The abdominal crunch machine is a common fitness equipment in gyms, also known as the abdominal crunch machine or abdominal crunch chair. For abdominal muscle training, the crunch machine is a basic training equipment, which has many advantages for abdominal muscle training.

First of all, because you can use the strength of your hands to minimize the chance of sports injuries, it is especially suitable for fitness beginners. Secondly, the neck and spine are always close to the backboard, making abdominal exercises accurate and effective, and reducing unnecessary neck burden during abdominal exercises. Then, you can freely adjust the weight of the discus, and gradually progress from light to heavy.

Note:

Many people, once sitting on this type of equipment, just adjust the weight and then move it up and down, completely ignoring the height of the seat and whether the whole movement is appropriate.

If it is the type with a rubber pad in the front, the height of the pad should be just below the sternum, and the sitting position should also be adjusted. It is best to lean your body slightly backward at the beginning of the movement. If your body leans forward at the beginning of the movement, the whole movement may cause the spine to bend too much, which may easily cause injury to the lower back and problems with body posture.

If the machine has a pair of handles that you can pull down to do crunches, it is best to choose the one with a back pad that is slightly tilted backwards. Of course, the height of the seat should also be adjusted as above.

2. Rotating machine

Weighted body rotation is an effective way to exercise the external oblique muscles. Gyms generally have corresponding equipment that can perform similar body rotation movements.

Action essentials:

1. Adjust the seat height and rotation range, keep your head up, chest out, and back straight.

2. Turn your body left and right by bending your waist sideways, with a range of about 45 degrees. Braking is required at the very end of the movement.

3. Breathe naturally and don’t hold your breath.

Note:

Rotate with control, keeping your abs tight to avoid straining. If it makes a discus-smacking sound when you use it, you are almost certainly using it incorrectly. Because this type of equipment is usually used within a fixed tension range of approximately 45 to 90 degrees, and it definitely does not allow for 180 degree rotation left or right.

The point where the discus hits the target is the end of the pulling force range. If the discus continues to rotate, there will be no effective pulling force at all. Of course, other small equipment and auxiliary equipment in the gym can be used to help exercise the abdominal muscles: such as weighted barbell plates, suspended single and double bars, fitness balls, cables, etc.