Can arm trainers train abdominal muscles?

Compared to chest muscles, abdominal muscles are easier to train. Generally speaking, abdominal muscle training does not require the use of equipment. Arm trainers generally help to train the arm muscles and chest muscles, but have little effect on the abdominal muscles. Although abdominal muscle training requires long-term persistence to be effective, if you learn about more efficient training methods, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Let’s take a look below!

Steps/Methods

To touch your ankles, lie on the floor or mat, then lift your legs, bend them slightly, lift your upper body so that your fingertips can touch your ankles, quickly lower your body, stand up again to touch your ankles, and repeat the above steps.

Make sure your arms are straight, with your fingertips reaching your ankles. This movement should be done at a certain speed. Count in your mind. Generally, it takes 1 second to complete one movement. One movement is from your fingertips to your ankles and then back to the original position. Do this for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds.

Lie on the floor or mat with your legs raised up, legs slightly bent, and arms flat on the ground. Then stretch your legs up, drive your body upward, lift your hips about 30 degrees off the ground, lower yourself, and repeat.

Use the strength of your legs to lift your body up, while your abdomen is pulled and stressed, which is very helpful for abdominal muscle training.

Pull to the left and right sides, lie on the floor or mat, bend your legs, keep the soles of your feet as close to the ground as possible, lift your neck and head slightly, until your eyes can see your thighs, stretch your arms straight and place them on both sides of your waist, then pull to the side with one hand, recover, and switch to the other direction. This exercise is very challenging for your abdominal muscles. It will be very painful when you first start doing it because your abdominal muscles are not used to it. Depending on your situation, you can do two fewer sets at the beginning.

Twist your arm and upper body to one side so that your right hand can touch your right foot, then return to the original position and change to the other direction.

The lying walking method is very simple. Lie down and walk with your feet in the air.

To stretch your abdominal muscles, sit on the mat with only your hips supporting the ground. Bring your legs and upper body as close together as possible, then quickly separate them and then bring them together again. Repeat the above movements. Do not put your hands and feet on the ground during the entire movement. Just support your hips on the ground so that your abdominal muscles can be fully stressed and stretched.

Many tutorials recommend this movement, which is quite effective in training the abdominal muscles. It also requires a certain speed and is quite challenging for the abdominal muscles. You can adjust the intensity when you first start doing it.

Pull your body straight on one leg, facing the ground, with your elbows and forearms supporting the ground. Support the ground with one leg, and straighten the other leg and lift it off the ground about one foot long. Hold for 15 seconds, then change legs and do the above movements.

The above are ways to help exercise your abdominal muscles. Before exercising, you must be careful not to eat, but you don’t necessarily have to be on an empty stomach. If you are full, it will cause gastrointestinal discomfort, which is not conducive to digestion of food, and the effect of abdominal muscle training will not be obvious. The process of exercising your abdominal muscles is rather boring, but you must persist.