How to Use the Ab Swing for Obliques

The Ab Swing provides an effective means of exercising your abdominal muscles. You can perform a variety of ab exercises on the Ab Swing, including those that work your upper abs, lower abs and obliques. Your obliques are your side ab muscles.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Ab Swing

1. Sit in the Ab Swing. Your bottom should be resting against the cushion and your hands should hold the handlebars. Your feet should rest on the foot rest.

2. Tilt your body so your weight rests on your left buttocks. Your bottom will now be at an angle on the seat, with your right side in front of your left. This is the position you want so as to work your right oblique muscles.

3. Use your ab muscles to pull your legs up, following the traditional Ab Swing motion. You will feel your right obliques doing the majority of the work on this movement.

4. Complete a set of 10 to 50 movements.

5. Switch your positioning to work your left obliques. Shift your weight onto your right buttocks and angle your body so your left side is in front of your right. Repeat the same set on this side as you work your left obliques.

Tips & Warnings

• Your obliques work when you perform any abdominal exercise on the Ab Swing so they will benefit from other movements. If you are looking to specifically work the obliques, you will need to target them with this side movement.
• You won't be able to see your well-defined abs if they are covered by fat. Lose weight by cutting calories and incorporating cardiovascular exercise into your workouts.
• Avoid holding your breath while you perform movements. People sometimes tend to tense up and hold their breath while doing ab exercises. Instead, relax and breathe normally.
• Allow your muscles a day to rest in between intense ab exercises.

Resources

• Ab Swing