How to Build & Define Your Abdominals

Series Summary

Exercising regularly for total body wellness and fitness is a smart idea. Whether the reasons are cosmetic or medical, starting of an exercise routine can be helpful for cardiovascular health, weight management, decreased health issues in later life and higher energy levels. Many businesses offer incentives for employees to stay fit and exercise, some give time off for trips to the gym or giving credits toward bonuses or vacation time for regular attendance at a wellness program. Keeping the body active is the base of good exercise, with resistance training, cardio workouts, simple calisthenics and more advanced exercises pushing the body toward certain health goals. In this free video series on abdominal exercises, an experienced fitness trainer demonstrates a variety of ab exercises. Get the flat stomach and six-pack abs everyone dreams of with abdominal crunches and reverse crunches. Learn how to get rid of that spare tire and lose stubborn belly fat. Almost everyone wants the lean look of ripped abs, and with a few simple exercises, proper diet and dedication, anyone can achieve the look they desire.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Les Whitley. I'd like to talk to you right now about building and defining the abdominal muscles. Everyone is seeking that six pack, to give you an overall, that healthy look and appearance that is the beach body and synonymous with health. When developing or defining and building abdominal muscles, we are talking about strength training for the midsection. Whether using your own body weight or additional resistance, basic exercises such as the sit up, the crunch, the knee raise, rotational exercises using weight plates or medicine balls will help train that core to develop those abdominals. To define, we're talking about seeing more of those muscles that requires you having a minimal amount of body fat covering over those particular areas. Whether it's defining the muscles of the upper arm, the lower leg or the abdominal midsection you have to minimize to see those results. Reducing body fat requires a combination of things to define or reduce that body fat, to see that musculature you got to modify and alter your diet. As well as increase your level of activity to burn more calories or spend more calories then you are taking in through your diet. The diet should be lower in fat, very low in sugar to utilize all the nutrients you are taking in and support your body for fuel and not to store any excess. After all we are looking to minimize and reduce the impact of the body fact and the visual blocking it can have of those muscles of the midsection. So to build do the exercises to train the core to make them nice and tight and developed. To reduce or define modify the diet and increase your level of activity to get that strong tone midsection that everyone looks for."