Crunch Your Way to a Supermodel Midsection

Fitness & Exercise

You really thought by doing crunches and crunches only you can achieve the look of an info commercial model? Have you ever noticed in many of the television ads promoting the numerous products, you find the same actors and actresses? Yet people still spend millions of dollars a year on false promises and guarantees. Why? What influences you to fall prey to televisions legitimate scams?

The Truth of the matter is that crunches will help do many good things for your body but should be used to supplement your workout regimen. Crunches help strengthen your abdominal muscles, can help perform certain sports better but do little to help reduce fat surrounding your midsection.

The anterior abdominal wall is made up of 4 major muscles—the rectus abdominis muscle (Outer muscle), the internal and external oblique’s, and the transversus abdominis. Crunches work a little of all the abdominal muscle groups but how effectively has been questioned. Using electromyography (EMG), researchers can test how hard each muscle group works. Research suggests crunches work your upper abdominals harder then other areas of your midsection. I have taken the liberty to compile a short list of the most effective abdominal and oblique exercises:

Abdominal:
1. Bicycle Crunch
2. Captain’s chair
3. Exercise ball

Obliques:
1. Captain’s chair
2. Bicycle crunch
3. Reverse crunch
4. Hover
5. Vertical leg crunch

To get the desired results you see on television takes extreme discipline and it starts in the kitchen. Food is your number one adversary and you must be able to mentally sustain your healthy eating habits. Eating food low in fat and high in protein with healthy complex carbs mixed in, is usually the direction you want to go.