A computer or smart phone combined with a reliable Internet connection can give you access to a wide variety of abdominal exercises and routines. The websites of several fitness experts and publications offer comprehensive workouts that you can use to strengthen, tone and sculpt your stomach when your schedule allows, whether that be at home, in the park or while traveling.
Flat Abs Fast
The website for "Good Housekeeping Magazine" offers numerous fitness routines that will help you to whip your entire body in shape. Their Flat Abs Fast routine, developed by Jim Karas, includes back extensions, oblique toners, diagonal stretches and reverse crunches, all executed using a stability ball. The ball bridge exercise is done by placing your feet flat on the floor and resting your mid to upper back on the stability ball, with your hips hanging down and hovering just above the floor. Engage your abdominal muscles while you press into your feet and lift your hips toward the ceiling into a table-top position, so that there is a straight line going from your knees to your head.
Top 10 Abs Exercises
"Fitness Magazine" also offers a variety of abdominal and core exercises that will strengthen your upper, lower and oblique muscles. The magazine's website includes a guide called "Top 10 Abs Exercises," written by Lexi Walters. It takes the reader through a regimen of side crunches, planks, arm and leg raises, squats and ballet moves to tone the tummy.
The abdominal hold move will help to strengthen your lower abs; sit on the edge of a chair or exercise bench and place your hands next to each leg with your fingers pointing forward. Engage your abdominal muscles and lift your feet a few inches off of the floor. Then lift your butt off of the chair while pressing through your hands. Hold for five to 10 seconds; repeat for one minute.
Get Six Pack Abs in Weeks
The "Get Six Pack Abs in Weeks" workout, written by Jenny Everett and published on "Women's Health" magazine's website provides a wide a variety of moves that include crunches and planks while using stability balls, aerobic steps and dumbbells. The back extension rear leg raise move will fatigue your entire core; place your lower stomach on a stability ball with your legs extended straight behind you, toes on the floor and arms extended in front so that they are parallel to your ears. Lift your right leg six inches off of the floor and hold for 10 to 20 seconds. Lower the leg back to the floor and repeat on the left side. Complete two sets of 15.
The Best Abs Exercises
"Best Abs Exercises," by Janet Lee, on "Shape" magazine's website, offers variations to traditional abdominal moves by incorporating the use of rollers and stability balls, while it also includes various stretches that affect your entire core. Their plank on a stability ball exercise instructs to kneel in front of a large stability ball and place your forearms flat on the ball. Tuck your toes under and lift your legs and butt up so that your body is in one straight line, or plank, from head to toe. Press your forearms into the ball in order to stabilize while you draw your stomach in toward your lower back. Hold for 60 seconds.
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