Your thigh flexors are more properly known as your hip flexors. These muscles work any time you lift your knee or a straight leg, or do an old-fashioned situp. Because your hip flexors and lower-back position are closely connected, you should pay close attention to maintaining proper form when you exercise your hip flexors. In particular, beware of doing straight-leg raises, which can place excessive pressure on your lower back; instead, try variations on the bent-knee raise.
The rectus abdominis is the large muscle centered between the chest and pelvis, and the obliques run down the sides of the stomach in a diagonal direction. With ab workouts, your goal is to target as much of this muscle fiber a...
The captain's chair is a piece of exercise equipment primarily used to work the muscles of the abdomen. A study commissioned by the American Council on Exercise and performed by Dr. Peter Francis found that the captain's chair ...
The captain's chair and other abdominal exercises can help you define your waist and tone your stomach muscles. The muscles of your abdominal region are your external and internal obliques, your rectus abdominis and the transve...
This abdominal exercise requires you to support all of your body weight while you engage your abdominals and hip flexor muscles. You can perform hanging situps on specialized equipment such as the captain's chair or by clipping...
In fitness terminology, the captain's chair takes on this appearance with some obvious differences. It has a backrest, padded arm rests and foot holds off to the sides at the bottom. Exercises are performed by placing your fore...
Ask anyone in a gym how to do exercises in the Captain's Chair and they'll all tell you the same thing: sit on the chair and pull your knees to your stomach. But is that really all there is? Of course not. The hanging leg raise...
The Captain's chair exercise was found to be one of the best exercises to work the muscles of the abdomen. This was discovered by a study conducted at the Biomechanics Lab at San Diego State University. It tested abdominal exer...
