Here are five free abdominal workouts that will train the abdominal muscles powerfully.
They all start from a similar position: lying on your back on the floor, your hands at your sides, and your feet together.
In the first exercise, you raise your right leg up, bending it at the knee as you do so, until the knee almost touches the chest.
Then you lower it back down to the floor while repeating the movement with the other leg.
Alternate the movement for several repetitions.
You can make the exercise more intense by not allowing the straightened leg to touch the floor as you raise the other leg.
Similar to the above exercise, you raise each light alternately, but this time keeping it straight as you do so, until your toes point towards the ceiling.
A variation on the above exercise, you raise both legs slowly together until the feet point towards the ceiling.
You can vary the intensity of the exercise by performing it more quickly or more slowly.
In the next exercise, from the same starting position as the preceding, you raise both legs to a right angle, separating the feet slightly, as you describe circles with both legs.
To help you visualize the exercise, imagine you're holding a long paintbrush with each foot as you are painting circles on the ceiling! One of the best free abdominal workouts, as it works a large range of the abdominals.
For the last exercise, you once again bring both legs up, keeping them straight, and spreading the feet apart until your legs assume a sort of "V" formation.
Still keeping your legs in the air, you bring them together until the cross over one another, the right leg pointing towards the left and the left leg pointing towards a right.
Cross them as far as possible.
Return to the starting position and repeat for several repetitions.
Be sure to try these free abdominal workouts and make them a regular part of your daily training sessions.
They are all excellent.