The Infonian

I use to be a gym rat, go to the gym and lift weights like everybody else In the beginning I made some advances. After a while, those advances stopped happening. And who isn’t motivated by the feeling of making progress?

As if by luck, I found some information on bodyweight exercises. You remember those exercises, from the physical education days? So when I started doing the bodyweight exercises, I started to feel like I was making progress again.

And then I started doing exercises with very light weight, not iron pumping exercises, but exercises that challenged me in ways like no other. And sometimes I only used as little as five pounds. I guess you could also classify these as bodyweight exercises.

Then I added to my ever-increasing routine, I started using kettlebells and balance exercises with the Swiss ball. I now have more routines than I know what to do with. I don’t think I’ll ever get bored again. Is there anything worse than dragging your butt to the gym not psyched for your workout?

When it’s time to workout, I can’t wait. Just some of the variety of exercise I’ve grown accustomed to:

1. Hindu pushups

2. Leg swings

3. Running on the mini-trampoline

4. Feet on stability ball pushups

5. Pushups, feet on stability ball, hands on balance disks

I have literally hundreds of exercises in my arsenal that I can do. There’s no wonder that I’m feeling great and in the best shape of my life. When you add variety back to your workouts, you go a long way in making a commitment to yourself to get in great shape again.

Believe it or not, everything I’ve found on the internet has been free or low cost. I never spent a lot of money, like those ridiculous infomercials. Ok, maybe I did once, but I learned my lesson.

Whenever I feel like I need more variety in my workouts again, I usually pick up another book out there on the web. Before you know it, I’m off and running again. This approach may not be for everyone, some guys like hanging around the gym. But not me!

I head down to my basement, a Swiss ball, my kettlebells, my skip-rope and I have a better workout facility than any gym can provide. And believe me, it’s at one one-hundredth of the cost. I guess you could say I’ve found the Holy Grail when it comes to staying in shape.

Author: Robert Bell

The legions of fitness men all over the world will agree that developing a well-defined midsection can be the most challenging part of working-out. Stored fat around the belly tends to be the most stubborn when trying to trim down and lose body fat. The effort of trying to get rid of love handles and a cushy tummy can get very frustrating at times and a lot of people give up.

Our anatomy is such that the excess calories we don’t expend our stored as fat and this is concentrated mostly around our midsection. It’s quite unattractive to walk around with a potbelly, so losing belly fat tops the list for gym goers everywhere.

Gym exercises require repetitions that can become tiresome and boring after a while. With lower ab exercises for women, it’s tougher to stay motivated because their body fat is usually found in the lower part of the belly, hips and thighs.

Because body fat tends to leave the lower abdomen last, it may seem like progress in terms of getting a six pack is slower than developing other parts of the body. As such, a lot of folks try to do lower ab exercises more.

Isolating the lower part of the rectus abdominus by trying to target the lower abs is quite impossible because it’s really all one single muscle. There are lower ab exercises however that put more stress on that area: air-pedaling while on one’s back, vertical and horizontal leg raises, and different versions of such.

The monotonous nature of repetitions and seemingly slower progress developing the lower abs make it a challenge to keep working regularly. This can be remedied by either working-out with a partner, using alternative devices like a medicine ball, or switching to a different type of lower ab exercise every now and then.

Muscle tissue stops growing when it adapts to a specific type of movement. Changing your lower ab exercise routine once you feel like you’ve hit a plateau will help you reach your goal of getting a six-pack a little faster.

By keeping our workouts less monotonous through a gauntlet of different lower ab exercises, we don’t face the risk of getting bored and worse- stop working-out. The best way for radical results is consistency in exercising.

Author: Robert Bell