Fitness Sit-up Bench - How To Use A Sit-up Exercise Bench Correctly For Maximum Impact
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If you have a fitness sit-up bench at home and you are not using it the right way, you are missing out on some excellent results. If a sit-up bench is used correctly, it can give you the abs of your dreams.
Here's how to use your sit-up bench to get the best results:
- Check with your doctor - Find out with your doctor whether it would be safe for you to use a fitness sit-up bench.
- Read/Watch - Make sure that you read or watch the instructions manual or DVD before you set it up or use your sit-up exercise bench.
- Don't come up all the way - When you crunch up, only come up about half way. Coming up completely can hurt your back.
- Keep your abs contracted - Keep your abs tight and contracted the whole time.
- Crunch to the side - Crunching from side to side will target your obliques and help you to get rid of your love handles.
- Adjust the incline - Adjust the incline up or down to make the exercise more or less challenging.
- Knee pull-ins - Sit on the edge of a flat sit-up exercise bench. Straighten your legs and pull them into your chest, straighten and repeat.
- Decline leg thrusts - While your sit-up bench is in decline position, thrust your legs in a controlled manner into the air.
- Abs circuit - Repeat the different abs exercises one after each other in a circuit, rest and repeat.
- Don't only do abs exercises - Make sure that you also do some cardio and weight training with your sit-up bench exercises.
I hope this instructions have helped you to get the most out of your fitness sit-up bench. Just make sure that you use it regularly for best results.
