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Three Abdomen Exercises That Tightens Those Muscles.

1.Standing Stabilizer: The core muscles are forced to keep the body balanced as your center of weight shifts.

• Place your hands on your hips and stand with your feet parallel. Keep them hip-width apart. Raise your right knee in front, as you inhale. Stop raising at the hip level. Pull your belly button in and hold the posture. Take the support of a chair or wall to keep the balance.
• Keeping your abdomen tight, extend your leg till it's straight. With your toe make a quarter-circle and bring your leg out to the side. Lower and repeat at least 10 times. Do two to three sets with each leg.

2.Leg Rising: Our legs and hips are heavier than our upper body. Thus they are much harder to lift, which makes this move is more challenging than a crunch.

• Lie down on back, keep your hands at sides, hold out the legs in the air. They should be straight out from the hips.
• Exhale and pull your belly button in, towards your spine. Contract the abdomen and push your feet to the ceiling. Tilt your hips slightly forward and raise your feet a few inches. Hold, as you lower your legs, inhale. Repeat 15 times. Do two or more sets of 15 each. Remember, exhale as you raise your legs and inhale as you lower.

3.Reverse Rotation: This exercise works on the obliques (muscles that cover our ribs and sides) and back muscles. It is a variation of the elbow-knee crunch.

• Lie flat on your stomach. Place your hands under your chin, with elbows out to the sides.
• Exhale as you raise chest a few inches off the floor. Keep your abdomen muscles tight. Rotate you chest to the right and hold. Go back to centre and then rotate to the left and hold. Inhale as you lower your chest. At least ten repetitions should be done per set, with not less than three sets for best results.

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