How to tone the lower abdominals

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Hi Guys this may be on a few peoples mind so listen up, if your struggling to tone up the lower abdominal region, this may be helpful.

One of my clients, Sarah came to me and asked how she can tighten her lower abdominals, and if I could give her a routine to do which will help target that area. But before we go to the workout we need to address the issue of body fat before
If you have body fat over the belly you are not going to see the lower abdominals at all. So some people may need to lose some fat before they can see the results from the workout
Okay the first thing that needs to addressed is that there is no such thing as spot reduction!
This means doing a heap load of sit ups is not going to flattern your stomach. I repeat THIS WILL NOT HELP YOU FLATTERN YOUR STOMACH!!!

Doing loads of sit ups will tone that muscle (your abdominals) but this is going to be no good if you have a layer of fat covering the nicely toned muscle. So in order to get awesome abs you will have to turn your focus to a full fat blasting routine rather than doing all those sit ups.

The less fat you have the better your abs will look (even if you never do any abdominal exercises), the way to turn your body into a fat burning machine is....

.... Top secret stuff now... ready...

.......your going to need to make a few lifestyle changes, the first being you need to train with weights, this is number one for a reason, it is one of the most effective ways to boost your metabolism and not only will you tone your muscles and burn lots of calories during the session, you will burn up to 10 cals per hour for up to 76 hrs, thats 760 extra calories while resting. Well worth it for just that that reason.


In order to get results you will need to do 3 full body workouts at least 3 time a week, the focus needs to be on compound exercise (big moves which require multi muscle and multi joint action) e.g: Squats, lunges, press ups, barbell rows.

Obviously you need to be eating well... making sure there is a caloric deficit of 500 calories a day, compared to your BMR plus activity levels(BMR= Basal Metabolic Rate: The number of calories you need to stay alive just at rest)if you create this deficit, then you will be on course to lose 1 lbs of fat. 1 lbs of fat is equal to 3500 calories, so split between the days a deficit is 500 per day which is very do-able.

You could create the caloric deficit by just diet alone but it is so much easier combining exercise with good nutrition... and if this happens you will be on you way of losing that stuborn belly flab.

Okay now to the workout...

15 Reverse Crunches
10 Full crunches


20 Ab bike

Repeat 4 times, every rep slow and controlled. A very short but very effective lower ab workout. Don't forget the full body workouts though for fat burning! This workout will only tone the targeted muscles

Hope this has been helpful- Alex :-)